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    • Try this

      I’ve got this running joke with friends that entails adding the word ‘anal’ in front of any large RV name. It’s hysterical how well it plays out most of the time. So, I’ve got a new one. Let’s pretend that GOP, the once well thought of Grand Old Party, stands for Good ‘Ol Poop. Now…

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    • Dis-Gust

      Rob Reiner and his wife were apparently stabbed to death yesterday by their son, although the facts are not in yet. Here’s what the Abominator-in-Chief wrote: “Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he…

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    • Sometimes I Do

      In these days of E, I’ve become re-enamored with my Singlespeed mountain bike so I’m gonna be lazy and repost an old but cherished post. My winter home is an homage to singlespeeding and I couldn’t be happier. Miles of verbage have been written by overly verbose, techno-dweebs extolling the over- intellectualized, over-engineered virtues of…

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    • My Top 10 Choices for Cheese Dicks of 2025

      Honestly, this year the list should be twice as long. There’s a waiting list as well. It’s been an amazing year for assholes and douchebags. Where to start because there will never be an end: #10: Texting drivers have moved down one notch. Maybe. They’ve rear-ended enough people that they’re starting to get a clue.…

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    Try this

    I’ve got this running joke with friends that entails adding the word ‘anal’ in front of any large RV name. It’s hysterical how well it plays out most of the time. So, I’ve got a new one. Let’s pretend that…

    Dis-Gust

    Rob Reiner and his wife were apparently stabbed to death yesterday by their son, although the facts are not in yet. Here’s what the Abominator-in-Chief wrote: “Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy…

    Sometimes I Do

    In these days of E, I’ve become re-enamored with my Singlespeed mountain bike so I’m gonna be lazy and repost an old but cherished post. My winter home is an homage to singlespeeding and I couldn’t be happier. Miles of…

    My Top 10 Choices for Cheese Dicks of 2025

    Honestly, this year the list should be twice as long. There’s a waiting list as well. It’s been an amazing year for assholes and douchebags. Where to start because there will never be an end: #10: Texting drivers have moved…

    The Borat iPhone

    So Apple started selling these new iPhone carriers…… Reminds me of something else.

    Jane Goodall

    There is no question that Jane Goodall’s tireless life of work for the environment in general and primates in particular as they relate to humans will last forever. Her studies of lower primates and their relationship to higher primates was…

    JRA

    The acronym JRA has been around the cycling world for decades. Just Riding Along can mean any number of things: a pleasant mindless spin, a ride that doesn’t mean anything at all, minding your own business until something comes along……

    Something in Common

    With all the idiotic back forth between Disney and President Trump. It’s good to know they have one thing in common.

    The “Crack of Noon Club” resumes its schedule soon

    We’re beginning the best time of year to be outside. Bike tires on dry leaves. Cooler temps. More stable weather patterns. And best of all; the return of the Crack of Noon Club. I’m a charter member and so look…

    The First Ammendment just got shot in the Head

    Jimmy Kimmel just got pulled off the air by ABC after a threat from the FCC chairman who was hired by, guess who. Kimmel’s original comments were as follows: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA…

    Like it Used to Be

    I love watching the cycling Grand Tours. The Giro, La Tour and The Veulta. The modern camera coverage is spectacular. It’s an incredible way to see a country from High Def helicopter cameras. The flow of a professional peloton from…

    Careful what you wish for

    Here’s a quote from Charlie Kirk’s speech in 2023. “ A few gun deaths every year are an acceptable price to pay for the right to own guns.”

    The most challenging group on the planet

    Read just about any outdoor rescue report and you’ll find that the subjects of the rescue were quite likely males in their twenties. “Young, dumb and stupid as fuck. I read an article this morning about four 20 year old…

    The Truth is in there.

    Tune into South Park’s current season to see if…. JD Vance is truly Satan’s butt baby.

    Flight of the Amygdala

    The amygdala is a small part of the central brain used for a number of things. Memories, decision making and the fight-or-flight response. It’s bean sized in most brains. Probably BB sized in mine. There is talk of snow later…

    Now We Know

    If you’ve seen the end of the new Mission Impossible movie, you now know what was in Marcel Wallace’s briefcase in “Pulp Fiction” Think about it. Marcel Wallace was played by Ving Rhames. Luther Stickell in Mission Impossible was played…

    ScroTox

    Yea. I didn’t want to believe it either but it appears that the guys have gotten their sensitive tissues involved in Botox. It sounds nuts but guys are Botoxing their nethers. To what end, I don’t want to imagine. I…

    Chronic Venous Insufficiency

    A new report from the White House states that Trump has Chronic Venous Insufficiency. Or was that Penis. I can’t remember.

    Another Borowitz

    WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump’s long-wished-for military parade was abruptly canceled on Saturday after it emerged that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had inadvertently invited the Houthi rebels. Though Hegseth defiantly told reporters, “I did not text parade plans,” a…

    “Bailiff, whap his pee pee.”

    A federal court on Wednesday ruled President Trump does not have the authority under economic emergency legislation to impose sweeping global tariffs. Why it matters: The U.S. Court of International Trade’s ruling could bring the administration’s trade war to a…

    Mad Cow Disease

    This is an excerpt from an Atlantic article. WOW. The company he keeps: White House staffers, it seems, had better hope that they stay in Laura Loomer’s good graces. This week, Loomer—a far-right provocateur who has described herself as “pro–white…

    The smartest people in an empty room

    Ok. So let’s start by broadcasting top secret war plans on social media. Then let’s blame social media for broadcasting those plans. Then let’s scurry about and pretend it didn’t really happen. Oops….too late.

    Just a thought…

    I saw that Elonia Muskovite is headed to the Pentagon for meetings. I’m sure he believes he’ll be the smartest one in the room but does he realize that everyone else in the room has been trained to kill?

    Push Back

    The best defense against self-serving moronic assholes who control things is to push back. It seems that has started to happen. Mr and Mrs Vice Asshole got booed at the Kennedy Center last night. How often does that happen?

    MASA

    Make America Smart Again

    Department of Government Deficiency

    It seems the Muskovites have been hard at work. 21 of their own employees don’t work there anymore and they didn’t have to harass them with buttmail either. They quit. Hopefully they’ll go before Congress and explain what a spine…

    Yesterday

    Yesterday I wrote about NFGs and how I felt about current events. One thing I failed to mention is with all the federal employee firings, there’s a new executive branch of the government with the same initials.

    NFG

    One of the references in Bill Wilson’s twelve steps for alcoholics is often quoted about; “changing the things we can change and accepting those we cannot”. Sound words for life in general. Experiences over the years have created a great…

    Sometimes…

    I felt it was time I reposted this one from several years ago. Fine Art.

    More Andy

    WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump’s tariff on imported aluminum would result in a major price increase for Marjorie Taylor’s hat, the Georgia congresswoman said on Tuesday. “When I learned that President Trump was slapping a tariff on aluminum, I…

    Edward Abbey

    Was born this day in 1927. That would have made him 98 years old had he not been an alcoholic. It seems most good writers had some kind of substance abuse problem. Maybe that’s how you wade deep into the…

    Regurgitation Day

    I’m with Michelle Obama. Why sit around with all the other cud chewing cows and watch The Felonius Rapist become The Orangutan-In-Chief. I’m sure my socks need folding.

    Felonious Bunk

    “It is our lot in life, as the rich and powerful, to make sure others suffer so that we may not.” Cried King Donald. “Afterall, it’s the morons that elected me.”

    From the Borowitz Report in Heaven

    HEAVEN (The Borowitz Report)—In a wide-ranging interview on Thursday, former President Jimmy Carter said that the best part of Heaven “by far” is the knowledge that he will never see Donald J. Trump again. “Don’t get me wrong, I’m very…

    The Mump vs. The Mumps

    So…Elon Musk marries Donald Trump, which is happening as I write, becoming The Mump. Appropriate. A long time infectious disease, The Mumps, starts to get confused. Let’s sort this out, shall we: Both are, well, infectious diseases caused by a…

    From the Borowitz Report

    Defending the H-1B visa program, Elon Musk said on Monday that working for him “is a job no American would want.” “There is this myth that workers on H-1B visas will be taking away jobs from Americans,” he said. “The…

    Under a Green Tree

    I used to be way into photography. I had a nice Olympus SLR and a number of lenses. I used to drag that shit everywhere, including the length of the AT, in the winter. I had a great library of…

    It’s the Druids, Dude.

    4th Century BC. That’s long before the wise men, Jesus or anybody like that. The Druids started second guessing nature, themselves and whatever was around them; which couldn’t have been much. Hell, Mohammad was a long way from having anything…

    Happy Everything

    It’s a time of year when we should slow down and remember to say thanks… for what we have and what we don’t have. Say thanks… for who we are and who we are not. Say thanks….for where we are and…

    Backstory

    When my sister and I were young, mom and dad used the euphemism for pooping, “Shoot a big Rabbit”. To this day I have no idea where that came from. I Googled the phrase and the closest the internet came…

    My Choices for Top 10 Cheese Dicks of 2024

    Your choices may vary in order or lack of importance. Number 10: Influencers. Self promoting, self serving, self infatuated dip shits. Number 9: Texting drivers. Especially the ones that can’t drive without both hands anyway. Number 8: Clark Fuckerberg (Mark…

    Throwing a Spanner in the works

    The term “Spanner” is a British word for wrench. Throwing a Spanner in the works is a euphemism for fucking with something. I’ve resisted for sometime now about throwing my feelings out about E Bikes. Regardless of my current feelings,…

    Stand and Deliver

    Today is World Single Speed Day. No, I didn’t make that up. I do however relish it. I’ve been singlespeeding on my bike for, well, all my life. Why I SingleSpeed is a backstory I’ve told many times. There are,…

    Pig Virus

    People are worried about a pig virus these days….. They should be.

    “Subject to change without notice.”

    We should all have that tattooed on us at birth. Seriously. It defines a life lived. One day to the next, one year to the next. It’s how we grow, learn…..live. Life is supposed to be full of twists, turns…

    I’ll be Home for Diwali

    Diwali: The Hindu Festival of Lights, is usually around the first of November. That corresponds with temperatures in the Southwest desert breaking from intolerable to perfect. I like perfect. Diwali or Deepavali if you have a dot on your forehead,…

    “That being said…”

    I’m sorry but I have to interject here. Possibly one the dumbest phrases perpetrating the English language these days are the above words, which I will not repeat. Not only are those words stupid and redundant but they’re stupid and…

    CutsOutside

    A lot of friends have asked me over the years where I got the name for my blog. A long, long time ago in a neighborhood far, far away…. I grew up in western North Carolina. The Fifties, Sixties, and…

    Sometimes

    “Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” Winnie the Pooh

    Dream Baby Dream

    I was listening to an old punk song by Suicide

    Quote of the Day

    “You never fight with a Pig because you both get muddy and the Pig likes it” No Clue

    Desert Solitude

    “To the desert go prophets and hermits; through desert go pilgrims and exiles. Here, the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.” Paul Shepard

    Bibi’s Mothrfukdyu

    To all you poor oppressed Jewish people: Please vote the biggest antisemite in history out of office.

    Albert

    If you live long and well enough, The Universe will open itself up and present a magnificent view of things. We are, however, obliged to pay attention and be willing to listen…carefully. This past year for me has been a…

    This is a new one to me

    I read a great term today from a Mother Jones article. GOP invertebrates. Perfect. A whole new species of spineless assholopods.

    Time

    “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” jack london

    GoombaVille, UT

    I read today a couple of hikers died in Zion NP last weekend. I was just through there after a week of riding on Gooseberry Mesa. From what I witnessed in Springdale, UT, jumping off town for Zion; I’m not…

    Re-Visitation Rights

    I’m camped out on Gooseberry Mesa, southern Utah. It’s perfect. My spot overlooks the back side of Zion NP. The first time I was here was close to 30 years ago. There was nothing here and hardly anyone knew about…

    “Live Like Someone Left the Gate Open”

    Soloist

    The French have a term, “Je suis suelement”. Loosely translated, it means “I’m alone”. Of the French, in particular, and romantic languages, in general; they prefer not to be loosely translated. Like English, there are subtleties and colloquial words that…

    Working the Edges

    A fellow wanderer and good friend from Crested Butte days, Dave Lindsay and I are always laughing about ‘working the edges’. A term we use to describe getting away from the usual crowd of campers and pilgrims. If an area…

    My Own Private Arizona

    For 22 winters I’ve been coming to this very special place in the Transition Zone of the Northern Sonoran Desert. Some winters for only a couple of weeks. Others for months on end. At 4,000 feet in elevation, anything can…

    Journeys

    As I begin this next year of travels, I’m reminded of a great quote from Swiss writer Alain de Botton…. “Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or…

    Resolute in a New Year

    “ The Edge…Only those who have gone over know exactly where it is.” Hunter S Thompson

    Happy Everything

    It’s a time of year when we should slow down and remember to say thanks… for what we have and what we don’t have. Say thanks… for who we are and who we are not. Say thanks….for where we are and…

    The monkey sees his reflection

    Donald Trump testified yesterday in his civil fraud trial and admitted to fraudulently overvaluing financial statements.

    Same Shit

    4 Thousand years later…. A bunch of impotent old guys with beards who all want to be King.

    Vital

    Air. Water. Nutrition Health. Friendship. Love What is vital? Feelings. Thoughts. Memories Touch. Warmth. Cool Here. Now. The list should be short

    Back to the Crack

    I’m a charter member of the “Crack of Noon” club. Those that prefer a calming entrance to the day and allowing the temperatures to warm sufficiently for a few hours of vigorous play. Most of my life, I’ve preferred cooler…

    NatGeo

    I still remember as a child, we had a hallway in the house that connected the front of the house to the den in the back. I called it “the long hall”. Dad built bookshelves that lined the entire hallway,…

    Bikeness

    I’ve never really been a city guy. I have explored some amazing cities in my life. Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, to name a few. I’ve always felt that the best way to explore and learn a city is on a bicycle.…

    Unfortunately everyone who voted for him is illiterate