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    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

    No Country for Old White Men

    Look, I’m disgusted as anyone with the political environment these days. Seems like the whole place has turned into one giant butt hole. Everyone racing for the middle. Part of the problem is that we have too many scared old…

    Sometimes…….

    Ever wonder what Supreme Court judges wear under their robes?

    The best part of waking up….

    I think the best part of yesterday’s New York Dumpster event was the fact that Marjorie-Taylor Greene was shut down by the noise of Trump protesters. Even with a megaphone, The Mouth of the South was left running away and…

    TMF

    Hard to believe that twelve days after I effectively hit a wall at 100 mph that I got the go-ahead from the Orthopedist to get back on my bike(slowly), no rough sex. Lucky is not a word to use here.…

    I find it Very Ironic

    That Gov. Sarah Huckabee is so anti transgender when she’s the one who looks like an ugly old man in a woman’s wig.

    A Clear Case of Fucklessness

    On Thursday past, I was driving to one of my favorite mountain bike rides. A clear, beautiful early spring morning. On NC Highway 226, I was driving north. The highway is a wonderful western North Carolina two lane country road.…

    Mark Your Calendars

    “ This Day will Live in Infamy”. Franklin D Roosevelt

    GEORGE SANTOS APPLIES FOR A NEW JOB By Eli Grober January 12, 2023 Nassau County Republicans on Wednesday called on Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) to resign immediately after the newly elected lawmaker admitted he fabricated key details of his background and…

    Haida Gwaii

    In the local dialect it means “people’s land”. In my own southern dialect, it means “life changing”. Formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, Haida Gwaii is an archipelago of islands almost a hundred nautical miles west of Prince Rupert,…

    Return to Wobegon

    Mom died last December. Sis is in a much better place with her life. My time in North Carolina was done. Most of my travels led me west and I wanted to be closer. The east is trashed. There are…

    #VanLife my ass

    I’m sitting in the parking lot of the Canopy Hilton, Minneapolis. I’ve made coffee in my van but I spent the night in an outrageously nice hotel in the Mill District of Minneapolis…Look it up In 1969 my family borrowed…

    The Marketing of False Promises

    I have to admit, I was led astray from the straight and narrow. Carbon fiber can be formed into sexy curves and undeniably beautiful graphics. But carbon fiber, like any other reinforced plastic, is just that, plastic. Fibers of carbon…

    DeSantis + Anything = Idiot

    SATIRE FROM THE BOROWITZ REPORT DESANTIS WARNS THAT MATH MAKES CHILDREN GAY By Andy Borowitz April 18, 2022 TALLAHASSEE (The Borowitz Report)—Proposing a sweeping ban on math in Florida’s classrooms, Governor Ron DeSantis asserted that “the latest research” indicates that “math…

    Pagan Bunnies

    Ever wonder why Easter is never on the same day from year to year? Well I did. I mean, for Christ’s sake, the guy was born on December 25th. We all know that. And you’re telling me that after 2000…

    FKT

    The acronym for Fastest Known Time is a popular subset of the outdoor types. Seems the world is obsessed with doing something faster than anyone else. BFD. Big fucking deal. Anyone who truly enjoys time outdoors appreciates the lingering; the…