That settles it. I'm going riding next weekend come hell or high water.

Here's video from the rally ride I went to a few weeks ago. Big thanks to my buddy Chris for putting this together. I'm in this several times. At just about exactly 33 seconds in I ride by the camera on a blue Vespa and stick my foot out. I appear a few other times, too.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

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I keep all of my rejection letters in a folder. There are over forty of the bastards sitting there now, and I'm not sure why, but I can't bring myself to delete them. All of them have some variation of the phrases "this does not seem right for us" or "we can't find a place for this" or "this does not suit our present needs." It's interesting that ( Read more... )

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Check it out, kids.

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My last name is crazy. Literally ( Read more... )

I just bought a new helmet. The old one was starting to come apart (literally), and also drove me nuts because it just didn't fit very well. It also didn't protect my beautiful beautiful face. Oh yeah. And if I went over 35 it made an insane whistling noise. Not cool.

So this is my old helmet, the Bell Mag 8, and it looks like this:

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OK GO - This too shall passI'm not the world's biggest fan of this band, but this might be the most impressive music video I've ever seen. It'll at least fill you with warm fuzzies on a chilly Sunday morning ( Read more... )

I read this poem about once every six months or so, and it's always so, so, so good. Reprinted here without the author's permission, but it's all over the interwebs, so I don't think dude will mind.

Gee, You're So Beautiful That It's Starting To Rain
By Richard Brautigan, who is a goddamn genius.

Oh, Marcia,
I want your long blonde beauty
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Hey guess what? It's another post about the book! I need to hurry up and do something exciting so I can write about something else ( Read more... )

Lest you think that this book I'm writing is all full of sorrow and sadness and heartbreak, here's a quick paragraph that went in on Saturday. Most days I really really dig the fact that my protagonist is ten years old, and obsesses about the same sort of things that I obsess about all the time (time travel, robots, human flight, spies, and ( Read more... )