After 4+ years I'm moving to http://forwardyouth.blogspot.com > the same crap, slightly different format.

I have a new blog, but its in the works. In the meantime here is a photo of a fish I encountered in Edinburgh. If only I could find a way to imbed the sound of Mitch Hedberg saying "fisssssh"


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A few weeks ago Kelly Martin took some photos of the A-Houser's for a series of portraits she is doing for an upcoming exhibition/publication. In figure A you see the Olmo in its youthful exhuberant days, and in figure B you see the results of a housemate who previously rode BMX borrowing your bike...


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Friday morning the Bike Swarm! (www.bikeswarm.org) crew headed out to Death Valley for the Death Valley Double Century ride (www.adventurecorps.com). Mostly I was there to help volunteer the checkpoint at Badwater (282 feet below sea level/lowest point in the U.S.) on Saturday while most of the other 20 or so of us who went rode 100 or 200 miles. ( Read more... )

We have started getting fruit and veg once a week from local farmers that deliver to the Eco Village (http://www.laecovillage.org/) so I got to take the trailer out today. We are hoping to get Food Not Bombs all bicycle-powered instead of driving the food to the serving spots, one day ( Read more... )

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I visited Tucson (Arizona) and Nogales (Sonora, Mexico) over the past week for the regional No Borders Camp meeting which was held at the Dry River anarchist collective just out of downtown Tucson. It was a lot of fun seeing old friends, meeting new ones (including two Australians), sleeping in tents next to mile long freight trains that run all ( Read more... )

As part of the second Los Angeles Bicycle Winter, the now annual 'Feel My Legs I'm a Racer' was held in and around Downtown Los Angeles/Silverlake/Echo Park. The premise of the race is to ride up 10 of the steepest hills, the first five getting to the top of each hill receiving points. About 20 miles of riding between the 10 hills, one hill stage ( Read more... )