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salad daze

April 29, 2011

everybody’s working for the weekend

well   not really everybody

clowns to the left of me

everything isn’t in its place

but there’s a place for everything

there goes a couple thou  ±  0.005”

the new normal may or may not be temporary

Friday is the new Thursday

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itsy bitsy teenie weenie purple pilderwasser hoodie

April 26, 2011

a real chip off the old block


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it's all about the font

April 26, 2011

does this website make my butt look big?

April 25, 2011

refined white sugar or happy easter

April 24, 2011

moro reflex

April 23, 2011

CETMA Cargo photo

entropy plays for the other team
it’s so easy      swim downstream

take me back to nature
take me to your leader

set me up to knock me down
flick me in a splatter pattern

cut me into ninety-six sticky little rectangles
adhering to each and every corresponding spoke hole

see me  feel me  touch me        leave me alone
mean  median  mode   meet me in the middle 

place me in a pickle bucket
remember me on Monday

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you got it, that's right you got it

April 22, 2011

Any proceeds from the purchase of a pilderwasser T-shirt will be redirected immediately into the local cycling economy…usually.  But  this year there might be a slight delay in the redirection of those funds, to focus on the production of shirts with a big-bike-ride-in-Iowa theme in various new and improved silkscreen designs for 2011. And then in turn the cash from the sale of those big-bike-ride-in-Iowa shirts will go directly into various small communities across the state of Iowa during the last week of July, generously disbursed from the saddle of a Bridgestone RB-1,  radiating like ripples on a quiet pond with a gentle breeze moving from west to east carrying the smell of 10,000 recreational cyclists passing in a 24-hour 7-day parade passing by Jimbo’s house.  

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just riding along the coffee-beer continuum

April 21, 2011

beer came before this roadside coffee break

and of course beer would follow 


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fully rigid suspension of disbelief

April 20, 2011

moving forward 
could be construed as counterclockwise
when viewed from the non-drive side



 

What are you looking at?


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measure ninety-six times, cut once

April 19, 2011

it's not about the ridiculous hat

 

it's about the cutest baby in the world


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the right tool for the job

April 18, 2011

 

 or is it the right job for the tool?

 

A. spoke wrench

B. salad tongs

C. fingernail polish remover  

D. all of the above


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I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, that much is true

April 16, 2011

for best results
squeeze from the bottom
flatten as you go

lather
rinse
repeat

we do it that way because
that’s the way
it’s always been done


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like butter, it is

April 14, 2011

not no parkay   not no margarine 


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like butter, do you

April 12, 2011

down at dog piss level    it's not about the bike


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...the more they stay the same

April 11, 2011

Spring is in the air, but the buzzing sound isn’t insects,
it’s a pack of free hub bodies flying down hill.  

 


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the radio reminds me of my home far away

April 10, 2011

friction shifting and or clogged cable housing

April 8, 2011

 a little slow on the uptake

downshift

not so smooth

scuffing along the asphalt

two tennis balls on the legs of a walker

Elvis left the building

like   so     ten minutes ago

the same song pops up

Monday through Friday mornings 

we’ve isolated the source of the problem

carry on

 


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we're only making plans for nigel

April 6, 2011

 there are a few things more honorable
than bringing home a keg of beer
on a bicycle

but what
could be more rewarding
directly proportionally calorically  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
thank you Jason for the use of your trailer
I would like to make you an offer...  to buy it
to own it     to silkscreen on it  
to use it again and again 
to pick up another keg

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sincerely for real really Pearl Izumi chamois

April 5, 2011

the check is in the mail, this time it's for real, all roads lead to Grinnell... 


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al dente

April 4, 2011

 see CETMA Cargo. Go CETMA Go.


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your tired, your poor, your Honjo fenders

April 3, 2011

drive side
pant leg
rolled up

chain ring

shoe lace

frayed knot

 
precursor
harbinger
stress riser
 
 
 
hot spot : blister :: hairline fracture : catastrophic failure

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jump around

April 2, 2011

looking nostalgically through
memories of big beer gutted
toe punching place kickers of yesteryear
 
living vicariously through
phantom DREMEL syndrome
know now no so speak up to 15,000 rpm

right lane must turn right
except bicycles
accept bicycles

hop skip & jumping  
into a surplus
of attention deficit

not a disorder      a gift
connecting the dots  
seeing things from other angles

aye      there’s the rub
I    say today’s my Saturday
eyes   eventually adjust to the light

down to earth         grounded like
a long tail cat in a room   
full of three prong outlets

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