You wouldn’t like meme when I’m angry…

Aww…Bruce..
You did­n’t ask to be like this! But you do have to
admit, you have some reaaaal repressed anger
issues. You’re a good guy! Until some­one piss­es
you off! You aren’t real­ly a superhero..You’re
more of a mon­ster who can go either way in
sit­u­a­tions. But all around, you’re the kind of
guy that needs a hug..That..and some prozac

Which super­hero are you? (This is for the boys)
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World’s Best Taco Bell

I went rid­ing South yes­ter­day, just a short jaunt, but I went past Paci­fi­ca and through Dev­il’s Slide. I knew I had to get back to meet a friend with whom I had lunch plans, but I real­ly knew I had to get back when it start­ed to look like rain. I did get rained on, just a lit­tle, but made it back to SF and indoors in time to watch the rain real­ly come down for about 15 min­utes … Read the rest

Uh oh! Safety Recall

It’ll be a lit­tle longer before I start tak­ing girls for rides on the motorcycle:

http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems/recalls/recallresults.cfm?start=1&SearchType=QuickSearch&rcl_ID=05V067000&summary=true&PrintVersion=NO

Looks like I have to get the deal­er to replace the mount­ing hard­ware for the bitch seat. Inter­est­ing coin­ci­dence: the recall date is the date I bought the bike. The recall notice arrived in the mail yes­ter­day, and I had a friend sched­uled to ride with me today. I want­ed an expe­ri­enced rid­er to ride as my pas­sen­ger … Read the rest

Life is good

This week­end it’s my turn to do the house­hold clean­ing. I think I essen­tial­ly chased out the rest of the house­mates with the vac­u­um clean­er, but it’s prob­a­bly their gain since it’s beau­ti­ful and sun­ny out­side. I’ve got a lot of the deck doors open and I even let Ozzy go out in the sun, though I kept a close eye on him out there on the deck.

I was mop­ping the floor of the sec­ond lev­el with my head­phones on … Read the rest

Practice makes Petrified ‑or- Freaking out the Parents

Free­ways are scary.

I’ve been mak­ing it a point to prac­tice a lot on the bike. I fig­ure there’s no time like the present to devel­op my skills. So I’ve been pick­ing less-pop­u­lat­ed times and places to ride where I’ll have to cor­ner or change lanes or stop on a hill or what­ev­er. I ride through the Pre­sidio on the way to work each day, which forces me to trust that the bike can lean that far over and that yes, … Read the rest

My faith in Vice restored

After a depress­ing­ly slow, awk­ward­ly-paced, and poor­ly writ­ten and act­ed pilot episode (which yosemite­sam and dra­cun­cu­lus were wit­ness to a cou­ple weeks back), where the stylee MTV cars-and-music for­mu­la did­n’t kick in until ten min­utes before the end of a two-hour episode, I final­ly forced myself to watch the first reg­u­lar episode of Mia­mi Vice, Heart of Darkness

This is still bad cop TV, but now I feel I can chalk it up to first-sea­son awk­ward. The pac­ing is … Read the rest

Cruising California Bizarro

I’m writ­ing from the din­ing room of one of Cal­i­for­ni­a’s great curiosi­ties, des­tined to amaze and befud­dle even the most jad­ed of observers. Today I’m lunch­ing at the worlds most beau­ti­ful Taco Bell.

Yes, that may sound like damn­ing with faint praise, as though I’d said the world’s most hon­est politi­cian or tallest midget, but indeed this is exact­ly such a curiosity.

Here in Paci­fi­ca, right off of Route 1, there is a sleepy lit­tle wood­en shack over­look­ing Rock­away Beach. … Read the rest