Glad Judeo-Christian Vernal Ritual Interval! Sure, it’s that point of 12 months once we do bizarre stuff like nibble on massive unleavened crackers and paint hard-boiled eggs, relying on our respective faithways. However regardless of which group we trip for, there’s one commandment we’d all do nicely to comply with, and it’s “Don’t Fuck With The Easter Bunny:”
Hey, I believed we banned DIA, what offers?
Talking of the season of rebirth, a extremely astute reader was type sufficient to remind us all the following:
Superb! It looks as if solely yesterday that the game {of professional} biking was actually going to destroy the world:
I admit I do relate to local weather protesters, however solely as a result of they’re precisely like me once I threaten my youngsters:
“Do [thing] proper now otherwise you’re gonna be in bother!”
[Kid doesn’t do thing.]
“OK, you’re in bother now!”
[Thing still doesn’t get done, we all forget about it, and the world continues to turn.]
In the meantime, yesterday I discussed Bentonville and the Wahlberg household:
[The Wahlberg Family: Marky, Donnie, Debbie, Michelle, Marky, Joey, Dee-Dee, and, uh, Pip-Squeak]
Anyway, the Wahlbergs are additionally behind bicycle producer Allied Cycle Works, which I point out not as a result of I care the place they make their frames…
…however solely due to this:
I’m sufficiently old to recollect when with the ability to change your stem rise without having to re-cable your bike was true of BASICALLY EVERY FREAKING BICYCLE.
Is that this picture sufficiently old that we will begin utilizing it once more?
By the way in which, right here’s that stem:
So easy! So elegant! And far, a lot simpler than flipping a daily threadless stem or [gasp] elevating or decreasing a quill stem.
Simply be sure to use an inside tube inflatable tubeless tire insert when you’re at it:
Spring actually is the season of rebirth.
As for me, I’m profiting from the season by commuting through bicycle, since in New York spring represents the 2 or three weeks in between freezing your ass off and sweating your ass off:
Ours is a metropolis of bridges:
And by sheer coincidence the Homer’s hues match the Manhattan Bridge nearly completely:
There’s additionally enough daylight to see me all the way in which residence:
And as a lot as I complain about this metropolis, the brand new bike path over the Henry Hudson Bridge is sort of sufficient to make me forgive it for, nicely, all the things else:
Not a foul view:
Not dangerous in any respect.
