NTM

who's steve miller?

I especially like "The Web site includes suggested campus activities such as holding sit-ins outside women's studies departments to protest 'the silence of feminists over the oppression of women in Islam'" nothing like rich white dudes telling women what they should be protesting to make a point.

my favorite article from this weekend: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_wa_islam_awareness.html

penne carbonara. i have to have bacon on everything.

another idea is to go get some fun new stuff for you or the bike. i find that when i change soemthing on my bike, i am more excited to go and test it out in the nastiest conditions. for example. i just got new leg warmers and am stoked to go for a ride now.

damn you couloir! i was about to make the same suggestion. the start to the snohomish race looked like a small lake after the first few races. suddenly riding on pavement in the rain doesn't seem so bad.

what, no north korea?

some Flogging Molly song could be pretty badass and different, maybe "The Kings of Kilburn High"? How long does her entrance song get to be? other random ideas (these are more just rockin songs that come to mind): zeppelin- achilles last stand man man - black mission goggles the rapture- out of the races and onto the tracks green river- this town green river- queen bitch mudhoney- overblown the who- boris the spider or for humor value: rev horton heat- i'm mad

are your double-layered socks maybe too tight? you could be restricting blood flow to the toes, making your feet even colder. or you could just ride harder also, look into some mid-weight synthetic socks that retain wormth even when wet (teko is an awesome brand). for me, synthetic feels better than wool. http://www.tekosocks.com/product.php?id=49

That sucks. If you haven't done it yet, call the park to see if someone droped it off at the ranger station's lost and found. Last year, someone was "nice" enough to take my pack from the base of cinnamon slab and hike it up to the ranger station at 3 in the afternoon thinking someone had lost it... Good luck!

U. of Idaho made a pretty nice video with rad tunes: UKGYT0hTMZY

my favorite from last saturday's race at marymoor: Fk-rvdS_UME

cx is da bomb diggety.

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The book looks rad, nice work!

cachaca is damn good. side note on voda (although, k, I am sure you're much more of a connaisseur than myself), some friends and I found that if you dedicate a brita filter to vodka, you can filter out a bunch of the impurities in cheap vodka. monarch+brita filter= ketel 1 I am one of those folks who doesn't much like vermouth so i'm down with the drier martinis (gin, not vodka).

troggie, i have sticker you can put on your car if you want to be recognized

There's no "chop Kevbone's avatar" option. wassup wit dat?

manifest destiny...

Since we're talking about France....I might as well join in. Grenoble is an awesome small city. Enough culture and nightlife to make it fun, but like Seattle, close proximity to great climbing. La Grave- 2hrs (plus lots of good ice routes between Grenoble and La Grave) Chamonix- 2hrs (no explanation needed) Presles- 45mins (best multipitch rock climbing north of the Verdon Gorge) Plus crags accessible by bus/bike in town. Mt Blanc and Grenoble seen from the Vercors plateau

http://www.wildcountry.co.uk/Products/NewEliteSeriesHarnesses/EliteMensAdjustable/ not much more than a pound. i haven't worn one, but I hear they're mighty comfortable. otherwise a swami might work well.

So a while back I was watching dosage IV with some friends and during the part in switzerland, dave graham puts on this knee-bar pad (looked like it had stealth rubber on it) to help hold a sketchy knee bar. right off the bat my friend says that's "fucking cheating" and that if it doesn't hold on his own, he should find another way to do the move. One friend was nice enough to point out that climbing shoes aren't that different and if those rules were to be followed, we should all still be in mountain boots. Later though, Tommy Caldwell is getting ready to do the Changing Corners pitch on the Nose, but instead of moving straight into it, he climbs up a crack on he left a ways, clips a bolt, then downclimbs and does the crux move on TR. Now, that same friend yells "climbing up easier ground to clip that bolt is cheating". So i'm just wondering where folks stand. not necessarily on thses 2 points, but in climbing in general. what constitutes cheating (aside from the obvious things like pulling on gear and claiming a free send)? and yes dru, we all know that cheating is aid and the one cheating is probly the one having the most fun.

e-rock, sorry, my panties have been in a bunch lately. i'll try to come up with some good (non-french) spray war action in the next few days.

there's another video by him where his buddy's girlfriend messes up his car and leaves an ice axe in the hood. way to represent savoie.