It's a real Ruff Rida

Last year we sold a bike to Ziggy Marley; this F800GS. He's painted the thing fittingly, wouldn't you say? If you've been a long-time reader of this blog, you'll recall that my 'lil Honda's name was all set to be "the Steppin' Razor," but had to be changed at paintin'-time because, when translated into Japanese, it had inescapable drug and vampirical references. The best part is that when our porter Randy wheeled Ziggy's bike in the door, my iPod started playing some mellow Bad Brains reggae, as if some mystical dub-auora surrounds it! Ah well, had to share, that's all.

R90S fail and 1955 Romer pic

Me: boss, there's a bitchen' R90S for sale around the corner, and I just went to see it. It's amazing and I think we should get it for the showroom floor as a showpiece. The auction ends in 1 hour and it's at $8200...whaddya say?
Boss: throw $10,000 at it.
Me: really? do you want to see a picture of it at least?
Boss: sure.

Well, we got sniped at the last second (lost by $99), and the bike will leave California, headed for Maryland.
...in other news, Sierra Trailer Restoration posted pics of the canned ham that it finished right before starting our trailer redo. check it out:

how to buy something with someone else's money

I've got 5 hours to talk my boss out of $10,000 dollars.

Art Alert -- Next Saturday, Feb. 27th 2010

K N I T
A Performance Action

Saturday, February 27th
“Casting On” at 1pm

Presented as part of...

Actions, Conversations, and Intersections
an exhibition exploring the participatory practices
of over sixty Los Angeles based artists & organizations

Curated by Edith Abeyta and Michael Lewis Miller

January 28 - April 18, 2010

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park
4800 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90027
(323) 644 – 6269
http://www.actionsconversationsintersections.com/

Performance by
Shelley RuggThorp & Sandra Carter
with
Cheryl Walker, Carolyn Vosburgh,
Amber Bradshaw, Chris Dziobecki,
Shannon LaBounty, Lisa Lo Russo

Knitters are invited to participate in this performance.
Bring your latest knitting project. Knit with the giant needles!
Others come and witness the knitting...

Questions? Contact: KNITcast.on@gmail.com

if only the world was more like this on an everyday basis

Top pic from LA photog Silvie Blum, bottom pic found inside an old steamer trunk, anonymous...

21st century punk (and yeah, 20th too)

came across this on accident while looking for some recent ammunition legislature; thought it would do some good to put it out there for those who may still think there are only two modalities.

A5. How do libertarians differ from "conservatives"?

For starters, by not being conservative. Most libertarians have no interest in returning to an idealized past. More generally, libertarians hold no brief for the right wing's rather overt militarist, racist, sexist, and authoritarian tendencies and reject conservative attempts to "legislate morality" with censorship, drug laws, and obnoxious Bible-thumping. Though libertarians believe in free-enterprise capitalism, we also refuse to stooge for the military-industrial complex as conservatives are wont to do.

On a related note, what has voting Libertarian done for me this last 18 years?
Ha! It's given me loads of self-satisfaction and the right to bitch at the current states-of-affairs. Though I admit that Bob Barr was a pretty weak contender for pres. versus Mr. Obama (whom I voted for), I've towed the party line. Oh, to have a well-spoken and coherent president -- it was too much to resist!

yeah, more Slade videos

Sierra Nevada Pale Alez & you tube after midnight... suffer lil childrin;

more trailer sketches

1975 Honda CB550 take-off parts for sale

making space making space... these are too nice to throw away; everything is 100% original and in light-up, working order. chrome es bien. get in touch and it's yours. I've also got the seat yo, which I realized I can't ever use since we channeled 3" out of the subframe.

check it out

A pal of mine makes these shirts, and we sell em at the dealership...he got knocked off his Buell on Wednesday, and is doin' the hospital thing for awhile. Check his company out here, and send him some get-well-soon wishes by buying something or forwarding the site to someone you know. Thanks all.

really, universe?

...right here in Long Beach? tempting. It's like the LB punk version of this:

SUBARU in the shop! No way!

3rd time's a charm: the repeated (and elusive) brake failure has been tracked to the ABS control unit. This is a $1500 piece of 20-year-old technology. The car itself is a $500, 20-year-old piece of...technology. The solution? Buy another entire 1991 Legacy from CL and take the needed part from what is probably a better car? Right you are! ...but no one is selling one atm...so on to plan B...which turned-out to be legacycentral bbs to make new friends...folks dedicated to 1st generation Subaru Legacies, and hope that they've got a used unit for sale. Keep your fingers crossed; meanwhile, my beloved Subaru sits in Costa Mesa awaiting a donor.

pop-up work commences

and by commences, I mean lots of money for the down-payment has been paypaled! sketches and LED lights need to go in the mail soon woo-hoo!

California school bans dickshunary

Wow! look at this dumb shit:

The Menifee Union School District took the action last week after a parent complained about the Merriam-Webster's 10th edition. This is the definition: "Main Entry: oral sex Function: noun Date: 1973 : oral stimulation of the genital."

"It's just not age-appropriate," school spokeswoman Betti Cadmus told the Press-Enterprise. "It's hard to sit and read the dictionary, but we'll be looking to find other things of a graphic nature."

Here, kids, read something cleaner, like the bible:

"Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses." (Ezekiel 23: 19-21)

...bottom line? Now all the kids in the inland empire will be writing "orul secks" on the restroom walls.

^ Do ya ever click that "NEXT BLOG" button up there? ^

well, do ya punk? Every now and then, I'll click it and get directed to some emo-fixie blog from some guy in Portland just discovering the Velvet Underground, or to some mountain biker, ex-courier dude's blog. Always about bikes, that next-blog button is. Try it, I'll wait. OK, see? A bicycle blog. I'm not anti-bike as many of you know; I actually got the entire punk population of the greater Long Beach area on bikes for a few years. But I digress. Today's "next blog" can only speak for itself; and here it is. Don't worry, I'll be adding it to the blog list at right. Enjoy. Like I always say, it takes all kinds.

SoCal

You know we have it good here in Southern California when a week or 2 of heavy rain/mini tornadoes and some hail makes every SoCal blogger post a pic/video/story about it. Hey, I did.

Happy Anniversary!

Yup, me & Shannon have been doin' it for 7 years! Happy anniversary, baby. I love you so much and am so happy to be here with you. Thank you for our wonderful children and all the hard work you do for our family.

RAIN.

bitch slap!

Hell yeah! This type of thing restores my faith in 21st Century America. I had a tear of joy in my eye at the end of the trailer. CLICK POSTER TO WATCH THE TRAILER, unless your PC boss is watching you right now.

Art Alert Jan 30th 2010 POMONA

My brother is in more art shows than I am lately. Curse you, straight job! Sounds like a fun night.