With the SI article on Lance [nothing new, as most of us found out after reading all 5 pages of it], rumors that Lance might not be able to get out of this one, and blogs almost as influential as mine, like Cyclocosm, commenting on the issue, I figured it was only my duty to [...]
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spring fever
March 29th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
Starting Thursday, most of my weekend was spent doing this: I woke up Thursday night with a fever. The next few days involved raspy coughing, lots of sleep, and some colossally disgusting phlegm. I was popping pills like the pros M&Ms. Needless to say, there wasn’t much time on the bike [somewhat good because it [...]
Tags:luck·misery·plastic peloton·rain·rain jacket·showers pass·sick
gifted cyclists
December 11th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
You know when you really like to do something that you’re just not particularly good at? That’s me and cooking. Okay, and cycling, but we’re putting that aside for now. It wasn’t until law school that I found myself alone in an apartment with a knife, cutting board, and stove and left to fend for [...]
tagging along
November 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Embrocation Cycling Journal: the perfect way to start your post-Thanksgiving week. Click here to indulge in some cycling-related goodness while you wait for that turkey coma to wear off…
sooo sicxxx!
November 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
I didn’t go to Cornell [for college] but I found the best room mate there. We found each other in a slightly musty dorm room on the first day of summer school. Hailing from Staten Island, Mell was lightly freckled and Irish to the core. She was confident without being arrogant and charismatic without being [...]
Tags:bacon·croque monsieurs·cyclocross·fatass·nyc·sicx·thanksgiving·wafels & dinges
pump it up
November 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Can you believe it’s November? I understand that happened almost three weeks ago, but it’s finally sinking in. It’s almost Thanksgiving. That means it’s almost December. When did that happen? I blame the deceptively warm weather that has me thinking it’s still early October. My long-sleeve Underarmour gear has remained untouched in my closet for [...]
Tags:cx tires·elvis costello·pump it up·rapha scarf friday·snow
butch abs
November 19th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
Catching me headed out into rainy weather on my bike a few weeks ago, my openly gay law review faculty manager observed: “You’re so butch.” I thanked him sarcastically in response. Although he was joking, I’ve actually become accustomed to that perception. As a college freshman, punked out with pink hair, people had thought/hoped I [...]
Tags:brooke siler·butch·pilates
ethical ifs
November 3rd, 2009 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
New England falls, post-Halloween and lumbering sleepily towards the promise of Thanksgiving feasts, always bring to mind one of my favorite movies: The Scent of a Woman. With lines like “the day we stop looking is the day we die,” and Al Pacino playing a stubborn, sarcastic, blind Lieutenant, it has to be a popular [...]
fueled by granola
October 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Somehow, I manage to end up at academic institutions attended by failed presidential hopefuls and enough closet hippies to swing the political bent to the more extreme side of the left. Despite my surroundings, I’ve always felt a little detached from it all. It’s not that I’m not a political liberal [I am] but I’m [...]
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ice ice baby
August 19th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
These past few days, I’ve been feeling consistently moist. And yes, it feels as disgusting as that sentence sounds. Because it’s been 95 degrees out lately. Yeah, that’s right. 95 motherfuckin degrees. Seriously, this weather is not joking around. I’m sweating just sitting in my apartment, motionless. Going outside means being instantly swaddled in a [...]
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