Have we been here before? We've been here before. And it's always been hard for me, whether it's at work, or with anything else, to make sure that I know when I'm doing everything I can. Do you know what I mean? To know when you've pushed to the point where you're going to drop, or your brain is going to explode, or if you're just being dramatic, or whiny, or lazy. And I think I've gotten better at it, but who knows. Vague? Yes.
I did ride a bicycle once, and I really don't hate people who ride bicycles. I hate the feeling of moral superiority some of them give off, which I guess is probably not that much different from the unfounded reek of moral superiority that I give off for a million different meaningless non-reasons. But, my mom did get hit by a bicyclist, who was running a red light, and she hit her head on the sidewalk. That hurts! Good thing she's only five feet tall, and it wasn't, like Dikembe Mutombo or something. And she was OK, so we can laugh about it, but if I saw that guy on the street I would run him over with my car. Well, I probably wouldn't do that, but you know.... Back to the point, I loaned one of my bikes to someone and it got stolen, then the landlord capriciously and egregiously violated my inviolable property rights when he evicted us while my other two bikes were in the basement. And I was out of town, so goodbye bikes, goodbye books, goodbye extra pair of shoes. Where was I? I bought a bike from an old friend for $12, hadn't seen him in two years, he bought me dinner then sold me his bike (kind of weird, yeah) and then I locked it up on Fullerton Avenue and promptly forgot that it existed. I bought a bike from the junk guy on South Halsted (who, now that I think of it, has probably been replaced by a two bedroom condo, or at least an art studio) who quote me a price, then a lower price, then a higher price, then cut the lower one in half and told me it was the "colored folks discount." And I'll take it, but I left that bike in the basement because it's hard to move across the country with bikes, in a compact car. All that said:
Blackstone Bicycle Works Chicago
Recycle-A-Bicycle New York
Working Bikes Chicago
See, I'm not a hater.
First team to 60 wins? Guess who.
Minutemen - Don't Look Now
Mahalia Jackson - Lord, Don't Let Me Fail
Huggy Bear - Herjazz
