History

Hurricane

The Vetter styled Triumph X-75 Hurricane


I might get one of these when I take over the world.

I think I would need to have a truck that followed me around, with loudspeakers mounted to the top - blasting that Scorpions song about rocking you like a hurricane.


That would be cool.


Plus, when the bike takes a crap we can just load it into the truck.

Godzilla

What is heavier - Godzilla or Fu Manchu's cover of (BOC's) Godzilla

Fried Tire Friday

GOP Tea Bagging

I am glad I am not the only one wondering if all the GOP blathering about holding "tea bag events" was poorly thought out or just plain crazy.


Mark Cooper, wrote this in todays LA Times

"The FreedomWorks site says the Tea Party movement began in reaction to President Obama's corporate bailouts and ensuing yawning budget deficits. These same conservatives, however, were mum when George W. Bush erased our budget surplus and put us deep in the red by drunken spending on a pointless war in Iraq and by, yes, granting massive tax rollbacks for the loaded country clubbers who fund the GOP (and Armey's FreedomWorks). Another bothersome detail: The bailouts were also initiated by Bush."

After years of giving it to us in the ass, the electorate told them to stop.
Now they want to get together for a tea bagging party.
I guess it sorta makes sense...


(Re; The dogs at tea party pic - I am sure the dogs in the picture are perfectly nice, I don't mean to associate them with any of this political stuff or anything. )

Wall of Death

No lions in this pic, sorry.

Rental Car Rally

Now here is something I can get behind!

The Rental Car Rally!


Last year was New York to Montreal.
This year it starts right here in SF.

Sure, there rules about speeding and points scored on style are kinda gay.

It is enough to make me want to dress up like a priest and rent a Ferrari though, similar to Dean Martin in Cannonball Run. I just need a Sammy Davis style sidekick, who is willing to put the Ferrari on his/her credit card.


Honestly, when have you ever been able to justify the optional full coverage at the rental car place?
This is the time, the perfect reason.
It doesn't have to be a Ferrari.

Maybe a Crown Vic?
That is a solid rear wheel drive V8 car, perfect for this sort of work.

You and me?
(Along with a GPS, night vision goggles, binoculars, a laser/radar detector and police band radio.)

We could just take a quick trip down to Yuma...

What do ya say?

Don't Hug the Bears

They think you are food...


I guess this crazy woman is the second Berliner to hop into the polar bear area of this German zoo. Some guy snuck past the guards, hopped the fence, waded through some thorn bushes and climbed the concrete wall which surrounds the exhibit last year.

I hear that they have a bear cub raised by humans at this zoo. Knut, the cute bear cub has apparently blurred the line of which animals you can pet and which animals will disembowel you for a certain number of Germans.


I don't really have any funny banter to go along with this. The humor of folks trying to play with polar bears is pretty self evident.



This lady got a good mauling, with bites to the arms, legs and back before zoo keepers were able to fish her out.
The last guy was unscathed, they ditracted the bears with a steer leg while ushering him out of the habitat.

Any animal that one might distract with a part of some second animal which is larger than ones self is probably best given a wide swath in my book - like other side of the fence/wall/moat kind of distance.


I do appreciate the zoo's response to these incidents.
There stand is that, well, these are giant predators...if you are crazy enough to climb into a bear pit things might go wrong...and you are crazy, so the wall and security stay the same.

The bears can't get out.
The crazies can get in, but shouldn't.
That's it.

The zoo administrators recognize that the only thing broken is the synapse that keeps a sane person from scrambling into a bear pit...and that is something they cannot fix.

Never Before

And there has never been pants quite like those, since...

Oh, it's Easter

Here...a bunny...

Constructive Summer

Lets build something this summer.


Lets drink on top of water towers.

Lets get hammered.


The Hold Steady.