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2013-05-10T16:18:00.003-04:00

Thanks to Byron at bikehugger.com for posting this before me. Danny Mac is still my favourite, but that doesn't make this any less awesome.

Good Lord. How Do these guys do that? How?

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Mental Junk Drawer

2013-05-10T14:11:00.000-04:00

Fire drills at work still make me want a smoke. That's what a person does when forced outside for a fire drill. (I was a pack a day smoker, quit 13 years ago and have had minor struggles in recent years. I'm good now though).

When you go to the Library and don't really know what you feel like reading, you kind of have to read a book by its cover. (Quote by Rantwick girl the younger)

Why the hell does my phone send me a text message to tell me I have a voicemail? I DON'T UNDERSTAND. The phone already has voicemail notification thing. The text is redundant and annoying.

"... a Can not a Can't"? Really? So lame. Also, I hate it when companies try to brand their activities as some sort of thread in our National fabric. You're an Canadian oil company using "Canadian" tech to get the oil that's hard to get. Good for you. Combines? Snowblowers? The Last Spike? Good grief. http://youtu.be/j0vYTFve7tA

That's it. Have outstanding weekends, everybody!

Yer Pal,

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London Ontario Cyclist Profile: Beard Guy

2013-05-09T11:00:00.000-04:00

Hey all! I've been riding my bicycle to work every day as usual here in London Ontario, but haven't felt creative about the blog lately. That appears to be changing a little. I am pleased to announce a whole new post series, London Ontario Cyclist Profile! In this series I will be presenting completely fictional interviews with some of the real cycling characters I meet on the bike path or street.

If one day you see yourself in this series, the only way to disabuse people of my outrageous notions regarding you and your life will be to contact me and answer the interview questions yourself. Or just ask me to take down my heinous guesses at your life story. Whichever. I like option one better though, don't you? Way funner. Yes, funner. Oh, you don't like that? Well, "more fun" then. Happy? Happy you dominated my writing style with your "proper" English uptightedness? Yes, uptightedness! You *hole... how could you? I thought we were friends!

Anyway, in this the first of what may be many London Ontario Cyclist Profiles, we feature a person who rides often, because I ride often and I often see him. Like, often. In my mind I just call him "Beard Guy":

Interview Time!

RW: Hey, Beard Guy! What's your real name?

BG: Otis MacGregor!

RW: Wow, great name. Any relation to the inventor of the "Safety Elevator"?

BG: Otis is my first name, you idiot. Elisha Otis has nothing to do with me or my family.

RW: Beg pardon, really. I suffer from a speaking before thinking thing. Tell me, how long did it take you to grow that awesome red beard?

BG: I don't know. A while.

RW: Well, it is pretty damn nice. May I touch it?

BG: No way, you freak! Interview over, weirdo.

RW: Wait! Wait... I'll stop with the beard fixation, I promise. Tell me, have you always been a big bike rider?

BG: No, not any more than most. As a kid I always loved to ride my bike, but it is only in the last couple years that I stopped driving my Monster Truck (GuzzleMageddon II) and started taking my vintage 10 Speed to work and back. I really like it.

RW: I'll bet! Cycling rocks. Hey! Any hobbies?

BG: Lemme think... I like growing cacti. The more painful to the touch the better. Also I'm an amateur awesome bike path photo model.

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RW: Hey, you're very good at that! Job?

BG: I am a physics professor at UWO. No tenure or anything like that, of course; I'm still young. I'm hoping to publish soon, a study on "darquarks" that might win me the Nobel. Dark Matter Quarks, man. Its enough to blow anyone's mind.

RW: Huh? You lost me there.

BG: Don't worry, I get that a lot.

RW: Tell me one more thing about yourself, something that nobody would ever guess.

BG: Hang on, let me think. Sh*t, I don't know, man. I'm a pretty open book. Maybe that I once saw a meteor hit the earth? I think I did, anyway. I was pretty high on those tiny cinnamon flavoured hearts at the time. I must have eaten like 300 of those things.

RW: OK then! Otis, thank you for talking to me today. I hope I continue to see you out riding that bike!

BG: Oh, you will. Riding my bike is the like the best thing I do now. I would go totally mental without that daily ride, you know?

RW: Believe me, I know. I really really do. Thanks again!

-- end of fake interview --

Mwahh ha ha haaaa! I am going to totally enjoy doing more of these. Remember, the above interview is totally fake and for stupidity purposes only. If you are "Beard Guy", aka Otis MacGregor, drop me a line! It would be awesome to hear from the real you!

Yer Pal,

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