Big Wheel Race!!

Yesterday was the 9th annual BYOBW Easter Big Wheel race in San Fransisco, the 4th year that I've participated. There I am above with the ubiquitous pink and purple disney fairy princess big wheel. Target must have stocked up big on those ones, because a high percentage of the folks had these big wheels.


You can see me in one of the races, 0:17 - 0:36 in this video:



and in from 0:17 - 0:20 in this video:



you can find more videos and pictures on youtube and flickr if you search for "byobw 2009".

This was the best year yet. I raced 7 times and my big wheel held up for the whole event. Most of the folks I went with this year broke their big wheels on the first run.

I can't wait for next year!!

Mastodon -- Blood and Thunder

bitchin' video.

German soccer uniform fashion

stay with it for 25 seconds... it pays off.

All Nightmare Long

It's only Tuesday, but this has got to be the best thing to come out this week. Sci-Fi Cold War Soviet zombie plague awesomeness in this video for one of the better songs on Metallica's new album Death Magnetic.




it's a nine minute movie that starts with the 1908 explosion over Tunguska that ends with the conquest of the US by the Soviets. Aliens, balloons, robots, zombies, fires, chaos.

the io9 post I orginally saw this on.

someone posted this on reddit

what a good idea.

and in Finnish even!!

Electric Wizard

Doom metal awesomeness.

new shoes!

my Black Sabbath vol. 4 Converse arrived today. I accidentally ordered two pairs (because of the crappy flash site converse has) and after much arguing over the phone they agreed to send me a label to return one of the pairs. After seeing them, however, I think I'll keep both.


update: by popular demand (meaning Priya emailed me "WHERE IS THE LINK TO BUY THEM!!!?!?") here is the link

be warned: crappy crappy flash site circa 2002.