Monthly Archive for September, 2009

U Locks are bullshit

Published on September 14, 2009 in DailyGrind, Oakland and ResidentHipster. 2 Comments

My bike got stolen tonight. This would be the same bike whose back tire got stolen about a month ago. I parked it outside of 19th Street Bart in Oakland this afternoon at around 4:45. When I got back at around 10, it was gone. There’s no evidence that I even left my bike there except that the plastic bag I was using to cover my bike seat in the rain was on the ground.

When I parked my bike, there were three other bikes parked at the same spot. There were also bikes parked across the street. When I got back, every single one of them was gone. I don’t know if that means anything, but it was sort of weird.

I have no idea what I’m going to do for transportation now. I don’t have the money to buy a nice folding bike. I could replace the bike with some used beater, but I don’t really want to have that one get stolen a month from now, you know? Plus I don’t want to spend what little money I have on some crappy bike that I don’t even like.

Bah. Total bullshit.

Learning something new

Published on September 12, 2009 in Politics and USA. 0 Comments

You know, I used to vaguely wonder what the conservative equivalent of threatening to move to Canada was. Did they all promise to buy 300 guys and live in a shack in Montana or something?

Now I know. They bring guns to town halls, throw hissy fits over nothing, and talk about about Russia like it is 1965.

So weird.

So that happened

Published on September 5, 2009 in DailyGrind and ResidentHipster. 0 Comments

Wow. It has been a good long time since I updated this thing, hasn’t it?

I’ve been putting off updating because while I really didn’t want to talk about the death of one of my best friends, I also felt like following up the announcement of her memorial service by my regular posts about Twinkies and missing the bus would seem, well, undignified. So I’ve avoided the whole mess all together.

But I rather miss blogging. Sometimes I have things to say that take longer than a Twitter update, you know? So I’m going to try out getting back to baked goods and having my back tire stolen. It is, after all, the stuff of life.