Defeat the Borg Collective with your step-through kiddies steel frame, complete with death ray drive train and advanced luxeon technology capable of piercing the hardest Selachian battle cruiser! Wish this went longer than 15 secs, even with the training wheels.
For your viewing pleasure: How to overtake more than 100 cars in 5 minutes.
Not entirely convinced about the afro skid lid, but the Brazilian scenery is gorgeous.
Sword and sandal meets tooth and claw!
Currently warming up the laminator for some ‘promotional material’, so while I’m waiting for the red light to go green:
Light’s finally gone green, time to commence laminating ….. oooo, before I forget, here’s a special little something guaranteed to have Tim Pallas & John Brumby breaking out in cold sweats and terrifying nightmares!
Hovis London Freewheel: The Day of the Bicycles!
London is buzzing today with the news that, for one remarkable day, many of the capital’s roads will be completely traffic-free and open only to cyclists.
On Sunday 23 September, London goes traffic-free
All Londoners – from mums on shoppers to old folks on rusty relics – will be coming from far and wide to ride down the city’s most famous roads, seeing sights like London Eye, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace and Tower Bridge.
Yep, a fun ‘Day of the Bicycles’ for London (pop. 7.5m)
Same boring shit for Melbourne (pop. 3.2 m)
Here’s a variation on fan fiction: fan you tube. Warning: there’s obvious spoilers in there (if you want to look) , but for Aus. viewers, it’s further irrefutable proof that Russell T. Davies revival of Doctor Who is blindingly fugging brilliant. For example: Davies wrote the episode Gridlock, which included an entire culture trapped on the ‘motorway’ how English, women and cats getting married and having um, er, litters of kittens, a pair of married middle-aged lesbians, psychotropic drugs AND the Face of Boe. Whoah!
Not so subtle TdF link – if you’ve been up late you’d recognise the tune above as “The End Has a Start” by The Editors, as SBS used it in their equally blindingly fugging brilliant TdF wrap. NB: except for that nervous bit on Champs-Élysées where they lost the audio feed & the ancient memory of school girl french totally failed me.
You came on your own
That’s how you’ll leave
With hope in your hands
And air to breathe
Cadel. You did us proud.
This YouTube vid is only a relatively small example of what’s avaliable if you’re interested in learning more about how US authorities targeted activist groups in the 1960′s. WTF has this got to do with anything you say? Plenty. CointelPro may not officially exist anymore, but similar social processes have a tendency to thrive in social environments where there is a relative vacuum of informed discussion, unquestioning obedience to authority figures, flawed value systems and closed review processes.
For example, some corporate environments, NGO’s, community organisations can descend darkly into toxic work environments. Most of these organisations do operate within adequate guidelines, although some individuals, who could have the very best of intentions, can wind up horribly compromised, pressured by work commitments, bullying and peer groups into dysfunctional behaviours that would normally be subjected to valid criticism and disapproval.
There’s numerous analogies I could draw, just by observing recent issues in the Australian media. But on a macro level there’s more to examine. Put simply, if you’ve been privy to apparent exclusive insights about somebody or something that doesn’t sound right, why not discreetly turn the tables on whoever could be repeating distortions as fact? Bullshit conspiracies and rumour-mongering, via the use of media misreporting, reducing facts to the point of caricatures, shills and internet sock puppets can only gain acceptance where people are too lazy to utilise their critical facilities to sieve facts from manufactured fiction.
“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.” – Winston Churchill
If you haven’t witnessed this 6min epic in the last 12 months you’ve probably been hiding in a deep dank hole. Wondrous stuff, huh? How many corny Spaghetti Western references can you spot? Actually I’m really starting to get into Muse, after all there nothing like a good bit of prog rock, highly wrought vocals, lyrics about conspiracies, space and Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to float your boat. who were casually mentioned in the previous post.
There’s a fantastic link between Muse and The Greatest Instrumental Ever Recorded. George Bellamy, the rhythm guitarist in The Tornados, is the father of Muse’s lead singer, Matthew Bellamy. The Tornados had a massive hit in 1962 with The Greatest Instrumental Ever Recorded. That tune being the mighty TELSTAR. And may I casually suggest, the younger Bellamy does sound just a itsy-bitsy bit like one Russell Mael.
La la lalalalalala lalalala LALA
Now back to watching Cadel in Stage 9.
PS: Send Stuey a Get Well Soon message. Back on board for La Vuelta?
The modern cyclist is making an elegant and intelligent response to pollution and traffic congestion
:: at my command unleash hell :: opps meant kittens, not hell ::
