Over the years Ive seen a lot of bands, and of those performances, Lucys Fur Coat ranks up there with one of my favorites.
There they were, all cramped on the tiny corner stage at San Franciscos Bottom of the Hill, flailing about with such ferocity, everyone in the audience could have put money down that at any second there would be a collision between the band members that would surely draw blood and end the show, but it never happened.

Pure rage and grace all choreographed into rock and roll perfection.
So for those of you in San Diego, all you gotta do is, do it.

Now then- Id like to offer personal thanks for the well wishes I received on Monday. It turns out that Im gonna be a-ok.... Off the bike for a little while, but as they say, 'any day above ground is a good day.'

Secondly, the votes for the 'which bike should CFO drop his entire life savings on' are in.
7 votes for Pereira,
6 votes for Hunter, (7 if you include one in, just under the wire)
5 votes for Retrotec,
1 vote for Ira Ryan,
8 votes for an assortment of other builders,
2 votes to 'get one of each',
2 votes for 'a Hunter or a Soulcraft',
1 vote for 'I have 3 of the 5, so dont trust my decision making skills'
and lastly, 9 votes for Soulcraft.

Any anal retentive types out there can feel free to check my math, cause I sure dont care to.

So there you have it, and on behalf of CFO, we offer thanks for everyones input.

Mr. Walling- get crackin' on Dirtbomb #3.

So let me put this to you- Have any of you ever asked yourself- "is my child a tagger?"

Now all you need to do to answer this age old query is refer to this handy dandy little graph. You can even print it out and laminate it so itll always be ready for reference;

-Damn ruffians with their art supplies in their backpacks...

Patrick writes in;

Stevil-

this Saturday I found myself in a mass of about 100 people all getting Rad at the same time, in the form of Grasshopper number one. Upon completion, my buddy and I stopped to get Burritoed. There the Dark Lord decided to stop in and give his blessing, with an extra Ten bucks on account of the mass radness. Thought you might dig it.

-Patrick

Well of course I dig it.

Speaking of The Grasshopper series, Kim sent in the link to her set of photos on Flickr.
Would you like to see them?

Well alright then.

Chantel also gave us a shout;

"Hi,

With all the talk about Pro Cycling lately, and on the eve of Het Volk - I thought that you'd like this. It's a video of Tom Boonen, Paolo Bettini and other Quick Step riders singing "Nothing Else Matters" and playing a little air guitar outside by one of their trucks. I think that it was produced for a pop TV show. They do the whole song! Bettini is classic.

The quality is only so-so though, but enjoyable none-the-less!

Enjoy,
Chantel"

Ill admit that thats a little weird, but this next one from Stuart takes the cake;

"I never thought that Garfield or his friend John where as scary as Danzig, but check this live action Garfield cartoon strip out..."

WHAT IN THE HELL WAS THAT?!

Just as my synapses begin to repair themselves, Dobie wrote us;

"A music video of sorts. Starts of with 4 redneck bear "hunters" who use a "bear call thing" and then a very gay guy in a bear-ish get-up shakes his ass while rapping.

-Dobie
Seattle roots, Brooklyn digs"

Seriously- what are you people doing to me?

Roger writes in;

"Who knew that you were in Seattle?"

Heck, if youre going to steal porn, you might as well do it by bicycle.

John Mark also found an article that he knew would spark our interest;

"Hey there,
Not sure if you're familiar with the Name of the Year website, but basically they've put together a March Madness-style bracket to determine the most amazing names of real live people discovered over the past year. If you check the bracket I've linked to below, you can see that in the Sithole Regional division, Johnny Mustache is going up against Metallica Tomaro. I'm having a real hard time putting one above the other. If they were in separate divisions, I'd have them in the final round against each other...
Thought this might be relevant to your interests.

-John Mark"

you can peep the 2008 ballot right here.

Speaking for myself, Ive kinda got a thing for 'Perfect Engleberger'.

My sister went to school with a 'Candy Machine', 'Shanda Lear', and 'Groovy Morris'.
Groovy was rad cause his parents were super old school beatniks, and when he was born, they decided to simply let him name himself. Ultimately when he could speak, he chose Groovy, but I think in the late 80s he eventually settled on 'Brooks'.

I tried to get GenO and JenO to name their latest son 'Machine Gun HIYAHH! Kinevil Oberpriller', but they didnt go for it.

The wet spots on my pants may or may not be wizz.

Mark Brandon Chopper Reads not only got a good name, but the man makes a good point as well;

Even if I didnt agree with him, I wouldnt tell him that.

Lets hear it for Wednesday.
I gotta go lay down now.