Then from Joe comes not words of wisdom, but rather imagery of wisdom;

That's right... It's cool to walk your bike with your junk dangling.

Unless of course you're a dame, in which case it's perfectly acceptable to follow the path of this individual I came across in Minneapolis one morning and crochet your own;

Lesson learned, right everybody?

Another photographer (slash) filmmaker who is in our midst is none other than Brian Vernor, who just moments ago laid this on me;

"Bicycle Film Festival starts tomorrow. We just got to New York. Benny and I have slept about 4 hours in the last two days,,,,,,,but our movie is ready to premier, really, i'm really, really, happy with it.

Brian"

It's going to be awesome. You know what to do.

While we're on the topic of requesting the presence of New York people, in a little over a week's time there is going to be an art explosion of nearly epic proportions in Brooklyn, of which I am fortunately going to be a part. There are a gob of really talented individuals involved in this gig such as Swobo t-shirt artist Parskid, world renowned tattoo artist and all around nice guy Grime, and my ace homey Kristen Ferrell among many, many others, so if you find yourselves with Friday June 26th free, I highly recommend you swing through and take a look;

All of the info that's fit to print on the matter can and should be found here. At the very least you could poke your head in and say hello to Eastern District proprietor JLD. Not only is she a super cool person, but she's not too hard on the eyes;

That's how she appears when you're on mushrooms. Otherwise she's pretty normal looking.

Let's see.. what else...

Coach Matt sent an image he shot in Oakland of some words of self encouragement;

Whether or not they were Matt's own words has yet to be divulged.

What else do I have in here?

Sarah.. Yeah, you wanna hear what she's got to say?

"Stevil,

The end. By Sarah."

As I replied to Sarah, I went to school with a fellow named Tommy who was making bicycle abominations such as these, way, way back, and as a matter of fact, he made an actual bicycle/shopping cart combo, not alot unlike our beloved Swobo logo. It just goes to show, there is not alot that's original anymore, but there are certainly endless ways to redefine and re-appropriate that which has been done before.
And that, I suppose is what makes the creative process so interesting is that not only are you challenged to do something interesting, but you are up against making it even more so than the last time it was done..

Or you could just go down the road Duchamp took, and throw a urinal in a gallery.

Finally, our own Sky the product wiz just traveled to the Midwest to hang out with her folks and help celebrate their 60th anniversary. She writes "this is what 60 years of marriage looks like."

I can't imagine being alive for 60 years, let alone being alive on a single person's arm for that long, so it's with complete sincerity that I wish these two love birds my very best, and here is to sixty more.

It's Wednesday. Do like I do and go hang out in the woods alone, washing some dirt down with a beer.

It's good for the soul.. You know.. That is if you haven't sold yours yet.