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Well, my race results in this, my first cyclocross season, have been pretty dismal. I usually come in around 50th or so. But today I was in the top 20!!!!!!!!!!! This may be a result of the fact that only 24 or 25 people were racing, but it’s a small victory all the same. Here are some pics:
clearly, none of those pictures are of me. But the guy in the NCVC jersey is Kevin. He takes some pretty good race pictures. If you are bored and want to check them out, you should go here or here. Trevor got 3rd place. pretty cool.
click below if you want to read more about the race itself.
so I spent most of the day doing some block prints. I’m pretty happy with them. they are going to be used as gift certificates at the bike shop. It was my first time trying to do multiple images from the same block. first I printed rectangles with the uncarved block. then I carved the heart and printed on top of all of the rectangles, and then I carved the derailleur. I started using dark ink and it didn’t look as good so I scrapped most of those and used white ink.
here are some pics to show how the process went.
so um yeah. I don’t want to be one of those guys that just posts youtube stuff on the blog or sends it around to people. But I am obsessd with this video. if you don’t like sepultura you might not like this. but you might
Is not entirely unlike the impact that the brick had on jen’s car window during an incident of crime last night. It hits hard, it breaks barriers, and (insert another cheesy DJ music review statement here).
But the song “impact” didn’t leave a mess of broken glass all over the street by our house. I got a call around 10 last night on my cell phone from the Police who wanted to get in touch with jen (I have no idea how they got a hold of my cell #). It seems some teenagers threw a brick through jen’s window, rifled through the stuff, didn’t find anything valuable, and the left. The neighbor that called the police, also yelled at them. Something to this effect:
“Hey! At least close the door! If you’re going to break their window and take their stuff, at least have the decency to close the door so EVERYONE doesn’t go through their stuff!”
He does have a point. It happened the same day that the baltimore guide came out.
One of jen’s great joys is reading the crime blotter in the Baltimore guide while sipping a glass of wine. This is because they often include incredibly random details that are mildly hilarious i.e. “It is not known what became of the cake.” Jen has always said that if she is the victim of a crime, she will make sure to add some crazy detail in the report so it gets in the baltimore guide. Well, at the time of the report, it didn’t seem like anything was stolen. But after the fact, we realized that roughly $4.72 in canadian coins were taken. I don’t know if that’s good enough for the baltimore guide, but I guess we will find out.
I just found an mp3 blog and it’s AWESOME. dedicated to bands that didn’t get the attention they should have. metal and hardcore from when you could still tell the difference (most of the time anyway).
Everyone of these records is on the current page from october/november. can’t go wrong with a lineup like this:
so the look and feel has switched up…. and am working on developing a new gallery system, all in .net 2.0 w/ atlas i mean asp.net ajax with a neat mapping feature that will be released under gpl by january or so… also if any one cares…. the posttypography site i did for some friends is done… check it out
So I just saw American Hardcore. Here are some thoughts.
It’s good. I’m glad I saw it. It’s probably a little boring for someone who’s not a part of the scene.
