Last summer on ZKMC's annual ride to Lovitt, on the day we were set to ride the fabulous Lolo Pass my friend Luke and I swapped bikes for the day. He rides a Triumph Daytona, the sports bike equivalent of my Triumph Street Triple. Same motor, same electronics, but different geometry. About the time we were 5 miles up the road, I'm falling in love ( Read more... )

This morning I woke up thinking about my friend Matt. I met Matt a few weeks ago in Colorado at the Ragnarök UTMC convergence, where we unknowingly camped with him that first night and then we all adventured out together to get burritos in the morning (and by ‘camp’ I mean ‘passed out in the back yard’) . By the time we met him in Denver he’d been ( Read more... )

I've been looking for a good time to get Quiz Master Don on the mic with me for months, and it finally came together this week. A good time and a great occasion: Quiz Night fell on the night before April Fool's Day. What a perfect time to put together a quiz with Don on pranks, fools and tricksters!

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Sometimes the Quiz Nights that I fumble into off the cuff turn out to be some of the most fun. I figured it was about time for another grammatically-themed something, so spontaneously I decided that the theme for this week would be Thesaurus Rex: Quiz & trivia about languages, language and phrase origins. I love this dorky stuff.


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Manual TransMission and the Awful Tower is a mind-blowingly cool build project and I'm in love with it. If it comes to pass that the possibility to build it becomes real it will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience to manifest the magnificent art and the world I treasure. Vision, imagination and welding spatter will coalesce into a huge interactive ( Read more... )

The theme of last night's Quiz Night at Georgetown Liquor was Dangerously Asian: Quiz & trivia about mysteries from the East, intrigue and KUNG FU! To help me puzzle up the Far East nations (and to help me sort out an audio round because I'm electronically retarded) I brought in my good pal and Cell Division Shogun Nathan. Nathan knows how to make ( Read more... )

I'll spend any given Saturday morning watching cartoons. I'm 33 years old. Sure, I play it off like it's heady art or some hogwash (most excellent contemporary animation, fresh from central Czech Republic!) but I'm watching cartoons. Being a grownup rules.

I've already got a scheme for some international animation quizzes, so when my friend Fes ( Read more... )

All of it. Everything. Every minute of every day. I love to play.

Lately Quiz Night at Georgetown Liquor has been less bonkers than earlier this month; we haven't run out of chairs in two weeks. Last night's showing was strong and fun, a full house with 10 or so teams and enough noisy Internationals yelling with accents to keep it hilarious. The ( Read more... )

Actually, I love the Quiz. I haven't had this much fun once a week since before they made Scooby Snacks illegal (did you know that MDMA used to be legal in the US? Oh yes, back when your grizzled old Quiz Mistress was but a young fawn in the wilds of Oklahoma the drug that became known as Ecstasy was legally used in group therapy. These are the ( Read more... )

Rape, murder and cannibalism at a string of abandoned houses on a seaside boardwalk in Brazil; I had Silent Hill-style nightmares last night. On one hand was this horrifying, paralyzing violence, and on the other the rampant happiness of being with friends and the bliss of swimming in the warm South American ocean under a turbulent, stormy sky with ( Read more... )