A Beer for Brian

IF YOU'D SEEN ME LAST NIGHT paying tribute to my cousin Brian, and avoided being struck blind, you'd have had good cause to doubt my sanity. But I was fulfilling an obligation and following some very sage advice.Fortunately, there are no photos. But you're welcome to use your imagination.Brian was a sweet, good-natured guy with …

Continue reading A Beer for Brian

Woodstock Warmup!

FRIDAY'S FORECAST FOR HELL: HOT, with rain showers likely, then cooling off on Saturday. Trail conditions: 200 yards of campground road followed by 61.9 miles of slippery, shoe-eating mud.Just hours now to Run Woodstock and my first-ever 100K trail race, starting at 4:00 Friday afternoon, and crossing the finish line somewhere between 4:00-6:00 a.m. Saturday. The …

Continue reading Woodstock Warmup!

Hunting the Snarky

Runners in particular are fond of snarky slogans, and I enjoy collecting them. So I'm interrupting my regular program of highly informative, thought-providing, and possibly world-changing posts to show you all some entertaining T-shirts and signs from my recent races and training runs. After all, it's hard to come up with highly informative, thought-providing, and possibly world-changing …

Continue reading Hunting the Snarky

Bluntly Speaking – $2 Bills and Legal Pot

Thomas Jefferson may have grown hemp, but I doubt he'd be happy with the latest association of his name with it. Regular readers know that I stamp $2 bills to shamelessly plug my blog, and distribute them mainly as tips at coffee shops and such. With the blog name change, a new stamp was needed, …

Continue reading Bluntly Speaking – $2 Bills and Legal Pot