U23 Paris-Roubaix

Just heard Taylor Phinney won the U23 edition of Paris-Roubaix. Wow! Now I’m not even a huge Phinney fan, but, man!—that is just a major, major result for USACycling! Congratulations, and way to put the states on the map!

Kevin Devine Show

To be perfectly honest, I wasn’t that impressed. One opener was decent. The other was hardly tolerable—definitely a test of my love for Mr. Devine. KD himself and the back-up band played very well too (and definitely enjoyed themselves!), but a couple things irritated me last night: 1) My favorite KD songs are so lyrically driven that it was almost too much to have a rock band backing him (no matter how hard they rocked!); 2) The more popular any artist gets, the greater and more annoying the audience becomes. So this might have been the last time I chose to see him live, but, thankfully, his recordings more than suffice for me!

Here’s a link to “Ballgame” and below is a live pic from last year (no camera last night):

Bugle Seventy-Six

This is simply the beat podcast out there, and today’s episode rivaled the ones in the 30s mocking both the democratic and republican national conventions last year. About eight minutes in today’s posted podcast, Zaltzman goes for the world record of most consecutive North Korean puns. Absolutely brilliant!

Yawn

Thieves

I guess it was my fan making all that racket and not the hard drive. Good that it wasn’t the HD, except that they’ve got my computer for 7-10 days now as they are waiting for the part to come in.

My thumbs are going to get really tired on the mobile this week!