yootoob wednesday: Huangzhou freestyling

check this brother’s skills out.

i want to see this added to gymkhanas everywhere by the end of the year. chopchop, rally organizers. swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube.com/v/FgoAAXAPIzE&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-74-youtube-1″, “425″, “344″, “10″, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes);

in which left bank scooters: shady or intriguing? or both?

another reason to visit paris, in case you don’t have enough already:

Rent a Vespa, See Paris by Scooter.

that’s right, you can perform feats of death-defying daredevilism with the COMPLETELY INSANE paris traffic on an LXV125, as long as you’re over 30 (?) (what?) (weird and arbitrary), and willing to give money to people [...]

Limited Edition – BELVEDERE – WHITE – Eley Kishimoto Online Shop

crazy expensive designer helmet – Eley Kishimoto

they want 720.00 pounds for it. pounds.

i think whoever expects to get that much money for a helmet should probably have been wearing one prior to whatever freak accident brain-damaged them that badly.

i think anyone who *pays* this much [...]

[comicon] Tron Light Cycle Revealed Live At Flynn’s Arcade!

Tron Light Cycle Revealed Live At Flynn’s Arcade!

h/t to Jalopnik.

the munich Puch

okay, it’s not from munich.

but speaking of awesome things of noble canadia, check out this hardy bavarian-cum-canadian dude that found a Puch in someone’s garage or whatever.

you should go help him ID it. you really should. deep in your heart, you know that.

quick updata

i’m a little rundown and overworked lately, so i haven’t been too posty. i’ll post some quick links, maybe, in lieu of actual content.

here is a nice roundup of a rally in Toronto. sounds like they had a good time. sweet.

heh. i hate orange, as a rule: it’s just sort of one [...]

Lock it to something solid

Don’t lock it to something flimsy, like Granny!

h/t to Eric over at ModernBuddy.

HEL-LOOOOOO, NURSE

Useless Knowledge.

Rocking motorcycle: raise your kids right

Rocking motorcycle: raise your kids right – Hell For Leather.

because who doesn’t want their two-year-old exposed to a lot of sharp, raw metal edges and rust?

stuff white people like, on vespas

$him ran across this a few days ago and entertained me aloud with it, and i meant to repost it, and i spaced it: see previous entry.

at any rate, i hope this amuses all my not-necessarily-as-white-as-all-that friends and colleagues. if this is you and you also ride, feel free to point and laugh. if [...]

work woe.

there’s nothing i hate more than busywork. and there’s a lot of it in content management.

not that i can get any of it done, because i have to keep taking time out of my schedule to do things like, oh, babysit jobs at the printshop in person, because the print staff cannot figure out [...]

happy Hello

i received a lovely Greeting from Mellow, Sane Canadia yesterday, in the form of a French Kitty postcard from my fellowblogger Kimli. thank you, nice lady! if you haven’t read her,  you should stay not on the order of your going, but go at once to deliciousjuice dot com. she rides a vespa, writes many [...]

wednesday thinsday

chiefly because i can’t eat, evidently.

i’m reasonably certain i have a duodenal ulcer.  it’s painful to eat: it’s painful not to eat: it’s painful to drink water. this may come as a surprising surprise to those of you who assume the lack of remarkability in my online output is a function of, well, as [...]

in which operatives unknown successfully conduct Bavarian Fire Drill variant #x

…With Hilarious Results!

and i quote:

If caller says to trash your hotel room, think twice

Lisa Kantorski took the call from the person who claimed to be a front-desk clerk about a gas leak in their hotel room near Orlando International Airport.

She frantically relayed the information to her husband, Mark, an Indian River [...]

unintended hair products, pt. 2

add to the list of things that weren’t really intended to be hair product:

two-stroke oil

so, that makes the list, so far:

febreze latex polish two-stroke motor oil

further developments reported as they occur.

Impending Changes to Colorado Scooter Law

Impending Changes to Colorado Scooter Law – Associated Content. What are the major changes for under 50 cc scooters in Colorado? • Scooters previously classified as ‘motorized bicycles’ or a ‘motor-driven cycle’ will now be classified as ‘low-power scooters’. • The definition of a low-power scooter has changed. The maximum wheel size diameter and the [...]

in which @scooterism tries to figure out exactly what is and isn’t welcome at a ‘vintage-only’ rally

Modern Vespa : – SCOOT INVASION IV – LOS ANGELES – JULY 10-12 – VINTAGE.

i quote:

I have a very nice Rally 200, but I don’t own a parka, bomber jacket, flight jacket, Harrington, or any Ben Sherman or Fred Perry stuff. I also don’t have any patches. Or decals. Also, I think ska [...]

gaming scheduling

or, scheduling gaming.

so since Diablo III is out now, i figured i’d play back through D2 with my good ol’ tankazon.

and then i decided i’d play back through nwn1 and 2

and then go ahead and spring for Damnation, since it has a western steampunk theme, and play through that

and THEN play [...]

I’m One giveaway

*pout*

why can’t i play? just ’cause i live in Stixville doesn’t mean i’m not cool. 

well, anyway, if — and only if — you live in the UK, or know someone that does and that you can successfully armtwist/convince/bribe/blackmail into entering this for you, you could possibly win this tremendously awesome looking coffee [...]

near-death experience, edition 289

yeah, i undertook a relatively unnecessary errand, as we scooterists are wont to do, around nightfall, and some braying jackass in –imagine! — an SUV almost creamed me on the corner of race and 14th. because, you know, i was stopped there waiting for traffic to break, and he wanted to take a real oblique [...]

[nuts and bolts] migration

so here we are in the midst of the long-awaited platform migration.

i have not imported 300+ old entries. they can be found here: http://modchen.com/news . i may do that, or i may not. i *am* going to close comments, though. new comments go here, where i can filter them more effectively (my akismet port [...]

tweeterings

modchenish flickr

i wanna go fast.

Kyle's new Bitchin' Camaro shades, Horseshoe Market edition.

Kyle and his Bitchin Camaro new shades.

Wasteland Weekend 2011

More Photos

Modchenish elselinks

Modchenish LJ feed, if you like to read that way
Modchenish Yelpings

* * *

{Being other locations in my little little web empire}
my portfolio / playground / vanity domain

scooter-relief.org

aid and support for scooterists in need after natural disasters, accidents or medical emergencies.

posts by tag

randoma
war against banality
scooterliving
scoot-related
culture on the skids
brainfodder
eyecandy
this zeitgeist sucks
sundry entertainments
objéts fascinées
retro/sexual
fashion?
SHINY!
braindead cray machine
hilarious dumbassery
Uncategorized
personal
personal is political
scoot news
COVET COVET
pictures
crafting
stylesnark
video
geek
foodfetish
SERIOUSLY?
mod culture
DEAR INTERNET if you loved me you would buy me this
design yawp
tech
site update
macros
ridewhoring
whineage
bargain Wa
sites of interest
rally
green eating
street fashion
Acquisitivity-obtainium-and-GIMMEH
JUST PLAIN AWESOME
politics
SUV exodus
stupid human tricks
objéts fascinées
things besides dane cook that are not funny
Coloradiana
travel
memes
books
tasty humans
meta-ironic
toys
ninja skills
let's kill a bitch
om nom omf omf nom
weird shit man
SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH
sick sad world
modern maenad
images
costuming stuff
ranty
other people's art
urban greenery
sociality
recipe
absurdly overpriced
Operation Mindf*ck
questionsable home décor
not wearing a helmet
laser tattoo removal
braindump
rides
Project GlamourGardening
test
fairy catmother
grief
unintended hair products
shoutout
we're all going to die
near death experiences
negative population growth now!
drama mine
high plains thrifter
fucking cagers!
fansquee
so very meta
Gaterape-gate
holiday
procrastinating
nerd
modernism
craft
diy
Katrina
runway
PC gaming
RPGs
orange
x-rays
subcultural appropriation
comics
new launches
rich white men
infographics
local matters
hoarding
theft
film
reviews
2strokebuzz
justice
high desert scooterists
WHAT THE
1000 words
muzaque
political is personal
lost architectures
domestic extremist
sweet sunny south
dune
winter
bleach
stencils
historical food
cocktails
drinks of our forefathers