Spawn, Custom Bicycle

so very cool, but i would totally hurt myself trying to ride it.

Spawn, Custom Bicycle – via.

Top 10 Reasons why riders don't wave back.

Top Ten Reasons Why Harley Riders Don’t Wave Back

10. Afraid it will invalidate warranty

9. Leather and studs make it too heavy to raise arm

8. Refuse to wave to anyone whose bike is already paid for

7. Afraid to let go of handlebars because they might vibrate off

6. Rushing wind would blow scabs off the new tattoos

5. [...]

I get around

Retro Vespa Pin 2 1/4 inch by picturama on Etsy.

Look, Internet, it’s only $2.50. surely you can afford to buy me this, Internet.

you would, if you loved me.

2010 Geneva: Honda 3R-C

oh, Honda, you wild and wacky kids.

2010 Geneva: Honda 3R-C Another Urban Mobility Dream Machine – Wide Open Throttle – Motor Trend Magazine.

BUT DOES IT FLY? i mean look at it.

Don’t put plastic bags on your head

Don’t put plastic bags on your head.

a friendly reminder from my neighbor and hardware slave, Alex.

Tiffany Scooter charm

Tiffany & Co. | Item | Scooter charm in sterling silver with Tiffany Blue® enamel finish.

Vespa Rocking ‘Horse’

oh look, it’s yet another in the newly discovered line of PTW-themed rocking-horses. shades of the cruiser frame rocking horse, anyone?

it’s cute that they’re convinced this was upcycled from a real body. that’s some rear cowling, innit?

FFFFOUND! | Vespa Scooter Turned Vespa Rocking ‘Horse’? »

in which #himself huffs my head while we get photobombed by a ghost.

Vesta Dipping Grill, Denver, CO, Feb 28 2010

happy dydd dewi sant

happy st. David’s day.

i’d like to take this opportunity to remind all of you that welsh bitches ain’ playin’.

it’s the little things that matter.

Vespa Wall Sticker

and while i’m on the topic, you can buy me one of these, internets.

it will go with the giant tree i’m going to freehand out of contact paper, as soon as i quit my job* and have oodles of free time.

Vespa Scooter Wall Sticker.

*never

The Sartorialist: On the Street….Stylish Ride, NYC

oh, look. the sartorialist’s beyond-questionable trainwreck of a fashion eye has finally captured something interesting.

i guess even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

The Sartorialist: On the Street….Stylish Ride, NYC.

tuesday shrewsday

i want all three of these. poster size.

rather badly.

aren’t they unspeakably stunning?

FABULON: The Shrine.

The Yes Men

The Yes Men.

The Yes Men are a couple of high-profile pranksters whose erudite tactics meant to warn or propagate the masses (depending on how you see it) about hot button political issues like war protest and global warming fall in line with the mentality behind Internet stalwarts like Improv Everywhere and flash mobs in general.

Initially, [...]

Top 10 Best Graphic Novels – Being Turned Into Movies

sick of hollywood’s nauseating creative bankruptcy? does the sheer cavil of subcultural co-opting going on on a massive scale make you want to fling yourself from the nearest piece of corporate sculpture? then put your climbing shoes on, brothers and sisters!

Top 10 Best Graphic Novels – Being Turned Into Movies

i personally think i’d rather push [...]

while i’m waiting out an inauspicious aspect of my stars to wilfully circumvent a corporate firewall, i’ll clean out my delicious for you lovely people.

here’s a fab modernmechanix retrospective: the AUTO-SCOOTER!

it’s made from jets, but … yeah, no.

okay, okay, here is a self-propelled unicycle-thing powered by an electric motor, stabilized by an internal-self-balancing gyroscope system!

do [...]

role overload

this looks interesting:

http://books.google.com/books?id=5INsFa4QsocC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false

not because my job is insecure, but because my workload keeps increasing; beyond the limits of what seems reasonably possible.

at this point, i have to develop some flash, design two new functions for our front end, set up twenty courses with syllabus revisions, set up a new vanity page and fix a major [...]

how not to talk to girls

our office unit is next door to this ‘placement agency’ where they, in simplest terms, train MBA-tards how to sell themselves as MBA non-tards.

we frequently cross paths in the hallways, bathrooms, et c. – these are the sort of people who don’t know how to flush properly, if you want to know. the sort of [...]

cruel summer

it’s been too wet to ride much lately, at least recreationally, and the rest of the time i’m being kept busy — really busy — by work. this is a good thing, but it keeps me from blogging much, because when i come home i just want to hang out semi-conscious on the balcony and [...]

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 for a helmet ought to [...]

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

Tron Light Cycle Revealed Live At Flynn’s Arcade!

h/t to Jalopnik.

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 this [...]

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 tolkien [...]