Since my recent Dillon Beach 200K Randoneuring ride covered many of the roads I’ve already written about, in this edition of my nicotine comment delivery device I’ll just hit the highlights of things that are seared into my mind from the ride.
At the top of the hill overlooking Dillon Beach, I stopped at Elephant Rock. How did it get here? Is it natural? A petrified wooly mammoth? Was it carved by aliens? Wakandans? The Chinese explorers who built the East Bay Walls? It’s a mystery.
I stopped at the Tomales General Store to pick up some snacks and drinks. Since Tomales is a small town, this is one of those stores that sells a lot of different things: food, hardware, clothing, etc. I guess that’s why it’s called a general store. Anyway, a lady came in with her 5 year old son, and said “Would you look at these magical dresses!” If I were trying to turn a boy trans, that’s exactly what I would say. Who wouldn’t want a magic dress? I really hope I misunderstood the situation, but it’s Marin County, so I probably didn’t.
In Nicasio, about 100 miles into the ride, I stopped to get more sugar and to use the porta-potties. Those things are nasty, but since it’s Thanksgiving season as I write this, I have to say that I’m thankful for porta-potties when I have to do the needful.
Coming up the final big hill out of the country and into the suburbs, I heard a bell ringing behind me. Suddenly a stringy old hippy dude pedals past me wearing bright green underwear for cycling shorts. Not tighty whiteys, but green grundies. My cycling shorts are creepy enough. This was another level. It’s like Florida Man was dropped into Marin County. Maybe it’s like how the political spectrum is more like a horseshoe where the far left and far right wrap around to meet each other. Likewise the hippies and the rednecks also wrap around to meet.
On the homestretch we passed through Gavin Newsom’s old stomping grounds in suburban Marin, where he was just a kid growing up on mac and cheese and a dream. The streets were filled with people hustling, just trying to get by. I didn’t see a natural foods store for miles, it was like a food desert. Not all the trees in the park were wrapped in lights for the holiday season, so strapped was the town for resources. There was a line of people outside the cupcake shop, so basically bread lines. It was tough seeing people struggling like that while I was out for a weekend ride.
Anyway, here’s the TLDR for the ride. Across a big bridge. Through some suburbs. Up some hills, down some hills. Through some redwoods and grasslands and past some oyster farms. Beautiful views and perfect conditions. Sexy legwarmers. Some dark places and some bright spots. 125 miles and about 7000 feet of climbing. Some cramping, but all in all a good day.
Were those your sexy leg warmers or someone else’s?
I am so glad that is the first comment.
FIRST
Leg warmers and grundies?
Sexy.
Like wearing someone else’s skin kind of someone else’s?
I’m glad that’s an artist’s rendering. I spent quite a while looking at that. First, damn. You snapped a really good pic of a complete stranger. In a way that could be kinda really frowned upon. He looks displeased with you, and ‘right atcha’ displeased.
He’s also a rather handsome man, in his own way. Overlooking “stringy,” I saw a fit and youthful “old” hippy. I also wondered why *you* were looking at him as long as I had been. Evil trickery, you snap.
Narrator: Jaime is the artist.
Same.
Dem athletic thighs, eh? Native wisdom coupled within youthful vigor?
Get on colonizin’ that shit. Look deep. He’s wistful without you.
Once they figure out fingers, AI slop is going to be the best thirst traps.
*fans self*
His right hand *almost* looks normal. Except for the weird half sixth finger….
All hippies have a weird sixth finger. It Is Known.
What have you got against a weird half sixth finger?
Hello.
My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my Stepfather. Prepare to die.
Be inconvenienced, but painfully.
Im glad to read of your sometime “interesting” adventures. One of my nephews does the flat pedal distance/ time and all that, hes sponsored by some bike company.
I admire your persistence,
Huzzah!
I grew up in the Napa Valley. I know Tomales Bay very well, and every year my scout troop did a camp out at Dillon Beach. There are also some great places to stay and eat as adults. Thanks for the nostalgia!
There was a line of people outside the cupcake shop, so basically bread lines.
Cake. They all want cake.
It’s like Florida Man was dropped into Marin County.
$10 says he’s a Burner.
The Green
BeretsUndies of the Shirt Cocker Army?I grew up in Bay Area and Stinson Beach and northwards.were my favorite part of CA. Your treks are *almost* enough to make me miss the place. Thx
*almost*
That Green Grundy pic is a little disturbing.
Elephant rock looks interesting.
McPhee’s Annals of the Former World talks about the geology of California – it is as weird and inexplicable as the current population.
Great book! I highly recommend it.
You can’t go wrong with any of his books, really.
California has acquired endless bits and pieces of continental, islandic, and oceanic crust since Pangaea started to split. Mostly from the south and the east. The chunks it rejected it sent north.
Mountain Press has a Roadside Geology series with books covering all of the west coast through Alaska (except northern BC) I found fun to read and is good for laypeople such as myself.
The “Roadside Geology of XXX” also includes HI, AZ, WY and others.
I have most of them on my shelf.
Heaven help us but I think he has a real chance against Vance. I mean, he’s one of the most objectively horrible persons in the country but when has that ever stopped anyone.
Unfortunately, I think you are right. I’m not convinced Vance will be the nominee. His flirting with the groypers may sink him. If it doesn’t, then I think Team Blue, Newsom or otherwise, will win.
I can’t picture Newsome without seeing this.
Lol
lol that “I hate Nashville and I hate country music” chick almost won. But didn’t.
Alarm bells should be going off in GOP circles if they’re almost losing to trash like that.
Anyone post the percentages? I haven’t seen them.
Anyone post the turnout?
hier
Oof. The Republicans should be doing some soul searching.
Nashville has some pluses.
It mostly sucks.
Well it’s not my bag but I’m not itching to run the place.
If House elections were held tomorrow, GOP would lose 20 seats minimum. Get ready for Impeachment 3.0.
If an asteroid were on course with Earth, people will die. Get ready for armageddon.
Boo hoo. The rino concern trolls really worry about Democrat control.
Maybe those cunte boot lickers could do something other than performative conservatism. And fuck the Democrat lite voters those Quislings are chasing.
Almost if we think a 10 point loss is close. To be fair, 10 points is 90 points too close, but she and Dems were hoping the off year election would carry her into the seat.
Dems always, ALWAYS do really well in off year and out of cycle elections. Nashville is SF of the South, and Dems are frothing at the mouth right now.
Is it closer than it should be? Sure. But all elections like this are closer than they should be. Hell, HRC came how close?
The former Representative won the last election by 22 points.
Not really. Nashville is pretty deep blue.
This asshole is representing the family of one of the guys killed in one of the boat attacks. Bringing it to some bullshit called the IACHR (never heard of it and don’t give a fuck about it). Claim is that he was just an innocent old fisherman. Yada yada. It wouldn’t surprise me if the administration was grossly incompetent and attacked the wrong boat or they’re full of shit and he was delivering drugs.
But you can guess what sort of resume this piece of work has.
Fishermen don’t sail in international waters unflagged. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The military is a large bureaucratic organization that makes enormous mistakes just like any other big org so hitting the wrong boat isn’t outside the realm of possibility. That’d be a screwup of epic proportions though.
I lean towards poor ass fisherman who was trying to make money on the side doing shady shit. Hardly some drug kingpin worthy of the death penalty. But nothing would surprise me.
You can’t really overstate the level of gross incompetence we’ve seen out of the US government over the last 25 or so years. Government has always sucked, but as the general culture has declined and stupidity has prevailed in all of our major institutions, shit has just gotten worse for those who deem themselves to be top men. Our deer leaders. Some on the left like to paint it as if the Trump administration is uniquely incompetent, but it’s bullshit and anyone paying attention knows it.
It’s like the deportations to the El Salvadorean prison to me. You’d think that if you were the Trump regime you’d make sure to dot your i’s and cross your t’s on that shit. You’d pick the worst of the absolute worst and dare people to question you and challenge it so they’d end up defending complete and utter scumbags. I’m not saying they chose good guys, but there should have been no ambiguity. But that wasn’t the case. Low level street bangers you can’t even prove have cartel connections weren’t the test cases for that shit.
Biden was appointing people to positions who belonged in a nut house. It was like how much can we degrade and mock the American people. Let’s make people call this fat old white guy in a dress we put in charge of human health an admiral for Christ’s sake.
Obama had a court of eunuchs calling the shots. Effete retards who continued to run shit behind the scenes after he left office infecting the “private” sector with their retarded ideologies.
Bush The Lesser was a fucking clown guided around by the nose by neocon fucks who fuck up everything they touch and live in a fairy tale land where they believe they can build a Western style democracy in the heart of the Middle East.
You can say a lot of awful shit about the guys who preceded them, but they at least could kind of get shit done.
“Some on the left like to paint it as if the Trump administration is uniquely incompetent, but it’s bullshit and anyone paying attention knows it”
This is exactly right. The media has run cover for every establishment politician since WWII, and it was Trumps election that shocked them into doing… something, anything about it. And they have ended up looking worse than him, most of the time.
Armed Forces of the United States have quietly trademarked this slogan.
I’m just over here wondering why this is somehow worse than Obama droning American citizens without a single shred of due process beyond “because Chocolate Jesus deemed it so.”
One line that has died out around here despite being plenty relevant still is principals, not principles. (Almost) No one in either party objects to the idea of a president killing people extrajudicially. It’s the fact that it’s THIS president and it’s a gotcha moment for his enemies. I know you already know this.
Trump killed Al Alawki’s daughter in his first term. It’s Team Purple for droning American citizens.
Follow the money. It wouldn’t surprise me if this is tied in with the efforts of the so-called ‘Seditious Six’ who are trying to convince the rank and file of the military to start disobeying orders.
I want an explanation from the administration why blowing up these boats is critical but it was a good idea to pardon the former Honduran president.
The former Honduran president might have whispered sweet nothings into Donald’s ear for all we know.
Go on Facebook and look at posts from the likes of Occupy Democrats. They’ll happily connect all the dots in a way that makes the meme of the guy with the conspiracy board look rational. And watching them try to tie anything and everything back to the Epstein files when they spent years dismissing it as a nothing burger is always entertaining.
I don’t believe any of this is about drugs. Whizzle or whoever posted a link to a thread from a former OANN reporter claiming that Venezuela is tied to fixing US elections and regardless of whether there’s any truth to that, if the idea was put into Trump’s head that’s about as believable as any explanation I’ve seen put forth for why Trump suddenly has such a hard-on for Venezuela.
Then again, his anti-drug rhetoric has only escalated over the years. Being constantly surrounded by bonehead milquetoast conservatives as a life long teetotaler otherwise devoid of principles…maybe he has convinced himself this is about stopping the influx of drugs into the country.
It’s all stupid regardless of what he believes.
Its populist governance. Its popular to hate drugs (except the ones they are all on). South Americans are sending the drugs…blow up the boats!
Fuck you, that’s why?
As a Steelers fan, I’ve been devoid of hope for well over a decade. I’m an OG Fire Tomlin guy. Was on this train well before most. For the first time ever, I actually see light at the end of the tunnel. His reign of mediocrity may finally be coming to an end. I can actually see changes coming. I believed he had more job security than the pope, but the owner Art II seeing boos and fire Tomlin chants break out months before Pittsburgh hosts the draft and he is set to take the stage in what I believe he views as his personal triumph and I can see him losing sleep at night over this. Wiping away sweat with hundred dollar bills collected from the sweaty fat hands of yinzers across the globe.
I hope Tomlin keeps coaching. Not because I think he brings anything to the NFL or game of football, but only because I want this egotistical fraud completely exposed for what he is. He’s never been a great coach. He inherited a situation that few coaches can even dream of starting out in one of the most stable and at the time well run organizations in all of sports. Over two decades he has run it into the ground and made it into a joke.
His successor will inherit a dumpster fire and may well fail. I’d rather go through ten years or more in the wilderness before finding the guy to right the ship than deal with another 9-8 season and them trying to sell the fans on the notion that they were just a few plays short of making a run. I’ll live with tearing the other thing down uncertain when it will be built back up as long as I know that they are at least trying to actually build to something beyond .500 football.
Try being a Dolphins fan….
Nick Fuentes says that when he is 30, he is going to go for a 16 year old bride. He wants her when the milk starts.
I remain unconvinced that Nick Fuentes has ever actually been with a female and I say that as someone who rolls their eyes every time a dude says something and gets bashed as incel by some dumb broad who can’t conceive of a man having value that isn’t derived from how he is perceived by women. And if it isn’t incel, it’s something about their penis being small. That’s about the level of depth you get from your average witless female progressive/feminist.
That’s way too deep for your average progressive white woman.
Seeing this internet thot put down her entire gender made me laugh a bit.
Scotsman molests lonely sheep
/Deceptive headline.
Thomas King is a fraud. I mean, he looks white. Has a white name. But that wasn’t enough for him. He needed to be a victim so he lied to everyone about who he was to build a career speaking for “indigenous” people of Canada (despite being from the US).
If the only evidence you have of your heritage is that your mother told you that your deabeat dad claimed to be part Cherokee, you probably shouldn’t build your life around that and pretend that you know a single fucking thing about being an Injun. I have no idea what gets into the heads of people who don’t just look white, but grow up in a white cultural environment with a white family and think that they have any claim to the experiences of natives. Even if his father had been part Cherokee, it wouldn’t mean a god damn thing. He’d still have no actual business trying to represent those people. This is a dude who could walk through his life every day passing as 100% white and who doesn’t have a single experience that would give him insight into the mind of a native. Yet he was taken seriously. Very seriously. For decades.
When there’s clout to be had and careers to be built and money to be made the grift will flow. He’s about as Indian as Elizabeth Warren it sounds like but he made a pretty nice career swindling left wing white folks, looks like the Indians weren’t buying it, off of it.
“Vulnerable road user” bull shit. If you’re that vulnerable, then you need to stay the fuck off and out of the roadway.
Have a wonderful day, all of you who most certainly not Tulpas!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09CjPuFTckc
Random 🎶🎶, yet oddly specific. 🤷🏼♂️
Good morning, Sean, Ted’S., and Stinky!
Morning.
I woke up to find I was pretty much the only person with cleared walkways and a cleared off car. The roads were clear, but people drove 5-15 in a 30 and 20-25 in a 40 because there were snowbanks to either side, despite the condition being find for normal driving.
Good morning, U!
Don’t know about the folks who don’t clear away any of the snow, but the slowpoke drivers are probably irrationally terrified of the imaginary “black ice.” 🙄
Well, I don’t think all of them shirked the shoveling, but I do think they only did it once, and since the snow was coming down all day, it got filed back in unless you kept going back out to touch it up.
Oh goody. Apparently there was a teen with a knife arrested at the local Walmart. I wonder how much more stuff is going to be locked up.
suh’ fam
whats goody
Good morning, homey!
😭😱 I hate self-service registers.
I picked up bacon for my breakfast salad while walking through the store, but never scanned it and left it at the checkout.
😱🥓🥓
Well, at least it’s pre-cooked, and still in possession of the rightful owner. I do feel sorry for the store employee who has to put it back on the shelf.
It’s not the self-checkout’s fault you forgot to scan it.
At my local Hannaford, the self-checkout asks if you’ve got anything left to scan before you move on to payment type.
A: Yes it is. An employee at a belt fed station would have caught it.
B: Since it asks every time, the question doesn’t register, it’s just more mental chaff like the MotD on logging in to the work computer.
PEBCAK :-p
Problem exists in the use of self-service registers.
They should be removed and replaced with staffed registers.
There are other options, ya know.
I can’t pick up online orders until after the start of the workday. Cooking before work takes too much time. Cooking the night before risks me snacking on it before breakfast.
Good morning, and good mourning for lost bacon.
It was precooked bacon. Don’t bother.
Get your snobby nose out of the clouds.
Any bacon (pork, not turkey) that does not enter into the glory of a human mouth is a loss.
It’s not lost. UCS knows just where it is.
I stopped ordering Benton’s after shipping kept climbing. I’ve reverted back to going out of my way to buy Nueske’s in person.
Meant as a snobby reply to UCS. 😛
Market Street here has the best thick cut bacon at affordable prices. Nobody else compares. I may have to get some this weekend.
Wegman’s will custom cut their bacon. I’ve found it to be ok, but unremarkable in taste.
Gooooooooooood Moooooooooooooooooorning to all!!!!
I’ve been up for an hour but just finished the first cuppa mud. Things are looking up.
Been up about two hours, puttering about and doing tasks prior to work. Dreaming of some form of retirement.