Sunday, February 1, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Going to the Keyhole for Chinese Stars
Have you been to the Keyhole recently?
Not much left to the imagination...
Monday, January 12, 2009
Cardboard in the bike spokes
Thub thub thub...thub thub thub thub...thubthubthubthubthubthubthubthubthubthubbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...
Faster and faster.
When you are a kid, your bike is more than transportation, your bike is freedom. It's your horse, your car and your fighter jet. The problem is, bicycle don't make a lot of noise, and being a kid is about sensory overload. At least it is if you're doing it right.
Hence the baseball card, or the library card, or just a plain old piece of cardboard, taped on to the frame of the bike, and stuck into the spokes of the back tire. And presto! Your bike is now a motorcycle. A loud motorcycle. And the best thing about this curious little innovation was the fact that the faster you went, the louder your "motor" revved, and as you slowed down, the "motor" almost sounded like it was idling.
Why do we do this? Why do kids want, so badly, to join the grown up world?
Faster and faster.
When you are a kid, your bike is more than transportation, your bike is freedom. It's your horse, your car and your fighter jet. The problem is, bicycle don't make a lot of noise, and being a kid is about sensory overload. At least it is if you're doing it right.
Hence the baseball card, or the library card, or just a plain old piece of cardboard, taped on to the frame of the bike, and stuck into the spokes of the back tire. And presto! Your bike is now a motorcycle. A loud motorcycle. And the best thing about this curious little innovation was the fact that the faster you went, the louder your "motor" revved, and as you slowed down, the "motor" almost sounded like it was idling.
Why do we do this? Why do kids want, so badly, to join the grown up world?
1st scout camp
Playing cricket
Brian Hansen throwing the boxes of 'dud' ammo in the fire, Weston trying to kill him.
Kris Stoddard's dad whittling wood and making cool crap.
Cameron Terry - Camville slugger
Tayah splitting his knee open.
Me shooting black powder rifle and it knocking me right off my feet.
You throwing the hatchet up in the tree to hit a bird.
Brian Hansen throwing the boxes of 'dud' ammo in the fire, Weston trying to kill him.
Kris Stoddard's dad whittling wood and making cool crap.
Cameron Terry - Camville slugger
Tayah splitting his knee open.
Me shooting black powder rifle and it knocking me right off my feet.
You throwing the hatchet up in the tree to hit a bird.
Shooting Arrows in your backyard
Remember that really small compound bow I borrowed from Chris...(something). We were shooting arrows in your backyard, we strung your Dad's recurve bow with a string WAY too small....neither of us could pull it back very far.
So you nock an arrow, pull back as hard as you can and let go....{SWWWWWWIFT......BANG} stuck in the back door of the Crapo house?
Clean stick.
So you nock an arrow, pull back as hard as you can and let go....{SWWWWWWIFT......BANG} stuck in the back door of the Crapo house?
Clean stick.
Monday, January 5, 2009
golfing the heads off Star Wars People in your backyard
How many hundreds of dollars of memorabilia did we destroy?
street hockey
We got those broken sticks from the coach at Albion (what is his name?) and we rebuilt them at home and played all the time....with a real puck.
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