current selection | esthero – superheroes

ouch. todays biking excursion killed me. last weekends girly sissy biking gran turismo was a warm-up. no real challenge except for ppl-dodging. so today i decided to take the 6 mile loop around central park…complete with the hills of the northwest quadrant (i believe its called cardiac hill…super). keep in mind im riding a full suspension down-hiller…with big stonkin’ 2.4″ tires. i usually ride around in gear 8…but on the hills…ouch. ok…7? ouch. 6? getting there…no wait, ouch. anyhoo, after i finally make it thru the hills and cruise down the first slope, i crash to the side and hyper-ventilate for about 15 minutes. its great. after re-couping, and then buying a popsicle, i bike on. i head over to the west side highway…and was originally planning to loop down around battery park. but reality sets in and i call it a day once i hit 14th st. whew.

anyhoo…its easter sunday right? woo. that would explain the little kids with baskets wandering around me while i was hyper-ventilating on the side of the road. so in honor of easter, here is the inimitable kozy-n-dan. masters of bunny-art.

rip
my sis has jus informed me that my baby celica, which i left in nj when i moved into nyc, is on its deathbed. my sis and her bf were driving it this past weekend b/c the headlights on her civic were busted. as she was driving to her friends wedding (she was the maid of honor), it decided to stall a number of times. when theyre within 5 minutes of the reception, the car decides to start smoking. bleh. by the time it coasted into the driveway, it poo’d and died. as shes telling me this, im thinking to myself…ok, i drove my baby for 18+ months and it drove nearly flawlessly. no problems, nada, nien. but the second she touches it? it dies. this isnt the first time something like this has happened. whenever she used to touch my computer, it went nuts. when i left anything in her care, i usually got it back decidedly crappier. when she touched anything, the forces of chance and probability shat itself and its likelihood to die increased. mebbe thats why her email acct is doublejinx. grr.

current selection | new order – temptation

argh…i swear ill never win another chess match again as long as i keep playing fish. this is my…what? 6th? 8th? 10th straight loss? this is pretty demoralizing. i even played white this time. bleh. my second game i had a strong opening…but then poo’d out by mid-game. and then i make one mistake and *poof*, queens dead. after queens dead, everybody dies one after another. my kings even chased up to his side of the board, where he eventually gets surrounded and shits himself. fuck. mebbe i should take up checkers for a while…

current selection | fantastic plastic machine – pura saudade

its nice having a stocked fridge. im currently having a bowl of raisin bran. u kno why? b/c i can! later on i can pick from any number of munchies, and any number of refreshments. stocked refrigerators are nice.

current selection | misia – taiyouga irukara

mmm…spitze and a bag of kani crackers. yum. this is my version of healthy eating.

i think i could get used to this weekly biking thing. i biked abt 5 miles today down the west side towards battery park city. heading south was gorgeous…the sun was setting, couples were on the waterside, burt bacharach was playing piano, and bits of cheesiness were floating around. hehe. ahem. i brought my cam too to finish off the second roll of film i started on saturday. i biked down to battery park and then double-backed…i got to snap some nice evening/nite-time shots of the waterside on the way back up. if the weather lets up, mebbe i could make this habitual…woo!

current selection | club nouveau – lean on me

so groggy…..somebody’s got a case of the mondays. er. me, marisol, and alice went to the orchid show yesterday at rockefeller. it was nicer than i thought itd be. to be completely honest, i didnt exactly set my expectations too high…i jus wanted photos. but the orchids were actually pretty nice. some were pretty freaky looking…and some looked like “health class diagrams”. ahem. so me and marisol strolled thru the concourse while alice somehow migrated to the banana republic. afterwards alice trailed back home and i accompanied marisol to her church meeting. yup…church. ha. craziness, right? nah…i was well behaved. then we hit up the delta grill afterwards, and i was a happy boy. mmm….cajun.

current selection | roomie – snoring

did i mention theres no privacy in my apt? yea…its very acoustically conducive. super. so right after i had to cancel my biking craziness with fish (because of sickness), i started feeling better. oops. so since i was feeling all spank and shit, and it was ridiculously nice out today, i decided to get out of the apt and fire up the ole mt bike. (sorry fish) i took my camera along and ended up going for abt 5 hrs of biking and occasional pic snapping. yea, not a typo. 5 hrs. very coo. i biked from chelsea, north along the west side highway, up to 89th, thru central park, over to the fdr, south all the way past the south street seaport, and then back up to my apt in union sq. i took a roll of film…my first 35mm in some time. coo beans. afterwards, had german food and beer with alice and marisol. beer…go fig. actually, i went pansy and got a radler…half lemonade. ha. afterwards we pretty much jus laid around their apt watching vh1 and the king of iron chef. tomorrow im headed to an orchid (?) festival thingy with marisol. so mebbe more pics. hoo-wah. oops, sleepy. bye bye.