…One Less Scene

American Radical

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FS Rd. #5510

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Ron Brown about to set a land speed record on a 1950 BMW single
I rode down to Tacoma at 6:30 this morning to have breakfast with Ron Brown and some of his friends at a grungy little diner called Fergie’s on McKinley Avenue. Sitting in the presence of these five older guys, who were competitive [...]

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A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free- Elliott Smith

Ruston Way Waterfront
In my day, “tap that ass” referred to having sex. Apparently, someone in the white house has taken this phrase literally, because the Obama administration has “tapped” G.W., along with Bill Clinton, to coordinate the humanitarian aid to Haitian earthquake victims.
A man [...]

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Bike Messengers are disappearing quicker than icecaps, and pretty soon all that will be left are those Jimmy Johns delivery dudes, and Mark Pilder’s fantastic cornucopia of photos spanning 10 years of athletic-alcoholics in Seattle. We should all go buy a new Dank Bag right now, not only because you can pick your own colors [...]

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Hoag, circa 1979
“It was only then, after exhausting all other means of demoralizing the public, that he turned seriously to writing. Several years earlier he had given up bikes “because of the stigma.” After a long stint as a motorcycle messenger he stumbled on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and thought it necessary to publish [...]

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While I sit in my garage, obsessing about broken down old machines and listening to Paul Simon, my brother and his friends are living the good life in Berkeley, California. As I look at these photos of their backyard beehive, chicken coop, garden, and coffee roasting set-up, I can only wonder where I went wrong.

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I’m at the age when I can freely admit the things that I will never be good at, or even slightly capable. Basketball is one of those things. When I watch this clip, it’s so alien to me that I don’t have any sense of  envy for those skills; it just looks like magic. The [...]

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