Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
Friday, February 20, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Best Purchase of 2008
Since everyone else has or is doing their "best _____ of 2008," here is mine:
No explanation needed.
In other (and semi-related news): FUCK YOU RON HUBERMAN! Four trains had to go by this morning before I could get on at Damen. Why am I paying more for worse shitty service? Fix the trains! Fix it! Fix! It! Fix it!
No explanation needed.
In other (and semi-related news): FUCK YOU RON HUBERMAN! Four trains had to go by this morning before I could get on at Damen. Why am I paying more for worse shitty service? Fix the trains! Fix it! Fix! It! Fix it!
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
This cracks me up...
The Christians are all up in arms over the most recent Playboy cover (en Mexico). What I want to know is...why are "Christians" reading Playboy?
In other news, the biggest story at Cyclocross Nationals is the one that wasn't even reported. Apparently, some drunk fans were being drunk fans, heckling Jonathan Page during a post-race interview. Well, apparently Page's brother-in-law (who is a cop) was standing next to the hecklers. The in-law didn't think the hecklers were funny, and escalated it to fisticuffs. Reportedly even Page's wife threw a few punches. Now Richard Sachs claims several of his bikes were totaled.
Pics start here. More discussion here. Page cries here, here and here. Heckers blog...has been changed to invite only.
Isn't cross great?
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Thursday Hate: Speak up - stop the bullshit
The ICA meeting is October 25th. Make sure you attend or send a team representative. I have a topic for consideration at the meeting:
It has come to my attention that some people have still not received prize and prime money from Downers Grove. That was like two months ago.
Only recently, myself included, have people received their checks from the Chicago Criterum.
Both of these events have a common promoter: Special Events Management.
For those of you just joining in: for the first time in known history, payouts from a bike race were not given out day-of at these two events. "The check will be in the mail," they said.
For the Chicago Critierum, it took about two months for checks to go out, and only after people virtually beat down SEM and the Mayor's Office's doors. A very nice woman from the Mayor's Office called me to double-check my address before sending out the late check.
Very nice, and very unnecessary. Just fucking give out checks or cash day-of, like every bike race in the history of forever has done (I can't speak for the PROs, but I've never ever forever had to wait for a check in the mail until 2008). Well, once I got a check in the mail from an ABR race because I forgot to pick it up!
Here's the kicker, peoples: payouts from Downers Grove are now slotting into the Over 60 Days Past Due column of our collective accounts receivable. I have it on good authority that a brave soul e-mailed SEM to inquire about what is rightfully ours and was told by a fine upstanding gentleman named Hank Zemola to "Be patient, this is not a priority for us." Motherfucker says what? This is not a priority for us???
I've got a little Fight Club style homework for all of you: next time you go to register for a bike race, when they ask you for your $25 entry fee, just smile and tell them "The check will be in the mail. When I feel like it." If they question your sanity and inform you that you won't be racing today, reply with "Entry fees are not a priority for me." See how far that gets you.
I don't know what power the ICA has over SEM and their ability to put on bike races, but I do know that ICA stands for "Illinois Cycling Association" and I also know that Downers Grove and Chicago are both in Illinois. Here's to hopin'.
The ICA needs to explain in the smallest words possible to Mr. Zemola (I think he has trouble understanding concepts the rest of us consider trifling) that this behavior is unacceptable, and that in 2009 these events need to pay out day-of, like everyone else.
Some of you may not think this is a big deal. If you don't, I submit to you that you are Superweek's wet dream. The bullshit has got to stop.
And don't even get me started on making everyone wait in line to pick up their preregistration packets, only to be made to fill out a god-damned registration form all over again.
It has come to my attention that some people have still not received prize and prime money from Downers Grove. That was like two months ago.
Only recently, myself included, have people received their checks from the Chicago Criterum.
Both of these events have a common promoter: Special Events Management.
For those of you just joining in: for the first time in known history, payouts from a bike race were not given out day-of at these two events. "The check will be in the mail," they said.
For the Chicago Critierum, it took about two months for checks to go out, and only after people virtually beat down SEM and the Mayor's Office's doors. A very nice woman from the Mayor's Office called me to double-check my address before sending out the late check.
Very nice, and very unnecessary. Just fucking give out checks or cash day-of, like every bike race in the history of forever has done (I can't speak for the PROs, but I've never ever forever had to wait for a check in the mail until 2008). Well, once I got a check in the mail from an ABR race because I forgot to pick it up!
Here's the kicker, peoples: payouts from Downers Grove are now slotting into the Over 60 Days Past Due column of our collective accounts receivable. I have it on good authority that a brave soul e-mailed SEM to inquire about what is rightfully ours and was told by a fine upstanding gentleman named Hank Zemola to "Be patient, this is not a priority for us." Motherfucker says what? This is not a priority for us???
I've got a little Fight Club style homework for all of you: next time you go to register for a bike race, when they ask you for your $25 entry fee, just smile and tell them "The check will be in the mail. When I feel like it." If they question your sanity and inform you that you won't be racing today, reply with "Entry fees are not a priority for me." See how far that gets you.
I don't know what power the ICA has over SEM and their ability to put on bike races, but I do know that ICA stands for "Illinois Cycling Association" and I also know that Downers Grove and Chicago are both in Illinois. Here's to hopin'.
The ICA needs to explain in the smallest words possible to Mr. Zemola (I think he has trouble understanding concepts the rest of us consider trifling) that this behavior is unacceptable, and that in 2009 these events need to pay out day-of, like everyone else.
Some of you may not think this is a big deal. If you don't, I submit to you that you are Superweek's wet dream. The bullshit has got to stop.
And don't even get me started on making everyone wait in line to pick up their preregistration packets, only to be made to fill out a god-damned registration form all over again.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
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