all canines with sniffers worth a damn know that we humanoids are a bit slow on the olfactory pickup… this one knows exactly whose strip that is, and i bet he can wager a sound guess as of its vintage. judging from distaste on the hound’s face, he doesn’t know what the Sam Hell the officer is doing waving those panties around in front of his face for.
any guesses?
Originally uploaded by i am indisposed.
When life throws you lemons you make lemonade. Or, in this case, a bold, if ill-conceived, fashion statement!
I suppose this isn’t that extreme. But still. My ass got hott!!! Thank god I was wearing a cycling shirt when I forgot my lycra/polyester @ home Saturday when Taldor and TheReslesssApe and I hit the Tahoe Rim Trail from Spooner/Kingsbury. Thanks for the fine Patagucci Socks Taldor! Between the green shirt and the orange pack I matched the Stately Pleasure Bike quite well!
Weather was fine, a little hazy in the Tahoe Basin. No biggie. A few runners, a few hikers and a very few bikers. That section from the bench to Kingsbury is the best. Definitely worth the ride in the rough stuff.
-M
I know a few of you ’strippers find yourselves in a kayak from time to time enjoying our mountains from the bottom of a canyon…it’s been a thin year for whitewater, but the joneses don’t understand that - gotta feed ‘em somehow. An alternative to letting the water and gravity move you rapidly through your landscape is to find some flatwater and power up the kayak version of a jetboat! This is a worthy contest - a whitewater kayak modified to run with a 45 horsepower water jet vs. a “Tomcat” modified Range Rover. The contest is a race in Iceland, the kayak has to navigate an iceberg choked waterway while the Tomcat takes on some gnarly lavabeds…enjoy!
until i have time to make up some true lies, here are a few highlights:
it was a late night packing the rig and 15+ hours of driving to Gunnison Valley, CO
Why are these people so happy?
It’s because the hand crafted tradition of TBS Champagne, bottled in the basement of a genuine Craftsman Bungalow in historic down town Reno Nevada, with it’s pristine clarity, effervescent complexity and nascent cache, delivered by a fixed gear bike messenger, brings warmth to ones heart and salutes (with more than one finger) the relaxing urban professional within each and every one of us.
-M
TBS mobs the first annual Great Mount Rose Loop Race!
Riding up Calahan Ranch Road to TheRestlessApe’s house Saturday evening I saw the glow over Mt. Rose. 14 hours earlier, from the other side of the valley, I’d seen the alpenglow on the Carson Range through a smoky haze as I rode out to Verdi to meet V-Nasty. Continue reading ‘Team Bacon Strip Wins GMRLR!!’
I was expecting a hail of e-mails after that “make your own bacon” post. Gotta say, I was surprised by the silence. Perhaps it’s because you all ran out back to fire up your Brinkman Smoke’n Grills and throw on the porkbellies. Or maybe you’re just looking for something a little simpler. For those of you for whom this is the case, I give you . . .
This, my friends, is a display of the wonderful symmetry when beauty and technology unite. The founders of this product are men with vision well beyond their years. And they have a blog dedicated to making everything taste like bacon.
While I deeply admire the spirit, I’m not sure I could personally endorse everything tasting like bacon. I mean . . . some things are sacred. Like beer. And few things flavor like the bitter spice of irony. So next time you’re hankering for some smokey swine, consider washing it down with this tasty new beverage:
Ask for it by name! Or visit: http://www.shmaltz.com/
They are link-shaped and come in all sizes — short, long, thin, and chubby
I definitely detect a pork product of some kind.
- Garth
The Kangdigity and I were on the chairlift last winter and I was telling him about an article I’d read on potted meat. A guy on the lift spoke up saying, “That’s the most disgusting food ever.” We quickly disabused him of that erroneous belief by pointing out that hot dogs are clearly more disgusting, being made mostly, as Kangdigity pointed out, of “lips and nipples.”
“I thought it was lips and assholes,” I said.
“We’ll they taste an awful lot like areola to me.”
“Good point.”
So which is it? According to the USDA:
One or more kinds of raw skeletal muscle from livestock.
Also:
The definition of “meat” was amended in December 1994 to include any “meat” product that is produced by advanced meat/bone separation machinery.
Interesting.
Mechanically Separated Meat (MSM) A paste-like and batter-like meat product produced by forcing beef or pork bones, with attached edible meat, under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue.
Mechanicaly separated poultry(MSP) is the same, but with birds instead. Why they make a distinction I don’t know. The take home message is that hot dogs are limited to 20% or less MSM, but can contain any concentration of MSP. So eat pork hot dogs (which contain both assholes AND nipples) instead of chicken/turkey dogs. Although I’m pretty sure that birds don’t have nipples. If they do they’re quite small. Nothing like a pig’s.
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So though I’ve been on a wiener kick recently, thanks to Tbags and SCMartin, I think I’ll take a bit of a break from tube meats. Right after my birthday that is. I think I want to Q up a BWHD…
-M
How beautiful is this? If you’re reading this, you probably love a Bacon Stripper. Or wish you were one. Or are yourself an aspiring adder of strippage to your own bloomers. Mountain Music Daddy extraordinaire Don Darue (of Risky Biscuit Hayseed Hoot fame) brings us to the next stage . . . make your own bacon at home. Here’s how . . .
The Bacon Strip has been spotted in Idaho. This picture was taken at an undisclosed location that will be obvious to any skier or climber with the most modest of pattern-recognition skills. Continue reading ‘Bacon n’ Taters’
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