Mulatu Astatke

enjoi

ethiopia

surly ride

Gardening and Community

on a nice sundown bike ride/stroll up north from my house a few miles, last night - i ran into a community garden just off of Bowling Green - south of Windsor st. (which runs through the center of NorthLakes Park


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ill be trying to document other garden spaces in town, as well as hopefully showcasing mine in the very near future.

love
jw

"stop hatin' 'merica

and use fossil fuel!"

Cambridge Massachusetts



this was on this crazy lady's blog

Shelley the Republican is out there, y'all....be careful out there

keep it rubberside down

jw

TX fireball

and no im not talking about this kind of fireball, im talking about a real, potentially, life ending fireball. The New York Times couldnt quite put their 'liberal' finger on exactly what the hell this was, but it wasn't a colliding telescope up in space.

E.T.?
a large fireball, the size of a pickup truck?
A God sending us an apocalyptic message? - I mean i know 2012 is approaching and this is supposed to be the end of this life, as we know it - but damn - this didn't even kill anyone - besides, these 'experts' are saying if this did make it through our solar system it would've gone from the "size of a pickup truck" to the "size of your fist."

probably nothing like this one....this one wouldve really hurt

at least ill be safe
i wear my helmet

week(end)

tall Bikes

just a snippet of local bike culture, here in Denton - as outlined in our shoddy UNT paper .

the streets of Denton are filled with bottlenecked traffic, scampering students on crosswalks and bicycles weaving in and out of both.

Every so often, a 10-foot bicycle can be seen hovering above the crowds and keeping eye-to-eye with the road's tallest sport utility vehicles.

Denton resident Peter Stanley travels through the Denton Square every day on his bike built on top of another bike.

"I call them 'tall bikes' or sometimes 'freak bikes,'" Stanley said.

About three and a half years ago, Stanley had to wait about eight months to get his bike fixed and decided he could begin fixing bikes himself.

"People just leave old bikes in the Dumpster or on the side of the road, so I pick them up and use them to build my bikes," Stanley said.

After he started repairing bikes, Stanley said he decided to have a little fun and build the "tall bikes" in his own backyard.

"Tall bikes" consist of two or three bikes in which one is welded onto another, with a big tire on the front and a small tire on the rear.

"They don't have brakes; I just stop it by putting my foot on the back tire," Stanley said.

Stanley's roommate also rides a "tall bike."

"It's a great way to travel," Stanley's roommate, Elliot Morgan, said. "I ride mine to work all the time."

Stanley's workshop is full of bikes and the remains of old bikes, but his most prized collection includes the "tall bikes" he has named.

Bull, Jackalope, Pedestal and Wal-Mart bike are among the bikes' names. Jackalope is the hardest to ride, Stanley said, and Pedestal is the tallest.

"I've never sold a bike, but I am thinking about making it a business," he said.

Stanley can build a bike in only five hours but hasn't put all of his time into bikes because he has a job fixing computer products for various businesses.

"It's just fun," Stanley said. "That's why I do it."

He said if it weren't for his welding degree from Austin Community College, building bikes might not have been possible, and Denton residents wouldn't have the pleasure of seeing a guy on such a tall bike.

"I just work out of my garage when I have the time," Stanley said. "I actually got a bright light and took up working at night because it is so hot."

As for showing off his bikes, Stanley plans to take his "tall bikes" to the Makers Faire in Austin next month.

"It's a big party where people get together and just make stuff," Stanley said.

Stanley said he is not sure if he will ever make a business out of his tall bikes, but for now he will continue to build his bikes and ride around Denton.