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Mud, Sweat, and Beers
http://mudsweatbeers.blogspot.com/
My name's Mike. I'm a back-of-the-pack bike racer, and my outdoor adventures are hardly Jack London material. I haven't cycled America or trekked Nepal. But I love this stuff, and here's where I spread the gospel. It's gonna get dirty.
Recent Posts
Gear of the Year 2009
'Tis the season of lists. Top 10 albums, best movie, car of the year, least intellectually offensive reality tv series. And the outdoors publications will have their say, too. The year's must-haves will be comprised of predictable stuff: Shock-resist...
Get off my property...
Last night I had a series if alarming, stress-induced dreams. Always happens around the holidays.In the most memorable one, a kid of maybe seven or eight (dressed in head-to-toe camouflage) marched up the front steps of my happy home, stood in front ...
Beautiful Angle...
Digging the work of this Tacoma poster collective, most of it done with traditional printing processes and tools. Also feeling very tiny in the knowledge that, while I'm busybusybusy manufacturing desire with emails and websites, art is being made al...
Stopping... to consider Tacoma.
Tacoma native Murray Morgan wrote much of the famous Seattle history narrative "Skid Road" while serving as a bridge tender here, high atop the span that would later bear his name. It's remarkable, especially if you're into objects that exude pure me...
Stopping... to recall the nerdiness of my youth.
My bike commute takes me over this Tacoma train yard twice a day, and each time I think about the model railroad I built when I was a kid. For a period of six or seven years, I spent most of my free time in my parents' basement, creating an empire. ...
Stopping... for bacon.
Sometimes you should ride an unknown path to its end. Other times, you know right where to go... and you should put your head down and get there. Bacon is good. Bacon aged to perfection under the warm glow of man-made sunshine is a greasy slice of he...
