www.rideside.net

Story. Figures this would happen during one of my regularly scheduled "Fun House" marathons.

http://www.myspace.com/holyfuck

I'm in Utah!

Skied Alta today. Rented equipment. Line Prophet 100 boards. Scarpa T1 boots. Not sure which bindings, shiny & red with compression springs in the cables.

Story on Line is that they're from Vermont and were recently acquired by K2. K2 just acts a distributor. Really fun, fat (100mm waist!), boards. My first time on skis like this. I think they're 171cm or some ridiculously short number. Keep in mind that I still own a pair of 210s.

VH1's 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs is on this weekend and it's not bad as mindless entertainment. But Iggy is one of the guest commentators and it's worth watching just for his comments about The Kinks "You Really Got Me". I'm not a fan of 80's Metal so but some of the bad videos are amusing. Edgar Winter is freaky as ever.
http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/the_greatest/145950/episode.jhtml

right, so: it turns out there's a 4" hole in my right coat pocket, through which my phone apparently escaped sometime during my early morning trek from Allston Point A to Allston Point B. (even better was the fact that our merry band of ridesiders was walking down the middle of the streets, so the likelihood of the thing being intact in a snowdrift somewhere - instead of shattered to smithereens in the path of traffic - is woefully low). i'd never lost a cellphone before (and i never delete numbers), so i just lost 4 years worth of accumulated contacts.

Wow. Decent year.

Thumbs Up:
No Age, Radiohead, Dark Meat, MIA, Tara Donovan, Douglas Weathersby, Joe Bidden, Yglesias, Robert Downey Jr, MassArt, My mom.

Thumbs Down:
The Windows Vista Operating System, The Mac 10.5 Operating System, The Medford Postal Service, The Somerville Police Dept, Fox and News Corp, Governor Deval Patrick.

Nice to see that 'The Wire' gets better almost every season. It's suddenly slipped into the top 10 American TV shows (Yes, along side The Cosby Show, I Love Lucy, Newhart, The Muppets, and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia).

All RS'ers,

Come on down to 34 Brentwood Street in picturesque Allston, MA for a New Year's Eve celebration. With food and booze and ??? BYOB.

If you're not into the whole NYE thing, you could celebrate such birthdays as:

Paul Revere, J. Edgar Hoover, Barry Goldwater, Hank Greenburg, J.D. Salinger, Country Joe (sans fish) McDonald, Jimmy "Mouth of the South" Hart, Grandmaster Flash, DJ Shadow, or whoever you like.

C'mon, do it.

Peace out to a true trumpet titan.

Putting on 'Out To Lunch' by Dolphy and maybe 'Free Jazz'by Coleman after the kids go to bed tonight. (Don't worry - I'll use headphones - unless Maddie has been bad! - then its 'Ascension' out loud until 11:00 or at least until the cops come...)

word.

a pot noodle miner!