What do you do when you’re a Grammy winning children’s film scorer (Check out “Elmo in Grouchland”) and not at all closet metalhead? You take videos on YouTube and remake them in brilliant ways. Oh yeah, that’s what you do.
Suddenly my plan to cover “McArther Park” as a death metal song doesn’t seem so bad.
I’m more or less legally blind without my glasses. No, seriously, I can see clearly to about my elbow with them off. What does this have to do with anything? Only that despite my glasses being par of Oakley’s “sport” and “active lifestyle” collections I find them completely unable to handle the strenuous activity of staying on my head while I look down to make sure I’m not peeing on the floor. Given that they can’t handle urination, my glasses are extremely poorly suited to riding a bicycle in.
And oh yeah, I ripped my last pair of contacts a week ago.
So, I’m not getting on my bike, because the weather’s good, but my eyes are not and that starts me down the path of thinking about my age and why I think I should still be riding to begin with. Because, you know, I’m nothing if not neurotic.
But then I ended up going to a 90th birthday party.
It’s not often that I go to a 90th birthday party (and, to be fair, I mostly showed up at this one under the threat of bodily injury from the birthday girl’s daughter) and it’s even more rare when you go to a 90th birthday party where the guest of honor is the third oldest person there, but there I was. So, I was talking to the big brother of the birthday girl. He’s 94 and was an avid skier up until 6 years ago. I’ll let you do the math on that one, but he spent 70 or so years skiing at an intermediate level because he loved skiing. Seems like a good enough reason to me. His 92 year old wife also told us about how she learned how to ride a bicycle in her 50s because her granddaughter told her that everyone should know how to ride.
Granted I tend to be sentimental and all, but there’s no way you can’t think an 88 year old dude who still skis isn’t cool and inspirational. Well, I guess you might not, but you’d be kind of a dick.
You do not speak ill of Salma…
Anyone who showed up to the Twilight comp last week was treated to a massive lightning storm and Terry Adams riding flat in a torrential downpour wearing a free Maxxis parka. No ramp riding took place. This was obviously not right. Dowker and Kent agree. So, I got this from Jon in my inbox yesterday…
Hi Everyone,
Unfortunately do to rain we did not get to run the ramp classes at Twilight this year
Kent Pearson and myself have decided to hold another event on May 15th at SPOA (Skatepark of Athens) between 1:00pm and 5:00pm. Kent just received conformation that the city will allow us to run the event at that time. We should have a new flyer up in a couple of days!
We are sitting on a bunch of product and prizes from sponsors of the Twilight Contest. We wish to use those prizes for this event now. If you are a sponsor and would prefer to get your product back please email me and we can try to make arrangements.
Kent and I apologize to all of you that made the trip to Athens from far off places. We really do appreciate everyone that made the trip. Hopefully everyone still had some fun? I know I did
So, you know, not optimal, but still a time to be had.
And, there was video of the flat.