Wednesday, January 22, 2014

This Just In: A Highly Translucent Excuse!

Here in New York City, crews are working around the clock to plow Winter Storm Anus:


(Winter Storm Anus dumps its load across the region.)

In all, it's really not that big a deal, but nevertheless I'll use it as an excuse by saying that the storm has exacerbated certain scheduling vicissitudes necessitating my offering you today only this highly truncated post, but that tomorrow I will return with a regular update of normal robustness.

In the meantime, contemplate this video about where we're headed:


Pedestrian Safety Tips from Anna Zivarts on Vimeo.

Thanks for reading, please accept my apologies for the abridged update (or don't, I don't really care), and remember: old wheelsets make excellent snowshoes.

Love,


--Wildcat Rock Machine


85 comments:

  1. And I will be sure to festoon my body with lights whenever I'm out and about, even though I'm thousands of miles from the hell of NYC... :-)

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  2. I was washing my Johnson in the hot shower last night when things began to get a bit grippy.

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  3. Top ten from Japan

    Bonzai!

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  4. Veronica Corningstone looks like she needs a load dumped across her region.

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  5. Look up cyclist lodged in windshield in maitowoc wis...ap ran the article...right up your alley cat

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  6. Another bullshit excuse for giving an abbreviated post..

    Snob, not sure if I hate you or envy you for crafting your line of work.

    ...pretty sure it's just "hate you"

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  7. I realize radial is lighter and more aero, but I read somewhere on the internet that three cross lacing makes for more compliant snowshoes.

    It doesn't matter to me, all the snow around here has turned into ice.

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  8. Snow day for Snob. Enjoy.

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  9. You're a pussy letting a little snow get in the way of your calling.

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  10. dear bikesnobnyc i humbly propose that you try to incorporate the following photo into future postings

    http://i.imgur.com/SFkKdju.jpg

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  11. Whoa!

    Top XX!!

    the soversy

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  12. What do you mean, snow?
    Another 65 degree day in the By Area.
    Sigh - okay, you can all laugh at us when we are parched and desiccated in the summer

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  13. If ever we needed Wednesday weed, it was today.

    cycle

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  14. Stupid cold out, and I refuse to light my person properly. I'll take my chances.

    Because I'm livin' on the edge.

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  15. That wind is really blowing a foul air into Manhattan from up north in Athol, NY.
    We could control all this with some climate control funding from Donald Trump, the high-tech "Trump -Plug™" could be the winter saviour of New York.
    A great man, he has offered all the city homeless to curl up and sleep in his hairpiece through the cold night.

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  16. Meanwhile , back in Toronto, the guys have come out and placed a "0" on the sign of "___ number of days without a drunk or stupid Rob Ford Video".
    I really thought he was going to crack 80 days.

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  17. But, I paid that nice gentleman from Nigeria $100 to subscribe to your newsletter! What do you mean there's no update?!?!?


    Anus even sent its cold ass weather all the way down to tobacco-land; but we didn't even get a snow day. Pointless.

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  18. This one is for you, McFly...

    http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=1774

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  19. Hey, Euro:
    We take ten minute showers, leave the tap running while we shave and brush teeth. Way too much water here.
    Time for you folks out west to start looking for property east of the Mississippi.
    And bring us some legal weed.

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  20. Nice job by Anna Zivarts. Think I'll get some more lights and change my name to Strobe.

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  21. Snob,

    it's about time you hired liberal arts grads to plow your region around your mansion... if you know what i mean.

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  22. Ok, I watched 37 seconds of Anna, then had a seizure.

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  23. Winter Storm Anus is going to dump a lot of snow.

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  24. Anna, please tell me that's a parody.

    And that "special move" may keep the cars away, but watch out for taxiing 767s; they will want to follow you.

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  25. Comment Deleted in early running for COD.

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  26. Anna...wow...paranoia isn't attractive.

    Congrats, Congrats, to Bod, Bod, and Ian, Ian. Going by the oft-mentioned and ephemeral Rule of Double Podio-eeng, Streepo would technically be 3rd, so Congrats Streepo.

    Snowshoes for snow, Crampons and an Ice Axe for ice.

    Send us your snow, but not from your anus, we're havin' a drought out here and can use it...the snow I mean. California has more than its share of anuses.

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  27. Re: Yer anus. (heh heh, that almost sounds like a title)

    You see snobbums, lot of folks depend on you. There are definitely a few folks this side of the comment section who DO leave me in stitches just like you do, but yours are big shoes to fill.

    In business they call it a legacy. You need a ghost poster, snobberdoodles.

    Just sayin...

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  28. Abbreviated comment

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  29. The stain in drain is done in vain by my vein. I have a Fathead of Babble in my shower with the hot snd cold knobs where her boobs are. I am kidding of course, if I had a Babble Fathead she would be facing the other way.

    PHAT BUTT

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  30. I don't think that pedestrian light setup is adequate at all. It makes the pedestrian look more like a cyclist to a driver, which increases the danger. Instead I recommend a backpack with a car battery in it, which powers a shoulder-mounted police-car light bar, and also has a standard ambulance siren in it. I want all traffic in a one-block radius frozen to the curb when I cross the road. And a good double-barreled shotgun for backup.

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  31. It's pronounced "Ahh-Noose", it's the worst storm since Asswipe (pronounced Ahss -weep -eh).

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  32. CommieCanuck,

    Thanks. I didn't know. Rob Ford drunk always brightens my day. Plus I learn that there is a restaurant out there (patronized by drunk robsfords) called "Steak Queen." Bonus.

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  33. Hey Ian Large, go fuck yourself x 8million...........

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  34. Anna Zivarts is HOT!!!

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  35. McFly...I haven't heard of anyone washing a Johnson in the shower...maybe an Evinrude or Mercury...but that's just me

    aintynt act...sounds like aintaint

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  36. that video would be funny if it weren't true. Need more videos like that and just outright complaining to get the city to crack down on motorists (not pedestrians) and stop the carnage. Where are our friends at Transportation Alternatives?

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  37. I'm not just type A...I like to think I personify Aye-ness

    eingiltv this

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  38. And remember it's your responsibility to make sure you're not *insert any violent act here*.

    Makes no fucking sense.

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  39. I'm type Aaaaayyyeee...

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  40. Surprisingly upbeat acoustic music for someone covering themselves in blinky lights and obviously going to a rave.

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  41. If it [snows], take the [don't-do-shit-]bus? Pretty woosie. You commute in your undies through a heated dwelling. Whaddya, have "other people" in your life or some shit? That's a definite no-no for an artiste.

    Anyway I bypassed the video at first... why didn't you tell me it was such an awesome satire? You got to call that shit out!

    I WILL be registering a complaint regarding these issues, and demanding a refund.

    Anywhoo that garb (and its magic ability to correct driver shittiness) is now mandatory if you're visiting a Dunkin Donuts.

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  42. anon @ 2:11

    The problem is that NYPD IS / HAS cracked down on motorists.

    Oh, a belated welcome back to queenie. we was worried bout you.



    3818 82455838

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  43. Yeah, I was pretty miffed about the video too, until I got to the end and they specified that it was a satire.

    The really sad part is, with all of the [cock] 'tips' the NYPD has been handing pedestrians and bicyclists alike, it was totally believable as a public service announcement. Because the real announcements are Just. That. Stupid.

    Pokey - Thanks, dear. :) I'm ok, just been busy is all. Nice to know I'm missed when absent. XO

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  44. Riding a bicycle in New York (or many part of the U.S.) may be bad, but at least we don't have to deal with this.

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  45. Great! Just Great! Now I have to text my stylist to ixnay on all the fashions she just picked out for me at the recent shows in Paris and Milan, and find me anything in day-glo.

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  46. Oh sure man. If you have a smaller model its pretty easy and convenient. Just take care not to get any detergent in the exit port.

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  47. SHT STRM
    HVY LOAD
    DUMP
    Yer'ANUS

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  48. I'd feel safer if I knew that was Leroy's dog in the video. If Leroy's dog approves that get up, I'm in.





    3673 38998892

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  49. Just checked some of Anna vids.

    This is epic:

    http://vimeo.com/70252378

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  50. Any CT readers: Did Winter Storm Anus hit Mianus?

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  51. @mikeweb

    For sure. If I ever attempt to circumnavigate the globe you can bet I'll be using my scuba bike. Take my chances with the sharks.

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  52. I need to get a fit kit done on my snow shovel.

    BACK PAIN

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  53. Tilford doesn't let a polar vortex keep him from posting a regular installment to his blog.

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  54. Apparently Toronto Mayor Rob Fords is trying to host a Pan-Am games and is failing.

    Not only can Fords watch his own money evaporate, he has the gift of doing the same for his constituents, this time it's vanishing into the IOC.

    The Olympic ideal really is watching public money disappear into a swirling vortex of corruption.

    When does Toronto start burning libraries to heat City Hall?

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  55. Official Song of the Nutmeg State:

    I left Mianus in Connecticut

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  56. Bill Shatner loves the blinking lights...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtlBZx0yV_M

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  57. Name @ 2:58, OK Anna is awesome, and I'm ashamed that I ducked as her wonderful satire whooshed over my head.

    Mea culpa, Anna. You rock.

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  58. remember when this blog used to be good?

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  59. BIEK SNOB IS GIVES HAVES BALL CANCER THAT'S WHAT I HEARD

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  60. BIKE SNOB IS A LOOSER

    (If his BB is English he's a righty LOOSER on the drive side)

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  61. Hey, Snobby timed his short post perfectly. Now I have more time to read Zinn's latest report on whether my 11-23 Campymano cassette will work with my SRAM uno-dos II P90X chain!

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  62. remember when seconds after a bullshit comment the poster was ripped to shreds by feral kittens?


    CJ does.

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  63. Anonymous 4:23pm,

    Remember when you blew me?

    --Wildcat Rock Machine

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  64. 32 degrees Communist (about 90 of your American acres) in Adelaide Australia today.
    What's 'snow'?

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  65. Winter storm Anus's big dump is going to cause a brownout on the power grid!

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  66. What a Broken Down Podium this isJanuary 22, 2014 at 8:50 PM

    SNOB, Show some cajones. No double dipping on the podium. And that goes for #'s 3 & 4 today because if 1 & 2 were only 1 then 3 would be 2 and 4 would be 3. Think McFly, err, Snob, or do you need a pedestrian flier?

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  67. I've been drivin' all night, my hand's wet on the wheelJanuary 22, 2014 at 8:54 PM

    Truncated blog today, must be no heat in the house, so snob is down at a Duncan Donuts waiting for some hot motor vehicle action.

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  68. Please tell me Anna Zivarts is just kidding. Please! She can't really be that stupid as to think that it's a pedestrian's responsibility to not get hit by a car, can she?

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  69. Anna Zivarts is just kidding.

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  70. My dog wore a blinky outfit just like Ms. Zivarts' to Electric Zoo last summer. You can't be too careful. So I guess the answer to Mr. Spokey's question is my dog approves.

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  71. Anna's artisinal Rapha water bottle detergent is 360 degrees of pure unadulterated awessome.

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  72. These NYC cops are simple minded. Or one-track minded. To much cars and to much car thinking. The police should go walking and cycling in stead of driving their cars. Makes them meet the people on the street and makes them see the other (non safe) side of traffic.

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  73. @"I've been drivin' all night, my hand's wet on the wheel"

    Yesterday I saw them playing Radar Love live. Golden Earing still rocks!

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  74. Anna is pretty hot but she has that really short hair that always makes you wonder if thats what it feels like boning a dude.

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  75. Hey Snob,

    Why do you have pictures of Rip Torn all over your blog?

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