It’s a beautiful late Summer day here in Western Wisconsin. I have a to do list about two yards long. I have a couple of great motorcycles and live on the edge of the great driving roads around here. I have a book that needs just a few days’ work and it’s done.
However, I’m skulking [...]

Most disgusting thing I’ve ever done: driving through a hot summer Mayfly storm on a motorcycle with bad tires.

I always talk too much, write too much, and research too much. Here’s a an early draft of a piece published in The Rake, just for fun.
Super Shammy
The blonde girls handing out the plastic bags inside the door of the “25th Annual Cycle World International Motorcycle Show” are wearing tight, Star Trek-like green and black [...]

What is it about a deadline that makes me complete everything else I need to do?
Here’s a draft version of a story I wrote after visiting a motorcycle show at the Minneapolis Convention Center. I was busy exploring Google Docs and Spreadsheets and apparently Google bought Writely, a site I once used for posting and [...]

A broken ankle xray

The reason I haven’t left the house in over a week. Crutches really, really suck.
To do:
Read Twist of The Wrist II, by Keith Code (even though he’s a scientologist).

Instead of going to First Thursday for the Lookit Me Parade, we’re going to Betty’s tonight.
Who am I talking to? I only have two friends who read this and they live in Boston and Alabama. What is wrong with me?

Oh my goddess, come to mommy. It’s my new black bottom girl and she’s mine all mine! Now I just need to find a good replacement for that stylin’ seat, unless of course some lucky lady wants to be my First Mate. It’s an 850T, btw and she’s sitting in storage just waiting for the [...]

Oh boy, spring fever! I might have posted this before, but I was looking at Ducatis this weekend and I like torturing myself. I love this guy’s writing.
From the LA times
Ducati’s 999R, a hyper-fast race bike for the street, has designs on your soul.
By Dan Neil
If you enjoy the wide-open freedom of a motorcycle, [...]

My new writing partner.