no...you don't. that's the sound of something else entirely.

batteries hitting skullcaps...

The orignal story about fixie from Mayo. Read up. Great stuff.

yojimbo means body guard or hired gun

pics or stfu

Great post Mayo. You are a word artist.

While your heart is in the right place RegGuy, and your arguments eloquent, you remind me of the kid who informed the teacher on Friday afternoon at 3:45 that she hadn't assigned weekend homework yet.

When i lived in the US south in the early 1960s, I was too young to understand why the colored kids couldn't go to the same school as us. They had to ride a bus instead.

Later on in the late 1960s negroes in urban areas, Detroit and Watts, rioted. By 1970 Negro was offensive, now we were to refer to them as "black".

In the early 1990s we were introduced to the term "African-American", even tho most who choose to call themselves that have never ventured past the Eastern Seaboard. And "black" was added to the offensive list.

Well, screw that. I know too many white Africans to ever use the term unless the person actually moved to the US from Africa; and skin color will have nothing to do with it.

As for "darky", "colored", and the n-word which i dare not even type in full: Black people will never get the power and justice they want and deserve as long as they allow themselves to be controlled by a stupid word.

Please rent the movie Lenny, starring Dustin Hoffman. The best scene revolves around Lenny Bruce’s use of the n-word, and explains how easy it would be for blacks to take it back. The GLB community learned the lesson and now possesses the q-word.

But what do I know? I'm merely a redneck honkey cracker.

good way to get a cap in your a$$, at least here in l.a.
unless of course the l.a.p.d. get you first....

If I wasted that much energy on every close call, I wouldn't be able to do anything else. Just kick (or u-lock) the car, flip em off and ride on to the next brush with death.

LA PD was a bit heavy handed with the demonstrations the other day... weren't they?

Highways caused dependence on the automobile...the democrats socially engineered it that way!

soooo ridiculous. beating up old people and news reporters, it was really embarassing. everyone knows if you're black or brown in this town you've got a big target on you for the cops. chances are sadly that it'll probably blow over with the next news cycle and nothing will change.

poor cabrini green:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_7xzKVVrT8

anyone who fronts like they'd rather roll through there than wrigleyville is 100% full of ****.

True. This fact makes my head ache.

I should go live away from here.

that's actually not the video i was looking for. the one i was thinking of showed a stabbing and multiple gun fights...

So. I did move away from here. Far away.

and as [expletive deleted] up as that place was then, there are far worse places to be.

Morale of the story: home aint near as bad as people would think.

Edited by EivlEvo: I suggest using a word such as... baseball or howler monkey.

why?

Pretty sure "Location: Iraq" has something to do with what SD said...

atl;adr

Great post Mayo! Man I wish I could write!

Stay well William, and watch out for the asshats.

Indeed.

Thanks for nothing.

am i the only one who doesn't think this is good writing? Plus, it strikes me as the over-romanticizing of "fixies" that makes everybody hate "fixer" culture.

i got the chance to flip off some [] girl that told me to use the sidewalk the other week.

i felt initiated into the world of cyclists.

Edited by EivlEvo

This was five years ago, written when no one knew what "fixies" were.