2019-12-08 21:44
Image courtesy of Holly BerryHey there, strangers!
I wish I could say that I’m adding this post because I am, at long last, returning to blogging here at Fish & Bicycles.
I really… Read More
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A blog out of Bellingham, Washington
2018-05-25 22:34
“I see the light at the end of the tunnel now…
Someone please tell me it’s not a train.”
~from “I See The Light” by Cracker
For the past six months or so… Read More
2018-03-20 23:32
I can’t believe it’s been 10 weeks!
This is the 5th and last post in my series on my experience with the Viking E-Bikes program, offered by my employer, Western Washington Univer… Read More
2018-01-30 17:48
True Story: When I was a kid, there was this tiny magazine called TV Guide. I was thumbing through it looking for something to watch, when I saw: State of the Union. And I thought it was l… Read More
2018-01-25 20:09
Welcome to the 4th installment of my series of posts covering my experience in Viking E-Bikes, a program at Western Washington University (my employer), promoting electric bicycles as a sust… Read More
2018-01-25 16:37
TFW you desperately check Twitter every morning, and many more times throughout each day, looking for breaking news that the criminals currently "running" our government have been brough… Read More
2018-01-16 19:11
Heartbreaking to hear that this mighty legend is hurting so badly. Hang in there, Eric. You are loved! https://t.co/MzyiUYRe1Q
— Fish & Bicycles (@FishandBicycles) January 12, 20… Read More
2018-01-10 16:15
Thanks to Fusion GPS, the awesome sexy French spy word “dossier” is having a welcome renaissance. Love it! I hereby name the whole escapade (another word deserving of a renaiss… Read More
2018-01-04 01:27
I confess, thanks to holiday interruptions, snow, and general laziness, it’s been several weeks of not riding my Viking E-Bike.
(As the title of this post suggests, this is the third i… Read More
2017-12-22 17:10
A selection of my tweets from the past few weeks, in case you missed them at @FishAndBicycles.
I've determined that of the many adjectives commonly used to describe @realDonaldTrump&hellip&hell…Read More
2017-12-14 22:49
Free is great, but I wish he'd offer an in-app purchase: $4.99 for enlightenment. https://t.co/U4Ku3iC3j8
— Fish & Bicycles (@FishandBicycles) December 14, 2017
Filed under: Fish… Read More
2017-12-13 19:07
So, this cool thing happened!
I wrote last week that I’d signed up for the Viking E-Bikes program at the university where I work, I initially was supposed to get my 10-week loaner e-bi… Read More
2017-12-12 00:39
"The music itself isn’t any better merely because this time around the band actually cares…" I think this gets it exactly backwards. U2 would make better music if they cared… Read More
2017-12-08 16:27
As a devout peacenik, I’ve always cringed at the “Russia is a hostile enemy” talk, despite the election tampering. T. Barrack nearly sounds reasonable here, until you con… Read More
2017-12-01 16:38
When I first started writing Fish & Bicycles, back in 2009, I’d already been employed by Western Washington University (WWU, Western) for nine years, and I was a devoted bicycle co… Read More
2017-12-01 00:32
Finally! Someone agrees with me on the inferiority of cucumbers! https://t.co/Gqb0udKR30
— Fish & Bicycles (@FishandBicycles) November 30, 2017
Filed under: Fish & Bicycles… Read More
2017-11-22 21:54
Back before the Google, when people needed a phone number that they didn’t have, they picked up their landline and dialed 4-1-1.
The formal name for this service was “Directory A… Read More
2017-11-21 20:04
Republicans and their glass houses and all that stone throwing! Silly Republicans. https://t.co/z2i9hFE9b3
— Fish & Bicycles (@FishandBicycles) November 20, 2017
Filed under: Fis… Read More
2017-11-20 18:14
The photo some editor chose for this National Geographic piece cracks (pun intended) me up!
Listen, rats, you can have my walnuts, but stay the hell away from my liquor, damnit!
This will… Read More
2017-11-17 17:03
Listen, I’m not totally anti-darkness.
For instance, I used to be an orthodox night owl, and once my age/health and career rendered my nightowlism unsustainable, I learned that I sleep… Read More
2017-11-12 05:23
Scary fucking shit. THIS is why there can be no tolerance for Nazis, why Nazis do not deserve the right to free speech, for their speech is a malignant cancer. Ironically, Germany would no… Read More
2017-11-09 01:40
It may be too soon to say this, but the GOP may have now entered the hangover stage. Let’s hope the midterms send them into the heads-in-the-toilet-screaming,-“I’ll-never… Read More
2017-11-08 00:02
A twitterer needs #280characters like a fish needs a bicycle.
— Fish & Bicycles (@FishandBicycles) November 7, 2017
Filed under: Fish & Bicycles, Tweet of the Day Tagged: 280… Read More
2017-11-07 20:47
In my post from Oct 20th, I took a look at a variation on Shakespeare’s age-old inquiry:
To punch a Nazi, or not to punch a Nazi, that is the question.
And while I would say that my in… Read More
2017-11-07 00:53
Clearly the idea of a very slow drinker: “After it is sealed, the beer stays fresh … between two and six months” https://t.co/ej8ugfhVv1
— Fish & Bicycles (@Fi… Read More
2017-10-30 23:06
on a late-October hike
along the roaring Nooksack River
autumn leaves
— mostly Bigleaf Maple —
drifting down from the trees
in a beautiful, unplanned aerial show
to their final r… Read More
2017-10-30 20:02
Cheese UNDER the burger?! I hereby posit that this proves Google-Russia collusion. Get Mueller on the phone! https://t.co/Pm9zf4nYNB
— Fish & Bicycles (@FishandBicycles) October… Read More
2017-10-27 22:51
Hiding Your Head In The Sand
It’s a saying that always has a negative connotation.
Literally speaking, there is some logic to that assessment. After all, when your head is in the sand… Read More
2017-10-20 21:48
Listen, you don’t get to feel bad for Nazis.
Ever.
Especially so-called “Neo-Nazis”.
Stretching the idea of forgiveness to its breaking point, you can try to suggest that G… Read More
2017-10-18 16:57
LOL! Justice in action! A whole $0.38 credit! How in the world will I ever be able to decide how to spend it?! #AmazonAppleAntitrust pic.twitter.com/IoxkcuBi1X
— Fish & Bicycles… Read More
2017-10-11 15:58
For some reason, this lyric from an old @RayDDavies chestnut keeps popping up in my head. pic.twitter.com/4x70GnCtU9
— Fish & Bicycles (@FishandBicycles) October 11, 2017
Filed u… Read More
2017-10-03 16:32
Oh man, I wish it didn’t take the death of one of my Rock & Roll heroes to get me back to Fish & Bicycles after a six month break, but it’s just the way it is and there&r&hell…Read More
2017-04-03 18:12
There’s a scene in a movie that I love a lot, Rob Reiner’s 1989 film When Harry Met Sally, where Harry (Billy Crystal) leaves a message on an answering machine (remember those?!)… Read More
2017-02-17 02:24
I have a confession to make:
I have watched every episode of all seven seasons of The West Wing three times.
It’s an obsession.
Anyway, over the course of the Trump campaign, the trans… Read More
2017-02-03 20:06
Though there’s a risk here of hyperbole, it’s a risk I’m willing to take:
Today’s Video Fridays installment features one of the greatest videos of ALL TIME!!!
There… Read More
2017-01-20 01:40
If you are like me (aka, a proud leftist), the urge to catastrophize today is considerable.
BTW, here’s a must-view Video Fridays bonus video: Samantha Bee and Masha Gessen getting rig… Read More
2017-01-06 16:11
Blind FaithThe strangest thing happened to me last night.
A fragment of a song that I hadn’t listened to in years popped into my head in the early evening, a very small fragment, a sim… Read More
2016-12-21 00:36
So, there’s this Christmas movie starring Tim Allen called The Santa Clause, wherein Santa falls off of Tim Allen’s roof on Christmas Eve, he dies, his body vanishes, leaving beh… Read More
2016-12-09 23:10
So, there’s this guy Van Jones who has been saying a lot of good things, for a while, and this week he announced the start of a new campaign called the #LoveArmy, a new initiative of h… Read More
2016-12-08 23:17
How can this article on Honda's new automated concept car that comes equipped w/emotions not mention road rage? https://t.co/SdHfULRSZ5
— Fish & Bicycles (@FishandBicycles) Decem… Read More
2016-12-08 16:35
So, I’ve been thinking about Donald Trump WAY more than I ever desired, more than my heart and soul can bear, and for that reason alone his victory is a dreadful, dreadful thing, a kin… Read More
2016-11-24 00:44
Welcome to the Thanksgiving Infinite Feedback Loop!
Try googling “thanks, giving,” and you’ll find that Google doesn’t know what to do with it:
Showing results for th… Read More
2016-11-18 19:06
Ok, I admit it. I’m a straight, white male and I’ve been wearing a safety pin, not just on my shirt, but I have another one on my coat, so that when I have my coat on, which cove… Read More
2016-11-16 05:29
So, the photo on top, shot by me, is from right here in Bellingham, Washington, the other photo is from all the way across the country in Wellsville, New York, both of them post-election rea… Read More
2016-11-15 16:09
If all you did was compare the musical styles of Leonard Cohen and Leon Russell, both of whom, this past week, sadly departed this world, you might not see all that much in common between th… Read More
2016-11-14 18:35
So, in my last post I dusted off Fish & Bicycles and declared my intention to resist the impulse to despair over the barely believable, gulp, election of Donald Trump, and rather, t… Read More
2016-11-10 00:05
It’s a little embarrassing and quite telling that it took yesterday’s election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States for me to finally turn the lights back o… Read More
2016-08-23 23:05
Back in December, I wrote a post titled The War On (Dominant) White Culture that was selected by WordPress for their curated Discover feed of supposedly best posts of the day, which was flat… Read More
2016-08-15 23:27
Vol. 6 in my Notes From Italy series.
So, yeah, we were in Florence, visited the Uffizi Gallery, a massive and profound feast of art, and we had the great pleasure to stand right in front of… Read More
2016-08-05 20:30
Wow! The Beatles’ 1966 album Revolver is 50 years old today!
Just two years younger than me, and a masterpiece that has aged very, very well.
I’m in good company!
Lots of great s… Read More
2016-08-03 19:44
Tomorrow is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. Looks like I picked the wrong week to get back on my low-carb diet.😢 https://t.co/FJAtLVlMZV
— Fish & Bicycles (@FishandBi… Read More
2016-08-02 21:02
Me and the lovely Mrs. preparing to storm the castle.Vol. 5 in my Notes From Italy series.
In this installment, something a little different.
As I mentioned in my introductory post for Notes… Read More
2016-07-29 16:42
Pokémon, go.
but only that I might hop on my skis
or mountain bike
or kayak
and look for you.
When I find you,
let’s hang out
and play Xbox games,
and Snapchat with our friends… Read More
2016-07-28 17:51
Vol. 4 in my Notes From Italy series.
If I had to list the most ubiquitous things in Italy, that list would certainly include two items I’ve mentioned in previous Notes From Italy post… Read More
2016-07-22 18:42
Via Dei Neri, with tower of Palazzo Vecchio in distanceMy favorite street in Florence, by far, was Via Dei Neri, a narrow, 4-block stretch, one block in from the north bank of the Arno River… Read More
2016-07-18 23:30
So, remember what I said in my last Notes From Italy installment?
Italians make hanging out, leisurely, look so utterly, authentically, natural, in a way that Americans only wish we could&h&helli…Read More
2016-07-13 18:27
My lovely wife and I, attempting to emulate Italian leisure.On our very first day in Florence, the first destination of our 2-week visit to Italy, the very first thing that dramatically stoo… Read More
2016-07-08 15:07
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
I have… Read More
2016-07-07 22:54
As mentioned in my last post, my wife, son and I recently returned from a 2-week trip in Italy, a trip that defibrillated and resuscitated my inner blogger.
The first product of this resurre… Read More
2016-07-05 18:18
Over the 7 years I’ve been writing Fish & Bicycles, the two longest breaks I’ve taken from the blog have been sizeable, especially when you consider that normally I post at l… Read More
2016-04-21 17:16
As Bernie says all the time: His campaign is not about him. https://t.co/4OlOsXWAKU via @motherjones
— Fish & Bicycles (@FishandBicycles) April 21, 2016
Filed under: Fish &… Read More
2016-04-13 20:59
When a song is so beautiful it makes your heart ache: Grateful Dead – Comes A Time – 4-26-1972 https://t.co/w18dObHQfp via @YouTube
— Fish & Bicycles (@FishandBicycle… Read More
2016-04-09 00:07
It fairly boggles the mind that this is possible.
Just thinking about the math necessary to pull something like this off makes my right-hemisphere-dominant brain hurt.
If I was a cynical con… Read More
2016-04-05 21:26
Two headlines and their subheadlines over two days from the same online publication, submitted without any need for commentary:
How Bernie blew it: Even his staffers admit — holding ba… Read More
2016-04-04 18:28
I'm a Jew, LOVE pizza, and concentrated in Shakespeare at Rutgers. It all makes sense now. – Bard was Italian Jewess https://t.co/TDLL5umra9
— Fish & Bicycles (@FishandBicy… Read More
2016-04-04 17:06
#BernieSanders connecting the dots between poverty, healthcare access, life expectancy, and Social Security: alternet.org/economy/wealth…— Fish & Bicycles (@FishandBicycle… Read More
2016-03-30 19:28
A must-read: "Treat ISIS Like an Artichoke: A Non-Military Route to the Heart of the Crisis" truth-out.org/opinion/item/3… via @truthout— Fish & Bicycles (@FishandBicycles)… Read More
2016-03-22 23:59
The conventional wisdom amongst many musicologists, music journalists, and music fans is that Punk Rock was a seachange, a musical and cultural revolt against highly-produced and highly popu… Read More
2016-03-21 18:36
I’m pretty proud of a post I wrote back in May 2013 on the topic of dystopian fiction, and that post will explain the opinion I express in my tweet today.
I sure as hell hope so! &nd&hell…Read More
2016-03-14 17:56
Trickle-down sham on steroids: "The World Bank is supposed to help the poor. So why is it bankrolling oligarchs?" https://t.co/CTxJphrTvC
— Fish & Bicycles (@FishandBicycles) Mar… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Willie Nelson‘s son, Lukas, and his band, Promise Of The Real, have been popping up on my music radar off and on for a few years. As a longtime admirer of his dad, admittedly his pedig… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Finally! A substantive analysis of Star Wars: The Force Awakens! Also, it points the way to a very real solution for those who disliked the new Star Wars installment but passionately love th… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Like bringing a knife to a gunfight. –Origin unknown You know that old saying, used frequently as a metaphor for entering into a situation inadequately equipped or prepared? Well, cons… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
hi·a·tus noun — A gap or interruption in space, time, or continuity; a break You know, I’ve been working at a university for 12 years, and so, when I hear the term… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
It’s been several weeks since I saw the wonderful film, The Sapphires, at Bellingham’s own art house emporium The Pickford Film Center, and I just can’t stop thinking about… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Fracking is, by now, old, terrifying news. Grassroots efforts to combat fracking have been struggling mightily and losing frequently, but when a mainstream media legend like David Letterman… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
So, there I was thinking that the cutest Beatles cover ever was performed by my son, approximately age 7, in our front yard, using a karaoke machine, screaming Twist & Shout at the top o… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I credit Apple, Inc., for turning me on to minimalist design, an aesthetic that I became enamored of and nearly obsessed with … … that is, until I inhabited it. But, let’… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Things typically get quiet around here, at Fish & Bicycles, around the December holidays, but if you read my last post, titled Awareness vs. Self-Preservation, it was likely pretty obvio… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
“It’s good to be exposed to politics and what’s going down here, but it does damage to me. Too much of it can cripple me. And if I really let myself think about it —… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Hey folks, I’ve scoured the interwebs today looking for a video for today’s Video Fridays installment, and I couldn’t find anything better than this. Ironically, it’s… Read More
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