Project Le Tour is a really awesome project by photographer Brent Humphreys. I’ve seen some of these images before but they’re even better the second time. And you can’t look at that site without reading this interview with Brent. If you’re in Austin, you can see these in person at Mellow Johnny’s until July 31st. [The photo is "Labrador with Hat", number 34 on the Project site. Picked this up on A Photo Editor on RB's Google Shared Items.]
I just read an article in Chicago’s New City Summer Guide that has a great summer trip idea. Take the Metra north to Kenosha, Wisconsin, ride about 35 miles to the ferry terminal on the south side of Milwaukee, and take the ferry to Muskegon, Michigan. Camp at Pioneer County Park just north of Muskegon or at Muskegon State Park a little further north. Reverse trip to return.
The trip the article author actually takes goes to Muskegon and then continues south to South Haven, where he takes a bus back to Chicago.
The possibilities with the ferry are endless. A warm summer weekend spent riding around and sleeping on the east shore of Lake Michigan (where the wind keeps the biting bugs away).
Competitive Cyclist’s blog calls these the “two best bike racing articles you’ve never read.” One from Rolling Stone in 1986 about Greg Lemond in the Tour de France, the other from National Geographic in 1988 about that year’s Tour written by Gilbert Duclos-Lasalle. CC’s blog post has more to say about both.
[Photo by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, from the National Geographic article]
“One of the all-time classic videos of bike race stuff on the internet. In case you’ve never seen it, it’s proof that Gerolsteiner did more than just lots of drugs in the ‘08 season. They did some badass training, too.” [Via CompetitiveCyclist]
Monty Python put skits up on YouTube a while ago. Their YouTube user description is funny:
“For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube. Now the tables are turned. It’s time for us to take matters into our own hands.
We know who you are, we know where you live and we could come after you in ways too horrible to tell. But being the extraordinarily nice chaps we are, we’ve figured a better way to get our own back: We’ve launched our own Monty Python channel on YouTube.
No more of those crap quality videos you’ve been posting. We’re giving you the real thing – HQ videos delivered straight from our vault.
What’s more, we’re taking our most viewed clips and uploading brand new HQ versions. And what’s even more, we’re letting you see absolutely everything for free. So there!
But we want something in return.
None of your driveling, mindless comments. Instead, we want you to click on the links, buy our movies & TV shows and soften our pain and disgust at being ripped off all these years.”
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