CAN I GET A HELL NO!!!

Please Please convince your parents to vote for OBAMA!!
PLEASE!!!PLEASE!!!!PLEASE!!!PLEASE!!!!PLEASE!!!PLEASE!!!!PLEASE!!!PLEASE!!!!
PLEASE!!!PLEASE!!!!PLEASE!!!PLEASE!!!!PLEASE!!!PLEASE!!!!PLEASE!!!PLEASE!!!!
PLEASE!!!PLEASE!!!!PLEASE!!!PLEASE!!!!PLEASE!!!PLEASE!!!!PLEASE!!!PLEASE!!!!

VEER Movie trailer!!!

A couple years ago there were these cameras that followed around The Sprockettes and some other bike folks. Now the movie will be coming out and I can't wait to see it!
Here is a little sneak peek at the newest documentary on radical biking,

Derailleurs do Sexy Bike by Danny Girl @ PEDAL MONSTER

New Song by The Derailleurs

It's Bitchin' by Crazy Girl
@ Ace Junkyard

Interesting essay on 2012

http://www.angelfire.com/mt/earthdream2000/2005_12_05_the_year_2012_by_robin_cooke.html

Small Movements: A Sprockettes documentary.

Nicky Robaire put this short film together and you can catch it through the Bicycle Film Festival.
I cried.

Small Movements
approx 7min.

http://vimeo.com/1663322?pg=embed&sec=1663322


Small Movements from Nickey Robo on Vimeo.

What did you do this weekend?

This sat. I was expecting an overnight package from LA that cost 63$. We left a note for the mailperson to knock loud or call me. I thought that would work. We set the alarms for 10. they should be there around 11 we heard. We go downstairs at 10:30 and there is a blasted pinkslip.
"Package avail. for pickup on Tues. Sept. 2nd."
We needed that afternoon.
Not good enough.
Called the number on the back.
Sob story deadline didn't work.
Unless we knew the mailguys route.
"Can you give us his route?" Hell no.
OK. Are you sure? ok. Really? Bye.

I work in mail on a daily so I went for some more numbers. I found the local team where our package would finally reside.
I think her name was Yvonne.
I know the time was 11:11 because I kissed Jamie bond on the cheek for good luck.
Yvonne came through. She gave us Larry's route. Within minutes we are on our bikes. Jamie Bond finds the truck and will stake it out on a hinch, while I triangulate his possible whereabouts. I was told the 1300 block of Hampshire, right close to us. I thought it was on 13th and Hampshire so I took of at high speed, full of coffee. As I get to twentieth from twnty-fourth I see that the address is like 824 already. Oh! The street outside the house we were on was the 1300 block! Duh. I go back and see a lady fixing her motorcycle.
"Have you seen the mailman? Huhhuuu.. Larry?"
Yeah like 45 seconds ago. Down that way.
"Larry!!!!! Do you have our package?"
Nope. No not at all. Not if it was bigger than a shoebox. A bigger truck whom he doesn't know.
Yvonne doesn't know who it was either.
"I guess if you go outside and look for a bog mailtruck, you might find him. Otherwise we can leave him a note for 5pm when he get back and he might be able to get you the package then. We needed the package before 2pm to take to the Slow Food Festival. Our ticket money was in that bag too! Alright, I can't sit around and face defeat. I jam on my bike and search for my package cosmically. A mile down the road I turn around. This is silly.
Then as I am crossing a street, I see a bigger mail truck down the block, heading the same direction. I follow one block and cut right. There the truck is parking and going in to the other post office where our package was not going. The light was red and there was traffic pouring across Van Ness. I see the man knock on the side door and wait. then someone comes. I dart in front of a truck and he stops.
I catch the door just before it closes and yell, "Excuse me, excuse me, huuu huuu, I am huuu looking for a mailman. huuu huu."
It turns out that his guys was the man who left the note!!!!!!
I have to call Jamie because she has the slip and it's in her name. He is nice enough to wait 4 minutes. It was timed. We got the package!!
Off on the bus adventure to Fort Mason to pass out 2012 flyers and watch Ozolmaltli and Gnarles Barkley. On our eay home we talked about grilling.
I get a call from a friend who is grilling two minutes later and we jam over there. Bacon cheddar burgers on a french roll with a hot tub session afterwards.
What a great night!

Sweet things...

There are cool things about every day.
I spend most of my nights at a friend's house, and she has three alarms she sets.
She's like me. It takes forever to pry me from dreamland.
She has this one alarm like the cartoons, skull sized with two bells. When we stay up late she turns it on. It's the last resort. The saving grace.
The thing about it is that device is from a forgotten generation these days with digisnoozers.
I can't turn it off without re-enacting the classic mouse cartoons, with my hair sticking up, struggling then slamming.


Treat Street.
I love you. 24th to 20th, on the way to work. The morning sun and a coffee in my hand.
My pink skateboard sings your name.
We dance, those four blocks.
I practice my kung fu stance.
I truss you up with laces from my wheels.
I can't stop smiling.

You might have seen me, at Broderick and Haight, halfway there.
I had a huge smile this time too.
It feels so good to kick my legs on my bike up those slopes.
I get off on it.
Literally.
Halfway through you can tell I've gotten myself into something good and haven't finished.
I reach Buena Vista park and switch up gears. A block for ultimate climax.
Up to waller, dead on like an arrow until I've reached maximum velocity. Then I slink up the hill, embodying the sidewinding snake.
I slither up the hill rapidly, one step back two slinks up.
Then one block downhill to the granite steps of the stoop.
I felt on top of the world.

The Skatepark.

Oh how I love sitting on the hill and watching all walk of life ride the concrete waves and dance upon its fray.
The little buttboarding kids, the helmetkneepadelbowpad kids. The old men rejuvinating their childhood. The sexy bearded booksmart boarders who I have a crush on. The random generator shows on the labrynth. Little black kids playing their skateboards like guitars.
Each kid that wanders up tries it. Only a few get it realistically and the others look to them for leadership.
The skateboarding family. Mama MissShelley, her son and man who all skate to and from the park with their pitt as a team. The kid can rip it on the pavement.
What a great melting pot.
Everyone's united in the pursuit of hurting oneself.

A couple of times I have slept on the job. There are these 72 gallon bags that we put in recycled packaging. Empty they are perfect for sleeping. It's like a plastic nest. You need a protective layer of soft stuff that will pad the stringy plastic parts. I am lucky to have my sleepingbag from traveling still there. I have curled up behind the old backstock magazines on my lunch break, waking myself up with my own snoring. I took some awesome "myspace" photos laying in a pile of magazines. My mind is allowed to wander at work. It rules.
One time I curled up in the shelves next to my nearest co-corker before he had arrived. He came in and I was right at his ankles and he had no idea. I stayed there, in silent sleep-like motions. He didn't notice me and it had been ten minutes. I was in!
I make a small breathing sound. Kind of ghost like.
I see him look around and then shake it off.
I am choking my laughter.
I make it again and this time go for his ankles.
He jumps so high I can't believe it.
I get out, dust off, and go back to work.
Don't tell my boss, if you know what's good for you.

Hell Naw!!

1. Things made to break!!
Go fuck yourself. Cheap ass bastard with a shiny coat of paint.

2. Radio Commercials.
Wham! Sham! Biz! YAYAYAYAYAY! BUY THIS!
Oh Hell No you didn't just talk to me like that.

3. Getting Doored AGAIN!!!
This time I pushed tht door right back into this 225 pound muscle man. A couple of times. Fuck you.

Whew, I feel better.

2012 conference info:

Click on the "Strack-Attack" link for discounted ticket!

2012 CONFERENCE: SHIFT BY THE BAY
FORT MASON CENTER SAN FRANCISCO, CA

WHAT: 2012 Conference San Francisco. A weekend intensive with the top authorities on 2012, who have deeply explored the various themes and aspects. Includes panels, lectures, sacred Maya and Q'uero ceremonies, think-tank insight sessions on sustainability, film premieres plus more
WHO: Leaders in the burgeoning 2012 movement; regarded scholars, thinkers, philosophers and
best selling authors such as Dr.Alberto Villoldo, Daniel Pinchbeck, Sharron Rose, Jay Weidner, John Major Jenkins, Rev. Brian Keneipp of The Aetherius Society, James O'Dea of IONS, Sri Ram Kaa and Kira, Rick Levine, Dannion Brinkley, Mike Bara and James V. Hardt Ph.D.
Presented by Sacred Mysteries Live
Sponsored by Harmony Festival, Reality Sandwich, Ancient Visions, TOSA Center, Institute of Noetic Sciences, East West, Sounds true
WHERE: Fort Mason Cenference Center, San Francisco, Ca. 94115
WHEN: October 31st, November 1st & November 2nd, 2008
INFO: (800) 984-0897 / http://www.2012conference.org
* * * * * * * *
The United States and the world are finding themselves at extraordinary crossroads with the way life is presently unfolding. High energy prices and the Housing meltdown have created a shock to the system that is only icing on the cake. Strange anomalies such as floods in the mid-west, disappearing Bee's seem to bring a daily steady stream of doomsday scenarios to Americans as our once solid outlooks move into very shaky ground. But what some view as 'uncharted territory', others see as a 'Great Shift,' as ancient prophecies unfolding in real time.
Throughout history, humanity has looked to chronological signposts to help us predict and make order of the universe. Perhaps the greatest signpost of the past millennium, revealed by the ancient Mayan Long Count Calendar, is 2012. On November 1st and 2nd at Fort Mason Center on the San Francisco Bay, the 2012 Conference will show that many ancient cultures, such as the Maya, the Q'uero Elders and the Hopi Indians, all point concurrently to 2012 as a year of dramatic change.
What will this change be? How can the average person prepare themselves and make sense of this Great Shift? The presenters of the 2012 Conference are offering an entire weekend with a collection of expert scholars and thinkers who have extensively explored the fields of spiritual, health and historical analysis in relation to 2012. Critical analysis of present and ancient cultures, sustainability dialogues and an array of interactive 'think-tank' sessions plus sacred Maya and Q'uero ceremonies, will be offered to the 300 participants choosing to be leaders at the forefront of this destined shift of the ages.
In March nearly 1000 people converged in Hollywood, Ca. for the first 2012 Conference. The sold out event was featured by the local Fox News affiliate(available on youtube) plus in a feature story in The Los Angeles Times. 2012 has become a subject matter people all over the world are fascinated with. Films such as the latest Indiana Jones, the upcoming X-Files sequel and Roland Emmerich's 2012 are delving into the paranormal phenomena.
We're at fifty-one months and counting until Dec. 21st, 2012. This Conference is for you, especially if you've ever wondered about the world that's coming, just four years from now.

Why? Because..Shift Happens

* * * * * * * *
Capsule biographies of the lecturers and panelists follow:

Dr.Alberto Villoldo is a Cuban American medical anthropologist and psychologist who has studied and practiced
shamanism in the Andes and the Amazon for more than two decades. His books include Courageous Dreaming, Shaman, Healer, Sage, The Four Insights, Dance of the 4 Winds: Secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel.

Daniel Pinchbeck is the best-selling author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl and Breaking Open the Head. He is the Editor of Reality Sandwich and is featured prominently as a leader in the new counter-culture movement.

John Major Jenkins is an independent researcher who has devoted himself to reconstructing ancient Mayan cosmology and philosophy. John has authored dozens of books including: Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, The Mystery of 2012.

Sri Ram Kaa & Kira Raa are considered foremost authorities on Atlantis and Archangelic communications. Best selling authors, columnists, radio personalities & Master Avesa Quantum Healers, the authors of Sacred Union: The Journey Home, and 2012: You Have a Choice.

James O'Dea is the President of the prestigious Institute of Noetic Sciences, an active member of The World Wisdom Council and has essays published in numerous magazines and books including The Mystery of 2012 and Consciousness and Healing.

Sharron Rose - MA. Ed, is an author, filmmaker and Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in World Mythology Dance and Theatre,Writer/director of the feature length documentaries 2012:The Odyssey and Timewave 2013 and a producer of the Sacred Mysteries DVD Collection.

Dannion Brinkley is the international best selling author of the Saved by the Light, drawing from his personal voyage and near-death encounters. Dannion's expertise in the area of death and dying has educated millions not to fear the presently held concept of transition from this world to the next. As a result of his journeys to the 'other side' and back again, he brings to the forefront the wondrous truth that there is indeed no such thing as death.

Jay Weidner - author, filmmaker and hermetic scholar. He is the producer of the documentary films: 2012: The Odyssey and Timewave 2013 and director of Secrets of Alchemy: The Great Cross and the End of Time, and the Sacred Mysteries DVD Collection. Frequent contributor to numerous History Channel presentations.

Mike Bara - co-author with Richard Hoagland of the NY Times best-seller Dark Mission: Secret History of NASA, Bara brings his experience as an aerospace engineer in tetrahedral physics to the Conference and its connection to 11:11 phenomenon and ultimately its connection to the Mayan Calendar.

Rick Levine is a renowned astrologer, astrological scholar and author, Rick is an active voice in the global Astrology community, giving seminars around the world. For all of us, he shares a special gift for bridging the gaps between Astrology and spirituality, science and religion, the head and the heart.

Rev.Brian Keneipp is the Executive Director of The Aetherius Society, founded by Dr. George King. The Society continues to use the tools and wisdom given to Earth through Dr. King to help heal and raise humanity to better understand and weather the approaching shift. The Twelve Blessings – a mystic text given to mankind in this Aquarian age – is an essential tool to help us evolve and withstand the heightened vibrations that will come as The Mother Earth changes.

Just added WILLIAM HENRY, author of "Revelation 2012" and Host with Whitley Strieber of the radio show Dreamland.

and more....


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2012 conference Y'all!! Come out!

The news breaks like waves...

Just heard of a new murmur of bicycle inspired performance groups coming from Eugene, OR.
thebottombrackettes.com



And now let's check in with the Fabulous northern lights, The B:C:Clettes.
Here is a future PSA commercial.



And for me I am a bit bummed I didn't follow through on working at the playa. I could be heading out to baron desert with a bunch of freaks. Here's what I imagine I am missing: Biketopia.
Click here for RAD pic.

New Derailleurs Videos:

From "Sprock Out With Your Cog Out"
july 20th @ Ace Junkyard



Check out this Flickr.com link:From BikePortland.org!! Thanks J.Maus

http://flickr.com/photos/bikeportland/sets/72157606234308325/

Rad! America 2012

If you are going to judge me for being a new ager and write me off, don't read this. I still want your respect.


The Time Is Now, We Are The Ones.


What does this mean to me?

I have been thinking about my "footprint" lately.
The "story" our civilization is acting out each day has been getting me down. It has permeated my existence. I have a tower of white and black topped coffee cups, all 16oz., all formerly filled with an inch of soy, a spoonful of honey, and as of late, a a few big dashes of chocolate. Let's start there.
Chocolate definitely doesn't grow here or our culture would be different. The whole honey bee fiasco as a harbinger for upcoming strife gets me down. Shipped from some field, potentially a monocrop ala monsanto. The trees. Oh the damn trees that I am participating in pulverizing. Those strips of Oregon, shaved like a porn star, with the landing strip along the road as subterfuge. Coffee itself has hunched farmers on its back. And all the oil it takes to and from these interactions.

I have been analyzing my output and by and far, radical change needs to occur in order to speed up the healing cycle. And boy do I ever believe in the healing cycle. I have danced in junkyards, with the excess towering. The simple act of riding a bike required the bicycle to be made. What is the carbon footprint of the tires, the steel manufacturing. I remember as a child, around the mountain from me lay Geneva Steel Factory, and when you would pass the beautiful tip of hill, where hangliders sail colorfully, there you are slapped in the face with dark plumes that colored the sepia sky. I hesitated to breath until I couldn't fight it any longer. What is my waste that makes other things feel this way towards me? I could build a beer can house in my times. Shingle it with cigarette butts.

Yin Yang that thinking my friend.
The tattoo on my arm is a reminder for a Reunion concert with Show Me The Pink and most of all, RAD America. The doers and thinkers and tinkerers. Let's make it in the summer so we can plan another, better one for Dec. 21, 2012. Just to make some more fun propagate and seed this starved world. What about significance and artistry? I have 4 years to come up with a great thesis. Naysayers may take a hike because I am an artist, and I need a dealine in order to perform. It's not "the end of the world" ya'll. Let's just make our square foot totally tighter.

In light of those words, I leave you with some heartfelt lyrics from a RAD American anthem by Show Me The Pink.

Now is the time,
We are the ones to shine.
Your mind your heart your life,
the space you occupy.
You can turn it on inside
and make it fly.

It's buried deep inside,
All you need to do is try.

Vertical Momentum from Bellingham, WA

Agent Vortex from The Sprockettes moved to Bellingham and put this jammy together!!

Pics from J. Maus of "Sprock Out"

STOLEN! from flickr.com

Alright, an overlooked chapter of the bikedance ballet branch has surfaced in a recent flickr search.
They are from Brighton, UK and they perform with an aerial view in mind. A lot of patterns and imagery. How majestic with the sea behind and the bikes in the sky.

photos mostly from raysto, thanks!

Guess What?!!!

Click on Image to enlarge.

More to come about this fabulous event.
If you care about the future like I do, then check out these authors and consider going to the conference.
The subject has been the bane of my existence for at least five years now.

Radapalooza!! 2012

2012conference.org

Highly recommened:
2012: Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck

Sprock Out With Yer Cog Out!!!

Sprock Out With Your Cog Out!
-a bike dance dance party
Sunday July 20th
$5 5pm-12am
Ace Junkyard
2255 Mckinnon st off bayshore

Sprockettes all girl bike dance troop!
The Sprockettes all girl mini bike dance troop from Portland OR.
Here Comes a Big Black Cloud (portland)
Heavy Pedal Cyclecide
The Derailleurs Bay Area all girl bike dance troop.
Grass Widow
Space Madness
Double Dutchess
Floral Beef

Come out to the post-apacalyptic Ace Junkyard to celebrate the triumphant return of the world’s premier bicycle dance team, The Sprockettes. These hot pink and black clad cyclists have taken it to a whole new level with dance routines performed on, with, or about bikes. They have been working hard for the past four years to bring a new branch of dance to the history books. Since their inception in 2004, they have inspired many more pedalpushing troupes including three in Canada and one in England. The newest on the roster is The Bay Area Derailleurs, who are joining The Sprockettes for a bike bash beyond belief. Heavy Pedal Cyclecide will be setting up their pedal powered amusements. Local darlings Double Dutchess
jumprope team will royally astound you with their slick moves and stamina. For your audio-entertainment we present to you the enigmatic ladies of Grass Widow. Space Madness will release a fusion of rock, blues, and mathamatic mayhem upon the crowd, and Here Comes A Big Black Cloud means the thunder storm is coming. Show starts at 5pm and goes till midnight.

2255 Mckinnion St. San Francisco CA (off Bay Shore Blvd.)

Only $5 bucks

I got spotted...

http://velovogue.blogspot.com/

Derailleurs Flat Tire by Danny Girl teaser

Breaking news!

Here is a picture I stumbled upon and makes me so happy! My first visual of the Seattle group, the Bike Belle's.Or is it the Stripped Nipples? I need more info.

Do you have any hot tips on the movie? I need to see it!

Can I get a HEYOL YEAH!!

The Spokes!!

Beat my heart with a baseball bat!!!
It's the green and black sista's from an Machester, England mista'.

myspace.com/spokesmcr

Just Found this...

Sprockettes @ Fat Tire's Tour De Fat July 2007