Bike people are the best people!
January 9th, 2008 Posted in MassBike, wierd stuff | 2 Comments »Last night was my third volunteer night at MassBike (www.massbike.org). Best volunteer nights ever! We’re a productive bunch, sending out mailings to new and renewing members, filling orders, and preparing collateral materials, all while socializing and eating pizza. And since MassBike is an organization that advocates on behalf of bicyclists and promotes an environment, both physically and socially, that is safe for cyclists, of course they attract all kinds of bike lovers from around the Boston area. Needless to say, bike lovers are rad people.
But we’re also a bunch of sickos, and the casual chats we have while stuffing and labeling envelopes always predictably deteriorate into snarky discussions on everything from our drunken mistakes, to our most eccentric friends, to our waitress fetishes. Sometimes we also talk about gonorrhea of the throat or baby sex. When it comes to topics of conversation, we don’t discriminate.
Last night was actually pretty tame, comparatively speaking. Rebecca told us about a couch bike she’d seen posted somewhere on this jungle we call cyberspace. Of course my first thought was, “Couch bike? Yes, please!” As it turns out, couchbike = my dream vehicle. Move over, nerdy recumbents… even though no one liked you to begin with, you’ve been replaced.
I’d like to take this opportunity to formally apologize to all of my roommates for any crazy ideas I might get in the near future regarding alternative uses for our living room furniture…
Later on in the evening I mentioned that I have far too much respect for the English language (you would never know it if you heard me speak, but it’s true, yo) to support Merriam-Webster’s recent decision to include the word “w00t” in the dictionary. As in “w00t! w00t!” As in “hooty hoo!” Yeah. And it really is spelled with zeros instead of O’s. What is the world coming to?
Anyway, that reminded Josh of this crazy whistle-tip-obsessed dude named Bubb Rubb. Cuz whistle tips are the shit homez! I’m posting the Bubb Rubb re-mix because, well, it’s even more fun than the original!
Woo wooooooo!