April 2010
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Jure Robic... literally insane
Recently while listening to one of my favorite radio shows, Radiolab, I came across a piece about this cross country bike race including Jure Robic (in the middle of this episode). Doing a bit of googling ran me into this NY Times article from 2006.
You have to read this. It is mind boggling.
Around Day 2 of a typical weeklong race, his speech goes staccato. By Day 3, he is belligerent and sometimes paranoid. His short-term memory vanishes, and he weeps uncontrollably. The last days are marked by hallucinations: bears, wolves and aliens prowl the roadside; asphalt cracks rearrange themselves into coded messages. Occasionally, Robic leaps from his bike to square off with shadowy figures that turn out to be mailboxes. In a 2004 race, he turned to see himself pursued by a howling band of black-bearded men on horseback.
‘‘Mujahedeen, shooting at me,’’ he explains. ‘‘So I ride faster.’’
My favorite part is how his team plays into it. All RadioLab is great, but this was a particularly brilliant episode.
@StevilKinevil And there’s one for the Black Market.
On @ebertchicago troll: yes, This. →
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Also, do we win something if we defeat him? Does he drop a good helm? Because I can’t for the life of me figure out why we give a shit what that creature says. He doesn’t operate under some divine shroud that lets him determine what is or is not valid culture. He cannot rob you, retroactively, of wholly valid experiences; he cannot transform them into worthless things.
That. Right. There.
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Enter Telephone (DJs From Mars Club Rmx)
Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce vs. Metallica
‘Enter Telephone’ - Lady Gaga & Metallica .
LoL.Crazy s**t right there
(via cruella-deeville)
Lady Gaga vs. Metallica HA HA YES
Patrick Pogan trial finally getting started →
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Sometimes I get something close to a real blog post done.
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Hipsters Fill Out Census At Record Low Rate In New York →
huffingtonpost.com
Nate Stark, a Williamsburg record store clerk, told NPR why he’s not participating.
“I guess it’s laziness and like, what’s the point? When it comes down to it, nobody wants to fill out like another form that’s just like getting sent to your house that really relatively has nothing to do with your life,” Stark said in the interview.
Though Williamsburg residents seemed to have difficulty putting their finger on exactly what is was about the census that made it so unappealing, Stark did say that a cash prize might change people’s minds.“I mean people would do [it] if they got like five bucks,” Stark said.
I think I’m going to start a daily, or maybe weekly posting entitled “Not from The Onion.”
Muncie, keeping it classy →
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Ball State University Police are investigating two on campus assaults in which case the suspect slapped two women on the buttocks as he rode by on a bicycle Wednesday morning.
