27.11.10
Fabian Cancellara. Serious Badass.
Fabian is such a badass that last year when he absolutely DOMINATED the classics season winning the Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) and Paris-Roubiax with breathtaking solo breaks (literally making other pros look like they were standing still), a laughable rumor got started that he had a hidden motor inside his bike. Seriously? Yes. And the ignorant, pathetic UCI actually started x-raying bikes before stages. Ha. The idiots.
(Source: vimeo.com, via cranktastic)
29.01.11
via cycleboredom:
Johann. Effing. Museeuw.
I had them Briko Stingers too. Love me some Stingers.
Johann Museeuw. Serious Badass.
Lion of Flanders. Ronde van Vlaanderen 1993, 1995, 1998
Paris–Roubaix 1996, 2000, 2002
05.02.11
Lou Reed. Serious Badass.
Happy Birthday Uncle Lou! Love seeing him randomly around town. Reminds me that it’s still New York City.
02.03.11
Beverly Cleary. Serious Badass.
Happy Birthday Beverly Cleary on the occasion of her 95th Birthday!
Her books “Henry Huggins,” “Henry and Beezus,” “Otis Spofford,” “Henry and Ribsy,” and “Beezus and Ramona” were just hilariously great books that inspired me to read more during my earliest reading days. I can remember as clear as day laughing out loud reading those books in my childhood home on Ralston Avenue.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
12.04.11
Jackie Robinson. Serious Badass. #42
On April 15, 1947, about two miles away due East from where I type, the great Jackie Robinson broke the “color barrier” by taking the field at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York, and integrating Major League Baseball. Stepping on the field to play a kids game, he paved the way for US societal integration and the civil rights movement.
His iconic #42 has been retired for all MLB teams and only Marino Rivera of the New York Yankees still uses that number. But today on April 15th, every MLB player wears #42 in honor of the pioneering role he played in modern American history.
Thank you Jackie Robinson! Thank You! Thank You!
Brooklyn Represent Yo!
15.04.11
Grete Waitz. Serious Badass.
Such a great runner. Such a great inspiration. Watch this great video where she describes her first NYC Marathon win. She was invited to her first NYC Marathon as a “rabbit” to keep the speed high and then proceeded to dust the field while setting a World Record. A nine time winner of the race, Grete was/is the NYC Marathon.
RIP Grete, RIP.
19.04.11
Carol Burnett. Serious Badass.
Comedic Genius. She just killed every week on The Carol Burnett Show.
26.04.11
via zeb:
I missed Ella Fitzgerald’s birthday yesterday, but I still got this present: One note Samba (scat singing) 1969
Ella Fitzgerald. Serious Badass.
This video is scat heaven.
If you haven’t, I highly recommend listening to “Ella In Rome: The Birthday Concert” to hear her at the height of her powers. It’s absolutely devastating.
(Source: youtube.com)
26.04.11
Alan Shepard. Serious Badass.
The first American in space (50 years ago this past week). But I knew him as the commander of the Apollo 14 mission (1971). I remember my first and second grade teachers rolling in TVs into our classrooms so we could watch the Apollo missions at school. Those Apollo astronauts were Gods to me as a little kid. As an adult, they are Serious Badasses.
08.05.11
Chrissie Hynde. Serious Badass.
I remember seeing The Pretenders open up for The Who and thinking, “Whoa, what a badass. She’s a girl, right?” (I was a stupid teen.) And there’s the always wonderful “Brass In Pocket,” plus “Kid,” ”Stop Sobbing Now,” “Message of Love,” etc.
Major hat tip to Jennifer Villany for the suggestion.
17.05.11
