tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post3797806367361217581..comments2024-02-03T23:48:14.712-08:00Comments on The Trailer Park Cyclist : Nothing Good Can Come of ThisTim Joe Comstockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05351911607475089105noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-7871460189745577932016-11-10T08:23:16.428-08:002016-11-10T08:23:16.428-08:00I remembered that you had posted this a while back...I remembered that you had posted this a while back and now that the big oranged-haired empty suit will be the President I wanted to revisit. <br />I am actually a bit at a loss for words. I guess I will continue to do my thing, sell some sticks and right now basketball started up so I will be distracted by the stupid shit coming from the White House. Hope that where ever you are toiling you find a little two wheel time.<br />Peace my friend.Jim Bangshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11618333090634257257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-30026887171911140582016-11-07T14:38:16.289-08:002016-11-07T14:38:16.289-08:00I've a name now!
And it's almost over!I've a name now! <br />And it's almost over!Jenni Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10563860574186644393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-61867419359814608852016-08-11T11:13:03.352-07:002016-08-11T11:13:03.352-07:00Yup, all of it. Thanks for the kind welcome :)
I&...Yup, all of it. Thanks for the kind welcome :) <br />I'll have to figure out how to change my name to something other than "Unknown."Jenni Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10563860574186644393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-83713693990748533892016-08-01T12:50:17.560-07:002016-08-01T12:50:17.560-07:00Indeed, Lad, where have you been? I suspect there...Indeed, Lad, where have you been? I suspect there has been an upheaval in your reality and I wonder about that. Going to your page now...right now.<br /><br />tjtim joe comstockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05674750449179073721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-49852577474689750872016-07-31T08:43:07.816-07:002016-07-31T08:43:07.816-07:00You're back? Where have I been?You're back? Where have I been?Wayward Sonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10047261638209232831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-28944639706113220882016-07-28T10:53:23.891-07:002016-07-28T10:53:23.891-07:00Hey Unknown, thanks for the kind words. Fatty gav...Hey Unknown, thanks for the kind words. Fatty gave me my start and sadly, sometimes I feel that I have let him down in some way. But did I understand you correctly? You read the whole TPC from start to finish? What an honor! <br /><br />We are a kind of family here at the Park and I hope you will join us. It's all fun and games, mostly, but sometimes I gotta relieve some particular stress with my writing (typing) and that's when it shines, I like to think.<br /><br />I once said there was no trouble I couldn't write my way out of and that remains true. And having a new reader is a special kind of gift...it keeps me going, it does. Thanks for that.<br /><br />tj <br /><br />p.s. I also am in on the secret gender of God. "Papa" is never the first word a baby speaks. tim joe comstockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05674750449179073721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-43606888781225675452016-07-26T13:26:07.834-07:002016-07-26T13:26:07.834-07:00I've heard plenty about Stein and Johnson and ...I've heard plenty about Stein and Johnson and their respective parties, but I do every four years. Lots of friends and family who are stubborn third-party voters, if only for the principle of the thing. Also, Bernie may have run as a D, but in my heart, he'll always be third party.<br /><br />(Oh, hi, Mr. Comstock. Fatty's page led me to your booger a few months ago and I read the whole thing, back to front. Like your style. Although I also like your thoughts on politics, here's hoping you continue the themes of cycling and stories from your past life and fiction. In that order. God knows we need sane voices this election season, but She also knows we can't handle much more politics, especially not in the sacred temples of the bike.)<br /><br />(I hope it's not too presumptuous for this newcomer to comment on the direction of your content. I really like your writing, and will read the political stuff too.)Jenni Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10563860574186644393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-40834245737526065882016-07-25T15:31:36.581-07:002016-07-25T15:31:36.581-07:00Thanks again, Marsha!Thanks again, Marsha!Tim Joe Comstockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05351911607475089105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-61779328968950732612016-07-25T15:31:11.518-07:002016-07-25T15:31:11.518-07:00Thanks, Marsha!Thanks, Marsha!Tim Joe Comstockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05351911607475089105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-74621699264077541002016-07-25T08:01:38.144-07:002016-07-25T08:01:38.144-07:00Nice rif: fun post. Over a hundred days to go. We&...Nice rif: fun post. Over a hundred days to go. We're gonna have to pace ourselves on this one...Marshahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02801219829822677766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-11385026707392576992016-07-25T08:01:02.929-07:002016-07-25T08:01:02.929-07:00Nice rif: fun post. Over a hundred days to go. We&...Nice rif: fun post. Over a hundred days to go. We're gonna have to pace ourselves on this one...Marshahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02801219829822677766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-47894676419600434282016-07-22T18:09:40.028-07:002016-07-22T18:09:40.028-07:00Oh, and yeah, vis a vis the ruskies...WTF? I mean...Oh, and yeah, vis a vis the ruskies...WTF? I mean really, this Putin dude is way the hell out and back. George W. on steroids and a billionare? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON? Well, I'll tell ya: it's like that episode of Back To The Future where Biff is mayor and running the town and Marty's mom is a crack whore...all yer worst dreams come true...but happening in real time and on a global scale.<br /><br />Who knew? I saw all this coming back when the Bush family bought the election all these many years ago but the Putin thing came out of left field. Putin? Really? Good Lord.<br /><br />Ultimately these punk ass bitches fall down under their own steam. I hope. And will some kind-hearted veterinarian somewhere put George W out of his pain? He was embarrassing enough during his eight years of doofusofcity but these days he is a true national source of shame. god dammit. got myself worked up.<br /><br />Hunter is gone but we still have P.J. O'Rourke. And he is a Republican but not a very good one, thank god.<br /><br />Rambling in me cups late at night. Whatever. Still, even in my dotage, red, white and blue.<br /><br />Old Man TimTim Joe Comstockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05351911607475089105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-25124815329501334222016-07-22T17:51:58.471-07:002016-07-22T17:51:58.471-07:00Get in touch with Carradice. But let me warn ya, ...Get in touch with Carradice. But let me warn ya, Handsome Devil might be a Zombie-attractor, Judicial use of duct tape...Tim Joe Comstockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05351911607475089105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-56277301226874746062016-07-22T17:14:02.964-07:002016-07-22T17:14:02.964-07:00Listen, Coach, a non-zombie kid with a slam-dunk i...Listen, Coach, a non-zombie kid with a slam-dunk is about all one can ask for in this day and age. And yeah, an intelligent gentleman from Tennessee might have led us into an entirely different future/present than the ugly mess we were handed out of Texas by way of Yale.<br /><br />Here is my personal grief: While it is easy to shoot off my big mouth about how screwed up things are, I feel I really should be out on a street corner somewhere screaming at the top of my lungs and throwing rocks. But at who? Besides, it would be easier to just take a nap.<br /><br />At least I'm a white guy. I got that goin' for me. Try to be a black dude standing on a corner and screaming and throwing rocks. See how that works out for ya...<br /><br />And, sitting here with a solid view of the past and a pretty sure vision of what the future holds, I can only say with sadness that I am glad that I am an old man and I won't have to think about it much more.<br /><br />But I have a little one year old granddaughter. She stomps around on her stumpy little legs and I don't know what she is saying, but she says it like she means it. If she is half as ornery and tough and clear-sighted as her mother, my beloved and determined twenty-one year old waitress/student step-daughter, then everything will be alright. We are, after all, Americans. We somehow come through when they least expect it.<br /><br />Yeah. Everything will be alright. I promise, Coach. Just work on a winning season and let us lowlifes down here at the Park do the heavy lifting. All down through the corridors of history, it has been the peasants who got it all sorted out when push came to shove and not one damn thing has changed.<br /><br />When things get bad enough we will be there. Count on it.<br /><br />tj Tim Joe Comstockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05351911607475089105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-86235606809425652912016-07-22T15:28:17.074-07:002016-07-22T15:28:17.074-07:00Not to be cynical, but, in this day and age can a ...Not to be cynical, but, in this day and age can a true independent hero arrive on the scene and govern us united into the future??<br />I think about the Gore Presidency a lot. How would our country and situation be today if we had not let the Bush camp with the Florida Sec of State steal that election away. Maybe the rich dudes would not be so damn rich and regular people would have more of a say....or....would it have turned out just more of the same??? Probably at least 6000 or so service men and women would not have died to make Dick head Cheney richer. <br />I'll step off the bus nowJim Bangshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11618333090634257257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-19272246495811680322016-07-22T15:10:42.759-07:002016-07-22T15:10:42.759-07:00God dammit!!! This stupid work thing keeps me off ...God dammit!!! This stupid work thing keeps me off the blog rolls spending my valuable time. The election year process is a chore of my own perseverance to keep myself above the name calling and slop that can swirl me down the drain. I really would like to firmly place my head in the sand and pop out on election day to view the results. I have determined that nothing I say or do will sway anybody's vote and visa-versa. So, I will not contribute to the FB madness that is really starting to crank up. Who knows what to believe anyway on what you see or read. Is it made up?? Is it real?? <br />I am going to trust my own eyes on things I actually witness, Hey! I have a kid who grew this summer and can dunk a basketball (I've seen it!!)A big deal for our little school. And, last I checked he is not a zombie.Jim Bangshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11618333090634257257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-76515789255593583392016-07-22T05:52:12.293-07:002016-07-22T05:52:12.293-07:00Thanks, Matt. Reading your comment I found myself...Thanks, Matt. Reading your comment I found myself wondering why we even HAVE a two party system. Why not three? Five? Indeed, where are the Greens, the Independents, the Libertarians...all oddly quiet. Did Ralph Nader die?<br /><br />For that matter, where are all my readers? I guess this is what I get for posting only twice a year. But I don't care. You three dudes are the hard-core members of the Original Crew. Swamp-boy will pop up sooner or later, I am sure. I miss Dee in Oz, and Jonathan and that Colorado dude...Jason...oh, and that other Colorado dude, Coach Jim...<br /><br />I gotta work on this.Tim Joe Comstockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05351911607475089105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-60617478354093866052016-07-21T14:48:50.649-07:002016-07-21T14:48:50.649-07:00Yay....TJ is back! Welcome sir! I have to chuckle ...Yay....TJ is back! Welcome sir! I have to chuckle at this entire 'election' thinggee...never before in my voting-life have I had SUCH a "lesser of 2 evils" choice to make. But hey...there's always the Libertarians! I have to think that they've never had such a good shot at a big voter turnout...if even 10% of both major parties are disenchanted enough to vote for the Lib party, WOW! And if that goes up to around 15% of both parties, and assuming the other portions of both major parties vote along party lines, we'd nearly have a 3-way tie! Wouldn't THAT be something! However, I have to believe in my jaded view that the Dems and Repubs (who are further apart than EVER) would quickly find common ground and band together if they even thought for a moment a 3rd party had a shot at the big office. Just total madness. And we've got MONTHS more to endure. Urgh...<br /><br />And speaking of "he who shall not be named" (who ran the largest and most sophisticated doping ring in sporting history according to USADA)...how bout those pesky Russians and their STATE SPONSORED DOPING program? Kinda brings us back to the days of the East German program (remember the Unibrow women who could beat up pretty much any guy on the planet?) Boy oh boy are we swirling down the drain, picking up speed as we go. It's a wild ride for sure...hang on to your hats! Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10517087265569164625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-30340487274686450072016-07-20T20:00:10.990-07:002016-07-20T20:00:10.990-07:00Good thing I have a what is effectively a ZAB - Zo...Good thing I have a what is effectively a ZAB - Zombie Apocalypse bike just need to rig up some holsters for those aforementioned Axes and Shotguns .....RoadieRyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15900109046198641775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-57249074096740133552016-07-19T08:01:00.746-07:002016-07-19T08:01:00.746-07:00That was a very real conversation, Ryan. And evide...That was a very real conversation, Ryan. And evidence of why my mentor is rich and I am not. Like you, I find it a miserable situation where (apparently) most of America is facing an election with two bad choices. At least with Hillary it will be (big) business as usual, whereas were Trump to win it will signal the beginning of the Zombie Apocalypse. Seriously. Within six months of his election I predict zombie sightings will begin. I further predict that on the day of his taking oath there will be a run on axes and shotguns. Remember you heard it here first.Tim Joe Comstockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05351911607475089105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-66048610489405514532016-07-19T07:56:12.642-07:002016-07-19T07:56:12.642-07:00I really liked that photo of Lance in front of the...I really liked that photo of Lance in front of the flag. Yeah, Brian, the comment started going long so I switched it over. As I typed it I found myself seriously yearning for the voice of the Bard, ol' Hunter S. He would surely have had some fun with this mess this election cycle.Tim Joe Comstockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05351911607475089105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-88183397199463582042016-07-19T06:26:06.677-07:002016-07-19T06:26:06.677-07:00TJ you've captured it brilliantly, as always! ...TJ you've captured it brilliantly, as always! (Tied it back to the Ultimate Doper, no less.) Thanks for the shout out and, more importantly, thanks for expanding your comment into this instead.Brian in VAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02923999291735012309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3267224089554889479.post-81866186917500589222016-07-18T16:13:58.883-07:002016-07-18T16:13:58.883-07:00Ending with "He who must not be named" -...Ending with "He who must not be named" -well played sir. BTW I think your mentor summed it up for "merica with "try to find one person who has ever been glad they did business with him." Just ask Atlantic City... I'm just sad my alternative is the Corporate Queen...sigh.RoadieRyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15900109046198641775noreply@blogger.com