Month: September 2003

Pitchfork and MTV have confirmed it: Pigs are going to fly.

Man, I totally forgot the Columbus Scoot-A-Que was this weekend! Looks like it’s getting a lot bigger every year, and it sounds like a good time. Have fun! Wear your helmets!

Speaking of DeVrieses…es, Trish posted some Scooter-related magazine sightings, including a link for Scooter World Magazine, which is supposed to debut next month. Geoff Allen from Denver (not to be confused with Scootertwit Jeff Allen) is putting it together, and you can get subscription or advertising info on the site.

From Matt DeV.: a video today, The Chemical Brothers/Flaming Lips collaberation The Golden Path (on ArtistDirect). It sounds like Echo and the Bunnymen singing “Spill the Wine.” Nice. By the way, fuck you, RIAA, pull your heads out of your asses and put out some good records at a reasonable price, and maybe you’ll make some money.

When searching for follow-up to the naked rider story, I came across an editorial explaining the repeal in a bit more detail. Seems everyone but old people and under-21s can ride sans a skull bucket.

In response to the repeal of Pennsylvania’s helmet law, a group of bikers rode naked through the streets of Pittsburgh on Thursday night (9/4).

In response to the repeal of Pennsylvania’s helmet law, a group of bikers rode nude through the streets of Pittsburgh.

Soon you’ll be able to Terra-around on a
140CC Propane-powered SPOT. Maybe. I don’t know where Lucash finds this stuff, I’m not sure if this is a web design class project or the first domestic scooter company since Salisbury to make a decent-looking scooter.

To protest the repeal of the helmet law, a group of bikers in Pittsburghrode naked around the city.

Cha-Cha wrote this lovely review of Slaughterhouse 9 for Chicago’s Re-Vue ‘zine:

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Mischa, the guy who hit the valet in Greektown at Slaughterhouse, is looking for witnesses to the accident, if you were there and can help him out, please email him at mischa@transportvc.com.

James Ballot just reminded me I didn’t say anything about Wesley Willis’ death last week (registration required). Here’s another good piece on Wesley . It’s a great loss, of course, but all the media coverage was kinda weird. The Tribune story was way over-the-top, and you could sense that they were happy to be able to write a story about him without having to worry about him showing up at their office to hang out. It’s a lot easier to heap praise on outsider art when the annoying and unpredictable outsider isn’t around anymore. I’m not sure if I miss being headbutted by a huge smelly crazy homeless dude at the Empty Bottle every night, but Wesley made Chicago a little less boring in the 90s, and whichever side of the exploitation argument you fall on, both his life and ours were enriched by his art. I can’t find an MP3, but Heavy Vegetable’s “Song for Wesley” is the most endearing tribute I’ve seen or heard, and it’s the best, because it was written while he was still alive. It ends, in Wesley style, “Rock over London, Rock on Chicago, Wesley Willis, whoopin’ on a mule’s ass with a belt.”

A bunch of links Lucash sent last week that I forgot to post:

Scooters in New Hampshire

Scooters in Maine

Scooters in Toronto

Scooters in Arkansas

More about the Vectrix

Slaughterhouse 9 was awesome and it kicked my ass, but more on that later. If that wasn’t enough entertainment for you, there’s more this weekend: the Defilers Rally just over the border in Wisconsin and, farther north in the Cheese State, the Wildcat03 If you can make it though another weekend of parties and/or riding, you’re a stronger man than I am.