KC Idol

This week we made to a long-coveted event, Harrah’s Lucky Break. It’s basically a KC version of American Idol that is taped Wednesday’s at Harrah’s casino and airs Saturdays at 11:00 pm on channel 9. It was a hoot for sure. There were some really good singers, but the most fun was counting 5 mullets, two tube tops, and two pimps.

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Earth Day Irony

This year I volunteered at KC’s Earth Day celebration, providing bike valet parking for the Missouri Bicycle Federation. Unfortunately, Earth Day’s organizer’s chose to hold in a very bad location at Shawnee Mission Park – a venue way out in the suburban hinterlands that has no access to public transportation and is 45 minutes away from most of the metro area’s population.

So, I gassed up my SUV and drove 30 minutes on the highway to a part of town whose very existence is antithetical to Earth Day ideals like environmental stewardship, renewable energy, public transportation, etc. We have few bikes to park, because few people are within safe and easy biking distance of the venue.

On the way home I celebrated the day of suburban environmental irony by driving through McDonalds for a Royale with Chese and an ice cream cone.

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Spring Reading

Candy Girl: A year in the life of an unlikely stripper, Diablo Cody.
One of my favorite bloggers finally publishes the story of the year she spent stripping.

Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics, Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga.
Two of my other favorite bloggers have published their mainifesto for saving the Democratic Party from it’s big-business, Beltway, old-schooly self.

Empty Tank: Oil, Gas, Hot Air, and the Coming Global Financial Catastrophe, Jeremy Leggett.
Yet another doomsday scenario for the coming post-petroleum age, although more practical and less apocolyptical than Kunstler’s book.

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Monumental Wedding Party

On a bike ride this past weekend I came across two wedding parties taking pictures at the Liberty Memorial…

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Conquer jet lag

BA has a cool thingy to help you minimize jet lag. Tell it where/when you are flying and it will tell you when to seek or avoid sunlight, in order to get your body adjusted to local time. I’ve found that when flying east it works best to schedule your arrival for morning and just stay up until the local bedtime, then you are on the local schedule withing 24 hours.

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