My Crank Arms Hate Me!

I know this sounds overly dramatic, but if you want more details of why I say this, look here.

I was riding to the library today and started through an intersection on Figueroa St. in Downtown LA and felt my crank bend (crack really). I bought this crankset four months ago, so they should be warrantied, but it is really annoying to have this happen again. It takes my bike out of commission for at least a week until the new crankset comes in.

That crack is not supposed to be there!

More detailed pic

Crazy nights in Rijeka include men in skirts, verbal attacks against the US government, and shady bars!

Last night, John and I attended a viewing of a conspiracy film with a mutual friend. To view a composition of the evening, check out John's recent post

I agree that it was very interesting and somewhat disturbing if even partly true. I did enjoy parts of it. One of my favorite points in the film was some sound-bites from the Republication National Convention in 2004 prior to President Bush's re-election. They were talking a lot about terrorism and 9/11. The sound-bites were only of the words terrorist, terrorism, 9/11, tyranny, and other words as such. It was quite amusing how many times they were said by some of the individuals.

So, in all, it was quite interesting and lead to some great conversation where I had to bite my tongue multiple times to not scream that I am not a US government sheep and follow my leaders without question.