Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noël!

The Current Miss France

And in related (not at all) news…FAZ reports this dandy is selling for €9500 

A Finished her whip

So the wrapping finished, the Sekai with Sturmey and Nitto bars..a bit of a bastard but pretty nice for a campus-ridin’-beater-bike.   

Since QG is taking a break…

  Here is the most quietglowey post I’ve had in a long while. Al, poke j and have him look at this one.

quietglow is on sabbatical

Taking a break from whisking. Y’all know where to find me

Rethinking Localvorism

Times article on the stickiness of eating locally.  Money quote: 

It gets stickier. If a low-carbon diet is your goal, Mr. Tomich suggests, it may be more effective to change your diet than to focus on eating local. After all, a plant-based diet tends to have a much smaller carbon footprint than a diet that includes meat. That is because a pound of steak requires many more pounds of grain as feed —and all the carbon emissions associated with that, from fertilizers that are derived from fossil fuels to the fuel for the combines used for the harvest, he said. 

bars

I know y’all have been wondering what to get me for Christmas. I’ll take a set of hammerhead shark bars/stem done by this dude. kthxbai. 

I know what i’m eatin’ on my century next year

Here’s all the food an übermensch needs to bike all day long.

Why haven’t we posted this yet?????

We’ve been singing it for days, it’s about time we share the love - the true story of Washington.ed. NSFW  ed again for s

i’m pretty upset about this one

Jackass.

Helvetica redux

more on helvetica on 360