k e i t h e d w a r d p a u g h

Ice-Cycle

- Ferris Plock

1/2 Stolen From Walter Meego - National Geographic

1. Got It Twisted Sister (The Rapture Vs. Mobb Deep) - Dopplebanger
2. Peg - Steely Dan
3. Things Are Getting Better - N.E.R.D
4. Saturdays - Cut Copy
5. The Remix - Wallpaper
6. 1234 (Van She Technologic remix) - Feist
7. Wanna Be A Star - Walter Meego
8. Let’s Call It Off (Girl Talk Remix) - Peter Bjorn & John
9. Between The Rent And Me - Snowden
10. Shadows - Midnight Juggernauts
11. Anyone - Moving Units
12. The Coming Of Spring - The Rapture
13. Talk To Me, Dance With Me - Hot Hot Heat
14. Psychic Swelling - Black Moth Super Rainbow + The Octopus Project
15. Watch the Tapes - LCD Soundsystem

Thanksgiving is good. Other than eating bird, it’s a holiday up for interpretation. Come up with a new tradition this year.

• Write a list of stuff you’re thankful for • Bicycle or hike • Have dance-off • Bocce ball • Rake Leaves • Design a bird call • Plant something (add trout) • Dress like pilgrim or indian • Do any of the afore mentioned activities as pilgrim or indian. • Small float competition (ie: diarama size) • Dog race • Wear nice socks • Holiday pie fight • Home make donuts • Find oldest piece of change in the house • Learn state capitals • Press leaves

Wiffle Waffle 2006 - after party

Remembering Mr. Katenga

Are we really stealing bikes still? Have we not reached an age of wisdom and presence where we steal things of monetary value, and not sentimental? iPods, wallets, identities… these are small, expensive and easy to palm; but bicycles! I’d understand if you just really needed a ride, but how much could you be making? What’s your take home? 50 Dollars? 100?

I’ve had fantasies of, late at night catching you in your burglary. Tracking you back to your den of two-wheeler thieves, and confronting you. In my favorite, you pull a knife after my brief demand that the Black Schwinn be returned, and in two swift blows I disarm you of your blade, and smash you in the face with a wrench picked up entering the shop.

I related some of these daydreams to my compassionate brother-in-law Danny, and a few days later received this rendering of the scene:

In my imagination its not as heroic, but no less messy. Your demise is ignominious, and sanguine. One of pity and disappointment.

What is there to learn from this experience? What to be gained more than the void in my apartment stairwell? I can only hope that its gone to happy home, for a reasonable price. To someone who will appreciate its reinforced mountain bike rear rim for jumping stairs, and sometime replace the white walls as they are wearing thin.

I set aside my revenge for thoughts of the good times, and the rides we had. May they begin for someone else.

- Keith Paugh

Goodbye Talent Show - 2002

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And about anything.
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- ed.

September 2007

- Wes Anderson

Brown Sound Clothing

- Brown Sound Clothing

As designated by President Ronald Reagan in 1984, the third Sunday of every July is National Ice Cream Day. He recognized ice cream as a fun and nutritious food that is enjoyed by a full 90% of the nation’s population, and called for all people of the United States to observe these events with “appropriate ceremonies and activities.”

Interview

Song

- Berd, Metroblogging L.A., Porcupine