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Ouch.
I rode my bike to go visit my friend Wendy yesterday. She lives out by City Line Avenue, so I took 48th Street to Lancaster, followed Lancaster to 57th and headed North. The weather was hotter than hell and I thought I was going to die.
However, it was the ride home that killed [...]
President 6th Grader
When I was in 6th grade, my best friend Scott and I would ride our bikes out the giant sand pile across the street from the landfill by the Connell Highway rotary (what people in New Jersey and Pennsylvania call a “traffic circle” and what the British call a “roundabout”), where we would race our [...]
Read More..>>Open Letter to the Overeager Meteorologists of Philadelphia
Dear Sirs and Madams:
While I realize that reporting and forecasting the weather is not always interesting and is not always accurate, I want you to know that every time you predict afternoon thunderstorms, I end up driving instead of biking, costing me at least $10.00 in gasoline.
Unfortunately, for the past three weeks, you have been [...]
