Older Stock

Tina gave me an external hard drive for my birthday at the beginning of this month. I was in the process of moving photo files onto it and came across these two shots of Mike and Jerry playing around on some dirt jumps outside of Park City last summer.

New Name

I changed the name of my blog. You may recall it as Everything Under the Sun. Honestly, I can't tell you how sick I became of that name shortly after creating this little plot on the world wide web wheneverago; I've wanted to change it's name ever since but never did anything about it, dig? That changed today. From here on out, I'm calling my blog Hype Machine. Now that's a nice, ambivalent name for a weblog. I see that you agree. Wonderful.

Now get a load of this. Since I decided to hold off on getting that sweet RIP 9 bike a few posts down, my lust for a 29er was egged towards Santa Cruz Bicycles shortly after I heard rumors of them putting out a 29-inch bike this coming season. Well, a quick read on their blog and here it is - a real-life sample of what the bike will look like when it hits the market:

Well there it is. My new lust-interest. Not.

They're making this thing outta carbon fiber, according to their blog, which is fine, if you want (i.e. can afford) carbon fiber. I, on the other hand, don't necessarily want a carbon fiber bike, nor do I want to afford (i.e. go broke) one. Granted, the Niner is sweet. But Santa Cruz has been doing bikes for-ev-er and I was over-psyched to hear they're putting out a 29er. But guys? C'mon.....carbon fiber? Fkna.

Bike Sike

Sike...like decided to wait on the bike. Obligatory sad face :( I could use money in other areas right now and will wait until next spring to get this, or perhaps a cooler, bike. It'll taste even sweeter then, I figure.

It's been raining like crazy the last couple weeks. Unlike anything I've ever seen in Utah before. Aside from that, I've been dying to make another trip up to the Spiral Jetty on the Great Salt Lake. Tina and I went up there this past weekend and, well, it rained. Time for an obligatory photo dump:




Tina had fun, too.


Back at the home front Hobbes wanted in on some of the camera action. Here he is, psyched as always, and in great form.


Seriously...how do you punish this kid for picking through the garbage when you aren't home?

Mix Tape

I found some old mix tapes the other day while cleaning out my closet. They're probably from high school. It's kind of terrible that I don't have tape deck to listen to these on - apparently cassette tapes are as far out the door as, hmmmm, 8-tracks.

Regarding what's coming in....a Niner R.I.P. 9. I'll be building it from the ground up. I'm pscyhed and will be po' for a while. Hope to have this thing done and ridable by the end of July. Swoll.