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Alex

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About Me


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My Interests

I'm plowing down a twisty, deserted road in the middle of the night, my ancient, rattly piece of old british iron propelling me along at unsafe and illegal speeds. The hum of the cylinders and the dim cone of light saturating my senses. This is happiness.

I'd like to meet:

Myself about ten years ago so I could warn myself about all the stupid shit I'm about to do for the next ten years...

Oh, yea, and I'd like to meet her:

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Music:

On my playlist right now: Fugazi, Sonic Youth, the Kinks, Street Dogs, Dead Kennedy's, The Bravery, The Shins, Bloc Party, Louis XIV, Deftones, Beck, Sparta.....who knows, it might be Bach next week.

Movies:

Weird stuff: Lynch, Cronenberg, Kubrik. Examples: Trainspotting, Memento, Goodbye Lenin, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dead Ringers, Scanners, Dune...All I can think of right now....

Television:

Simpsons, King of the Hill, Arrested Development, My Name is Earl, Scrubs and, yes, Gilmore girls.

Books:

The Name of the Rose, Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, The Foundation Trilogy, Geek Love, Me talk pretty one day, The Onion...

Heroes:

My Dad, Nikolai Tesla (Crazy fucker), Woodrow Wilson, and Oprah...o.k. not Oprah. I don't give a shit about Oprah.

My Blog

Gingerman Raceway, South Haven, Michigan, May 25, 2007.

After a grueling sixteen hour drive through the night from North Carolina, we finally get to South Haven, Michigan and the Gingerman raceway with about two hours of uncomfortable sleep each. Chad's ev...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:53:00 PST

Barber 2006 Race Report

I arrived at the Barber Motorsports Park (Leeds, Alabama) after about 13 hours of overnight flying from a week-long technical conference in California that left me geeked out to the point of desperati...
Posted by Alex on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:09:00 PST

Mid-Ohio: Race day.

So, I crawl out of  Chad 's truck at 6:00 a.m. with about two hours of sleep and an aching back from being all crumpled up in the truck.  A little groggy, I gotta hit the portajohn.  Sc...
Posted by Alex on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:36:00 PST

Mid-Ohio, Day 3

After an early night in the Tonup compound, Friday morning brought an all-day practice day.  It would be a good chance to learn the very technical and, according to some, exceedingly dangerous tr...
Posted by Alex on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:06:00 PST

Mid-Ohio, Day 2

The paddock was already pretty busy when we got there about noon.  Fortunately, the campground was still pretty empty, so we were able to stake out some ground for our tonup brothers and sisters....
Posted by Alex on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 07:42:00 PST

Mid-Ohio, Day 1

For those not into vintage motorcycles, mid-ohio probably does not mean anything other than something in the middle of Ohio, probably.  Well, it's a big deal.  In fact, it is THE big deal in...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:53:00 PST

The Road to Heavy Rebel

The Heavy Rebel Weekender in Winston-Salem is something I had really been looking forward to.  Unfortunately, the forces of evil (and my own stupidity) conspired to keep me from making it.  ...
Posted by Alex on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:00:00 PST

Grattan Race Report

Grattan, Michigan Race Weekend June 16-17, 2006   Got off to a slow start for practice (still wiring things) on friday and didn't get out 'till midway through the second session. Bike ('72 BSA A...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:32:00 PST

Motorcycle Race School

So, I actually did it.  After working my fingers to the bone for the last two weeks, burning the candle at both ends for so long, there wanno candle left and making my shop look like it'd been r...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 16 May 2006 12:04:00 PST

I love roadblocks

So, after the rock'n roll show at King's in Raleigh (good, hardcore punk moshin' action), I had to, once again, drag my sorry ass back to Fuquay: home. I was caging it tonight since I still felt a li...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 05:36:00 PST