God rest your soul Biker Billy...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/26/textmessage.death.ap/index.html

This guy's handle was Biker Billy on the forums in Bicycling magazine's website. I have a lot of respect for this man. He gave me tons of advice when I first started road biking and I followed his advice religiously when I went out shopping for a road bike. Some shit kid ran him over while text-messaging on a cell phone. BB was a great mentor to a lot of folks in the bicycling community. I feel like a part of me has died. I guess I should lift up a prayer to our lady Ghisallo, the patron saint of cycling. Yea...I know, it's ridiculous that there's even a patron saint associated with the sport.

http://gorp.away.com/gorp/location/europe/italy/bik_ghis.htm

I guess today was a weird day. After seeing my parents off, I watched Requiem for a Dream to watch people do sad things for and because of drugs. Then I debated whether I should watch Clockwork Orange to see some gratuitous violence, but I settled on Kids, just so I can watch a random brother get clobbered by a skateboard gang. The best part is when Telly hacks a noogie at the bleeding corpse. Wow...I've got problems.

Sometimes Bender disturbs even himself