I have also received my word from Shelley Jackson. Read about it here when you get a chance. I sent in my word request back in January 2004 and got it today, June 1, 20005. I understand Shelley has tackled this massive project alone, what a work load! Now I need to get my word inked. I am still pondering the location. When it is done I will post a pic of course.

After the expo I took the family to Philippe's for lunch. Philippe's is the home of the original french dip sandwich. The place has an old school charm and feel that cannot be duplicated with modern building methods or modern style. It is a classic place. To get there use maps.google.com and enter this address: 1001 N. Alameda St. Los Angeles CA. 90012.

I signed up on Livejournal.com. Hit me up, let me know. Add to it. I have some pics of my new bad ass tall bike posted there. Be prepared. This bike is a monster. I call it Warship. Bow down. The next bike will horrify and scare the neighbors, or make them laugh. Stay tuned. I am scoring tubing this Friday. A little hint: this bike will be a chopper. That's all I am saying for now.

Another interesting deal was the building the shower was held in. I had attended pre-school in the same building back in 1972! I fully recognized the inside of the building once we went inside. It is an art gallery now, but I sure tripped out thinking about 1972. Later.

Later.

The LA Marathon ride is this Sunday. Gotta go.

So there is an error in the Dead Pool. The Beaver has sent in his list with someone that is already boxed up. Try again Beav...

A new project I have started, which makes me laugh loudly, is a tall bike. I got the idea after stumbling on to TallBike.net a while ago. Another cousin of mine let me borrow a welder. I scored 3 bikes from a kid down the street, found another bike on trash day, and pulled a donor bike from my old collection of dead bikes. The creation, or should I say creature, is going to be 2 bmx frames stacked upon each other with an old Taiwan road bike on top of the others. Pictures may be up this weekend. I will be welding the beast up this Saturday. I only need to find a few bits of metal to weld up some braces and an extended steerer.

I have one resolution for the new year. That is to not have any resolutions. I will just do what needs to be done.

A tornado warning has just been issued for Los Angeles County at 10:45pm. Oh crap.

On the way home from the ride I saw some crappy driving. There was a traffic jam on the 101 from Calabasas heading east. This dick in a Toyota van was swerving across lanes like a lunatic and going nowhere fast. His shitty driving inspired me to create a new feature of Fiddy.com called "You Suck." This page will feature all you assholes that drive like shit and think that you own the 14, the 118, the 210, and the 5. Plan on seeing license plate numbers AND pictures of yourself right here for the world to see you fucking dickheads and vaginaheads!!!

Check out the beer can chicken pic. I used a can of Bud for this grilling project. It was very good.  Notice the Halloween theme going on....

Vote for Kerry. Here are 100 reasons why.

If you have an idea for a newsletter topic let me know.

In the last 3 days I have seen a rear-ender accident occur next to me at a green light, 1 car upside down on the freeway and another pointing the wrong way on the freeway. What is it with people? Is paying attention that difficult?

I saw a teenager on one of those electric scooters get run down by some dumbass in a Bronco II. The scooter was bent up but the rider survived.

That's it for today. 

Anyone want to buy a domain name? www.pill.tv is up for grabs. Email me at sex at fiddy dot com.

My boy is doing great. Getting bigger already. He has gained 9 ozs.

3-day weekend coming up. Time to fire up the grill one more time!!!!!

Vote no for George W. Bush in November.

So far the new front page has generated no grief. I can dig it.

The Olympics end tomorrow. Looks like the NBC coverage was screwed up quite a bit. They kept showing diving. Who in hell makes these schedules? Diving? I mean come on, diving is cool but how can they show diving and synchro-swimming instead of cycling? The only bit of velodrome action I saw was on the 25th during the daytime. There are millions and millions of bicycle riders in the USA. How many divers?!?

Here is some funny ass shit to play. If you like golf and pummeling pixelated animals check it out.

So, the site has a new intro. Any comments? Send them here: sex @ fiddy . com

Thanks to the mad graphics pimp DH in sunny FL for hooking up the technizzle on the front end tip. Yo.

It was 107 the other day.

I think I might bbq a snake this weekend. Late.

I went on the hardest ride I have been on in almost 4 years on Sunday. I climbed up Indian Canyon Road. Check it out here.

The Democratic National Convention is underway. Remember, if you want your country back vote for John Kerry. If you can please convince all of your republican friends and family members. You may have to do an intervention to convince them that W is a fucking idiot. He is by far the worst president ever! I don't have time to get into why he is the worst ever. Don't let my lack of an explaination tweak you. Just vote him out.

Check this one out. I barbecued a 16 lbs turkey last weekend. The final results are in the random pic area to the right. Hell yeah. I highly recommend bbq-ing a bird. I made a custom baste for this one. I cooked it for about 4 1/2 hours in my Weber on the cool side of the grill. It's all about indirect heat.

$2.00 Chuck is mighty tasty. Trader Joe's Shiraz won a gold medal. Go Chuck go!

The Tour is getting good now. The race really starts this Friday. OLN has improved their coverage tremendously over last year. Al Troutwig is doing a good job for a Tour rookie. Bob Roll is a classic. Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen are also doing there usual great job of covering the race. Lance should kick the shit out of the peloton really soon.

Check out my truck. The beast has risen. I have finally resolved the registration crisis and also I have added Black Sunshine to my comprehensive insurance plan.

Get some. I took the crusher for a drive in the desert for a few minutes to test the 4wd. It went into gear so that was cool. This truck will be more of a work truck that a "catch air and jack some shit up" truck. Think of this black beast as a tool, more of a mode to get my shit from A to B with crushing force. V8's are the shit.

Hey. I just got back from vacation. I took the family all over the place. We hit up Arizona for 6 days, camping in Colorado, New Mexico (Highway 666), Utah, Nevada, and back to California. Highlights? Too many. We almost hit sheep in the middle of the road in Northern Arizona when we were driving thru the Navajo Nation. My kids got to go swimming instead of melting in the Arizona heat. We stayed in a nice campground (Thousand Trails) in Verde Valley. AC and satellite TV. No where near roughing it but hey, I've slept in the dirt with bugs and shit many times. Monument Valley is unreal. Grand Canyon is breathetaking (I last visited GC in 1977.) Tuzigoot National Monument, Montezuma Castle, Sedona, Jerome, Four Corners, all highly recommended if you are planning a tour of the Southwest. All I can say is be prepared. Four Corners is cool if you like that kind of thing.

Sedona is an artist yuppie-hippy haven. Flagstaff, AZ is cool if you have a beard and like to "get fucked up." 18-wheelers will pass you doing 85 mph regularly. The Petrified Forest National Park is not a forest anymore. It was a forest 25 million years ago, if you are reading this you missed it.

I played some golf in Cottonwood, AZ. It was a tough course, only 9 holes but the first 6 holes were narrow and hard!

Hoover Dam is full of dam water. Lots of dam cement. The dam temperature was high. Over 100 dam degrees easily. I saw a woman having a dam heatstoke, instant dam ambulance ride. The dam workers couldn't get her happy.

I built up a singlespeed mountain bike. Bianchi B.U.S.S. with Phil Wood hubs, Mavic 719's (Joe Young built)Race Face bits, White Industries freewheel, Chris King headset, Avid brakes, Ritchey this, WTB that. Somehow it costs way too much to build up a nice bike. The bike was an Ebay score for the most part. Only a few last minute parts were shop bought.

Tadal and Dean got a score in the Dead Pool 2004. With bonus point each has a score of 27. Alright, here weeeeeeeee go.

Wow. So much is happening.

I went on a ride along in a Richard Petty Experience car. 160mph around the California Speedway. Was it fun you may ask? Shit yes, worth every penny! It was only $150.00 for 3 laps at speed.

My long time friend Tom Laughlin died on May 2nd. His death is especially tragic since he did not need to die. Apparently he was drinking and passed out on his face and suffocated to death. I last talked to him in April. We were making some plans for a bbq here in SoCal. I just found out over the weekend that his girlfriend is pregnant. Damn. I still can't believe that he is gone. We had so many good times over the years. It really is difficult to handle this but life has it's way of throwing things at you and that is just the way it goes. I first met Too Tall at Ingram Micro in Fremont. That was in 1993 probably. He used to come over to our house on N. 5th St in San Jose. We would chill there and drink some 40's on the weekends. Too Tall did it all, skateboarding, camping, whatever! I never met anyone that was so willing to rally the troops for any reason. As long as we all had a good time that was cool with Tommy. I almost feel as thoughh Tommy would feel embarrased to know that he died in a such a way. We used to discuss death regularly after his dad's untimely demise. This may seem strange but Too Tall would have said the same thing if anyone of us went down in the same way, and that is this; Tommy doesn't know he is dead. RIP Too Tall, I guarantee that you will never be forgotten.

Wow. I finally got new hosting. In the words of Donald Trump I got to tell 2 hosting companies,"You're fired!"

I am now hooked up at aplus.net. They have a killer deal going over there!

Some parts of this heap may have broken links. I will be checking stuff here and there to make sure everything made the leap to the new server. Enjoy.

Here is a long awaited update. I have been very busy with life in general. My wife is pregnant with #3, work is always busy, I am working on my truck, I started riding again, etc.

So far I am up to riding my mtb bike about 11 miles (with climbing) without significant discomfort. Just taking it slow, getting back into the groove. Around May I will be up to 40 milers on my road bike. Later in the year a century won't be out of the question. I also want to hike Mt. Baden-Powell in the Angeles National Forest. This would be a good warmup for Mt. McKinley which has always had me interested.

I sent a submission in to www.bmezine.com about my navel piercing experience. Right now my story is #1 in the "Recently Recommended" section on the front page of the site!!! I can't believe it. I haven't really gotten into submitting much yet and my first story is "recommended!" Anyhow, I sent in a pic of my leg tattoo which should be up soon.

I am still waiting for my Shelley Jackson word. Her project, www.ineradicalbestain.com, is going full steam, however, I have been waiting for almost a month for my word. No big deal though, I am sure she is overwhelmed with life and the project. Shit happens.

Big thanks to my friend Lori for kicking down a 55 gallon aquarium for our turtles. Chopper and Tuesday are stoked about the new tank!!

I also added some random sign pictures and a few others. When I was riding on Saturday I got a picture bug and starting shooting away.

Late.

The Dead Pool is on. Tadal had to make a few changes to his list. There were 3 clowns on death row on his list. These aren't really dead pool material since their death is highly predictable, especially since they are on the "Row" in Texas.

Shithead sure is getting the heat now. Hopefully when the next election takes place the voters of the USA will realize the Dubya really is a fucking idiot.

Lately I have been driving to work around 80 mph. Seems a little excessive? Not quite, a slow-poke going a measly 65 mph on Raceway 14, sorry, Highway14, slows traffic and causes jam ups. When I cruise 75 mph I get passed, cruising 80 mph keeps me even with the flow. The 14 has to be the fastest freeway in LA County when it comes to packs of cars hurtling towards Smogville. The massive carnage that happens when someone loses control absolutely stops the freeway, shit happens. If you can't hang with the big dogs.........

NASCAR starts February 15th at Daytona.

My big bad Chevy truck is coming along. Check out the new and barely improved diary.

Bling in the New Year!!!

Sup. The DEAD POOL 2004 is on. Get your list in fast!!! Deadline (pun intended) is 1/15/04. Email sex @ fiddy dot com.

Going to the big ink show tomorrow. Pics to follow...

Enjoy.

It is Xmas Eve already. Dang, this year went by fast. Brandon is heading for victory in the Dead Pool unless a celeb on someone's list high-5's the Reaper.

I tried something called Salvia Divinorum. I highly recommend it.

I made a list of 100 things which is the thing to do I suppose.

Email me your new Dead Pool list for 2004. Join in the morbid fun! Will Ronnie finally let go in 2004? Can Billy Graham and the Pope join hands in a final dash to the grave? Email your list to sex @ fiddy . com.

I got some new piercing action. First person to ask gets to know what now has a chunk of metal in it.

Must get sleep. Must get sleep. Must get sleep.

Fuck it, I''ll sleep this weekend. Checking out Musashi this Fryday for the office party. I can taste the swordfish and shrimp, hell yes, can you say sake? Asahi? Japanese food is one of my favorites that I NEVER get enough of. I live by a joint called the Blue Koi but it doesn't hold a chop stick to Musashi.

I have a new domain name getting ready to launch for all of you shrimp dicks. www.pill.tv will be your savior, hallelujah baby jesus-style. The site will have all sorts of details on getting your schlong long and strong.

By the way...Christmas is coming up, just so all of you psychotic Christians know what is happening get this, December 25th is about SANTA CLAUS. The meaning of Xmas has been changed to a capitalistic ritual that we all love. If you feel the need to whine like a sissy in the editorials then go for it. I personally wish you would shut the fuck up and go whine in church on Sunday. Nobody wants to hear about how December 25th isn't about Santa becuase it IS about Santa. I think it was George Carlin that said something like this,"When you are a kid your parents tell you that the Tooth Fairy, Santa, Easter Bunny, god, etc. are all real. Then when you grow up you learn it's all a sham EXCEPT for the god part." Right. Come on already. Send your hate mail to sex at fiddy dot com.

We have a score in the Dead Pool. Well, sort of. Tim C has went negative with Madame Chiang Kai-Shek. She packed it in at 105. The game is scored by subtracting the age at the time of final exit. In this case 100-105= -5.

Fred "Rerun" Berry also ran out of run on Tuesday at the age of 52. Some of you may remember Raj, Dwayne and Rerun from "What's Happening." Their cornball shenanigans were pretty retarded. My favorite episode was when Rerun got a credit card and went off like an idiot. He bought a moped and a bunch of shit. Nobody had him on their Dead Pool list! Would have been a good score, 48 points!

Looks like the shenanigans are ready to begin in Sacramento. Arnold.

The Cubs are on fire, about time.

I'm hungry.

Get your Dead Pool list together now. Email it to sex at fiddy dot com when you are ready. Deadline, no pun intended, is 12/31/03 for next year's doom predictions.

I took a look at my truck this evening. I found a fire extinguisher, about 20 circular saw blades, suspenders, hose, rope, degreaser, a wasp nest, one spider, 8 large pine cones, a small axe, a pick axe, tire iron, compact car jack, old newspaper, 3 bags of decorative rock, one wire milk crate, an empty paint can, 2 concrete smoothing tools, and a broken pen. There are also numerous unidentifiable items in the bed. Too much rust and crust is preventing the identification of a lot of the things in the bed. Anything that is garbage is going straight in the trash can.

The Beast needs some help to be road worthy. I need to go thru the brakes, get a new windshield, and get a set of tires. Also some new leave springs in the front would be good. I did drive it home. It was about 15 miles from the auction site to my driveway. The Mr. Goodwrench 350 needs some cleaning but that's it! It runs very good, smooth idle and good power. More pix later this week.

I scored the spawn of Satan. 1973 Chevy Hell Truck. Bad ass 4wd, black primer paint, mackered bed, all dirty. Built for mashing. Check out the first pics right here.

No deaths lately. The Dead Pool should have more contestants next year. I am getting a lot of interest. Start your 2004 Dead Pool list now!

The biggest score so far has come down the line! With a huge 4th quarter push Big B has surged to the lead with Warren Zevon. Zevon chromed the last banana on 9/7/03. Shit, time for some morbid catch-up from the rest of the pool! 47 points for B! Kick ass!

In other news I have gone back to work since the operation. Not since the smashing force of a motorcycle wreck that resulted in collar bone destruction have I felt such pain. I am healing well so that is good news for Fiddy.com fans. I can now get back to updating this killer site almost bi-weekly. Yeah, right. If anyone cares the big bad mutherfucking NHRA Drags are on Nov. 6-9. Needless to say, be there.

If you like to drink check out Hangovermagic.com. This is a product I have personally tried and it works. You can take the edge off of a big bad hangover just by popping 3 pills before bed. It really works. Take it from a pro.

L.A.te

We have a score in the Dead Pool. I hit with Johnny Cash. It sure does suck to have a stud like him go. "The Man in Black" was one of my favorite badasses of all time. We have a tie between myself and Dean for the lead at 33 points. Heading into the 4th quarter of the year there are still some scores to be had. Ronald Reagan, Annette Funicello, Richard Pryor, these folks are hurting. John Ritter had an aorta tear that took him out last night. That sucks.

I had my appendix removed on Sept. 2. That sucked. I was laid up in the hospital for 3 1/2 days. The only salvation I had was Demerol. Nice. I got numerous IV injections of the liquid love. Any how, I am home and almost completely recovered. Check out the Dead Pool stats!