Clumsy transmission.

In today's effort, we'll start off by putting the 'mess' in 'messenger' with a dispatch from Groading regarding the recent West Side Invite messenger race down there in Portland, Oregon. I had an intention to get to it, but having just returned from the Made show, I couldn't get it together for another weekend of debauchingness.

Thankfully, I have boots on the ground who sent me a bunch of photos and a few words which I will spread out here like so many canned peas on a plate;

"Stevil-

The main race was a team of randomly drawn 3 people who had to race as a team, coffee cat also had a weed cat attached where you did a bong rip at every 5 checkpoints.

I got no videos from Prom but Juno Driver, Lab Rat and Sea Moss were the bands.

Guin from SF was the Swobo jersey winner.

We asked who all could fit it and we only had two so we had them paper rock scissor for it."

So in no particular order, here's the visual feast;

Goddamned, if I don't miss and adore messenger events, and the lifestyle of it all.

I sure do appreciate them keeping us in the loop, and I'm glad the vintage wooly goodness landed in some appreciative hands. I've been sitting on some vintage Swobo stuff since my visit to Jeff's house in December (Swobo employee #1), and was waiting to find a worthy recipient.

I'd also like to mention that Double Darn was tapped to make commemorative cycling caps, and did me the ultimate honor by sending me one of my own;

I've obviously already beat the crap out of it.

Now that we've handled all of that, would you like to circle around to this post and throw up a bunch of scans of the third zine I made a bunch of years ago;

And there you have it. All the news that was at one point or another fit to print.

Closing today's effort, I'll direct you over to Cycling Independent and the brand newest episode of Revolting;

It's all like the best mail, if it was actually delivered.