Giro d’Italia!

Even if bike racing isn’t necessarily your cup of tea, play along. Today’s Giro d’Italia stage was amazing. Mountains, rain, snow, crashes, the wounded soldiering on… it was truly epic. Take a look at:
http://www.velonews.com/race/int/articles/4011.0.html
And bear in mind that all of this took place after nearly 3 weeks of racing. If you want to see one of the greatest spectacles in sports for yourself, it re-airs on OLN tonight at 8pm (note that I said spectacles, not testicles… the greatest one-testicled spectacle in sports was the 2001 Tour de France, stage 10, Lance Armstrong’s win on Alpe d’Huez).

Now That’s a Party!

Here’s a funny tale of drunkenness for ya:

In February in Chichester, N.H., Thomas A. Barrett was fined $240 and given a six-month suspended sentence for his no-contest plea to creating a false fire alarm. Barrett told the judge that he was celebrating his 21st birthday at Jillian’s Bar & Grill, and as he staggered down a hallway to the men’s room, he mistakenly urinated on the floor and pulled the fire alarm, which he thought was a toilet’s flushing mechanism.

[Union Leader (Manchester), 2- 20-03]

Damn!