My man Hal Walter chats on camera with The New York Times about the great outdoors, racing burros, and raising an autistic child.
Hal is also working on an expanded edition of his book “Endurance,” and I’ll post a link to that when it goes live.
Racing burros and raising a son
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“Everything goes better outside.” He’s right.
O, indeed, Pat. Almost every problem I have indoors can be addressed by dragging it outdoors.
Funny … was just trying to explain to my 6 year old the difference between a donkey, mule, burro, hinnie …
They’re interesting critters, burros. If equines had unions, they would be the shop stewards.
For future reference/discussion:
http://theweek.com/articles/595104/fairytale-new-york-how-soused-irish-punk-band-created-greatest-christmas-song-all-time
O, ’tis a fave, to be sure. I’ve never listened to any of the covers. The very idea seems slightly blasphemous.
By the way, I noticed the Bike Bits monthly email from Adventure Cycling had a piece with video link about Frank Zappa playing the bicycle. I’m guessing maybe you had a hand in that.
Y’know, Pat, I’m not sure who puts that email together. The Zappa-Steve Allen thing makes the rounds every Zappadan — I think it was Charles Pelkey who first showed it to me — but they could’ve been channeling me, hoping to finally get some value out of all the cash they’ve stuffed down my rathole.