donderdag 4 juli 2013

donderdag 4 juli 2013 Live from Le Tour de France... 14:47 - Mouriès, France. Wind blowing at 40km/h from the left-hand side. The wind is helping dictate tactics today. The peloton is 10km from the site of the intermediate sprint and the wind is said to be blowing at about 40km/h from the left of the road. At the moment, the peloton has some shelter with trees lining the road but there are stretches where they'll be more exposed to gusts that are strong enough to cause splits in the bunch.

This is Stage 6 - Shorter, flatter... faster? #1 - André Greipel has won his fifth stage of the Tour de France and his first in 2013. #2 - Peter Sagan. #3 - Marcel Kittel.

Stagg's Laredo chili for breakfast. Watch Batman - Green Ice. Mr. Freeze is in town, and has begun a new cold wave of terror. Put those guys on ice! Wild! Wie-uld!

Of course, for the Fourth Of July, I need to watch Independence Day. I'm enjoying the character - Captain Jimmy Wilder. Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy!

The aliens destroy all the major cities of the world. Liberty face down in the bay. This IS a cult disaster film.

This is 237th birthday for the USA, and Québec City is 405-years-old now. The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro by Frederick Douglass. A speech given at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852 I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.