Fright Town

I specifically labeled this post after what I'm doing tonight so that when I frequent my homepage I'm more inclined to write. SO HELLS YEAH WORLD, more of Danny Felts spamming the internet!

In all seriousness tonight is one of the nights that Fright Town, ( local crazy ass haunted house ), is running, and while last year was fun I'm particularly looking forward to this go around. I happened to be a straggler in last years job picking and went from being a fairly harmless ghost covered with a typical uniform white sheet, to having to sit in a small room that was pitch black, with a strobe light, with fake dead bodies swinging all over the place; all this accompanied by low moaning sounds for 2+ hours.

lolz


No Astoria this weekend, as much as I would like to race I could use a week off, and I was sick for the majority of the week, which was awesome. The Crusade will have to wait

The bamboo bike project is also under way, if all goes well I should be at the very least a satisfied owner of something I could other wise never get unless I knew Alan. Should be sweet.

Wort uber,


Danny

Many things have happened

Fall is being greatly appreciated this time around.



I don't have any definitive answer why, maybe I'm more prepared for the cold then I've been in previous years, or I'm slightly more of a badass in ways I don't know, (I expect this to be the eventual truth), but thus far the only thing I've been noticing in Portland is how much I'm in enjoying the tree's change colors.

Fall/Spring: better half of the year for reals

Summer: sweet, but sweaty; kind of like raucous love making

Winter: Contains only two good things: My birthday (JAN 7, 1988), and the fact that I get my fix of video games during winter break. Otherwise it can suck it.


Cyclocross:

Been doing well lately, ironically enough with my best finish up at Rainer. 35/125 in the C's. Not that bad, although it would be cool to race with the rest of my age contingent up in the B field, after all somebodies got to get 90Th; might as well be me. Hillsboro is tomorrow, looking forward to a fast course, and people complaining about getting amoebas from falling in the cow shit. LOL



Other than that?

My feelings on people who think they are friends with professors just because they are old remains the same,

They, like winter, can suck it.




Danny

Stuff that I want to write about

For the most part I'm a very future oriented person. Most of the time I prefer to see things as how they could possible turn out, and while that is slightly pointless it doesn't take away from the fact that I find it hard to believe its already the middle of September; maybe not the exact middle but halfway through all the same.

CrossVegas is fast approaching and while I look forward to hanging out in Vegas and begining my Cyclocross season, I am worried about school. Not so much in a " oh, I don't want to go back to school because I don't want to work " kind of way, but rather the fact that if everything goes correctly this year, then I will probably be done. Which I think is a sort of unsettling concept.

And then on the other hand other people may look at it as an opportunity, a chance to do something completely different, travel new places, become integrated into society as one of the masses, yet it does not feel right, not yet anyway. Its strange being relatively close to the edge of my education, although I suppose (insert life long lesson neatly wrapped up into one sentence),


Danny

Cashing in my lack of leaks

For some reason or another my encounters with tires flatting is quite similar to the changing of the seasons. While it doesn't happen often, every couple of months something drastic happens and my rhythm is thrown off for a couple of weeks. Basically I get a flat, try to patch it, fail, try again, and then proceed to buy a new tube in concession. Right now I'm in the middle of the cycle and hope that this will be my last patch before something inevitably goes wrong, for while some may enjoy buying tubes (their 6$ now), I do not.

CrossVegas approaches incredibly quickly and I'm pretty excited. While last year was fun, this year I have the privilege of actually getting to compete, which should be curious indeed.


Not much else to report but I'm sure I will think of something later...

My frustrations

Right now, that is to say exactly at this moment I've had almost all I can have of designing. I'm sitting in Smith right now and for whatever reason Illustrator is not having whatever I'm trying to accomplish. After nearly an hour of fumbling around trying to wrap text around a spiral almost all of my attempts have failed; and quite frankly there's no reason why they should.

I guess the good news is that I did, (and this is a big did), actually get permission from a musical artist to design a poster.

Astronautilis to be more specific, google him people its good stuff. Kind if like Why? were slightly folkier and weirder if thats even possible.

Should be a good design when its done but for now, fate is against me.



And I think i might start a new blog for Faux Sho specific stuff.


Danny

The internet actually has monetary value

So get this world

Just now I was searching the internet, as I normally do once I've eaten my 12:00PM breakfast and made my way to campus, when I discover this little jem.

http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.sosovelo.com

And all this time I thought people were making websites to be hip and cutting edge when in all actuality, they make a profit. But does it really work?




Bikesnob: $24060.8 USD
Facebook: $602.25 Million USD
Sosovelo: $2423.6 USD?


Answer: I think so.

CREATIVITY: It ebbs and flows

8th

After one 3rd place finish, two mechanicals, and some technical mishaps that was my overall placing at Short Track. Pretty cool considering I've never ridden mountain before. In some ways its like Cyclocross but in many ways its not. I'll keep it at that.


Designing has slowed rapidly but I really think its just my inability to actually print anything, that and Menomena hasn't gotten back to me yet but hey maybe they're just really busy. After all they did say they were trying to master their album during mid august, which is almost here by the way.

Other good new though, I have a good design for AU that I'm trying to work out. Its amazing what I conceive in my head and how I sometimes manage to get it out on paper. I suppose its all part of the creative process that change in medium. From...




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