Neither snow, nor ice

The National Cyclocross Championships are being held at Wyandotte County Park this weekend. Yes, the riders are as crazy as this photo would suggest. I had a blast out there and hope to make it out Saturday. You can check out more photos I took here.

Here we go again

Well, the first snow beyond a dusting hit the metro area yesterday, and you know what that means! Yep, time to take part in the Kansas City time-honored tradition of purchasing mass quantities of canned goods at the grocery store in case we're snowed in for two weeks. Hopefully everybody went out and bought four gallons of milk, six loaves of bread, and eight cases of canned peas. Nevermind the fact that in the 31 years I've resided in this city, there have only been two days that I can remember when it was actually too dangerous to drive. However, maybe I'm wrong, considering the fact that there were 278 wrecks between 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. yesterday. Or maybe it's just a matter of Kansas Citians NOT KNOWING HOW TO DRIVE!!!!!!!

Charleston Fire Tragedy--politics as usual

The City of Charleston has politicked its way out of admitting any wrong-doing in the June 18 blaze at the Super Sofa store that killed nine firefighters. You'd think that if nine people died, somebody (or a whole lot of somebodies) did something horribly wrong. Although the Charleston Fire Department seems intent on improving to hopefully avoid another tragedy like this, isn't the first step in recovery always to admit there is a problem?

KC music scene alive and well

Contrary to popular belief (ok, maybe just my belief), music is alive and well in Kansas City. The fiance and I went to Jardine's Sunday night to catch the very first performance from the Goombahles, a band put together by KC fixture Todd Wilkinson. The band also features on keys John Brewer, a fellow firefighter who earned his master's degree in music at the University of New Orleans. They reminded me a lot of one of my favorite bands, Robert Walter's 20th Congress. I had forgotten how much I like Jardine's and had no idea that this level of talent was present in KC. It's a pleasant surprise.