Epic Video: Ride the Divide

If you happen to be lucky enough to be in the Vail, Colorado area you should check out the Vail Film Festival this weekend (April 2-3).

One film that will be featured is called, Ride the Divide.

"Ride the Divide," a film about the Tour Divide race held annually on the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, premieres April 2 at the Vail Film Festival in Colorado. Narrative found on the documentary's website describes it like this: "The film weaves the story of three characters' experiences with immense mountain beauty and small-town culture as they attempt to pedal from Banff, Canada, to a small, dusty crossing on the Mexican border." One of the trio of characters is Mike Dion, the film's executive producer; another is Matthew Lee, who has raced the route an amazing five times and also serves as the Tour Divide organizer. Word on the street is that Adventure Cycling's field editor Michael McCoy, the guy who mapped the Great Divide back in the mid-1990s, makes a silent cameo appearance near the beginning of the flick.

Here's is the sweet trailer for the film:

(This is from Just Northwest)

Tales of the unbelievable

First off, hats off to Just South of North writer Brandon for graduating from Eastern Washington University this past weekend. Yeah, believe it or not, they actually gave him a diploma. And I saw pictures to prove it. So, all you doubters, pay up.

Thousands showed up to Woodward Field to watch Brandon. Yes, they were only there for him.

But a place where nobody showed up was to the ballot box in Pillsbury, North Dakota. The town was having an election and no one showed up.

The mayor, Darrel Brudevold said the low turnout is unusual.

"I dare say a half-dozen people usually make it to the polls," he said. That represents about a quarter of the residents in the Barnes County farming community, in southeastern North Dakota.

Wow! Six whole people usually come to the voting. And my guess, they are all relatives of the mayor. Sounds like the town I grew up in.
Because no one showed up, not even the Mayor to vote for himself (he said he had crops to tend to that day) it will now go to the state election officials with what to do next.

I demand a recount!


In Colorado, people can now purchase scratch-n-sniff lottery tickets. The tickets came out today and come in three scents: chocolate, bouquet and coffee.

Lottery officials say the scents are activated when players scratch off the latex on the tickets' play area, since that area is covered in scented ink.

I say the smell should be based on how much you win. If you loose (like you usually do with scratch tickets) it should smell like poo.

Plus, poo scented lottery tickets have got to help stop gambling.


The popular game, Sudoku has called a trial that has been going on over three months to be aborted.

In Sydney, Australia the drug trial was called when it was found that for most of the trial jurors had been doing Sudoku during the hearings.

Four to five jurors had been playing the addictive number sequence game, local media reported. The judge was alerted after some of the jurors were observed writing their notes vertically, rather than horizontally.

Have you ever seen 12 angry men starring Henry Fonda? Yeah, this was nothing like that. Horrible analogy. I apologize.


Coldplay is back on tour. I saw them once while working at the White River Amphitheater in Auburn, Washington. That was an amazing show.

That was probably the best summer job anybody could have. Stand around and get paid to watch concerts.

Can I buy a vowel?

In Middleton, Pa. students opened their yearbooks to find that a handy dandy computer function called "spell checker" had given them new names.

Middletown Area High School's yearbook listed Max Zupanovic as "Max Supernova," Kathy Carbaugh as "Kathy Airbag" and Alessandra Ippolito as "Alexandria Impolite," just to name a few.

The company that printed the yearbook said it was their fault and that they would give stickers with the correct spellings.

Yeah! Stickers! I love stickers!

Oh, and then he calls out yearbooks everywhere.

"It happens all the time, every year," Ed Patrick said. "Look at any yearbook in the country."

High school is supposed to be the best time of my life! Now I'm remembered as an Airbag! Thanks jerk!

In other news, police in Arvada, Colo. are searching for two men who robbed a convenience store. The best part, for masks they wore women's thong underwear. Hold up! Pause right there! What? And why?

Well here is how it went down...

Guy 1: Are you ready to do this?!?! We're going in now!

Guy 2: Wait, I forgot our clown masks in the car!

Guy 1: Man! We spent 12 dollars and 32 cents on those. And they were gonna look SO cool. What are we gonna do now?

Guy 2: Well, there is a laundry mat next door. We could find something in there to cover our faces.

Guy 1: Like dryer lent!

Guy 2: Or, maybe a t-shirt...

Guy 1: Oh.

Inside the laundry mat:

Guy 1: How about these? They look like masks.

Guy 2: That's a pair of briefs! And they're stained! No way.

Guy 1: Then lets just go with these thongs.

Leaving the store:

Guy 2: Thong, thong, thong thong thong. Oh yeah...

Guy 1: Shut up Sisco. Just drive!