what was that? is that all there is? who is this? this is it.

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crank length debate

July 27, 2025

these cranks are 175mm

let's talk about something else


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six seven

July 26, 2025

We all know why SIX was scared of SEVEN. 

 

But what do we know about FIVE SIX? 

It’s a quality of life issue since 1969

 

Angel number 56 signifies embracing change and new opportunities with positivity and adaptability

 

It’s Lawrence Taylor's number and it’s retired 

 

Fifty-Six is a town in Arkansas for real really. Not to be confused with Fiftysix, Arkansas. 

 

56 means something to Koshalla

 

Math geeks could go on and on about 56

56 is the number on the mail room in Bagley Hall. It’s more like a storage closet where the mail gets delivered each Mister-McFeely-morning. 

 

Bagley was built in 1937 and houses the Chemistry Department at UW. I like to visualize the craftsman that hand painted those digits on the doors in Bagley some time between now and 1937. Years later the 56 was covered up with tape and a sign for some reason. Then more years later the sign was removed but the residue remains and it makes me smile in 2025...

 

FIVE SIX

 

 


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CHAIN SUCK

July 24, 2025

consolidated laundry

July 23, 2025

like riding a bike, it is

 

asking for it

 

what you wish for

 

careful be

 

jackets

 

Members Only 

 

consolidated laundry

 

redundantly 

repetitiously

repeatedly

 

as often as necessary

 

blurring the lines 

 

all you can eat

 

salad bar 

 

sneeze guard

 

overspray 

 

work-around

 

run the numbers

 

plug & chug

 

two

seven

five

four 

eight

 


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enjoy the fresh aroma

July 23, 2025

Over the past couple days on an electric ass bathtub I've schlepped a lot of AMAZON boxes for their final fifty fucking feet.

 

 

This one got my attention for a moment with its ocean breeze scent.  


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RAGBRAI

July 20, 2025

Just moments ago, Chris Murray sent me this shot and it occurred to me that we're in the last full week of July.

That's my old RB-1 still rolling across Iowa for yet another RAGBRAI. I've lost count of how many it has done now. Same stem, same saddle, same cranks, maybe even the same rear wheel...

I believe Mr Chris Muray is on his 21st RAGBRAI leading team pilderwasser on a great bike ride across Iowa from West to East. I'd like to draw your attention to the team's new green & black jerseys in the background.

rock on


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invert & multiply

July 19, 2025

summer reading some

July 18, 2025

This book is 10 years old. But new to me as I plucked it from the public library. It’s a satisfying smaller size, not too heavy to schlepp around in your bag. But it’s not light and fluffy reading. It’s unlike the books you’re used to. And it features a crow. 

 

This book is 18 years old. It got my attention in the little free library on a Thursday night then I finished it in a day and a half. A 400 page page-turner. It’s disturbing, distracting, entertaining and well written.

 

 

This book is 9 years old. But the English translation is only 7. Cat thanked me for recommending it to her. Then I told her it wasn't me and I took it as a recommendation and bought a used copy. Here's another book unlike the books you're used to.  I haven't been blown away by it, but it has helped me appreciate some small details of the work-a-day-world that I don't always think about. And it's a great size to have and to hold and to read on a summer day sitting in the shade somewhere. 


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as if

July 16, 2025

one more for the Road House

July 13, 2025

One day back in the day Junior was given a hefty bag full of hand-me-downs. That bag included a zebra print coat that she would never wear. 

 

So I gave that coat to those guys down at DANK bags and a while later they gave me a zebra print coozie. 

 

Fast forward 13 years and call it "today" when I’m standing in the garage holding a can of Dalton and I pair it up with that there zebra coozie. (Bon Jovi added to show scale) Then I paired that pair up with this photo of 39 in the zebra print coat and here we are

 

 


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twelve twenty one for the road

July 11, 2025

your time is gonna come

July 8, 2025

a quality of life issue since 1969…

 

 

side effects may include:

 

fever, tiredness, body aches, skin reactions, flushing, sweating, constipation, diarrhea, dizziness, drowsiness, dry mouth, halitosis, vertigo, headache, insomnia, nausea, suicidal thoughts, abnormal heart rhythms, internal bleeding, liver problems, kidney problems, drop in sex drive, confusion, regret, rumination, loss of appetite, alopecia, muscle soreness, joint stiffness, fatigue, swelling in the affected area, inertia, complacency, seamlessly smooth transitions from coffee to beer and back again, a dwindling number of fucks to give, a total absence of give-a-shits, phantom nostalgia syndrome, phantom ass-pocket U-lock syndrome, asking “what if?”, questioning “if only”, repeatedly repeating the same old stories, bad jokes, poor punch lines, when-I-was-your-age-phrasing paired with you’re-doing-it-wrong-proclamations.

 

Zeppelin II cassette stuck in the deck of a Datsun B210 to auto-reverse forever.

 


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that which we call a weed, by any other name, would be a flower

July 8, 2025

 

if A then B

maybe

 

could be

if A then C or D or E

 

digging for

an analogy…

 

you like old VW bugs

do you like auto racing?

 

you like bikes

do you like bike racing?

 

A:B :: Y:Z

 

 

could be

maybe

not necessarily

 

 


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07:07

July 7, 2025

mark your calendar

however

do not adjust

the clock

on your VCR

 

today is 07:07

 

as you can see in this hand-made postcard that I received from 22 Heather on this seventh day of July


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on a day like this

July 6, 2025

those guys down at DANK bags sent me this Shag Bag photo

 

 

they can supply the details because I don't know. or maybe I did and then I forgot...

 

 

was Stupor Bowl 22 in 2019?


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Have you got all you need? Enough to eat and a book to read?

July 2, 2025

another other book for your summer reading list

 

this is a helluva book

helluva is a helluva word

try to use it in a sentence 

easy-peasy

if you've made it this far you've already worked some Fine Young Cannibals lyrics into your day

knowing unknowingly

unknowingly knowing

don't ask me to choose

 

 


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sense of place

July 1, 2025

a clean well lighted place for everything and everything in its place

 

this must be the place

 

you are here

 


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ground up

June 30, 2025

Ground Up Speed Shop Visit

i often gloss over the RADAVIST

but once in a while something gets to me

this guy's stuff gets to me

 

spot on

good stuff


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in for a penny in for a pound

June 30, 2025

one cubic foot of water (7.5 gallons) weighs 62 pounds

 

one cubic foot of osmium weighs 1,410 pounds

 

one thousand four hundred and ten pounds

 

visualize the final fifty fucking feet on that prime package

 

put that on your porch and poke it

 

in a weathered cardboard box

 

at today’s market rate that shit-ton brick would cost you $537 Million

 

plus shipping

 

+WA state sales tax 

 

put that in your pipe and smoke it

 


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if A then B

June 28, 2025

enigma

speculation

conjecture

conjugation

conjunctivitis

completely unrelated

it’s all relative

cathecting the notion

an object in motion

as if 

what if

if & only if

if A then B

muddy 

it’s mud you see

off camber

exposed roots

wet pine needles

i n e r t i a

sequence of events

unfolding as planned

but whose plan is it?

not mine

not my circus

not my monkeys

not my road

not taken


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the road not taken

June 25, 2025

read a book, read a book

June 23, 2025

WAIT HERE

June 20, 2025

111% post consumer waste

 

Reused

Recycled

Repurposed

R e g u r g i t a t e d

 

Five-year-old floor sticker

  • Imploring you to wait here
  • Implying you might not know what 6 feet looks like
  • Imploding your recollection of covid years

 

Pasted onto recycled cardboard

 

YOU DUB’s zipcode overlaid in foam numerals from a set of surplus letters & numbers 

 

With four magnetic squares on the back to slap it on my locker or your white board display

 

Call it a postcard I'm not yet ready to part with 

 

WAIT HERE

 


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the urge to ride your trike

June 18, 2025

 In most situations with a strong correlation I say let’s not jump to causation. But here I say causation all the way. 

 

27 years ago I did a little zine called kickstand with the Soundgarden song looping in the back of my mind… 

 

…correlation? Yes. 

…causation? Hell Yes.   

 

Today I made myself a dickstank trike shirt and I also got myself a knock-off Soundgarden kickstand trike shirt 

 

In the late 90s I had this t-shirt, not from a concert, from the cool poster shop at 6th & Denny. I wore it very few times. If only I still had it I could sell it on Etsy for $450. 

For my second attempt at owning a version of this shirt I went with a tasteful understated black instead of the original sickly brownish green.  

 

 

kickstand

Kicksand, you got loose and I threw up
Yeah kickstand, you got the juice to fill my cup
My mother say that it's alright
My mother says that's the only life
 
So do it right
Do it right
Come stand me up
Come stand me up
Come stand me up
 
Yeah kickstand, I got saddle made of leather
Oh kickstand, I got the words to come together
I got the urge to ride your trike
My mother says that's the only life
 
So do it right
Do it right
Come stand me up come stand me up come stand me up
 
Oh kicksand, you got loose and I threw up
Yeah kickstand, you got the juice to fill my cup
My mother say that it's alright
 
Do it right
Do it right
Stand me up stand me up, stand me up
 
 
 
--Chris Cornell / Kim Thayil
SUPERUNKNOWN  1994

 

 


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STATBACK

June 18, 2025

“I’d buy that for a quarter”

–pilder

 

“No Idea”

–cashier UW Surplus

 

“Make something up…”

–Dr 37 Mike

 

“there are 17 Starbucks within 0.75 miles of current location”

–google

 

“Could you please use it in a sentence?”

–spelling bee contestant

 

“a quality of life issue”

–STATBACK

 


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there goes the neighborhood

June 17, 2025

When I was a bike messenger I took these photos at 1000 2nd Ave when Martin Selig the Seattle real estate titan, owned 33.3% of downtown Seattle. Selig probably owned 66.6% of the buildings I frequented as a legal messenger.

 

5 years ago the covid shutdown lockdown ghosttown downtown zombie shitshow (working remotely) changed Seattle in many ways. It still has not recovered or returned to the work-a-day office space of yesteryear. Here and now Selig’s grip on the city is slipping away. You can read all the details in this Seattle Times article 

 

If you own the building you can do what ever you want with it. You can paint huge canvases, call them art and hang them in the lobby, in the hallways, in the offices of your real estate empire. Selig painted these giant paintings (12’ x 7’ ish) that got my attention back then. That's Mary posing in front of one circa 2006. 

 


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circus monkey postcard

June 15, 2025

 

not my circus

not my monkeys

 

my postcards

 

The USPS will call it a postcard if it’s no more than 4.25" high x 6" long x 0.016" thick.

 

Some of these pilder mashups are 12” x 18” and up to 0.25” thick. I like to write on the back, put on a fake stamp or three and “mail them” to special penpals I know on campus or nearby in coffee shops or bike shops. Hand-Delivered via electric ass cargo bike. 

 

Junior Junior will take over delivery duties on a crow creation I recently made for one of his teachers that is retiring, a guy you might know: Chris Quigley. As if. If only. 

 

One day a few months ago, I hand-delivered an old-marine -climatic-map-crow-creation with the words I wouldn’t want your job on a day like this slathered over it, to Dr. Cliff Mass at Atmospheric Sciences. When I asked him about it later, he laughed and said he got a real kick out of it. 

 

I enjoy handing off postcard-size postcards to the USPS, for penpals around the country. Those feature some of these same themes but are constrained by their size limits. However, I’m not ready to pay the postage on these 18” x 12” lumpy creations that would have to be bundled up to make the journey and therefore would no longer appear to be giant postcards. 

 

If you want something done right, do it yourself. 

 


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long story short

June 12, 2025

older than dirt

June 10, 2025

 

It’s not my birthday but it will be soon. A calendar date to commemorate. When you get to be my age you start thinking about fresh tennis balls for your walker.

 

Today I went out for a dry-fit test-run. The drive side ball needed a little tweaking and luckily the Medicinal Herb Garden guy had a Rambo knife that he let me use for 23 seconds. Perhaps later on, the Electric-Ass-Cargo-Bike-Fleet-Mechanic can dial the tennis balls in for the big day. 

 


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ROLL ON!

June 9, 2025

10-31-07

6-9-25

69

07

same wig

different guy

you are here

where am I?

 


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