Well, this guy was in the breakaway, which was a good fifteen minutes ahead of the main field. If you want to be charitable, it's possible they didn't expect any riders to be passing at that point.

But really, yeah. Put the damn dog on a leash. Both times, I think they've been lucky that the dogs weren't hurt.

Maybe the dogs are doped? Or maybe just the dog owners?

My perfect weekend would be to have Noah and Grace home without durable medical equipment (but we would have air conditioning instead!)

I saw the lovely Polgara today. You all should be jealous.

Or maybe just the dog owners?

I vote this one.

This is the nuttiest TdF evah! Aren't you glad you chose this season to pimp me into it?

Aren't you glad you chose this season to pimp me into it?

Little did I know! Did you know there's only one other time that the leader has been kicked out in the middle of the Tour? It was in something like 1978, and they caught him with a whole tubing system and someone else's urine. Oops.

This is the nuttiest TdF evah!

It really is -- and it's a nutty-assed sport. In non-dog-thwacking news, Paul did the stage description in Swahili today, quite fluently, and in what sounded like a lot of detail. (And I though he was impressive for not mangling French!)

Hee. Whoopsie! That seems very complex. (Ha! Edited to clarify, tubing-based urination seems complex. Although Swahili seems complex, too, in a whole different way.)

Yeah, the SO & I were talking about it and we were all, there's not really any way it could be a bigger scandal. I mean, I guess naked paratroopers could land on the cyclists' heads with cocaine, but short of that...

Anyway, I know people have been talking about it like it's ruining the sport and all that stuff, and I definitely know there are going to be credibility questions and played politics and all that junk. But to me, right now, as a novice? Totally fascinating.

I'm so sorry, Sheryl.

It's nothing-ma to both Lisah and Bev.

did anybody else watch The Nine? 'cause i was going through my TiFaux's scheduled recordings and it looks like ABC is bringing it back to burn off the remaining episodes. i never thought i'd get to see them!

oooh. Thanks for the heads up.

My perfect weekend would involve a tropical beach, a clean ocean with lots of pretty fishies, and maybe a cabana boy or two.

I mean, I guess naked paratroopers could land on the cyclists' heads with cocaine, but short of that...

I love this image. If that happened it would be FANTASTIC!

My midlife crisis continues (as does the fucking headache--I'm pissed, but I am not going near an ER this weekend) and I'm toying with another hair idea.

I don't know how artificial I can go at this job, but I saw a guy who had coloured just the front fringe of his hair. I keep mine longer, and usually lighter than the rest, and I wonder if I bleached just that and then coloured it red or something, and left the rest natural, or dyed it black...

Suddenly it sounds like work. But for a couple seconds there I imagined my outfit with my 'fringe' matching my corset and it was very cool.

There is just about nothing I could imagine happening to the TdF to make it more exciting. Because I totally don't care for cycling, but who doesn't love a good human scandal? It's great. Especially the bits where people bring shit down on themselves.

Kat, I owe you mail. Let me get on that.