Browsing the blog archives for September, 2010

Have You Read a Banned Book Lately?

Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez is a great book (a great series too btw) and is #48 on the ALA’s most challenged/banned books list. Be a rebel, read a banned book today!

GLBT History Month Starts This Friday

2010 marks the 5th anniversary of GLBT History Month. Every day during October a different GLBT pioneer will be featured at the official website. The spotlight will shine on the contributions of athletes, inventors, activists, authors and an array of others.

Braking the Cycle: Day 3 (The End)

Day 3 turned out to be my strongest day on the ride. I cranked out around 69 miles today (I got swept for approximately 14 miles, more on that shortly). The first 44.5 miles of the day were shockingly strong. When I woke up at 5 this morning, I was incredibly stiff and sore and [...]

Go Read Something “They” Don’t Want You To

Banned Books Week starts tomorrow!

Braking the Cycle: Day 2

This is not easy. Not easy at all. It was said during dinner last night, by Eric, the guy who is the event director, that the ride isn’t meant to be easy. The hills are in there for a reason–small and big. He said to think about it like this: the hills represent the issues [...]

Braking the Cycle: Day 1

What a day! We got into Boston Thursday at around 6pm, which was later than expected because of traffic delays. After taking care of getting the bikes checked, last minute registration stuff, safety presentation, eating and hotel check-in  I ended up not getting to bed until around 10:30. That made the 4:30 wake-up all the [...]

Hot Guys Reading Books: The Male Model Edition

Okay, so the last guy isn’t exactly reading a book, more like smoldering in front of books. I figured he was worth making an exception. Just this once.