College Friends and Accordians

Another post lost in the draft bin. I love these people... the people and their music! Go Pennsylvania!

In My Own Head

Yes, I do live in my own world. A world inside my head. But the friends I have in there like me for reals.

In case you were wondering...

...where the new headshot came from, my brother snapped it up for me at Big G's wedding to Megan in October. Good times. Good times. To see some random pictures from the gig, head on over to the picture show.

When Two Worlds Collide aka Happy Acquisitioning

One year ago today, Canadian and American publishing teams hopped aboard the same bike for a two-up ride through time.
Over bumpy passes and through winding dark roads we've traveled together. Despite the occasional crossing of the yellow or puckering blind corner, we've made it this far, together with you - our loyal readers! Thanks for cramming into the saddle bags btw, we can't ALL be the pilots on this ride. We do hope you're enjoying the ride anyway.

With mergers comes upgrades and downsizing of course - a whole new website finally populates visiting browser windows and with the loss of our loyal super fan Mr. K comes growth in many new ways. More reports from world introductions, lesser-confusing navigation and more informative videos to name just a few of the upgrades. We hope you're enjoying the changes.

Further acquisitions to the Motorcycle.com brand include the now EIC/NFL Kevin Duke, a battered yet intelligent moto-journo. Once we teach him how to read all the emails we send him, we'll get to publishing more stories per week. Excluding uncontrollable server pukes.



Motorcycle.com needed a facelift and Rob Laidlaw and his band of loyal Canadians put out. And put up with the steep learning curve of our content management system. Whatever we do, "you really cannot replace passion," claims Mr. Laidlaw, and so VerticalScope has fought long and hard to give us the legs to stand tall and be passionate about. They're hott legs too by the way - yes, with two T's.

So a year later the MO family has grown by more than just a pair of legs and a new owner, we hope you still find us attractive after all the growing pains. 
And of course there's more to come, but I'll leave the over-promising to the professionals.

Keep the rubber side down and enjoy the ride. We ain't going nowhere without you!
-fonz {MO's only cheerleader today.}

Happy Birthday to the Color Blue

A lovely and confused young girl's blog turned one year old today, happy birthday to the blues and rainbows in her mind!



{Another old post I know, sorry folks}

It's Elemental

Perhaps it's better to say that I'm elemental to your projects. As a commercial photographer, I've come to need a brand & logo. I've wanted one for years, always wanting to play on my initials and their parallel to the Associated Press. Thusly the apwired moniker began when I worked at the Times Leader way back in '94 or '95.

Since that time, I've changed industries a few times, as well as nicknames. When 'fonzie' reared it's head again (after we parted ways in junior high), the Fonz became an indispensable item around the Motorcycle.com office. I began to realize that's where I belong. Growing out of the baby shoes of MO and now learning to stumble around in the big boys' shoes, I need to assume the identity and position of an authority in my field. Rising above indispensable, I've become elemental to getting the job done... whomever I work for. Add one periodic table of elements to one photographic reference to f-stops and my icon is born. I hope you dig it as much as I do! :)

Viral Infection