Sweet Vibrations Rants and Raves

I think the best course of action would be to put an add on craigslist to sell off the other 50 weeks in the year to out-of-state yacht-clubbers who can’t relax even when they’re paying through the nose to do it, and presumably on their way out to a brothel with a three day Fanzia buzz. (seriously, why else would you be heading to Carson City?)

-M

I meant Franzia, the worlds most popular wine of course.

-M

Every bike looks the damn same, I don’t care which TV mook built it. Every biker dresses the same. They all wear the same helmet. These are 60,000 very original fucking people we’re dealing with here. Satan’s Toady’s and Hells Angels can kiss my ass. They haven’t been shit since Altamont, when they killed that negro with the gun. I like nothing about the whole Street Closures festival. Loud pipes are a form of pollution. Fuck you, bikers.

on the plus side, some of those biker dads are kinda hot.

Hmmm….the Corporate in me says who cares as long as it brings money into the city and keeps it on the maps of visitors, while the Reno-ite in me says ‘Have some freakin respect for the locals and don’t rev up your overly unnecessarily loud contraption within 10 feet of my ear as I walk by!’ It’s not pleasant to hear, especially when it’s out of the event-zone downtown.

am off to the Bay Area. Will see a football game at Stanford (and their new stadium)!
best weekend to leave town!

Oh come on! According to last year’s Sparks Tribune, Street Vibration was expected to bring in $67 million in tourism dollars. I can remember when our city was worried about getting conventions and tourist here if gaming became legal in other States.

We’re talking loud bikes, a pain to get around and Virginia Street being closed. I can think of other events with loud cars revving their motors, roads congested and closed.

Open your minds, oh my god…..meth, brothels, stereotyping…………that goes for just about every group that comes to town.

We met some wonderful people last night from all over the country that love this event in Reno. It it was $67 million last year, I can only imagine what it will be like this year.

Every year we have a Biker Death Pool- Guess the number of biker deaths in the area this weekend.
It all started after the guy FELL OFF the W McCarran bridge and hit his head on the BOTTOM of the Truckee river. Although he was wearing a helmet, he was racing and druck at 1am. DArwin Award winner I am sure. However, every year the biker community builds him a freaking shire and sparypaints on the bridge where he took the plunge. Apparantly, he is their Idol. After that we started taking bets. I have 4 this year-kinda high but it is goinfto rain.

wow, zeke — that’s cold.

I like Street Vibrations a lot. Sure, there have been a couple incidents involving drinking and bikers where my dignity was harmed. Also, once I got accidentally punched. But that’s what makes it fun to drink with them.
Previous years, they infested the town and driving on the freeway was totally nerve wrecking for me, with them swarming everywhere around. But this year I didn’t even notice it! It’s like they kept to themselves downtown.
To me, this is an event that you can easily avoid if it doesn’t interest you, but if it does, it’s super fun to walk around downtown and see all the bikers and craziness and chaps with thongs and booze and cleavage. Unlike HAN which is really hard to avoid. Also, with that pollution thing? Come on, those bikes are still way better than the HAN cars! And they take up hardly any space. I know someone with a corvette they drove during Hot August Nights and they got 5 miles to the gallon and they just drove and revved and drove and revved all week.
But I’ve lived downtown for like 3 or 4 seasons of it, and I am never bothered by night noises, like the consistent engine revving thing. Probably if I were a light sleeper, or square, it would bother me, but I wouldn’t live downtown.

1) The fact that it rained may be proof of grace or God or the Goddess or a Great Spirit or Great Pumpkin or something. It may not be the case that this thing is going to go on indefinitely if divine justice stays involved. Next year there might be a freak ice storm.
2) It would be nice if the city was out there with their stupid sound measurement equipment the same as with the Holland Project. I mean, the kids try to have an all ages club by the friggin RR tracks and get shut down by one guy, and meanwhile the city is invaded with mal-engineered machines specifically designed to disturb the peace and make children cry, driven by thugs and people who want desperately to look like thugs, and the best we can do is talk about the tax revenue.
3) In the language of economics, we have a serious externality problem — that is, the costs imposed on the populous are not being borne by the folks who are profiting. The solution is simple. All the businesses that make significant profits off of this public nuisance should be heavily taxed for the weekend, with the revenue shifted to the rest of us to pay for our 1) earplugs, and 2) trips out of town (to Tahoe or wherever.) Also, we all need calendars so we remember when to pack up and leave. Those who want to stay could use the rolling thunder tax money for meth, bail, tricks or a t-shirt that says “I’m not a square or yuppie. Really.”
4) In the meantime, I expect more divine intervention and retribution. I’m praying to the pantheon and payback’s a bitch.