Thornton whoring around

[YellowDuck]

Anyone read Thornton's article in the latest issue, about a motorcycle trip to a house of ill-repute, while being drunk most of the journey? It was depressing as hell, like watching Leaving Las Vegas. If even half of it is true then I am very sad for the man. It's not like I am a prude or anything...I am just really put off by self destructive behaviour. I see a 20-year-old smoking a cigarette and I want to go up and slap him. Between this and the rode rage / punched in the face thing a few months back, it just seems like Steve has a crap life - too many worthless anxieties.

Most of the people contributing to Readers Write this month seem pleased as punch with the "motorcycling, not motorcycles" editorial direction of the magazine. Me, I am finding Inside Motorcycles more and more attractive...and bloody Costa writes for that.

:(

[KZDon]

Between the circle jerk that is readers write and Steve's article and erections, LC Media better spring for some absorbent towels this month.

The Ninja 400 article and pictures were good, anyway.

I'm halfway through Steve's article - getting back to the office got in the way of finishing. It reminds me a little of Mark Richardson's recent book on following Pirsig's trail across the US, which, unlike Zen and the Art, was an exercise in excorcising depression (as I haven't yet finished Thornton's article, I don't know yet if that's what he did as well).

Richardson at least dug himself out of it by the end of the book (and I enjoyed the book as a whole) but getting drunk with a 20 something in some lost, mid-west bar, then waking up next to her, all the while thinking about how you're avoiding your wife but going to reconcile with her, if you're going to reconcile with her and deal with your young children, is about as low as it goes. Interestingly, at the end of the book Richardson talked about reconnecting with the 20 something and learning that she had been suffering a mental-health crisis at the time of their drunk night out.

I'll reserve judgement until I finish Thornton's article, but I can foresee something, um, interesting, just by reading the bolded outtakes.

[kml]

Great story, I loved it.

cheers
ken

[Caper]

I liked it as well and I never once wondering what the torque or horsepower numbers were on his FJ.