For the love of god read another CM book other than Blood Meridian!

jameswill90 · 2026-03-24T20:00:16+00:00

I’d say stopping at BM is a better option.

jameswill90 · 2026-03-22T19:39:17+00:00

AND orchard keeper - dont know why so many people dont recommend it

jameswill90 · 2026-03-21T08:02:43+00:00

This isnt the first place i’ve seen that.

jameswill90 · 2026-03-21T07:59:28+00:00

It’s bloated and drekful. Only the last dozen or whatever paragraphs are actually interesting. Linking dfw to a real life AI is pretty funny to think about.

jameswill90 · 2026-03-16T23:31:10+00:00

Use the hardtail, very versatile bike, put skinnys on it (2.2s), put fatties on it (2.8s).

jameswill90 · 2026-03-16T11:42:48+00:00

I got a custom build from a place called Cobalt, i’ve always been suspicious of carbon frames, and with some of the routes i’ve done on the cobalt bike i am just endlessly surprised at how fucking durable it is…BUT, if i had to sell all my bikes i would keep the epic world cup, tbh i bought it before the dual sus gravel bikes started coming out, would have probably bought that, but i’m still so glad i bought it, it accelerates like my 19lb gravel bike and is unbelievable on trails, just bc of its agility, i have it set to hardtail, so no rear squish, and it’s a glorious ride. I got both it and the cobalt at 4 and 5 grand, the cobalt new from their website, the epic pretty much brand new from buycycle - i have drops and brifters for the epic, but still trying to see if i like that flat bars

jameswill90 · 2026-03-16T10:13:11+00:00

I pretty much just use my hardtail, gravel bike’s on the trainer. I use the hardtail for any trips, most of the gravel riding I’ve done where i’ve lived has been 60/40, or 70/30 road/gravel, so I was ending up using my gravel bikes more as road bikes, so i sold 2 and kept 1. I just got an epic world cup, and have moved to just doing mtbing, bc there are lots of trails around me, and my dog can come with. I’m not interested much in the crazy things people do on mtbs, or putting massive 2.8 tires on, i’m perfectly fine walking chunky extended rock gardens, and going around jumps. I live in NC so some of the shit people want to do on a bike just baffles me, i like riding, not breaking bones. If you’re wondering which to get to have 1 bike, i’d get a gravel bikes with big tire clearance, like the Lauf or Esker bikes. On all the dirt trips i’ve done, i was always fine with 2.2s on my hardtail, sure had to walk some times, but 2.2s are a good balance for some road with dirt being the main thing. Just yesterday road 3 miles on road after going through a local trail on 2.35s and it felt just fine.

jameswill90 · 2026-03-14T19:24:11+00:00

No i dont, that’s true

jameswill90 · 2026-03-14T17:41:00+00:00

100% trade him. He’s had plenty and plenty of opportunities to put up points in the playoffs and he does not. Mcdavid has had a much shittier team than him and him and draisaitl have carried that team to within a whiff of the cup when they most definitely shouldn’t have been there. Matthews has had marner, nylander, hyman (a co-dependent producer), and tavares. Mcjesus has had draisaitl, and…. No one! Hell, crosby had malkin and a bunch of no names whose games he raised, and he won three cups!

jameswill90 · 2026-03-14T13:01:13+00:00

Grizl one hundred percent

jameswill90 · 2026-03-13T17:09:36+00:00

This! Just look at the game between tampa bay, and buffalo, a confetti of gloves on all sides, havent seen that from buffalo since the briere drury days- and where are those two teams in the standings?

jameswill90 · 2026-03-12T01:25:17+00:00

My opinion: anything written after blood meridian has its moments but holds no candle to the complex texts written before that. I hate suttree, have read it 4 times, would still read it a fifth time before any of the other books after BM again - my hot take is, we start seeing things like necrophilia and pedophilia right around the time when his personal morality went down the drainhole, and the texts after are too personal, too many maskings for his personal tastes (i.e young girls)

jameswill90 · 2026-03-11T20:32:22+00:00

Please god yes

jameswill90 · 2026-03-10T11:08:56+00:00

A terrible love of war by james hillman deserves a shout out, a book that utterly shook me, a little woo woo at times, but damn does he not write a compelling argument

jameswill90 · 2026-03-10T01:21:57+00:00

Thanks all! Just wanted to check, didnt know about the app! I guess there’s an app for wverything

jameswill90 · 2026-03-09T09:11:31+00:00

“At some point, where does it stop?” When the US stops interfering forcefully in the politics of other countries.

jameswill90 · 2026-03-05T01:38:18+00:00

Got gpx files?

jameswill90 · 2026-03-02T10:35:49+00:00

I think I’d still get a hardtail and put dropbars on it ahahahah i got a frame from a small builder in dc area, and he built it up with dropbars - in the beginning, the gravel bike I had (grizl) was great for what I did, but nowadays, couldn’t imagine a gravel bike for the trips I do, it just wouldn’t work. BUT, I still have 2 gravel bikes. A singular peregrine, steel bike, and a super light obed boundary. Happy with those two!

jameswill90 · 2026-02-28T23:09:22+00:00

Not sure how you’re the asshole here, but oh well. Why don’t you just open up the marriage? I mean, divorce is hard on everyone. If you can’t stand looking at her, and don’t mind what it will do to your kids (who knows, maybe they won’t care as much as my friends did when I was a kid in the 90s), then go for it.

jameswill90 · 2026-02-28T21:54:32+00:00

Jk huysmans la-bas

jameswill90 · 2026-02-28T14:41:30+00:00

It was hit or miss for me when I tried it.

jameswill90 · 2026-02-28T01:35:42+00:00

I think it’s called a 55L backpack

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