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Today I’m listening to an older album (1990) by an English band called the La’s. They were famous for about ten minutes that year for a song called “There She Goes”. (You have probably heard a butchered version covered by some other band a few years back.) I came into the album from my best friend Stas’s brother Chris, who had gotten it from somewhere and disliked it (he was deep in a Metallica phase, I think) and he gave it to me. I put it aside for the summer, being deep in a metal phase myself, and picked it up that fall—perfect timing for a melancholy season leading into winter in Baltimore. Think of good Sixties harmonies, catchy riffs, and acoustic guitars in a Beatles vibe, totally separate from the Manchester sound pouring out of Britain that same year.

I just read that Cannondale, the esteemed company that built my mountain bike, is filing for voluntary Chapter 11. While their bicycle business is making a profit (barely), the motorsports division took a 7mil loss last year. The bicycle division will continue as usual, but the motorsports division may get sold off.

I’m going to attempt to get Kung-Tunes working on this page. Stay tuned.