Monday, January 13, 2025

Check Your Head

 


Mongo was sitting around the other day bemoaning my situation. What my situation was, was being snowbound for approximately thirty six hours in my home in an undisclosed southern state as an Arctic Polar, Nino, Vortex brought the icy tears of Winter. It turned out okay for Mongo because I prepared ahead of time and thankfully had enough milk, bread, eggs and plywood.

Anyway, after sitting around for a while and doing the rounds of my usual websites, I decided to move on from the porn and think about my blog... Why am I still doing this? What is my motivation? Is there any cohesive theme? Has it become boring? Do I Care? Does anyone care? Should I care that no one cares? What's with all the depressing and self-important shit? Has this blog just become my therapist?

My former life partner and best buddy, Snacks McGee, used to be all the therapy Mongo needed, but since he moved upstate after eighteen glorious years I have turned to my once lighthearted and witty blog into my personal ayahuasca trip of self reflection while balancing the perceptions of my external and internal worth. (54 word sentence, btw) That shit get's tired and old if not doled out in moderation. Both for the writer and the reader. So...here's the deal.

Mongo, from this day forward, will not purposefully post half-ass shit and keep the boo-hoo personal stuff to a minimum. Let's see where this trip takes us.



Thursday, January 9, 2025

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Melancholy Baby: Haiku






A crack in the door
Moments of regret seep through
A life left behind


Saturday, January 4, 2025

Shady's Back


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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Well...Here We Are


 As you all know, this is Mongo's sixty fifth year as a highfalutin, award adjacent, cycling connoisseur. I've played this game since the days of down-tube shifters, misogyny, and amphetamines.

 Where have you gone, Miguel Indurain?...The Keyser Soze of cycling.

 My final prediction of Pogacar as World Champion sealed a solid season for Mongo and I should have just walked away then and enjoyed more time with my lady on the trails...if you know what I mean. Instead, I'm closing out 2024 with an unnecessary post. 

 Also, I tripled my posts from last year and I honestly am feeling like the 2025 season will be a big opportunity for me to show the world that 2024 was no fluke. Whispers behind the scenes are hinting at a push for twenty. 

 Let's all move forward into 2025 with champagne wishes and caviar dreams and see what we can find.


Tuesday, September 10, 2024

The Finishing: Prediction Sure To Go Wrong



 First of all, let me say that I've always believed that an athlete should never lose their position due to injury. Therefore, Wout Van Asphalt will remain as Mongo's "Guy" going into the 2025 season.

You may be saying to yourself that with three wins in the Vuelta a Espana shouldn't his position be unquestioned? Well...no!

Let's keep it "a hunned"...There is better competition in an unsanctioned, Cat 4 alley cat scramble. The Vuelta is the Florida of Grand Tours. Has beens, wannabees, dopers, old guys, young guys, domestiques looking for their chance at glory...it has it all. If any Tour de France level winner shows up, no one else has a shot. Otherwise, it's like a Saturday night at Club Juana in Orlando...anything is possible.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: PREDICTION

"TADEJ POGACAR"



Tuesday, August 13, 2024

W.W.R.G.D ?..."I'm A Worm Y'all"








A lifetime of lifetimes but a child once again

Beginning a journey with no destination

Wisdom from our youth is the foundation of forever

Walk with me and let me grow old in your eyes




Sunday, August 11, 2024

The Oracle Of Delphi...Car Stereos


 



So... Mongo has been on Summer hiatus.

I know Van der Poel won E3 Saxo, Flanders, and Paris -Roubaix along with the Cyclocross World Championship. (The Road WC is still to come)

I know Tadej Pogacar won the Giro and Tour de France in dominating fashion.

All of these results were predicted by Mongodamus long before any of the injuries and races happened...February 1st, 2024... "Here

Also...

After much speculation amongst the masses about his status, considering the mediocre results of the year thus far, Mongo has decided to put Wout Van Aert on double secret probation and re-evaluate after the Vuelta on his "My Guy" position moving forward.


Thursday, May 9, 2024

Golf And Alabama: Haiku



 Lost two friends this year

Both left imprints on my life

For Johnny and Mike