{"id":573899155,"date":"2026-06-30T20:09:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T00:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573899155"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:21:24","slug":"everything-about-this-post-is-a-classic-even-the-cliches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/06\/30\/everything-about-this-post-is-a-classic-even-the-cliches\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything about this post is a classic, even the cliches"},"content":{"rendered":"

I rode my 25-mile time trial route today. This is the 13th time I’ve done this route, and that doesn’t matter. My time today was right in the middle of the 13 times, and that doesn’t matter. Top half by 16 seconds, and that doesn’t mean anything. It could have been the wind or a little better fueling or I just sat up a few seconds earlier on one day than the other. It doesn’t matter. <\/p>\n

Maybe I took one less photograph this day than that slightly slower day that separates the two halves of the sample. <\/p>\n

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That’s about halfway through the route. I just like the way the road dips into those trees, how they carve a bit of darkness out of the brightness of day. Each time I’m on that road I imagine the next little bit to be something like spelunking on wheels, but it’s just a patch of trees, a good canopy that will soon open back up to the sky. Too soon, on some days, like today. <\/p>\n

It is official, heat is hot, and right now heat is bad. Also, it’s going to get hotter. <\/p>\n

When your skin is under siege — and urushiol is a siege — heat isn’t especially pleasant. The cab of this tractor is air conditioned. <\/p>\n

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My bicycle is not. But maybe if I’d gone faster? Maybe if today’s ride had found its way to the top of the spreadsheet. <\/p>\n

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May as well start digging out from this stack of CDs I’m under. I was doing something here I called the Re-Listening Project, where I was playing all of my old CDs in the order of their acquisition. More or less. When last we did this I was in a batch of CDs that replaced some that had been stolen. It’s a weird bit of decades old nonsense that serves only to confuse me for something that only interests me, but, hey, my name is at the top of the site. Also, I’m probably way behind in this little effort which, again, is a singular indulgence. The point was to put a few songs from each disc here, maybe think up something interesting about them. This never was a review, because no one needs more of those.<\/p>\n

At this point, I’m just trying to take some discs out of the Re-Listen To Do pile and put them back in the old books. It’s a big stack. <\/p>\n

Daylight was Duncan Sheik’s third studio album. (He’s up to nine, now.) It was released in 2002, and I probably bought this soon after. (Shame on me for not clearly remembering that detail.)<\/p>\n

This was a single, and found its way into a movie, a teen comedy few remember. <\/p>\n