View From the Bushes

On Saturday the Tour de France kicks off with a prologue that begins at the base of the Eiffel Tower. Perhaps more importantly We'll be releasing another adventure. I'll probably talk more about it later, but the title is "Atonement". It concerns a paladin's fall from grace and his attempt to return into the good graces of his god. I think you'll like it, I don't know if I've seen anything quite like it, at least not recently.

In any case that's still a couple of days away, and even though no one else seems to have any interest for the subject I'm going to continue talking about the Tour. As you may or may not know this is the hundredth anniversary of the Tour (though only the 90th time, since it was not held during the world wars). As such it's going through the six cities that the Tour stopped in in 1903. Back then stages were much longer and the cyclist would ride through the night.

Due to quite a bit of hubris on my part I was forced to choose who I thought would end up on the podium this year. My picks were Armstrong, Beloki and Hamilton. Armstrong was an easy pick and based on some betting sites I checked out Beloki seemed to be universally acknowledged as the second favorite. After that it got muddled and picking Hamilton was tough. There are a lot of great cyclists out there, and the other podium spot may go to some complete unknown, that's sort of what Rumsas was, though it looks like he may have had some pharmaceutical help.