Riding to the Alabama DicE party right now!

Coming soon...

...nicks shovelhead.

Drum Wolf...

...got a new kit.

Haint it for ya.

Dixie, scott and the trike

Brian Segal retiring as president and CEO of Rogers Publishing

Brian Segal, the President and CEO of Rogers Publishing Limited, will be retiring at the end of August, staff were told today in a memorandum from Keith Pelley, the president of Rogers Media. The memorandum described Segal's career as "nothing short of spectacular".Fresh off being the president of the University of Guelph and, before that, president of Ryerson University (1980-88), Segal joined

Photographer Alex Waterhouse-Hayward honoured for lifetime achievement by Western Magazine Awards

 Jan/Feb 2011 Vancouver magazine
The Western Magazine Awards has announced that its 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award winner is to be presented to Vancouver-based photographer, writer and artist Alex Waterhouse-Hayward."When one considers the range, depth and quality of his magazine photography, which is his overriding passion, and his persistent involvement in the industry since its formative

Vancouver magazine receives 23 nominations for Western Magazine Awards

Vancouver magazine has been nominated 23 times for the Western magazine awards. Among the other leading in nominations were Swerve magazine, a supplement to the Calgary Herald with 15, BC Business with 12, Western Living/Western Living Condo with 9 combined and Vancouver Review with 8.
A full list of nominees is available.  The winners will be announced at the 29th Annual Western Magazine Awards

Canada's History magazine wins three "Maggies" in Manitoba magazine competition

[This post has been updated] Canada's History magazine won three times in the third annual "Maggie" awards which wrapped up the annual conference of the Manitoba Magazine Publishers Association. The history title, published by Canada's National History Society in Winnipeg won as consumer magazine of the year, for best editorial package for its feature "Shell Shock" and best non-fiction feature

Back Piece

Sebastian from Reb Tattoo in Sweden did this.

Testing, Testing One Two, Testing One Two

Paulo, it works great bruv, lots of thanks mate.

'69 Eldo

This is for sale, I saw it the other day. One owner from new. 120,00 miles, everything works and it drives and stops great. Great paint, straight body etc etc. It does need a new exhaust. $5k but I reckon you could beat him down on the price to quite a bit lower. Damn, now I really wish I had some mollah.

R&P

The new issue of Rolls & Pleats is out and its a corker!! This is put out by our good friend Jerry. If you like traditional Hot Rods and Kustoms, this is the magazine for you.

Equation

So quite a lot of people have said to us
"You two travel all over and have parties, how can you afford to do that?"
and
"I bought a T shirt off your website last week so that you guys can travel all over and have a good time"
and
"Who the hell is Dr Glory?"

Let me try and explain how it all works, it's actually quite simple. We pick a city, or a reader will suggest one for us. We then get a reader/friend who lives there to find us a venue. Usually a bar. Normally we get the place for free because the amount of drinks they sell on that one night pays their bills for months to come. Then there's organising bands, djs, PA,s etc. whose services are usually donated free also. We book our flights and hotel and ship all the mags out by post. Me and Dean pack a large suitcase each with as much Dice merch as we can fit keeping them under 50lbs in weight. We fly in and set up a booth at the party. 9 times out of 10 we can earn just enough wonga on the booth to cover the costs of the flights and hopefully some of the hotel bill too. Some cities are more expensive to visit than others but at the end of the year when we work it all out we usually break even or are only out of pocket by a small amount.
So there you have it, jobs a good'un.
The whole point of these parties from the very beginning was to come to a town and meet all the friends we have made through the magazine but have only spoken to via email. And to get like minded people together who may have never met but live in the same part of the country. And get to look at some great bikes. And to have a fantastic time. All this whole worldwide motorcycle thing that is going on these days really sort of feels like one big family to us. Of course it is good publicity for Dice, however that is, and never was, our main agenda. See you at the next one.
p.s. Dr Glory is an idiot

Reprobates

Tornados And All That

Man that was one huge twister out there in Alabama. The tv images are crazy. We really hope everyone is ok.

On a lighter note though, check out the weather for this weekends Dixie Roundup at Larrys Garage Company Customs and our Dice party, both taking place in Birmingham. Its going to be warm, sunny and awesome.

Quote, unquote: That sinking feeling

"It was very similar to when my parents got divorced. My parents always got along really well, and then one day my mother called me aside and I just knew what she was going to say. And this was the same thing. "I had heard rumors about Domino, but it really was successful. Its newsstands sales were up when everyone else's were down or flat; it was growing and had all this consumer

So, mmmm...

...like I said, Justin is skating again after a 20 year absence.

Although he did manage to break his wrist about 10 minutes after this picture was taken.

Belgium

Canadian Society of Magazine Editors' luncheon about getting sh*t done

We presume that the pressure to get things done still allows time for lunch. The Canadian Society of  Magazine Editors (CSME) is holding one of its periodic Toronto lunches, this time with the topic Be a Task Master: Take control of your priorities and get sh*t done.Presenters are time-management expert Steve Prentice and This Magazine editor-in-chief Graham Scott discussing organizational

Jared Bland, ME of The Walrus, to join publisher House of Anansi

Fresh off the launch of an anthology he edited for the benefit of PEN Canada, Jared Bland, the managing editor of The Walrus, is leaving to join the publishing firm House of Anansi. He'll leave a big gap in the front line of The Walrus, having played a key role in managing the publication and overseen the fiction, poetry and arts and culture sections of the magazine. He also blogged regularly for

Bikes of the Speedfest Pt:4

Evo sporty built by Mad Crow. Los Carnales siempre loco, Barcelona.

Conartism

Our good friend Conrad Leach is a great artist (issue 6 cover) and the proud owner of many hair products and a spare tyre. He has just finished up 4 tasty wallpapers that you can download from the BikeExif website.

Cal. Proud.

Our friends over at The Evil Goods have made a limited run of these California skate decks...They are brilliant!!

Wonga.

This is a 500 Euro note. In Europe this is known as the 'The Bin Laden' because sightings are extremely rare. Try spending one of these fuckers, it's impossible. At least 4 people went running for the hills when we flashed this bad boy.

Mr Monk

has landed and is fine tuning his bike for the ride down to Mexico next week on the El Diablo.

Wes And His Bike

are in town for a month.



It would be rude not go for a ride then, even if it was just up the road.

Saltscapes restaurant venture to be first in an Atlantic Canadian chain

Just catching up with a recent article about the up-and-running Saltscapes restaurant and general store in Truro, Nova Scotia named after the magazine. Our recent post was short on details, so here's more about this very interesting extension of the nimble, ambitious publishing operation. Co-publisher Jim Gourlay told the Chronicle-Herald in Halifax that the transition into sectors besides

A river, a flood, a tidal wave of information

Information over the web has grown more than 50% today, compared with a year ago, according to a new survey by Magnify.net,  reported by MediaPost. The sheer volume is partly the result of always being "on" and partly the result of proliferating numbers of devices and services. (In a paradoxical way, this may work to the advantage of magazine editors and publishers who curate, filter and package

Cro@Cro

Cro Customs for Born Free 3
Caleb is and has been for many years now one of my best buds. Michael's video I think sums up Caleb's calm personality and great bike building skills all in 1 minute and 10 seconds. Peace, love, dope.

Shane

"My name is Shane Taylor from Boise ID.
Just got my bike back after having to sell it 10 years ago.
Please check it out.
Thanks for the great Magazine"
Shane

Great bike, many thanks mate. Coming soon.



Shane: So you're Jack Wilson.
Jack Wilson: What's that mean to you, Shane?
Shane: I've heard about you.
Jack Wilson: What have you heard, Shane?
Shane: I've heard that you're a low-down Yankee liar.
Jack Wilson: Prove it.

and

Shane: There's no living with a killing. There's no goin' back from one. Right or wrong, it's a brand... a brand sticks. There's no goin' back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her... tell her everything's alright. And there aren't any more guns in the valley.

Friday 13th.

Brat Style

I LOVE this bike.

Quote, unquote: the fall of the perfect marriage of image and word

"A year or so before he died, Jay Chiat, who did as much as anyone to make television the coolest advertising medium, was baiting me about the hopelessness of magazines. He argued that the problem with magazine people is that they all really wanted to be movie and television people and so had turned magazines into a swamp of images, which made it impossible to have an ad stand out. We’d

Pancho 2011

Mental.

WS @ CM.

Had a great night with Wes Lang, Zoe and some friends last week in Wes' room at Chateau Marmont.