Damiano! M’man!

So that’s it — barring accident or the most tremendous bonk in the history of the sport, and despite his struggles uncorking the champagne bottles, 22-year-old Damiano Cunego of the Saeco team will be this year’s winner of the Giro d’Italia, having raced brilliantly throughout the 20 days.

But if you tune out whenever I mention cycling (and I blame you not in the least), you can always just look at the Saeco macchines per caffe. Cycling attracts some odd sponsors, but I think the winner for oddness this year is probably De Nardi, a leading maker of metal garage doors. Fassa Bortolo makes cement, which puts it in a certain ironic position in sponsoring one of the fastest sprinters alive, Alessandro Petacchi.

The weekend has been less than stellar, weatherwise. It was cold yesterday, though there was sun, and it was dropping down into the ’40s last night, so we had to bag plans for the drive-in, or at least postpone them until tonight. We let the kids stay up and watch the tape of the Giro with us, then once they were put away we watched “Bubba Ho-Tep,” which was fine but nowhere near the screaming laugh-fest some people have made it out to be. Think of it as quietly absurd, and it’s quite enjoyable.

What happened to the photography thing? Well, I’ve just been busy, busy, busy. Hopefully I’ll have some new stuff at Fotolog soon.