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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #367: Dislocation
08.31.16
One or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations,
their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the
encounters they find there.
It's a bike ride.
Started by user nathansnider and user theroyalacademy.
It meets every Wednesday at 8:30pm at California Donuts #21.
We ride at 9pm.
On the seventh year of this bike ride, you might expect:
- more inconvenient passageways
- more full moon picnics
- perhaps more "cover" versions of other people's rides, performed with amateurish enthusiasm
- certainly more amateurish enthusiasm
- disorientation
- reorientation
- pool halls
- bowling alleys
- dance parties
- karaoke
- imaginary histories
- scavenging for fun and sustenance
- more geocaching
- more oblique strategies
- more Oulipian constraints
- traffic median tea parties
Furthermore:
- A medium pace (maybe not for beginners; certainly not a hustle)
- We're not in a rush; we don't need to run every light.
- Maybe some distance;maybe some hills
- Victory donuts!
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This week:
Dislocation
Though we may speak of the L.A. street grid as a unified whole, there are of course many grids, each grown
from some unique set of considerations (topographic, cadastral, or simply accidental), all mashed together at
odd angles.
Even if the driving factors behind these grids are now invisible to us, they still exert a force upon us, at the
boundaries, as we move through them. The shifting orientations may thwart us (or aid us) as we try to get from
place to place. But what if we are not so concerned with getting from place to place? What if we respect their
invisible borders and simply let the edges carry us where they may? This week, we do just that, tracing the
various boundaries and dislocations within the city's many grids.
(25 miles; pretty flat)
Talk, talk, talk...
Check out our web site!
(and our tumblr!)
(and join the mailing list!)
The hacienda must be built.
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