The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #371: Gone to Seed
09.28.16
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:
Gone to Seed
Call us lazy if you want. Sure, we've used some version of this ride idea multiple times by now, and maybe it is
a bit past its prime. But before you start judging us, saying "whoa, Passage, you've really let yourself go,"
consider for a moment that the ride may not be going to seed in quite that way--that is to say, not like person
slowly letting their hair grow ragged while their waistband expands inch-by-inch, but rather like a plant
dispersing in the wind, springing up again and again in new locations. Yes, more like that.
Talk, talk, talk...
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(and our tumblr!)
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The hacienda must be built.
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