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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #396 - Heated Waves
03.29.17
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.
Organized by user nathansnider and user theroyalacademy.
It meets every Wednesday at 8:30pm
at California Donuts #21.
We ride at 9pm.
While we endeavor to return before the last red line trains (around midnight),
it is generally not possible. Please plan accordingly.
On this bike ride, you might expect:
- inconvenient passageways
- oblique strategies
- Oulipian constraints
- disorientation
- reorientation
- “cover” versions of other people’s rides, performed with amateurish enthusiasm
- amateurish enthusiasm
- playgrounds, pool halls, bowling alleys, karaoke
- geocaching
- full moon picnics
- traffic median tea parties
- rivers that no longer exist
- smell tourism
- Couchwick v2.0
Furthermore:
- usually 20-35 miles
- usually some hills
- a medium pace (probably not for beginners; certainly not a hustle)
- few stops, short stops
- but we’re not in a rush; we don’t need to run every light
- victory donuts!
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This week:
Heated Waves
Forget wind or the sun, the energy of the future is locked up in coal, apparently. Yes, the mine doors are reopening, friends. The furnaces are firing back up. And so what if the planet heats up a bit? Aren't we trying to stay warm anyway? Really, who wants to wear their mittens when we can just turn up the thermostat on the whole dern planet? And we'll have nice, toasty oceans once all that pesky polar ice melts. The water level will be higher, reach further inland. We'll all live closer to the beach! How lovely!
So this week on the ride we treat ourselves to a little preview of that idyllic America to come, warm and wonderful, an America great once again.
(30 miles; flat & paved; a large dose of sarcasm, apparently)
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For more information about past rides, visit our website:
ThePassageRide.com
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thepassageride.tumblr.com
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Those who believe that the particulars of the problem are permanent
want in fact to believe in the permanence of the present society.
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