The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: #32 - Your Name in Lights
02.3.10
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.
It's a WEDNESDAY NIGHT bike ride.
Started by user nathansnider and user theroyalacademy.
It meets every WEDNESDAY at 8:30pm at California Donuts #21.
We ride at 9pm.
We'll endeavor to return before the last red line trains (around midnight).
On this bike ride, you might expect:
- full moon picnics
- inconvenient passageways
- "cover" versions of other people's rides, performed with amateurish enthusiasm
- amateurish enthusiasm
- disorientation
- reorientation
- pool halls
- bowling alleys
- dance parties
- karaoke
- geocaching
- oblique strategies
- Oulipian constraints
- traffic median tea parties
- rivers that no longer exist
- smell tourism
- Couchwick v2.0
Furthermore:
- A medium pace (maybe not for beginners; certainly not a hustle)
- But we're not in a rush; we don't need to run every light.
- About 20 miles.
- Few stops; short stops.
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This week:
Your Name in Lights
The currents! They are flowing all around us, bringing us light!
Through the streetlights, the neon signs, the animated billboards and the headlamps, the currents flow. The currents, indeed, are flowing through you, as you think, as you move, as you read these words. And the words themselves exist only by virtue of the currents that sustain them: signals stored, retrieved, encoded, modulated, transmitted, received, convolved, decoded and stored once more, all thanks to the currents and their motive force.
The currents, moving through cathodes, diodes and liquid crystal, trace out the contours of the words and letters now upon your screen. The currents, moving through the flickering hotel sign, trace out its name, shining now in your mind, bright as neon.
So... perhaps you'd like to venture out and put all those fancy-pants currents to use? Perhaps on a bike ride, hmm? Perhaps get all "meta" with it and channel those currents of yours to go out and see all the other currents at work around the city? Perhaps finally ditch this strained premise and just hit the streets already? Why, that's a brilliant idea - let's do it!
But just remember: you must use the currents for good, not for evil; The People will suffer if you use the currents for evil...
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