The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #33 - Trouble Till the Robins Come
02.10.10
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. Enormous hills.
- Few stops; short stops.
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This week:
Trouble till the robins come
Yes, that's right; the David Lynch ride is here!
We will see David Lynch's house. We will visit shooting locations from Lost Highway, Inland Empire, Eraserhead, and that other movie - you know, the one that's, like, named after a street or something? We will explore the dark underbelly of the city and the human psyche. Yes, all that and the best damned panoramic views of this city you will ever see.
This was advertised as an insane leg-destroying killer hills ride. It is now merely a crazy leg-straining monster hills ride. But even now, with 40% less climbing than advertised in the trailer, at some point you will surely find your legs asking "Why are there people like Frank? Why is there so much trouble in the world?" The answers may not be easy, but trust that the robins will come.
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