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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #58 - Influence Pedaling
08.4.10
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.
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).
See how we move.
On the second 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 (really, we're going to get to this)
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.
- A little over 30 miles this week.
- Nepotism, kickbacks, trivia.
- Victory donuts!
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This week:
Influence Pedaling
They say you can't fight city hall, they say.
They say that you'll never win, that the game is rigged, that you're spitting into the wind. You and Sisyphus, they say; you and the hungry ghosts, driven by the unattainable.
Oh, but you've got a plan.
The thing is, they're everywhere, these corrupt little fiefdoms, and none of them can be allowed to stand. The way to do this, you've decided, is to go after them all, not one or two at a time, but eight city halls, all in one go - setting 'em up and knocking 'em down, like Popeye.
Yeah, that's right: you're going to visit each and every one of those city halls tonight. On your bicycle. That'll show them.
No one ever suspects the cyclists.
It's a little over 30 miles again this week. Eat yer spinach.
(and join the mailing list!)
The promised land of syntheses...
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