The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #63 - Forks and Bob Hope
09.8.10
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).
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
- karaoke
- geocaching
- oblique strategies
- Oulipian constraints
- traffic median tea parties
- rivers that no longer exist
- smell tourism
- Couchwick v2.0
Furthermore:
- usually 20-30 miles
- a medium pace (maybe 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:
Forks and Bob Hope
It's a confusing world. We are bombarded with thousands of images and messages
and bits of information everyday. Television, radio, movies, magazines, newspapers,
books, billboards, posters, flyers, the internet. Whole industries exist just to help us
sort through and make sense of it all. Many industries. So, when people tell us that
they like our ride descriptions yet can rarely tell what we're actually getting at, what
it all means, well, one has to wonder if we're not doing our audience a disservice, if
we're not just adding to the information overload. The world is difficult enough as it is.
People are overwhelmed; they've had too much. Is a little clarity too much to ask?
No. No, it is not. So this week: a little clarity. This week's ride is called: "Forks and
Bob Hope." On this week's ride you can expect: forks and Bob Hope.
You're welcome.
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When you come to a fork in the road, take it
Certain shifting angles,
certain receding perspectives.
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