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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #69 - Flying the Dread Zeppelin

10.20.10

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:

Flying the Dread Zeppelin

Usually cover bands are horrible. They butcher the lyrics. They can't
play their instruments. They look ridiculous. Or, worse, they do
everything too perfectly, sanding down the sharp edges of the music
in their slavish attempt to be even better than the real thing. Their
hair is too coifed. Their outfits too shiny. Their guitar solos too heroic.
There are no mistakes, is no mystery.

But sometimes, every so often, cover bands find a way to take classic
material and make it their own, to use it as an armature over which
they sculpt their own beautiful creation. Like maybe they are playing
British blues-rock, but in the style of reggae, with an Elvis impersonator
as their lead singer. For instance. That, right there, that becomes
something special.

This week, once again, we do a "cover" version of another ride with
our own brand of amateurish enthusiasm. It's not quite reggae, and
Nathan probably won't come dressed as Elvis (or will he?), but if
YOU'RE there, it will be special.

But which ride? Give the indeterminate nature of the weather forecast,
which ride we cover will also remain indeterminate until the last moment.

Here are the options:

1) If the weather is looking good and people are feeling like a ride, we
will do the most epic Chill Chinatown Mosey that I ever went on.

2) If it is looking a little iffy and people want to keep it close, in familiar
territory, we will do my VERY FIRST RIDE. It was a Ride-Arc.

3) If it is totally rainy and miserable, we will cover the ride where we
just grabbed some donuts and high-tailed it to Shatto Lanes for some
bowling and billiards. Not that that has ever happened before, exactly,
but I feel like we have had the INTENTION of doing that before. So
we'll be covering that feeling of an intention. In rented shoes.

Jah, man.

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Let's hope it does some good, as if we thought it could

Certain shifting angles,
certain receding perspectives.

Posted by theroyalacademy

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