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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #74 - The Feast of Saint Gobblicus

11.24.10

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

Furthermore:
- A medium pace (maybe not for beginners; certainly not a hustle)
- We're not in a rush; we don't need to run every light.
- relatively short this week; small hills
- Victory donuts!
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This week:

The Feast of Saint Gobblicus



You've heard of Saint Gobblicus's Eve, right? You know: as Halloween is to All Saints' Day, as Fat Tuesday is to Ash Wednesday, so is Saint Gobblicus's Eve to Thanksgiving? Yes indeed, that's the one. The central activity of this long-neglected New World holiday is the Feast, in which the existing hierarchies are overturned, and the traditional Thanksgiving foods are replaced by their opposites, in the spirit of Saint Gobblicus's opposition to including turkeys* in the traditional harvest-season banquet.

Each feast participant contributes some anti-Thanksgiving food or drink item to the feast, and they are given wide leeway in their interpretation of Saint Gobblicus's "opposite" requirement. Let us say, for instance, that you want to bring the opposite of turkey to this feast. Well, since you know that Turkey is currently at odds with Kurdish separatists over disputed territories, you could bring some Kurds. Or rather... curds? Boom. Done! The opposite of cranberry sauce? Evil cranberry sauce**, obviously! Some have even gone so far as to bring nothing at all, reasoning that the opposite of "food" is "no food," though this is a radically unconventional interpretation. You might think that pumpkin pie would be disallowed under the feast rules, but NO. Pumpkin pie is always appropriate! We're just, you know, putting that out there... Thermoses full of warm beverages are also a spectacular idea for all occasions where it's frigging cold outside.

Tonight's route will be short, with stops for feasting. There are a couple hills, but they are very short. On one of them, you will probably walk, but it goes somewhere worthwhile. Trust us on that one.

*Saint Gobblicus was himself a Thanksgiving turkey (the very first Thanksgiving turkey, in fact), and though he remains unrecognized by canonical authorities to this day, there is a growing movement afoot lobbying for his beatification.

**Evil cranberry sauce is just cranberry sauce with a goatee.

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