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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #93 - Gondolier Awareness Week

04.13.11

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.
- 30-ish miles this week; pretty flat.
- Victory donuts!
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This week:

Gondolier Awareness Week



In the conventional wisdom of our globalized, multi-cultural age, it is said that only through exposure can we learn to understand and tolerate one another's differences.

So just as corporate and academic institutions have filled their brochures with uncannily diverse teams (nodding together thoughtfully at the presentation, leaping together victoriously with briefcases in hand, laughing together in the quad with unbridled joy), architects and urban planners seem inordinately fond of incorporating bicycles and bicyclists into their renderings (basket full of groceries, hair and dress flowing in the breeze as she rides through the plaza; bike racks nearly, but not quite, full; mother and child stopped responsibly at the intersection).

Photoshopped, fictionalized or merely staged, the message is always the same: bear witness to our diversity, which is evidence of our tolerance and therefore our goodness. These public relations products belie the fact that more often than not, this much-touted diversity is (to borrow a phrase) "more aspirational than operational," a mere gloss of diversity over an organizational core that remains as insular and as uniform as ever.

And can we cyclists really say that we are immune from this insularity? We are, let's face it, exposed to a very narrow range of the possible types of transportation - cars, bikes, maybe the occasional skateboard. Though bicycles remain an "alternative" mode of transportation by just about any measure, they are certainly not the only alternative. If we wish to bring about a truly multi-modal future of transportation tolerance and understanding, it behooves us to familiarize ourselves with some alternative alternative modes of transportation. Ask yourself: do the architects and urban planners ever think of the gondoliers when they are sketching up their idealized visions of public space? No. No, they do not.

Therefore it is our mission this week to find and to think like the gondoliers. Only then can we begin to accommodate the full range of transportation alternatives that the city may offer - zeppelin and biplane, jetpack and hovercar, dogsled and monorail.

NOTE: Those who fancy themselves "in the know" may be wondering whether this is the week to bring extra lights and a change of socks. It is not. Soon, though. Soon.

And don't be whining about the late ride announcement. You've got almost a whole hour to get to the start. In the same amount of time, your ride leader was able to type up this entire mini-manifesto. Surely, you can get in your biplane and head to the donut shop.

Talk, talk, talk...

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