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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #106 - Welcome, Willkommen, Bienvenue, Bienvenido

07.13.11

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).

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
- usually some hills
- a medium pace (probably 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:

Welcome, Willkommen, Bienvenue, Bienvenido


Oh, hi. You may have read about us in your local media outlet. And you
may be new to this list.* There has indeed been a small surge of
interest.

And another ride -- perhaps a smarter ride -- might plan an easier
route, a more novice-friendly route, the week after such a surge. To
ease people in. But, alas, this is not another, smarter ride. This is
this ride. And while this ride does on occasion do novice-friendly
routes, this week is not necessarily one of them. No, this ride has
decided that the proper course of action -- for us -- is just to do
our ride, our way.

And the people for which it is the right ride, this will be very much
the right ride. And the people for which it is not, well, at least our
emails are sometimes funny (though not this one, not really, unless
you find over-explaining what is really a very simple thing to be
funny (which we kind of do (but that's our problem (not necessarily
yours (though you are reading this (sorry)))))).

So, you have to ask yourself: Are you the kind of person for whom
hills, stairs, off-roading, and donuts sounds like a great way to
spend a Wednesday night or you the kind of person for whom that sounds
like -- pardon our French -- absolute merde? A better question might
be: How well can you handle uncertainty? Disorientation? Fried dough?

* This description originally went out to our mailing list. I don't have time
right now to edit it to make sense in this context. Deal with it.

-

For those less comfortable with uncertainty: we are staying close
this week, so if you do come out and decide it isn't for you, bailing
is eminently possible.

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