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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #114 - The 834th Photo Signal Detachment
09.7.11
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:
The 834th Photo Signal Detachment
"Jimmy Stewart quietly began putting on weight so that he could meet
the army's physical requirements, and then he enlisted as a private.
Robert Montgomery joined the navy and ultimately commanded a destroyer
at the invasion of Normandy. Tyrone Power abandoned both his wife and
his male lover to join the marines. William Holden joined the army as
Private William F. Beedle, Jr.
"Henry Fonda, who was thirty-seven years old and had three children,
waited only until the final shooting on The Ox-Box Incident and then
enlisted as a sailor. He got as far as boot camp in San Diego, where
the shore patrol picked him up and sent him back to Los Angeles.
'Why?' Fonda bristled forty years later. 'Because Darryl F. Fuck-it-
all Zanuck had pull in Washington and demanded, "I want Henry Fonda
for a picture I'm planning. It's for the war effort and I need him."
And he had enough weight to swing it.'"
And so this week we go to war alongside Hollywood, hearing a few
stories of its contributions, its profiteering, and its pratfalls as
its Golden Age collided with the Greatest Generation. A flat, easy
route (but not necessarily short), with a few stops of variable
educational value.
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Certain shifting angles,
certain receding perspectives.
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