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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #123: What is a Picnic, Alex?
11.9.11
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 third 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.
- 25-ish miles; a respectable hill.
- Victory donuts!
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This week:
What is a Picnic, Alex?
Sticklers may object that the moon's not technically full until Thursday. Yes, certainly, they may do that, and
we may completely ignore their objections, because we've got our eyes on the prize. Don't tell us we can't
win, naywinsayers!
Not only are we going to sweep the entire "Inconvenient Passageways" category, but we're going to
dominate the "Spectacular Views" and "Disorientation" categories, too. And when we hit the Daily Double
(picnic), oh, they'd better watch out! Oh yes, that's right: two picnics!
This week, we've got two stops for eating and enjoying the view, one on each side of the hill. Bring food to
share. We're climbing for a couple miles, and it's getting a little chilly out there, so layers are a good idea, too.
Over a mile of the route is unpaved, but most of it's pretty well-packed, and the parts that aren't are a short
walk.
Distance: 20-ish miles
Offroading: Yes
Hills: Oh, yes indeed
Talk, talk, talk...
(and join the mailing list!)
The hacienda must be built.
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