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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #124 - More Weaving than Bobbing
11.16.11
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:
- inconvenient passageways
- oblique strategies
- Oulipian constraints
- disorientation
- reorientation
- "cover" versions of other people's rides, performed with amateurish enthusiasm
- amateurish enthusiasm
- pool halls
- bowling alleys
- karaoke
- geocaching
- full moon picnics
- traffic median tea parties
- rivers that no longer exist
- smell tourism
- Couchwick v2.0
Furthermore:
- usually 20-35 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:
More Weaving than Bobbing
You have to know what kind of fight you are in. If you bring a knife
to a gun fight, things are not going to end well for you. If you bring
your rooster to a dog fight, everybody will laugh. If you're about to
enter a thumb war and you take off a shoe and sock, well, your
classmate is going to be more than a little confused.
Tonight, let us say that we'll be doing a little mixed martial arts.
The last thing we'd want to do in mixed martial arts is start bobbing
and weaving. Just like a cyclist commuting down Wilshire is thinking
like a car, an MMA fighter bobbing and weaving is hopelessly mired in
boxing's strategic paradigm. Boxing this is not. Weaving is fine, but
too much bobbing will only earn you a swift knee to the jaw. Never
forget the knees.
So, this week, while we weave aplenty, you will find little in the way
of bobbing. No, mostly steady rises, steady descents. Yet the battle
is not necessarily short -- we'll visit a bit of the sprawl in this
brawl. And, with a little luck and a lot of tenacity, we might just
end up the ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONS!
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You wanna fight about it?
Certain shifting angles,
certain receding perspectives.
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