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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #232 - Polar Pool Party
01.15.14
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),
but often it is not possible.
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:
Polar Pool Party
Winter 2014: much of the country has been reduced to a polar vortex hellscape.
Extreme temperatures and dumping snow sap the populace's will. Meanwhile,
in Los Angeles, residents kick back and enjoy their mellow, temperate climes.
The birds are singing. The palm trees sway gently in the breeze. Oh, sure,
soon enough they'll be consumed by fire, or drift off into the sea, but for now
they relax, poolside.
(Only 20 miles this week, but a fair amount of climbing and a large amount of
off-roading -- including a bit of hiking and stairs)
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For more information about past rides, visit our website:
ThePassageRide.com
For miscellaneous images, information, and links, take a look at our tumblog:
thepassageride.tumblr.com
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