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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #238 - Taking the Lane
02.26.14
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:
Taking the Lane
One or more persons during a certain weather event drop their weekly routine of
movement and action, their routes, their exploratory and athletic activities, and let
themselves be drawn by the attractions of the lane and the ten pins they find there.
It's bowling night.
We will meet tonight, Wednesday, at 8:30pm at California Donuts #21,
at the corner of 3rd & New Hampshire, in Los Angeles, CA.
We will head over to Shatto Lanes at 9pm.
We will endeavor to stay dry.
Yes, sorry, we're heeding the National Weather Service's prediction of rain (an 80%
chance after 10pm) and executing our bowling contingency plan. But if you REALLY
like riding in the rain, well, you can come bowl and, at the end of the night, will no
doubt have a lovely -- and wet -- ride home.
(No hills, no off-roading, almost no mileage nor riding at all, really. Bowling.
Of course, now it probably won't rain at all, but...)
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