The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #292 - An Abbreviated Topography of Slow Jams
03.25.15
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 endeavor to return before the last red line trains (around midnight),
but it is generally not possible. Please plan accordingly.
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:
An Abbreviated Topography of Slow Jams
There are times when you need to rock. There are times when you need to
boogie. And then there are warm nights in the city, when the lights are low and
temperature’s up, and nothing hits the spot like a nice slow jam. So, tonight on
the ride we keep it real smooth. There may be some hills but, if you do feel
the burn, it will be a slow, slow burn. There’s no need to rush, we’re not going
too far.
(Distance dependent on time; some climbing; probably all paved)
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