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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #163: Romancing the Stone
08.29.12
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 the fourth 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.
- Maybe some hills; maybe some distance
- Victory donuts!
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This week:
Romancing the Stone
The adventure movie has become a difficult genre to pull off in a contemporary setting. There is so little
territory that remains unexplored, so few places that remain outside the reach of modern communications.
Think of all those convenient plot devices made obsolete by the internet cafe, the cell phone and the GPS! The
physical isolation that was previously necessary for our heroes to encounter adversity in far-away lands must
now be supplemented by some mitigating factors - an informational isolation that enables them to proceed on
their journeys with all the peril and excitement that we have come to expect. But all those mitigating factors
themselves start to become a little strained, and our willingness to suspend disbelief along with them.
This week, we take things back to a simpler time.
Talk, talk, talk...
Check out our new web site!
(and join the mailing list!)
The hacienda must be built.
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