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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #209 - Uncool Ranch
07.31.13
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:
Uncool Ranch
Salient facts about ranch dressing:
1) Ranch dressing was developed at a dude ranch near Santa Barbara
in the fifties
2) In 1972, that original Hidden Valley brand of ranch dressing was bought
by the Clorox Company
3) Ranch dressing has extremely high fat and calorie content
4) Still relatively unknown elsewhere in the world, ranch dressing has been
America's best-selling salad dressing since 1992
And, like ranch dressing, tonight's planned route is packed with things
ALL real Americans like, such as miles (over 30), hills, stairs, and maybe
a little off-roading. You should probably expect it to sprawl out pretty late;
bailing will probably not be easy.
However, I am actually not feeling super well at the moment,
as if I ate a lot of ranch dressing (with my MIND, since it is a headache
after all). If that continues into this evening, something else entirely
might happen tonight. We thank you in advance for, as always, being
cool with a certain amount of uncertainty.
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Discuss
The changing of landscapes
from one hour to the next
will result in complete disorientation....
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