Frankly, I haven't really wanted to be inside in front of the computer the last couple of days. Hopefully you feel the same and have not been sitting in front of your laptop hitting the refresh button all day long.
- According to Arlington's trail counters, trail use goes up 57% on Bike to Work day from the pre-BTWD average. Afterwards, it's still 21% higher.
- Buy your BikeFest tickets before they're gone. Some of these people might be there: Me, Abe Vigoda, Kristin Chenowith, Brangelina (though when Brangelina and I are in the same place they're called "Brangelina and that guy who's violating his restraining order") and Gene Simmons - but not Jean Simmons.
- Montgomery County Staff has finished their recommendations for the Chevy Chase Lake Sector Plan. The CCT runs through the middle of the plan area and they're recommending enhances bike connections to the CCT. A meeting will be held on June 18th about their recommendations.
- How much gas prices effect you is, in part, a product of where you live. Check out this cool visualization of that.
- The Seersucker Social bike ride and party was yesterday.
- You've probably seen this, but it is adorable.
no, not adorable.
pathetic, in the etymological sense of the term.
that environment he is in is toxic; and a definite fetter on his healthy, creative development. this point is so well researched that it is not contestable. that environment cannot produce or sustain democracy...
the chant he engages also solicits a creeping chauvanism, militarism and patriarchy (thumbs up; "rock and roll!"), leading directly to later life anomie and economic exploitation -- both the tolerance of his own and his blind eye to others'.
he can later maybe play and then attend various corporate, spectator sports events, to further his his life delimiting indoctrination.
and we know exactly what kind of (mis)education he will receive in the schools of his suburb...
i would bet his parents have no answer to the question: "why did you have children?" -- other than the usual answers that serve the parents, rather than the new human being or the culture he will develop in...
Posted by: mike | June 05, 2011 at 10:39 AM
@mike
I thought it was cute...
Posted by: Tim H | June 05, 2011 at 11:58 AM
@mike, you must be fun at parties.
Posted by: washcycle | June 05, 2011 at 01:23 PM
I thought it was another nom de plume of "satan".
I found it difficult to tell if the kid was actually saying those words. You can't really see his mouth. At least I couldn't. It would be lame if an adult in the background was saying those words and not the kid, then pretending that the kid was speaking.
Posted by: Michael H. | June 05, 2011 at 01:43 PM
thanks for affirming that my analysis is correct.
Posted by: mike | June 05, 2011 at 02:12 PM
Superb video, WC.
I'll never forget the son of an old friend doing his first ride while I was visiting. Off came the training wheels. Rode a bit and fell. Tears. Rode a bit. Fell. Tears and fury. Then he got it. Round and round he went with the biggest smile ever. My son and daughter were the same (except that my daughter crashed and was headed down a storm drain but for the fact that her helmet was too wide for the opening). My first solo ended with me t-boning the back of a 57 Chevy. We can't all be Lance.
Posted by: John | June 05, 2011 at 05:21 PM
My daughter learned to ride at the Arboretum: she was off and running in about 3 minutes. No huge smiles, because she's not that way--more a look of total concentration. So after riding for about ten minutes, she went down like a sack of meat. Straight over the front-wheel in a kind of mini- "high-side". Tears, blood, etc...
After a few minutes of comforting her, she got all Tom Simpson on me, and demanded to be put back on the bike!
Posted by: oboe | June 06, 2011 at 09:57 AM
The Gregory Bros "songified" the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2ZShmt19uQ
Posted by: M.V. Jantzen | June 10, 2011 at 05:23 PM