Check out my last posting, I thought, when I wrote it I proof read it, but it turns out I skimmed just a little too fast: Now I skate, or ride half the Crit's course every day on my way to the office and its not a pretty course, there are pot holes, there are swears, there are speed bumps coming off turns and hills… I meant sewers. Or check out this beauty: I guess I am still a big of a show-off at heart. No, it is not big, it is BIT, as in I am a show-off but only a small time show-off kind of way.
Lately I’ve been developing more and more of an anti-car radicalism. Recently I heard a car driver slam on the brakes (actually it was while buying Lesley her new bike) so I ran out of the store to see what happened, I was disappointed to discover no damage, I had hoped that maybe if I was really lucky there’d be one less car for me to contend with. Can Ken Livingston move to Toronto?
Don’t even get me started on the smokers outside of my building when I ride or skate in to work. Damnit I’m breathing heavily and they are poisoning me.
Aaron Arndt wrote something really flattering in his blog, kind of ironic how I found out, I was just reviewing my site statistics – honest to goodness, to see what you guys actually read, believe it or not even without comments I am trying, in a limited way to write posts you will want to read. Anyway someone in Switzerland, I think… it might have been France (can’t remember now – I should know better, my mom was born in Switzerland, my uncle lives in France, and my grandfather invented one of the earliest self guided surface to air missiles in France weeks before the Nazis ran the country over) was referred to my site by Aaron’s blog. I’d like to think that even if I am almost totally over the notion of skating, my blog can still be a good read, ideally I want this to be a place where idea’s thrive, even if they are not a given reader’s passion.
Speaking of writing what people would want to read about, feel free to give constructive criticism… the key word here is constructive. Being the lexophiliac that I am (no it is not a word, I just made it up, but it’s a good word to make up – in case you are wondering lexical means words and philiac is a lover of things, put two and two together now) I am going to borrow a phrase from Lewis Lapham, when asked once, he described Harper’s as a magazine of idea’s, well that is what I consider my blog to be, granted they are mostly my idea’s but if I get any good submissions I’ll post them, and there is always the comments section.
Tomorrow I am going on my first ride with The Beaches Bike Club, I’m very nervous, I hope I am not the cause of too many slowdowns.
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