Autumn is within the air. The season is altering in earnest. The inexperienced scuzz has vanished from the floor of the lake, which is now glassy and displays the ferliage that’s juuust on the verge of exploding like big popcorn kernels into the sensible hues of fall:
As ever, I’m grateful that I stay in a spot the place I can simply vanish right into a sun-dappled…effectively, “wonderland” is simply too sturdy a phrase, but it surely’s an precise forest with precise trails, and it’s proper out my again door:
Strictly talking, you aren’t imagined to journey right here, however strictly talking you’re not imagined to do a lotta stuff, and right here and there you’ll discover little kicker ramps which I keep away from as a result of I’m a suspension-free “woosie:”
Although relaxation assured I’m MAN sufficient to cross the Fetid River Of Sludge:
I noticed the Suspension-Free Woosies open for Fetid River Of Sludge on the outdated Ritz in 1986, it was a unbelievable present.
There are different wonders in these woods as effectively, reminiscent of the positioning the place a meteor struck the earth in 1896:
Simply kidding:
At lease I believe I’m kidding–I don’t know what precipitated that crater-like melancholy so possibly it was one thing cosmic in spite of everything.
Anyway, mentioning singlespeed mountain bikes yesterday received me within the temper to journey one. Whereas this bike is just about un-photographable as a consequence of its monochromatic colourwhey…
…it’s actually an Engin, and I can’t reward it extremely sufficient, in all probability as a result of I lack not solely the metaphors however the compulsion to wantonly combine them:
That website is to writing as this website is to images.
After all, we’re all totally different, and that’s why the world is so wealthy and vibrant, just like the autumn leaves. Some have a method with phrases, others are extra visually inclined. Some individuals see an deserted Citi Bike on the Brooklyn Bridge and alert the media:
Whereas a few of us see the very same bike at nearly the very same time and determine, “Fuck it, that’s their drawback:”
All of it is a roundabout method of claiming some persons are assholes, and when you’re unsure who I imply, I’m referring to Jörs Trüli.
What an asshole. No surprise I all the time journey alone.
That’s the Colnago Bititan, by the way in which:
Each time I see a motorbike from Traditional Cycle that I’ve since returned I get nostalgic for it. However not less than it gained’t be lengthy earlier than I get some extra of that leaf motion.
Lastly, talking of people that report deserted Citi Bikes, this was a little bit of a letdown:
Annoying, sure. Silly, certain. Typical NYC DOT half-assery, completely. However terror?
I dunno about that.
