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Bikes for Sale
Eventually I’ll write about it, but I’ve taken to finding old, neglected steel framed bikes and fixing them up for resale (or my own personal collection). I’ll put links up here for bikes I currently have for sale. Here’s what I’ve currently got: 1984 Trek 610 – Reynolds 531 Frame. Shimano 600 Group Tunturi 500R…
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Why bikes?
“What topic can you not shut up about?” The question was posed to me while I was filling out a profile for a dating site the other day. “Something you can’t shut up about”—when I hear this, I think of the things you obsess about that no one else around really cares about; when you…
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It’s all just Matter and Energy Arranged in Various Ways
I am a strict “it’s all just matter and energy arranged in various ways” kind of materialist, not the vulgar reductionist kind that skips the “various ways” part of the equation, but completely unwilling to countenance the existence of a separate transcendent plane of being that influences, interacts with, directs, or gives meaning to our…
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The Three Books that Ruined Me
Three books ruined me for living a comfortably boring middle-class life among the petty bourgeois. Before I tell you what those books are, I have to confide that it tickles my sappy romantic soul that books can still ruin people. How many people are ripe for being completely molded by a book? I cannot say.…
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If it wasn’t for the Wabash River…
I grew up in a Midwestern river town. There are dozens of these towns scattered throughout the middle of the country. Until modernity allowed us to colonized deserts and mountains, virtually all dense human settlements were founded by rivers, lakes, or seas, water being our only way to live in an otherwise inhospitable world. With…
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Dionysus on a Bike and Apollo on a Train
Dionysus, the god of wine, dance, intoxicated and feral wisdom, and Apollo, clear sited, wise, all-seeing, rational god of the sun. Living as though I am a devotee of these gods, their initiate, and their protege, this blog is a documentation of living under their signs. Part travel blog—I’ll record journeys by bike across continents…
Dionysus on a Bike 