Ride to Work guy - interesting updates
It’s a boring, boxy world… until you get on a motorbike.
The Ride to Work guy has two more interesting posts! In Exposure, he writes of being interviewed by some of my favorite local media. Joe Soucheray’s show was my original love and I listened faithfully everyday for years. The Ride to Work guy and I take a common piece away from Joe Soucheray, the importance of common sense in everyday living and politics. He also mentions my new favorites, Ian and Margery Punnett and their producer, Darcy Dunston. I’ve always been a Republican and conservative, but never one of “those” Republicans and conservatives. Becoming Lutheran was just a natural step in that pattern.
Exposure
30 November, 2005 Temperature: 16 degrees F
Well, now I’ve done it. I’ve let the Whole World in on our little secret.
Last night at quarter-to-five, I gave a radio interview to the honorable Joe Soucheray, Mayor of Garage Logic, sometimes known as the Flashlight King. If you have read previous entries in this blog, you will know that Joe is one of my all-time heroes. An “Ink-Stained Wretch” of the old school in newspaper reporting, he was somehow coerced into the sordid world of talk radio. But his show is different; like a breath of fresh air…
In Mission Oriented, the Ride to Work guy makes an amazing and very insightful analogy that sadly mirrors my life. Maybe a scooter, or its philosophical equivalent, is in my future…
Mission Oriented
01 December, 2005 Temperature: 17 degrees F
…It has occurred to me that these are City People. They are jaded and sophisticated. They can’t admit to being impressed by anything, unless it involves lots of money and power. I have neither, of course. So they glance quickly at us, sidelong and fleeting, and then it’s eyes front again, and on with their own mission. To acknowledge anything different is Wrong. It just isn’t done. You may attack it, but don’t you dare try to understand it. That would be a waste of time. Is this what we have come to, our insular nation? Think about it.
Boxes within boxes…
We sit in a big box we call “home”, and we watch other people act out pretend lives on another box called television. Then we get into a box with wheels, to transport us to another box called a “cube”, or “office”. There, we interact with yet another box called a computer, which we use to make sure that all the boxes of stuff our company makes are accounted for. Or something like that. It’s a boring, boxy world… until you get on a motorbike.
Suddenly you are out of the box, and in the world. You are not watching the movie, you are making it. This is unscripted and uncompromising. This is reality. It is heady stuff indeed…
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