Came to Eugene and had a lovely visit. It felt a bit weird for different reasons, hard to pin down. Obviously the town is home to Zerzan and the Green Anarchy crowd, and their bizarre enthusiasm for apocalyptic catastrophe as a “political critique” of modern capitalism. But we didn’t meet any of those folks, who […]
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Sunday we all gathered at the Pyramid again, hot sun beating down at midday. By 12:30 or so we started rolling, a straight 25 kilometers south to the beach. It was by far their largest beach ride yet, apx. 1200 riders, and it slowed us down a lot as the front stopped quite often […] I ran around snapping shots of t-shirts, trying to grab the breadth of things bicycle that were representing. The first batch went up in the post on Critical Mass on May 30. The black t-shirt referring to $100 barrel oil, a celebration because the party is over, was done by the […] |
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