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Month: December, 2007

holiday cheer in the window display

Courtesy of Dave Wofford, Bull City Arts Collaborative. His Horse and Buggy Press is selling City of Midnight Skies, a collection of poems and drawings by Stephen Gibson. From the HBP website, Stephen is the co-founder and editor of Mobile City, the literary magazine recently featured on NPR’s Morning Edition. His poems have appeared in [...]

Camus on soccer

Albert Camus, commenting on a futbol (soccer) game in Algeria. I have no idea the date of this film. In fact, I never thought before about whether there exists any footage of Camus speaking, so this is fascinating to me. It animates someone whom I feel like I know well but have never heard speak. [...]

Free recycling, reuse of bike parts

The good folks at Resource Revival want your old bike parts, and they’ll pay for the shipping to get them. From their website… Recycle your bike chain and freewheels with us! It’s easy as 1-2-3.           Just throw greasy chain and freewheels in a box (no rust please) We take whole [...]

December Critical Mass update

To the 25 or so riders who turned out tonight for Durham’s first Critical Mass post-daylight savings, you’re beautiful. Frank, Mike, Steve, Alison, Dave W., Dave Z., Emily, Brian, Catherine, Dan, Francis, Brian B., Jason, all the new faces, and all the folks I didn’t get to meet — it was awesome to ride with [...]

The Outspokin’ Cyclist: Driving the kids with a bicycle

Phillip Barron The Herald Sun Four days a week, Teddy Salazar takes his son Theo to school just like most parents. Instead of a car seat, however, Theo rides in a trailer towed behind Salazar’s bicycle. Weaving around potholes and climbing hills along four miles of west Durham’s streets, Salazar tows his son to and [...]