I'm going to try out a new feature of this humble blog, which I'll call "Stay Positive Wednesday."I tend to have a pessimistic bent, and a recent quiz I took on Facebook might validate that leaning. I took the "What Crazy Writer Are You" quiz, and my result was Cormac McCarthy, who is described in this way: "You love sunsets, the open range, and the freedom of the west... it would be a stretch to say that such things make you happy, though. All you see around you is darkness and greed; everywhere men go, they bring with the darker side of nature. All you can do is escape to your ranch and become one with the part of nature that mankind hasn't yet corrupted, keeping an eye on the evening redness in the west, looking for that glimmer of hope that pierces the darkness. What a fun guy..."
I actually prefer the Midwest or the South, but that's a small quibble. Regardless, to pull me out of the darkness, I'm going to be like The Hold Steady and "stay positive." So here it goes.
If you prefer a more environmentally-focused reason why bicycles are good things to use, you can click HERE and read onward. However, it's fun just to ride a bike because it gets you back to being a kid. For Father's Day, I got the bike that's shown above, a cruiser variety of a Schwinn. Like the famous Howlin' Wolf song, it's built for comfort and not for speed.
But it's a good time for my whole family to take a bike ride, enjoy the wind whipping by, and get a little exercise on a nice day.
3 comments:
Cormac McCarthy is one of my favorite writers. Now there's some style. Unlike so many of the popular writers today, he writes novels and not just screenplays. Chuck Palahniuk - yuk! And bikes are cool too.
I've never read anything by him since I don't read fiction all that often. Any novels you would suggest for a greenhorn like me?
I started with All the Pretty Horse, and glad I did.
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