... I think this is pretty close to how I live. ... But this is closer to how I would categorize myself. I don't really do anything overtly anti-car (except I...
... I don't know about this coolness idea. It's like all those propaganda ideas. You lose by just by playing. You can't win against a dirty opponent by sinking...
... =v= I'm something of a Critical Mass organizer, though I'll point out that one can't really "organize" such an entity; one can only propose ideas and see...
... so they ... people. ... want ... even ... compete ... Bijan: You're making the mistake of thinking that coolness *has* to be fake, contrived and trivial....
... gives ample chance to show the legs. ... Hey Shyrley! A woman on a bicycle looks *WAY* sexier than a woman getting into a sports car, and for a longer...
... Generally that is the case. However, exceptions are the early series of "The Rockford Files", which the car companies disliked so much that in the latter...
David Hansen
davidh@...
May 1, 2004 12:28 pm
9750
... True. It requires a steady drumbeat from advertising. This has kept cars cool for years. Carfreeness needs a deeper base than being just another fad, like...
... is that movies and TV could very well portray characters as using transit. But they don't. They should.< Yeah this drives me nuts too. Cars are cultural...
It's probably not a good idea to portray transit riding completely realistically. There are, of course, downsides like late and crowded buses. People already...
... Hard to tell which of the 20-somethings get pierced because it's the trendy thing to do, and which ones do it because they see it and decide they just...
... "Clang Clang Clang went the trolley!" :-) one of the most famous scenes in movie history, shows a happy bunch of people out for a lark on mass transit. ...
You know, at one time, enough fun was made of the inevitable car chase scenes in movies that they dimininshed markedly. Then they came back again because they...
De Clarke <de@...> wrote: ... "Clang Clang Clang went the trolley!" :-) one of the most famous scenes in movie history, shows a happy bunch of people...
... Ok well I have a question related to that. During our last ride here in Montreal, the police broke up the ride. They were rather polite and I believe that...
... Yes I assumed something along the lines of this (quote from kenkifer.com): "Another type could be labeled the "cool" cyclists. When cycling began to be...
On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 08:42 US/Central, CarFree@yahoogroups.com ... Another example of a car-free life prominently displayed in a "cool" movie is the...
... I don't quite understand why this shows the importance of being allowed to ride a bicycle on the interstate. I'd think that the most important reason for...
There have been some recent, and not-so-recent, American movies that portray public transit: -- "City of Angels" - Meg Ryan's character rides her bike to her...
... I've never seen the movie but that tune has been in my head for the last week because there was a short scene with it in a resent Simpsons episode. The...
... Surely you never saw the original Blues Brothers! It wasn't about cars but it holds the record for the most cars destroyed in a movie! It was about the...
There's a nice subway scene at the end of the first Matrix movie (though the characters aren't actually *riding* the subway.... they just go down there to use...
... That definitely is one type of "cool." Ken met a few cyclists who treated him like rotting meat. I wonder if there's some way to reach cyclists who are...
... Yeah, car chases are cliches, and probably encourage dangerous behavior. There is plenty of thriller material in bus riding. I read a thriller novel in...
... That's OK, because maybe cool is too frivolous a term, and can mean something *really* cool, that is something that really makes your life better in a way...
... I wasn't complaining. I just meant that I think of cool as meaning trendy. So people who are interesting in cycling because it is "cool" are people who are...
... "The Triplets of Belleville", which features lots of cycling-related material that the carfree crowd may enjoy, also has one of the most original...
J. Bruce Fields
bfields@...
May 3, 2004 2:19 am
9771
... Yes, after the smoke clears on what the story really says, the average food trip now costs only $90, down from a whopping $91 before the gas crunch. And...
... I always hear a certain amount of fear. "We ride outside Ann Arbor all the time", someone told me when I was staffing a table at some fair last year, "but...
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