nick sylvester = maker upper

maybe we should move the making fun of mr dream to the rolling punk thread

not an expert in detecting protools, but the new stuff sounds like they're working with software now

mr dreamer upper

mr the-dream

Seems that Sylvester's journalism is far more creative than his chops.

I knew that Sylvester had been involved in a minor journalistic scandal some years back: He’d been caught fabricating some details in a story he’d written for the Village Voice.

There is the theory of the Moebius.

It feels shitty anytime your bike is stolen, but it’s doubly shitty on your birthday—tripley shitty when the temperature is 97 F and the birthday in question is your 43rd.

You could argue that my bike was a midlife-crisis purchase in the first place. It’s a three-speed Chief cruiser made by the California-based manufacturer Felt. The Chief isn’t expensive, as bicycles go, but it’s flashy. It has a sleek metallic-maroon retro-style frame with an old fashioned “tank” and a pretty brown leather saddle with matching handlebar grips. The pièces de résistance are the tires: enormous white Thick Bricks, a good deal bigger than the average balloon tire and a lot more eye-catching. In short, it’s a cheeseball retro-ride—a friend called it “the PT Cruiser of bicycles.” The Chief is a fish tank and a couple of flat-screens away from being the bike that West Coast Customs would make, if they were in the business of pimping two-wheelers.

excellent universal writing that makes references everyone can understand and enhances empathy dude, good job

why did you bold those things

to enhance empathy

want to rewrite the slate article from the pov of pee wee herman

'the wire' as rebooted by zach braff

why did you bold those things

2nd par: because I have little to no idea what instant associations he expects anyone to make with them, but he obviously expects ppl to

1st par: what makes the 43rd different from other ones?

i get why 43rd is kinda provoctive

but i know nothing about bikes

i guess i didn't get the 43rd bday thing either since i thought if you've had that many birthdays 1) you don't care as much 2) hopefully it's more likely you can afford to buy a new bike?

i enjoyed the article btw because i like his writing but i can see the ways it's also annoying

"what's the identifying mark?"

haha thank you for remembering my bike, seeing the tweet, backtracking your steps, and finally tracking it down but I'm going to need a little more from you, because, you know.

oh c'mon it's good that he was thorough after he was finally close enough to get a really good look

i love jody but btdt
http://www.whatever-whenever.net/blog/2010/08/justice-in-brooklyn/

He is my least favorite Jody Rosen.

i like the part where he sees the bike is parked outside a social services building and gives a kind of knowing sigh as if to say "times are tough pal, but not on my watch."

quite honestly, all I can think of is a 43-year-old man riding around on a bike that looks like this:

http://2009.feltracing.com/09/images/catalog/xl/8984.png

all of the conservative style neurons in my brain are overloading

When I saw the picture on Slate, I thought the lettering on the body read THIEF.

i don't think he realizes how bad riding the pt cruiser of bikes actually is

it looks like a tricycle

for babies

quite honestly, all I can think of is a 43-year-old man riding around on a bike that looks like this:

how ageist!

i'm 44 and i ride a bike that looks like this. if you have a problem with that, it's yr problem!

http://bikereviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/electra-super-deluxe-3i-2010-city-bike.jpg

I guess you didn't make it to the all of the conservative style neurons in my brain are overloading part of that post?

(also, your bike is distinctive-looking without being painfully fugly)

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/2669805-md.jpg

i did read that part of yr post. i'm just trying to settle into grumpy middle aged man who doesn't give a damn mode but not fully convincing myself.

Isn't Rosen riding that bike because he frequently writes about early 20th century music and this bike fits that old-school ethic

I hope not

that is a terrible reason to ride an ugly bike IMO

cheesy retro is his thang

is there another thread about this? i think the article deserves more discussion. i don't know what type of discussion, but just... more.

how much more discussion does it need?

"first world tragedies"

/!\ BREAKING: Unlocked bike stolen from city street in NYC /!\

http://makezineblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/make_1175.jpg?w=500&h=548

"PT Cruiser" and "West Coast Customs" describing the same thing is some pretty heavy metaphor-mixing

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/Ladri3.jpg

fuck bikes

fuck bikes were great when they opened for blues control

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY2Gk0WuEB4

fuck bikes

― some dude nights (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, June 27, 2012 4:48 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol. what will u hate next

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

http://www.emo-corner.com/forums/uploads_gallery/gallery/album_14152/gallery_145323_14152_57262.jpg

RIP the old ilx FAQ that said "the jody rosen that posts on ilx is not the jody rosen that writes for rolling stone"