I saw the new Danny MacAskill in Capetown video and figured everyone would have seen it. It's been out a couple hours already, right? Anyway, that's linked above, watch it. And then watch this.
I've noticed a theme to the Unlikely Words posts this week. Still, if you were to sit there and tell me, "No, I have no interest in watching 4 minutes plus of people riding bikes down a 35 foot ramp and jumping in to a pond." I'd call you a liar and I'd mean it. How could this not be relevant to your interests?
This is a bit old, but apparently there is a passive aggressive war going on in Brooklyn. Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn got the city to paint over bike lanes in on certain streets in their neighborhoods and hipsters repainted the lines. The Hasidim say it's a safety issue and the bikers ignore pedestrians and traffic laws, the hipsters say the Hasidim don't like seeing women in shorts. Objectively, I think the Hasidim aren't arguing in good faith. The way you get bikers to follow traffic laws is to get the cops to enforce them, not by making the roadways less safe for bikers. Apparently, the hipsters had a naked bike ride planned to further antagonize the situation, but a recent blizzard forced them to bundle up some. Oy.
In the Esquire article about Roger Ebert a few weeks back, Ebert mentioned his interview interview with Lee Marvin as one of his favorites, and now they've republished it online.
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