Here we go again

It seems we have another Scheissbike scenario on our hands. In this case, the event was billed as "Winter Fun Day." A day to face winter head-on and embrace it with outdoor games and such. Or so the feel-good saccharine drenched rhetoric goes. I was supposed to organize a short bike race. But then the fear-mongers we know as the media got wind of the windchill forecast for tomorrow. -43 or something like that. All of a sudden, everyone's scared for their personal safety. At least that's how they're putting it. So Winter Fun day is officially postponed until next week, when it promises to be warmer. But I'm out of town next Friday. And besides, I think this posture of defeatist cowardliness exposes the whole premise of Winter Fun Day as a sham in the first place. Kind of like that great "enlightened" commitment to pluralism, which is receptive of otherness so long as it's not threatening in any way. So the race is on, even if it's just me. In and among the trees it'll feel much closer to the balmy -24 high they're calling for. But even if it doesn't: Friday at 1pm in the Assiniboine Forest. If you're looking for an excuse to ride, feel free to show up.

OTT: Working For a Nuclear Free City, All American Taste