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Jeep Gladiator advertisement.

July 1966

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Dodge A-100 Sportsman Camper Wagon, 1966.

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Hymer VisionVenture Concept

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Lovebaum Track by the Radavist

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from left to right: Lucien Carr, Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs

the core Beat Generation, during their days as students at Columbia University; they saw themselves as the “New Vision”, creating a manifesto (mostly drafted by Carr) which states:

“1) Naked self-expression is the seed of creativity. 2) The artist’s consciousness is expanded by derangement of the senses. 3) Art eludes conventional morality.“

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Stationnement interdit !📸! ………………………………………. #demicourse #raymondpoulidor #poulidor #vintagebicycle #velovintage #gravelbike #limoges #automne #fall #reuse (à L'Ambassade) https://www.instagram.com/p/B26bIOJoZjA/?igshid=101bs3c2b7zzt

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GT GTB by Pedal Room

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Passoni Nero by Passoni.it

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Currently: Bend.

I tagged along with @gothic-disney-moms-in-space and @laurita_ciclista as they came out to a MTB clinic put on by @livcyclingusa So of course I brought a bike! But which one? I thought about bringing the #schwinnheavyduti so I can emulate @targetsalad ‘s explorations around Los Alamos on his. (Bend and Los Alamos have pretty similar “mountainous Ponderosa Pine” settings. Instead, why not a classic mountain bike like my #raleighcrestedbutte ? I found some nice paved and unpaved trails into town, and some pizza to satisfy the hunger.

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A nice little visit to Bend Velo, with their awesome @jlivingstonbikes refurbished commuter bike line.

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Publicity images for THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987).

Andre the Giant. A true BFG. The first time I saw him was when he fought Hulk Hogan at, I think, Wrestlemania III. I was fascinated. My mother had taped the event for me, assuming, rightly so, I’d be interested. If it had freaks, giants, strange apparitions, super-powered strongmen, weirdos, human oddities, monsters, I was always interested. (What has changed?)

When we played with Star Wars figures, my brother always chose the valiant heroes. Not me—characters like Bib Fortuna and Bossk were it for me. Unfortunately I’ve never been able to find Bossk concept art. It has to exist somewhere. Uh, anyway.

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There was also a Captain Action comic book where he was just the one hero (with sidekick, Action Boy). Captain Action got his superpowers from a coin collection – a nerd’s dream – and Action Boy liked him enough to wear matching lycra outfits. GI Joe must have liked lycra too, because my mother often found the marine and the captain in bed together in the three-bedroom apartment I built for them out of big boxes she brought back from the liquor store. Their doors slid into the walls like Star Trek and their wallpaper was handmade in Cleveland. I stenciled the canvas squares in art class – let the other kids trace their hands for a brown turkey card, I told the art teacher, my clients were in our military and needed their renovation finished before Thanksgiving. Captain and Joe had daily adventures that always ended when Captain winked at Joe, shouting: “Let’s Head For Home!” There, the men waited for Action Boy to fall asleep in his own bed, snuggled up to his pet panther, before the two men accidentally dozed off in the same bed talking. Oddly enough, I got beat up a lot as a child.