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November 09, 2007 05:38 PM PST

Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained number 8. "This Machine Cures Melancholia" by Peter Gelman. Concerns a winter bike ride in Portland. Bad moods, names for mountains, the pleasures of learning Spanish. A Kapow! The virtues of Mexican cactus thorns and tire slime. A lesson about fixing tire gashes, and about superpower money. Ms. Bolt of Speed! Faster and Faster. This story was published in a U.S. bike magazine, and also in Traffic Life, a Canadian anthology still available via its website trafficlife.com. My website is dangerquestmysteries.com. I wrote this story in the late 1990s. This is a recording from last spring and I hope you will forgive the sound imperfections. I'm working on figuring out better equipment. Thanks for listening!

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Who? Me, me, me! Behold my wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command! I have a bicycle! I'm the author of the mad satiric novel "Flying Saucers over Hennepin" (out of print, but some copies float around) and the super smart, vernacular, and historically accurate "Moonifest Destiny" (available online, do the google-loo), as well as the maximalist poetic not funny punk rock novel now available through ancient recorded cassette tapes converted to MP3 and distributed for you my dear as a podcast (google "Skull of the Robot"). This podcast is about anything I think of connected to bikes. Usually it tries to touch lightly on the ridiculous and the funny and the profound. It varies. A few of them are wild essays, the rest stories, fiction.... sometimes commentary on our times. I hope you enjoy them.

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