Geezer with a Grudge: The Rewards of Stereotyping

"Nobody else does this emperor's clothes kind of thing!" Kevin Cameron August 2009
"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." Aristotle
"You are a motorcycle bigot." Known and Unknown
"This is not a video game. This is your life. Ride to stay alive." Elvy Day (my wife)

Warning: If you're looking for a pleasant conversation about motorcycling from a frozen north Minnesota Nice perspective, good luck with your search. As Bobby Dylan once said, "it ain't me, babe."

This blog is a companion to my Minnesota
Motorcycle Monthly magazine column and here is a link to the varied history of Geezer product reviews.

The Geezer Story

I stumbled upon this column name (Geezer with a Grudge) about 8 years ago, in 2000. The first Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly editor I worked with, in late 1999, complained that the magazine was getting no mail and the editors wanted to know if any readers were still out there. I fired off a sarcastic note, as a joke, intended to provide a little humor and some feedback. He published it as an article and later called me to say he'd received more mail on that letter than he'd received in the past year! I followed that with an offer to write a monthly column attempting to piss off a particular section of the magazine's readership to see if that tactic would generate some mail.

It did, probably more regularly than the magazine wants at times, and I've been doing the column ever since.

I plan to post an occasional old Geezer article into the blog, followed by short comments about the current status of my perspective on our activity/sport/vehicle of choice.

Geezer with a Grudge

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Oct 17, 2011

The Rewards of Stereotyping

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