Geezer with a Grudge: LGFUAD

Apr 1, 2012

LGFUAD

Absolutely no motorcycle content here, but I love this song and the video is pretty amazing, too. If this song had been around when I was racing, it would have been one of my "gate songs." I had the opportunity to record Motion City Soundtrack at a college event a few months ago. These guys still rock.

1 comment:

T.W. Day said...: This might be the "Geezer" post I come back to the most often. I haven't loved a song this much since the 60's.; 4/25/12, 11:36 AM

The Geezer Story

I stumbled upon this column name (Geezer with a Grudge) almost 20 years ago, in 1999. 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 wanted at times, and I wrote a monthly column for MMM until the magazine died in 2018.

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.