Geezer with a Grudge: Caine's Arcade

Sep 23, 2012

Caine's Arcade

No motorcycle content, whatsoever, but Caine would be a great motorcyclist. There isn't a lot of inspirational stuff happening in the US these days. So, here's some. I'd consider riding to LA to play Caine's Arcade.

You can do something like this in your hometown, though. This October 6th is the first annual Global Day of Play. Learn about it. Do something with it. Help kickstart the next generation of motorcycle engineers, scientists, artists, and cool people.

3 comments:

Paul Compton said...: Great fun!

Have you heard of Tim Hunkin?

http://www.timhunkin.com; 9/24/12, 7:35 AM
Paul said...: That was fun, like you said, kind of inspirational.; 9/24/12, 8:47 AM
T.W. Day said...: Before you sent me to his website, I'd never heard of Tim Hunkin. Great stuff. As creative as real motorcyclists are, maybe we should consider doing some version of this kind of project with a two-wheel focus. Motorcycling could use a little positive image reinforcement after years of gangbanger behavior and crap like that Streetfighterz Ride of the Century.; 9/27/12, 8:38 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.