Geezer with a Grudge: Back in the Digest Again

May 10, 2013

Back in the Digest Again

In my never-ending crusade to piss off people on all sides of the oceans, Dave Gruman has cursed The Rider's Digest readers with another Geezer rant: Secondary Effects. As always, this month's magazine is a great read with the best pictures in moto-journalism.

Be sure to read Oldlongdog's article, Riding Out the Recession. He is the reason I accidentally hooked up with Rider's Digest and I chase his work down anywhere I can find it. Where else can you combine hippy politics with motorcycling? The best of all worlds.

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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.