Geezer with a Grudge: PSA: 8km/h Can Change Everything

May 8, 2013

PSA: 8km/h Can Change Everything

In the gold old USofA, this kind of PSA scares the crap out of our politically-correct, wimpy-assed conservative pussified (thank you Mr. Carlin) culture, so we waste time with "Start Seeing Motorcycles" and silly crap that doesn't get any sort of point across, but makes the ABATE bunch feel good about themselves and their campaign to keep riders at risk and shove the blame for motorcycle deaths on to the general public. We know better, don't we?

1 comment:

Trobairitz said...: I've seen that PSA before and every time I see it I wish we'd have ones like that here.

Our PSAs need to be a little more "in your face' like the rest of the world.; 5/8/13, 5:22 PM

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.