Geezer with a Grudge: Getting Parked

Sep 29, 2013

Getting Parked

I wrote this several years ago for Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly and turned it into a video, mostly to have a fun project with my grandson. After letting the whole Motorcycling Minnesota television show dry up and die off due to too much work required from me and too little participation from my studio “assistance,” I let the whole Geezer with A Grudge YouTube page dry up and die off. I just discovered that in their effort to duplicate the invasive tactics of Facebook, YouTube/Google made all of my old videos “private” while they continued to insist that they NEED my personal information. Most likely, these pages will go “private” again, since I don’t pay much attention to YouTube as a video poster. Maybe, someday, I’ll return to the television world. Hard to imagine, but I suppose it’s possible.

In the meantime, you can watch this video to see (and hear) original words and music from me and if it suddenly turns out that people want the whole Geezer with A Grudge craziness on video, I might get back to it.

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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.