Geezer with a Grudge: And Now for Something Useful

Jan 23, 2014

And Now for Something Useful

I could be sleezy (because I can) and post the YouTube links to these videos, but in the interest of journalistic fairness and general laziness (a redundancy, I know) I'm going to point you right to the Ride Apart page where a really cool article teaches knot tying, Become A Better Motorcyclist with A Piece of Rope. (Or go seriously crazy at the source, Animated Knots by Grog where you can play with hundreds of semi-useful to lifesaving knots.)

This is a really fun thing to do with spare time while you are either waiting for winter to let go of your throat or waiting for some damn VW part to arrive at General Delivery in the middle of the desert.

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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.