Geezer with a Grudge: Old Ireland

Feb 25, 2019

Old Ireland

On the Geezer Links at the right side of the blog page, there is a new link: Old Ireland. Here's what our friend, Ian Caswell, has to say about his site: "My initial idea for this site was to cover only classic vehicles, but since classicireland.ie was already taken and the best alternative I could find was this one, my thoughts for the site began to broaden. A lot of the inspiration for this comes from the few magazines for which I have written articles. Let’s get these mentioned early, because you should not be surprised to see a little of their influence here." Back in the days when Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly was a thing, Ian and I both wrote for the magazine. If for no other reason than to read the horror story of his life with a BMW Funduro, give Ian a read and say "hi."

1 comment:

Cas said...: Thanks for the plug Thomas. :-) I hope the Minnesota weather gets better.; 2/26/19, 3:29 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.