Geezer with a Grudge: One More Movie for the "Must See List"

Mar 28, 2011

One More Movie for the "Must See List"

Watch this trailer and get ready for the next "Faster." The movie is TT3D: Closer to the Edge by Guy Martin and like all great motorcycling things, it isn't coming to US theaters any time soon. We're too old, too slow, too timid/conservative, and too lame to even get movies about great motorcycle events, let alone an actual event. Yeah, I'm pissed off. Deal with it. We don't even get the DVD in US format.

1 comment:

Paul Compton said...: Guy Martin is also gracing UK TV with his presence in..

'The Boat That Guy Built'

The programmes are still available on the iPlayer;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z8jdv

Outside the UK you'll have to go through a proxy.; 3/30/11, 3:11 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.