Geezer with a Grudge: Spreadin' It Around

Jan 1, 2013

Spreadin' It Around

This is more of a New Year's entry than a motorcycle thing. However, Scott is a good friend and this is one of the many wonderful songs on his CD, The Gift of Thirst. It just seems appropriate for the day, the year, and these times. I hope you all have a good year and that the Mayan's were right and this is the beginning of a new era. The old one sucked.

3 comments:

Trobairitz said...: The song does seem appropriate..... I have to agree 2012 sucked news wise. So many bad things happening that didn't need to occur.

Let's hope for a more peaceful 2013. Probably wishful thinking, but I can try.; 1/1/13, 2:53 PM
Chunk Norris said...: Agreed. Gonna repost this if I can. Thx.; 1/2/13, 1:04 PM
T.W. Day said...: Scottie is a great artist and you never go wrong listening to his music.; 1/13/13, 12:07 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.