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• Commented on Oh, Snap!
  Speaking of bike thieves: I worked a little bit on a really good new documentary about Bikes, the world and Igor Kenk that's going to be on CBC tv at 8 this Thursday Sept 24!...
• Commented on Televisualist: July Is Bike Month
  It's a good time for new fans to watch Tour de f. Young Canadian Ryder Hesjedal, on the Garmin team (which purports to be the least druggy in the sport) is in 21st place now! That's a fantastic spot for...
• Commented on Historicist: Boyhood, Summers, and the City
  my brother and I had a go at Conkers in 1972. I remember distinctly hurting my thumb while pushing an awl through my conker to get the string in, and then REALLY yelping when I missed my brother's chestnut altogether,...
• Commented on Historicist: Boyhood, Summers, and the City
  a cute detail too, is FIerheller has remembered a Toronto childhood game called knockers ...which is certainly what kids in britain and ireland have known as conkers (or perhaps conquers?) for a couple of hundred years......