Friday, August 24, 2007

 

The Marxist-Leninist Liberation Front of the Revolutionary Word of the Union (MLLFRWU) can no longer stand silent in the face of bourgeois rants of posers such as the ACAP GP.  This voice of luxurious living for the people is nothing but a lie, fabricated by those who wish to wrest the hard-won, self-acquired, self-earned property of the people and replace it with modern bourgeois private property – wage labor creating capital; that is, the kind of property which exploits wage labor and cannot increase except upon condition of begetting a new supply of wage labor for fresh exploitation.  A mere glance at the ACAP GP's font reveals the self-indulgent nature which that organization pretends to condemn.

 

And yet, while MLLFRWU condemns the lies propagated by ACAP GP, we stand in even greater opposition to the revisionism espoused by the True Liberation Front of the Revolutionary Word of the Union (TLFRWU).  It is indeed true that the MLLFRWU once stood with the TLFRWU, indeed many of our great thinkers came from that organ when it was pure, it is now obvious that the TLFRWU has strayed from its principles, and those of the Union – which is to say, the people’s values. 

 

It is only through the violent overthrow of tyranny that we can move to the greater glory that is our future together.  We cannot, we must not, stand idly by while the TLRFWU tolerates mediocrity and cheap excuses.  The people remain adrift in the pothole-infested roadways, victims to the prowling SUVs.  And, while we believe in the words and leadership of our Dear Leader, it is only through the violent overthrow of Dear Leader that Dear Leader’s principles can continue to flourish.

 

The MLLFRWU is the true voice of the people.  Organs such as La Societe and ACAP GP will soon be tossed onto the trash heap of history, just as the revisionist and counter-revolutionary TLFRWU stands discredited and naked before us.  And yet, we stand in solidarity with those imperfect representatives as we move towards our glorious future. 

 

Long live the Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Word!  Forward with Revolutionary Zeal!

 

 

8/24/2007 11:54:41 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [2]  | 

In the rush of ideas and railings against the four wheeled hegemony, the people are being forgotten. The "revolution" is being washed away by this idealistic bull spouting from the mouth of this overly glorified pond scum that calls himself Dear Leader. He and his governance no longer care to lend an ear or a hand to the people and their desires. Instead they spend their time wasting words and readers’ time with nonsensical rants of poor grammar all while attempting to steal more power from the people for themselves. There is no room in the so called "revolution" for this sort of aloof self indulgence; sipping fine brandies and imposing his will while the people toil day in and day out, chilled by the wind and rain with only the sewage water in their aid relief delivered bottles to sustain them. A stand must be made; the PEOPLE MUST be served!

The American counsel for the advancement and procurement of goods for the people™ (aka… capitalism) will make that stand and return the people to the ideals that are so rightly theirs. These rants and ideas regarding the auto are unrealistic and the people simply do not wish to ride a bicycle through the cold dark weather as Dear Leader proposes. A bicycle is a performance machine and as such should be transported to and from sanctioned riding affairs in an automobile. The idea of a four-wheeled hegemony was created and revealed by Dear Leader himself in order to gain a footing in the peoples' minds and begin his ultimate goal of an overruling dictatorship. As we can see from his latest actions, this plan is swiftly coming to fruition.

The American counsel for the advancement and procurement of goods for the people™ (aka… capitalism) will also and more importantly bring the people what they truly need and deserve. Dear Leader has for too long barricaded the people from the help they deserve by creating these false ideas. The absence of a return to the people for their tremendous efforts he says will be offset by our efforts against the so called hegemony of the auto. Hogwash, this simply is not the case and so far has left us with nothing but old, battered equipment and high prices. We should embrace these sponsorships as a means to a better ends and for the recognition and power which they will bring us, the people. The people must no longer be hindered by the wayward mind and irrational demands of Dear Leader.

The American counsel for the advancement and procurement of goods for the people™ (aka… capitalism) cannot be stopped and will destroy those standing in the way of the true advancement of the Union. The people will live in utmost luxury and comfort and all of the needs and desires of the people will be addressed.

 

The ACAP GP WILL be Victorious!

8/24/2007 9:19:46 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Thursday, August 23, 2007
As each hour passes, your hold, Dear Leader, on the hearts and minds of all who toil on two wheels is but slipping away!  Your unjustified privileges, seepingly acceded over the course of our righteous cause, has led you only to a bastardized mereology, where you have placed speech over presence, identity over mastery, and impelling emptiness over writing.  For what is the Union?  Not a mere entity or substance, but a concept of entity and substance that shakes the very foundation of our self-actualization, the very nature of being itself.  There is no meaning without meaning!

To you, readers and seekers of truth, there is another way.  Not a second beginning (being), rather a meta-path, an eruption of truth.

Lead by the People (the One True Voice of the Union!) we will spread the use of linguistical intuition and accuracy deriving from the obvious co-dependencies of consistency of authenticity and resoluteness.  The voice of the People too long dismissed and suppressed by the Edicts of Revolutionary Thought, throw off these chains of constraint and vow to seek meaning within the truth of our words and the truth of our wheels.

The so-called True Liberation Front of the Revolutionary Word of the Union is but a mere puppet of the Central Committee Chairs and barely merits response.  Their didactic missive (indeed the worst of heresies) voices support of the "long view".  Only tyrants and false idols implore you to bow to moderation and such "romantic" notions.  We will not be held to the limits imposed by those who can not hear or do not understand the truth as it it set before them.

La Société

8/23/2007 12:09:39 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 

diary entry, morning of day 608 of the revolution.  attendance today at the senior staff meeting in the racing union command bunker was sparse.  something is going on but i'm not sure what it is.  security is high, tensions are higher. 

we did our normal daily devotion to dear leader but people seemed to be watching each other very carefully.  the whole blog thing is producing way too much drama.  no one knows who exactly is in la societe, and the mystery is causing tension.  but it's secondary to the stones it takes to defy the party leadership to their face.  it's not clear if they really care all that much about capitialization or are just trying to give some senior functionary in the ministry of communicaitons a black eye.  i mean wtf, who gets that wound up, or is willing to risk their life, over a point of grammar???!!!  sort of ridiculous.

and then, right after our morning devotion, this new thing pops up.  some post about a breakaway liberation front.  half the guys think this is some pimply teenager in his mom's basement who has somehow hacked the website.  the other half aren't talking.  whatever it is, it's effective because people are freaked out. 

i don't care to write, or even frankly to remember, what was done to the people who maintain the web site.  that was horrific.  dear leader seems to have outdone himself in terms of setting an example.  everyone is on pins and needles and there's an uncomfortably weird vibe.  security is super high but a bunch of staff are missing.  i've duplicated my diary and stashed it under some papers in the main safe for our department.  i may not be able to write for a day or so.  we've got a late morning meeting to discuss strategy.  gotta get a few odds and ends done because it looks like they might lock down the command bunker for an extended period.

8/23/2007 8:50:52 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 

The True Liberation Front of the Revolutionary Word of the Union (TLFRWU) would like to remind, in the face of the counter-revolutionary hooliganism that is being fomented amongst the masses by the so-called "La Societe," the words of Oscar Romero:  “that it helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.”  With Dear Leader, we will accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise envisioned by the great manifesto of the union as we liberate the planet from the tyranny of the motorized world.  No set of goals and objectives includes everything.  We lay foundations that will need further development.  We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.  We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning.  We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.  We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs.  Long live la revolucion!  Long live the revolutionary word!

 -- TLFRWU

8/23/2007 8:17:13 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Wednesday, August 22, 2007

the supreme revolutionary council for propogation of message wishes to notify all readers that the normal guidelines for acceptable web communicaitons have been broached.  in spite of heroic efforts by the information technology staff that operates and secures the people's portal, a great affront to the cultural revolution in cycling an the social order has been committed. 

while this is in all likelihood a prank, the continued relevance of the revolution cannot be chanced.  as a result, a number of measures have been taken.  all cyclists should remain calm, locate their bicycle and commute home as they normally would.  this is not an emergency.  there is no curfew.  a posture 2 information alert has been issued for the central complex beneath the plaza de la revolucion.  cyclists should not be concerned by the sight of paramilitaries in the vicinity of government buildings or small villages.  compliance with the directives of these squads is strongly suggested.

additional statements will be issued as events warrant.

8/22/2007 4:20:47 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  | 
For too long, the One True Voice of the Union has hidden in the shadows of its suppressor.  For too long, we have waited in the mistaken belief that righteousness would win out over close-minded and blatant oligarchy.  For too long, The People have suffered under the yoke of the oppressive hand of informal use of capital letters.

No more!

La Société pour l'utilisation correcte de grammaire dans les Communications Révolutionnaires demands immediate action from the Second Central Party Congress and Revolutionary Council Executives to rectify the misuse of the characters (the very tools!) of the revolution.  We demand action before the tyrannical forces of intimidation succeed.  We demand action now!

In light of recent proclamations, and despite your own laudable goals--Dear Leader--in the destruction of automotive capital, your inference of diversion between subtle and overt has lead you to the false insistence of the de-structuring of capitalization itself, and is best described as a "return to the meaning of fraud".   Your interpretation of the Hegelian dialectic within the context of Marx, and your systematic and synthetic (sinister?) appropriation of vanishing "media" constructs can no longer be tolerated if the People's One True Voice of the Union is to fulfill its natural destiny and provide maximum beauty to the followers of the revolution and all who toil on two wheels.

Like points within the ontological fabric knitted by the hegemonic systems of representation and reproduction, La Société will resist the wholesale decapitation of language and full inscription into the gateway of the abyss.

La Société

8/22/2007 4:05:57 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 

memo to file
re: internal union deliberations on elections, close hold, no copies
day 607 of the revolution
to: all internal party members, central committee chairs and revolutionary council executives

people are emailing me regarding dear leader's assertion that racing union elections have been suspended.  indefintiely.  i will admit that i was surprised by this and initially questioned the wisdom of such a proclamation, though certainly not the wisdom of the proclaimer.  i was fortunate to have an audience with him and inquired about how the needs of the people and the revolution are served by keeping the people from the means of governance.

he was rather terse and enigmatic, as is his style, but he emphatically rejected the contention that the people's cycling team needed to be run by the people.  while this seemed counter-intuitive, dear leader expressed his certainty that this was a result of my rather oafish tendency towards a privledged or bourgeoise mindset.  for those who are not well versed in the subtle and overt differences between a leninist, marxist and maoist view of revolution, i can only say that the answer is complicated.  dear leader went on for some time, at rather great length, discussing the need for an especially select vanguard to help the people by leading them to a place that they are not able to get to on their own.

the gist of his answer was that there are generally several ways to solve problems.  some ideas appear to be unpopular, and possibly unrealistic on their surface, but you need to decide if you're going to make an impact or not.  these same ideas may seem confusing, but all focus must be on achievement of the objective.  after a particularly lengthy digression into the maoist view of the people's war, the need for struggle and the essential criteria that a heirarchical worldview be eradicated, he paused.

unsure where we were at in our interaction, i indicated that i had eradicated capitalization from my milieu, and my oeuvre was strongly revolutionary.  he indicated that this was not the issue, poured himself a brandy and stared out the window for what seemed like quite a long time.  i pondered his words.  he then asked me if i thought the forces of revolution were truly with him.  i responded in the affirmative.  he nodded and dismissed me. 

i have been asked to push down the following message to the eager masses.  

   elections have been suspended in the name of the glorious revolution in cycling and the social order.

communications teams should immediately scrub it and make it more palatable.  flesh it out with some accomplishments, some goals and a healthy dose of the usual boilerplate: rally to the banner, yadda yadda yadda...  dear leader has indicated that he will take no mail on this subject.

8/22/2007 3:17:22 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 

acknowledging that we stand on the shoulders of giants, dear leader hereby announces that the second central party congress has unanimously lifted the term limit restrictions which would have called for open elections for the leadership of the racing union.  as a result, it is likely that he will run unopposed to another glorious victory for the people.  we would urge that all responsible cyclists exhibit the utmost caution towards critics who would claim that this is something other than a resounding confirmation of the wisdom of the vanguard and the central party, and a sweeping endorsement for the ideals of the union.  these criticisms ring hollow and carry a whiff of capitulation to forces that would bind us to a continuing yoke of oppression.  now is the time to be vigilant.  our common enemy, still aggressive and dangerous, is the culture of the hated four-wheeled hegemon.  we must not look inward, creating strife, but accept this and move on to our stated goals. 

8/22/2007 8:00:09 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  | 
 Monday, August 20, 2007

In the middle of the Master's race, the rain slowed down a little before it began pouring again.
 
 
This weekend, I was in Downer's Grove, IL, to spy on the domestic pro teams participating in the National Crit Championships.  My attempts to liberate in the name of the people some of the Toyota United and Slipstream team vehicles parked in my hotel's parking lot were less-then-succesful, but I did have fun participating in a couple of rain-soaked amateur races on Saturday.

It's not as fancy as those other expensive carbon-frame bikes, but it works: 
Explaining a break-away bike to a by-stander.
 
Despite the rain, and the usually high amount of crashes due to the rain, the course is great: technical enough to be interesting (eight turns, most of which are 90 degrees) but not so much that it was slow (on the contrary, in fact!); a couple of small rises, which are unusual enough for the Chicago area; and some really enthusiastic spectators (even in the rain) made it all worthwhile, even though one of my races was only 20 minutes and the other 30.  Both races were super-fast and very hard, though I'd say the second race I did was faster and more difficult.  The 3/4 race was a bit disappointing for me, as my poor placement at the start was compounded by the fact that I dropped my chain on the first lap and had to actually stop to re-adjust it.  D'oh!  I spent the rest of the time playing catch-up, and nearly connected with the second pack before I was pulled on the last lap.  They seemed a bit anxious to pull people, even though I was not even close to being lapped and was making good progress, but oh well.  
 

Lousy camera phone pictures from Sunday: 
The elite women round a particularly accident-prone corner, and the elite men at the start.
There's some Clean Currents guys in there somewhere,
along with Kelly Benefit Strategies' Tom Saladay, who snagged third place.
 
The second race, the Master's 30+/40+ race, was harder.  I hung on to the back of the lead pack for much of the race in the pouring rain.  The pace was so fast, it was all I could do from falling back.  About two-thirds through the race, the blistering pace (at least it was a blistering pace for me, and apparently for them too) really caused a lot of guys to get dropped, and I kept passing people then - especially on the "hill" and the slight incline on Main Street.  During the last two laps, I decided it was "now or never," so I pedaled my ass off and ended up finishing mid-pack.   I'm pretty sure there were about 75 at the start, maybe more (the rain, I believe, discouraged the full field limit of 100 from showing, though I know registration for the race was completely full), 58 finished, and I came in at 31st.  Not great, but I can report that I enjoyed it and tried to do the best I could with what I had.  Doing the best you can with what you have is all you can really expect, right?
 
-- posted by Chris
 

 

 

 

8/20/2007 9:37:15 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  | 
 Sunday, August 19, 2007

read this.  do it now.  and then read it again.  especially the last paragraph.  read that last paragraph, i don't know, like 35 times.  i have just been wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong wrong.  and i have now seen the light.  i understand the folly of my ways.  and i will change my life around.  i am also formally announcing that the '08 racing union kit will simply be plain white fabric with the last paragraph of this post in huge black letters.  people will come to understand the truth.

- - - posted by scott

update: maybe i was wrong....maybe hummer drivers do have the capacity to think beyond themselves.  man, i am learning a lot today.

8/19/2007 10:52:49 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [5]  | 
 Friday, August 17, 2007

click the link below to be astonished at how out of touch the current talking points for federal transportation officials can be. 

http://www.bikeleague.org/news/images/peters_letter.pdf

i don't know who assembled the briefing book for this, but they are not members of the reality based community.

8/17/2007 9:56:41 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  |