Month: February 2016
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Central New Jersey, February 6, 2015
I drove in a rental car up to Princeton to stay with my sister Betsy, and see my brother Alex and his band perform in Brooklyn. My major plans for a huge New Jersey ride went out the window. The weather, in New Jersey style, was just too unpleasant, and I scaled it back to […]
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The burbs of New Orleans, January 25, 2016
For years, smug liberals in New Orleans have been making fun of Metairie and Kenner, mostly built in the nineteen fifties and sixties; the principal suburbs of New Orleans. Just like all over America, starting after the Second World War, and accelerating in the sixties, middle class whites fled the city limits of New Orleans […]
urban bicycle journeys 