The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time

From 2009-2019, The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time explored far-flung areas of Los Angeles on bike. Departing from Koreatown's California Donuts #21, each Wednesday night we set out on a unique route based around a different theme. Sometimes historical, sometimes conceptual, often nonsensical, sometimes a game, our routes aimed to give participants a balance between seeing new things and seeing old things anew. Convinced that bicycle infrastructure encompasses much more than bike lanes and river paths, we climbed hills, wandered off-road, and ventured underground to manifest unexpected connections between otherwise disconnected places.

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#1 - #1

#2 - Extra-Terrestrial Edition

#3 - The Freeway Ride, Part One

#4 - The Freeway Ride, Part Deux

#5 - Le Tour de Smell

#6 - has any body done this route

#7 - The Harmony of the Spheres

#8 - How the Other Half Live

#9 - Donuts to Donuts, Dust to Dust

#10 - A Capitol Ride! Capital!

#11 - Pic-a-nic in the Park

#12 - Dr. Frankenstein's Postcapitalist, Promethean Ride to the Glendale Galleria (& Back!)

#13 - We Ain't Got No Money, Honey, but We Got Rain

#14 - Mr. Belvedere Fun Kit

#15 - Streetwarming Party

#16 - VIP Studio Tour

#17 - Tall and Pointy, You Say?

#18 - My So-Called Ride

#19 - The Geocache Treasure Hunt

#20 - Of Donuts, Ducks and Dons

#21 - Rheology and Reification

#22 - Nobody Drinks Tap Water in Paris

#23 - You Say It's Your Birthday

#24 - What's Up, HULLYWO D?

#25 - Leftovers

#26 - Oh, Little Tree

#27 - Dendrophilia

#28 - Non Sequitur

#29 - The Hacienda Has Been Built

#30 - Schrödinger's Cats & Dogs

#31 - Fail Better Blues

#32 - Your Name in Lights

#33 - Trouble Till the Robins Come

#34 - I Saw the Sign, Part 1: A-M

#35 - Fun and Health

#36 - Make-Up Exam

#37 - Late Winter/Early Spring Olympics

#38 - Manifest Destiny

#39 - Vernon Equinox

#40 - The Reynard Cycle

#41 - Miniatures, Multiples, and Mergers

#42 - Angels Dancing on the Head of a Pin

#43 - The Sleeping Giants

#44 - Ra-Ra-Rasputin

#45 - Big Trees in Little Taipei

#46 - A Bone to Pick

#47 - Ethereal Planes

#48 - Los Californios' Penultimate Stand

#49 - Austerity Measures

#50 - Blue Monday B-Side

#51 - Surprise! Party!

#52 - Call Me Al

#53 - We Invented the Remix

#54 - Breaking Bread

#55 - Freedom Fries

#56 - Atoms in Wonderland

#57 - Waxed Mustaschio

#58 - Influence Pedaling

#59 - Ride Te Ching

#60 - Sea Shanties

#61 - The One True Manifesto of Slow

#62 - Circuit Breaker

#63 - Forks and Bob Hope

#64 - Island Tea Time

#65 - Los Angeles Rides Itself

#66 - Endless Summer

#67 - Sortition, Not Saturation

#68 - Cruciviaverbalism

#69 - Flying the Dread Zeppelin

#70 - October 27th

#71 - Beverly Hillbillies

#72 - El Dorado, Here We Come!

#73 - Bunny Slope

#74 - The Feast of Saint Gobblicus

#75 - Knight to Queen's Bishop 3

#76 - Om to the Nom Nom

#77 - Whither Yon Garden of Beer, Adolphus?

#78 - In Absentia

#79 - Wheels of Fortune

#80 - Qunckk!

#81 - Picnic de la Luna, Luna

#82 - Butterfly Subdivision

#83 - Crouching Bunny, Hidden Dragon

#84 - Where the Wild Things Aren't

#85 - The Pilgrimage

#86 - Careful Whisper

#87 - Whistling Past, Then Paving Over

#88 - Wedding Planners

#89 - Fresh Prince of Somewhere

#90 - Game Night

#91 - The Horn of Gabriel

#92 - Paranoia!

#93 - Gondolier Awareness Week

#94 - Inconvenient Transdimensional Portals

#95 - Sous les Pavés, la Plage

#96 - The Big Questions?

#97 - Donut Shop at the End of the Universe

#98 - I Saw the Sign, Part 2: N-Z

#99 - Transmission Impossible

#100 - The Fifth Element

#101 - A Bike Odyssey

#102 - Cycles and Vectors, Onwards and Upwards

#103 - Chasing the Sun and Moon

#104 - Purity Ring

#105 - Calling Occupants of Extraplanetary Craft

#106 - Welcome Willkomen Bienvenue Bienvenido

#107 - Start Spreadin' the News

#108 - Celebrate Your Scars

#109 - Coefficient of Fruction

#110 - Sous les Parcs, la Poubelle

#111 - Boulevard of Broken Eggs

#112 - A Subjective History

#113 - Needle and Thread

#114 - The 834th Photo Signal Detachment

#115 - Diamonds Aren't Forever

#116 - Open the Seven Gates of Transcendental Consciousness

#117 - Crypt-o-Geography

#118 - It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

#119 - A Different Tack

#120 - And She's Buying a Stairway to the Closest Theosophic Equivalent to Heaven

#121 - Boundary Issues

#122 - Who Likes Worms Anyway?

#123 - What Is a Picnic, Alex?

#124 - More Weaving than Bobbing

#125 - The Over-Exaggerated Cough

#126 - Going with the Flow

#127 - Ghost Train

#128 - Shrines

#129 - Worst. Ride. Ever.

#130 - Tabula Rasa

#131 - Recuperation

#132 - [REDACTED]

#133 - Special Weapons & Tactics, Pt.1

#134 - Special Weapons & Tactics, Pt.2

#135 - The Devil's Footprints

#136 - Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

#137 - The Surface

#138 - Interstitial / Intercalary

#139 - BIG

#140 - Me Lucky Charms

#141 - Smooth Sailing Ahead

#142 - Top Best Number One Greatest Ride of All Time

#143 - Quest Mode

#144 - Cutting 'Em Off at the Pass

#145 - The Los Angeles Abstract Company

#146 - Spheristics

#147 - Many Rivers to Cross

#148 - Cravat Emptor

#149 - Factotum

#150 - Sasquatcentennial

#151 - Finals Week

#152 - Rebirth Narratives

#153 - Wall of Sound

#154 - ___mmMmMmMMmMMMMm...

#155 - Boomtown

#156 - Dead Presidents

#157 - A Tale of Two Fields

#158 - On the Discretization of Continuous Features

#159 - Modern Pentathlon

#160 - Crazy Eights

#161 - Portals for Mortals

#162 - Bing Bang Digga Rigga Dong

#163 - Romancing the Stone

#164 - The Straight Story

#165 - Who Watches the Watchers?

#166 - Parasites!

#167 - Ride Like a Pirate Day

#168 - Monastery of the Kai

#169 - Square Town/Town Square

#170 - Salt + Pepa - Salt

#171 - Loch and Key

#172 - Survive

#173 - Plus Ça Change

#174 - Decelebrate

#175 - It's Like Jazz

#176 - Camera Obscura

#177 - Tame the Valley OH!

#178 - The Great Indoors

#179 - Golden Fleece

#180 - Southwest Passage

#181 - In Memoriam H.H.

#182 - Do You Believe in Magic?

#183 - Between a Rock and a Donut Place

#184 - Don't Stop Believin'

#185 - Second Nature

#186 - Chasing Rainbows / Whistling Dixie

#187 - The Arcades Project

#188 - Giant Steps

#189 - On the Approximation of Pi

#190 - A Little Bit Country

#191 - Stot It Up

#192 - Lycanthropics

#193 - Plus Ultra

#194 - Society of the Spectacle

#195 - Geology in Action!

#196 - Throne Games

#197 - Disaster Preparedness

#198 - A Rio Runs Through It

#199 - Marginalia

#200 - Re:Entry

#201 - The Model Home

#202 - Not Quite the End of the Line

#203 - The Great Reworking

#204 - Season Premiere

#205 - Self-Evident Truths

#206 - The Swing of Things

#207 - Sentinel Education

#208 - Troll Hunters

#209 - Uncool Ranch

#210 - Connect-the-Dots

#211 - This Too Shall Pass

#212 - The Round Up

#213 - Big Block of Cheese Day

#214 - Silent Drape Runners

#215 - Frames of Mind

#216 - Harvest Moon

#217 - Stone Cold Bluff

#218 - Burying the Lede

#219 - Mountain Building

#220 - Theory of Relativity

#221 - Park Life

#222 - The Devil May Care

#223 - Cargo Culture

#224 - 100 Yrs

#225 - The Not-So-Great Divide

#226 - Just a Ride to Wherever

#227 - Santa's Workshop

#228 - Baby, It's Cold Outside

#229 - Sylvan/Arboreal

#230 - More of the Same

#231 - Tree Trimming Tea Timing

#232 - Polar Pool Party

#233 - Ground Truth

#234 - The Afterlife of Architecture

#235 - Uncanny Alley

#236 - Various Small Detours

#237 - Convergence

#238 - Taking the Lane

#239 - Jayriding

#240 - Daylight Shuffling

#241 - Parenthesis

#242 - Modern Monarchy

#243 - Submaximal Grodiness

#244 - Arboriculture

#245 - Pass the Zanja

#246 - Goldfish and Lincoln Logs

#247 - The High Road

#248 - The Brass Menagerie

#249 - Spark de Triomphe

#250 - Autonomous Navigation

#251 - Readin Ritin Rithmetic

#252 - The Cat Came Back

#253 - Golden Mean Streets

#254 - Notes from the Underground

#255 - The One That Got Away

#256 - Powers of Two

#257 - Because It's There

#258 - Confectionary

#259 - Waterworld

#260 - The Fix in the Styx

#261 - Barnstorming

#262 - Sidetracked

#263 - Now That's What I Call a Bike Ride!

#264 - Im Girum Imus Nocte

#265 - Coasting

#266 - A Three Hour Tour

#267 - Golfpack

#268 - A Trip to the Funny Farm

#269 - Roads? Where We're Going, We Don't Need 'Roads'

#270 - Spooky Moon Picnic

#271 - Hunting Season

#272 - Magic Eight Ball

#273 - The Riding Dead

#274 - Edge of Oblivion

#275 - Boss Battle

#276 - Actually Great L.A. Date Idea

#277 - Practice Picnic

#278 - Landscraping

#279 - Renaissance Poetry

#280 - Goatwatch

#281 - Trail Mix

#282 - The Butterfly Effect

#283 - Donut Is the New Pink

#284 - Let the Eagle Soar

#285 - Rock, Rock, Rocket Ride

#286 - Waggle Danceathon

#287 - Coexist

#288 - Passed Participle

#289 - Higher Learning

#290 - A Woman's Places

#291 - The Lion King 2 1/2

#292 - An Abbreviated Topography of Slow Jams

#293 - A Fool's Errand

#294 - To Grandmother's House

#295 - Mount Disappointment

#296 - The Earth and Its Days

#297 - Le Tour des Tours

#298 - Scout's Honor

#299 - Waste Lands

#300 - Divine Rods

#301 - Cross Purposes

#302 - Dune

#303 - The Great Unknown

#304 - Forty-Two

#305 - Surrender to Destiny

#306 - Celestial Reasonings

#307 - The Braidy Bunch

#308 - Making the Grade

#309 - Designer Handbags

#310 - Odd Lots

#311 - Veni Vidi Vinci

#312 - Space Filling

#313 - The Koreatown Crit

#314 - Heat Wave

#315 - It Could Work

#316 - Marine Layers

#317 - Nelson

#318 - Halo Vision

#319 - Like a Virgin

#320 - False Recapitulation

#321 - Respite Ourselves

#322 - Something-Something Hoverboards

#323 - P+7

#324 - Getting Your Lines Crossed

#325 - A Real Cool Hand

#326 - Bitter Angles of Our Nature

#327 - Memento Mori

#328 - The Pursuit of Excellence

#329 - Further Reading

#330 - All Snag Dells and Gall Sells

#331 - Annular Indulgence

#332 - The Final Countdown

#333 - Porosity

#334 - Slice of Life

#335 - The March of Progress

#336 - Enemy of the Stars

#337 - The Cronut Ride

#338 - Winter Wonderland

#339 - Blame It on the Rain

#340 - Watch Your Step

#341 - Super Wednesday

#342 - Up the River

#343 - Platformer

#344 - Going Soft

#345 - Broad Strokes

#346 - By the Numbers

#347 - The Ridge and Valley Set

#348 - Reconnoitering the Rim

#349 - Channeling

#350 - Mid-Ranging

#351 - Expobfuscation

#352 - Pushing Product

#353 - Parallel Circuits

#354 - The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles

#355 - Après le Déluge

#356 - Luck of the Draw

#357 - We Didn't Start the Fire

#358 - No Two Equals Are the Same

#359 - Texture Mapping

#360 - Piste Off

#361 - Sirius Leisure

#362 - Sprawling All Angels

#363 - Genii Loci

#364 - Putting Baby in the Corner

#365 - Brace Yourself

#366 - Junction Conjunction

#367 - Dislocation

#368 - Spumoni

#369 - On Some Faraway Beach

#370 - Down the Chute

#371 - Gone to Seed

#372 - Medical Attention

#373 - Transverse Traverse

#374 - Amenities

#375 - Grade F Book Report

#376 - Heavens Can Wait

#377 - Idiocracy

#378 - Overhead

#379 - No Thanks

#380 - Pole to Pole

#381 - The Backyard's Backyard

#382 - Crux Deluxe

#383 - Plan B

#384 - Surf 'n' Turf

#385 - Public Figures

#386 - Megalomania

#387 - Oracular Rehearsal

#388 - Reliquaries and Rites of Way

#389 - Rusty Belt Loops

#390 - Jerry-Built

#391 - Flight of the Bumblebee

#392 - Not 2 Fast Not 2 Furious

#393 - Unlucky Charms

#394 - Post-Sooth

#395 - Common Places

#396 - Heated Waves

#397 - Crux Redux

#398 - Déjà View

#399 - Breathing Easy

#400 - Over the Hill

#401 - Three Act-Structures

#402 - Exquisite Corpus

#403 - Vaporwave Mix

#404 - Bumped

#405 - Refugia

#406 - Commercial Break

#407 - Exactitude in Science

#408 - Commencement

#409 - Untethered

#410 - The Distant Vicinity

#411 - Latitude Adjustment

#412 - The Woman in the High Castle

#413 - Gradient Assent

#414 - Upside Down and Better

#415 - Views of the View

#416 - Double America

#417 - The Bends

#418 - The Ultimate Destination

#419 - Mechanical Advantage

#420 - Eastern Time

#421 - (11) 200/222 F.B

#422 - Jaunty McJauntface

#423 - Turning Points

#424 - Lazy Eights

#425 - My First Passage

#426 - LOL and Behold

#427 - Rolling with the Big Ducks

#428 - The Double Up

#429 - Mechanical Royalties

#430 - For the Birds

#431 - Hasty Pudding

#432 - Bane and Gain

#433 - Meatballs

#434 - Chilly Winds Don't Blow

#435 - Peak-a-Boo

#436 - Tree Trimming Tea Timing

#437 - Square Town/Town Square

#438 - Whistling Past, then Paving Over

#439 - Exquisite Corpus

#440 - Competing Scales

#441 - The Horn of Gabriel

#442 - Where the Wild Things Aren't

#443 - Reliquaries and Rites of Way

#444 - Back in the Loop

#445 - 85%

#446 - Chiaroscuro

#447 - Pass Participle

#448 - The Third String

#449 - Do You Have Rock n Roll?

#450 - Another Green World

#451 - Recovery

#452 - Casting to Type

#453 - The Idea of North

#454 - Connective Consciousness

#455 - Fringe Toast

#456 - 45 Minutes

#457 - June Gloom

#458 - Dad Bod

#459 - Baker's Dozen (Minus Four)

#460 - Dreams of HULLYWO D

#461 - The Battle of Los Angeles

#462 - The Pursuit of Chill

#463 - Out of Network

#464 - Overshoot

#465 - Nowhere, in Particular

#466 - Echoes and Accidents

#467 - The History of Transportation

#468 - Ascents and Sensibility

#469 - Property Values

#470 - Land of Half-Dozen Lakes

#471 - Canada Dry

#472 - Mondegreen

#473 - Suburbs Searching

#474 - The Lively Hours

#475 - Banjos! Banjos! Banjos!

#476 - That's a Picnic

#477 - Phantom Flows

#478 - Fire Roads

#479 - Ready Cut Go

#480 - Saddle Up

#481 - Chance Procedures

#482 - Lower Expectations

#483 - Tangents

#484 - Stocking Stuffers

#485 - Far-Flung

#486 - Eclipse of the Temple of the Sun

#487 - High and/or Dry

#488 - Breefy

#489 - Back to School

#490 - Domestic Bliss

#491 - House Rules

#492 - Stairmaster 2

#493 - On the Radar

#494 - TGI Passage's

#495 - Time Switches

#496 - [Yet Another Precipitation-Related Pun

#497 - Old Beginnings

#498 - Extraction Distraction

#499 - The Frond Files

#500 - Here Be Dragons

#501 - Classic Fit

#502 - Strange Attractors

#503 - Basin and Range

#504 - Figures and Grounds

#505 - Unearthly Routes

#506 - Es Very Nice

#507 - A Castle in the Mind

#508 - Victory Donuts

#509 - The Last Hill*