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.




















#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*