Choose Your Own Adventure — If you are just joining us: The Leonard Zelig of Punk Rock — Part I Learning Fast, Opting-Out Young, in the Waning Days of the NYC Punk Rock Scenechris-geiser.medium.com The Leonard Zelig of Punk Rock — Part II Act As If, Taking to the Stage, Getting it on Tape,chris-geiser.medium.com The Leonard Zelig of Punk Rock — Part III Deliver Us Oh Great Magnet, From the Foul Summer of 1986chris-geiser.medium.com

To Quote Henry Hill — “This, is the Bad Time”. — If you are just joining us: https://chris-geiser.medium.com/the-leonard-zelig-of-punk-rock-part-i-3d4e5b68b540 https://chris-geiser.medium.com/the-leonard-zelig-of-punk-rock-part-ii-963c55fd6d52 https://chris-geiser.medium.com/the-leonard-zelig-of-punk-rock-part-iii-b21cc2685442 And We are Back in It was a pot pie. To my expectation a chicken pot pie maybe. It was that gooey, and starchy, only the crust and the meat tasted good pot pie, but the chicken was a little gamey. Not quite turkey, not quite duck. Something in between.

A Not-So Surprising Double Standard on Technological Cheating — It warms my heart every time I hear the late, great Jon Polito discuss the topic of ethics in Joel and Ethan Coen’s Miller’s Crossing. Ethics in character Johnny Caspar’s view, is what separates us from the beasts of burden, what keeps us from anarchy. …

Deliver Us Oh Great Magnet, From the Foul Summer of 1986 — Punk rock systems thinking in the era of Rick Rubin. Aquanet in a white can and the bees that followed. Stepping in shit on college radio with the Queen of Punk! Walking together and rocking together on Thanksgiving. A reformation and breakdown by Winter! For those catching up: https://chris-geiser.medium.com/the-leonard-zelig-of-punk-rock-part-i-3d4e5b68b540

Planes, Trains, Automobiles, Slug, and QOM Hunting with GFNY Champ Jill Patterson, — The GFNY Lourdes Tourmalet Experience — Working systematically outward from Paris — let’s just call it the Center of France even if that’s not mathematically true, all corners but two have now been touched. (GFNY Grand Ballon I am looking at you!) This French soul that has been growing within me since high school (and accelerating…

Act As If, Taking to the Stage, Getting it on Tape, — (For those just tuning in, here’s the link to Part I — https://chris-geiser.medium.com/the-leonard-zelig-of-punk-rock-part-i-3d4e5b68b540) A Jumbled Memory of the Ritz The Ritz was one of the larger venues in New York City. And in as much as the Ritz eventually became more of a concept applied to a couple of locations, it was at that time serving…

Learning Fast, Opting-Out Young, in the Waning Days of the NYC Punk Rock Scene — Prologue It’s kind of a cathartic experience to leave something behind so completely, only to have it back in your face so gradually, and then so suddenly. With the impending release of a demo that I played on, recorded sometime in 1986, I am suddenly face-to-face with a past that I…

GFNY World Championship 2022 Did Not Disappoint! — And so we raced! Things seemed to come together beautifully for the, finally here, 10th edition of the GFNY World Championship NYC. The carnival atmosphere of the Fort Lee, NJ expo area was building early as my teammates on the Gruppo Sportivo-GFNY graduated a new class of amazing group riders…

It’s Entirely Possible I’ve Already Moved On — “Tomorrow it will be December. Now a full month plus from the end-of-October GFNY Marathon and bike race double.” That was the first line of this very same article as it was begun almost three months ago. Sitting here in what can be officially termed “late February”, I noticed this…