Evel Knievel: 1938-2007
Another icon from my childhood has shuffled off the mortal coil. Like many boys in the 1970’s I was inspired by Evel’s exploits to build makeshift ramps and jump over things on my bicycle. It was a purple Schwinn Stingray-clone, a Sears ‘Spyder’. 1 gear, coaster brake, a rack for carrying school books, and a sparkly purple seat. Man! I loved that bike. What great adventures we had, most of which didn’t culminate with the sickening sound of melon-meets-pavement and/or a trip to the emergency room.
Anyway… as per usual, I digress.
Thank you Mr. Knievel, for inspiring an entire generation of boys to jump, crash, wipe off the blood, dust ourselves off and try again.
You were a real-life, flesh and blood superhero, something the world could use a few more of.
Godspeed, Evel, Godspeed.
I saw this on Boing Boing and just had to repost it here, so as to reach my massive readership (of bots, webcrawlers, and spiders).
In addition to looking cool and potentially empowering you with the speed of Mercury, they’re reflective, too!
They’re available for $15 from The Conran Shop.
Just in case anyone in the world (aside from me) is interested, I’ve added a page titled ‘Zeitgeist’ (the link is in the tab-bar at the top of the page). You might be familiar with Google’s “Zeitgeist”. Well, this is the same concept, it displays a tag cloud of random search terms which have led folks to my blog.
Right now it’s a bit sparse, but that will change as the database populates, ultimately displaying 100 random search terms.
I know I’m not the only one who finds this sort of thing fascinating; Zeitgeist was written by “Whooami” at village-idiot.org, so that apparently makes at least two of us.
