peter's podcast

Episodes

1. 7

   MOBE 09 The SHOCKING Bike Ride

   Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained number 9. "The SHOCKING Bike Ride" by Peter Gelman. A Drunken Midnight Gothic Tale set in rural Oregon. With odd behavior and ruminations. A strange adventure on a Frankenstein bike and Pink Girlie Bike. With insights from the Dalai Lama's visit to Portland.…

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   Apr 23, 2009

   36m
2. 6

   MOBE 08 This Machine Cures Melancholia

   Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained number 8. "This Machine Cures Melancholia" by Peter Gelman. Concerns a winter bike ride in Portland. Bad moods, names for mountains, the pleasures of learning Spanish. A Kapow! The virtues of Mexican cactus thorns and tire slime. A lesson about fixing tire…

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   Nov 10, 2007

   25m
3. 5

   MOBE 07 Cycling Toward the End of History

   Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained number 7 by Peter Gelman… Concerns the metaphysics of a cycling with a Bicycle Dynamo Hub in a time of war. A dynamo hub generates electricity for a handlebar lamp. The narrator discovers that a sprite lives inside the dynamo. He sees the light! He is a witness…

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   Oct 15, 2007

   30m
4. 4

   MOBE 06 The CycloPimpernel in the Adventure of the Free French-Munchie Ambush

   Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained number 6, by Peter Gelman. This is the first Cyclo-Pimpernel adventure. He is a very handsome bicycle superhero. In this adventure, he seeks some free French munchies that some suburban grocery stores are throwing out in protest. Joan of Arc may figure in this...

   Apr 25, 2007

   36m
5. 3

   MOBE 05 Pedaling Through the Paleolithic

   Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained, number 5. Pedaling Through the Paleolithic. A true story of life in America. By Peter Gelman. www.DangerQuestMysteries.com. Includes office tribal warfare, a review of Ice Age TV channels, Critical Mass bike ride hunt, mastodon on the highway, sabertooth tigers...

   Apr 17, 2007

   33m
6. 2

   MOBE 04 Coffebike

   Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained number 4... Coffeebike... by Peter Gelman. A wide-awake bicycle tale of our times. The narrator loves his coffeebike, and asks, can I stop drinking too much coffee in our nervous times?

   Apr 16, 2007

   35m
7. 1

   MOBE 03 A Brief Encounter with the Surly Shakespearean Insult-Quoting Bicycle

   Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained, number 3. A Brief Encounter with the Surly Shakespearean Insult Quoting Bicycle, by Peter Gelman. The narrator discovers that civilization has not fallen from the Y2K moment. In a spirit of optimism about the 21st century he discovers a bicycle with a strange...

   Apr 14, 2007

   49m