Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Please, Pepe! Can we have the Death Penalty?

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My Frontier Thesis said...

He worshipped the Ferrari Enzo and now it's gone! What's the point of him living another day?!?

Note: going really fast in a fine machine, for thrill, has yet to appeal to me. I can see going fast to save time, but I could care less about the roller-coaster reason. Does that upset you, JJ?

3/27/2007 1:49 PM
Mr roT said...

Nah, I figure you Plains Indiots have never seen a curve in your lives. That's why there are only dragstrips around.
Still, there's acceleration to be had that way, I suppose. I think the attraction is always the fake
danger. Pepe had a Kz1000 he used to tear ass around New Orleans on. I had a BMW back in Texas. Better days than these with a 90 mph wind in your face, live oaks blurring by and each dip in the road making you a little weightless. A pure sense of freedom I would get on those rides.
What an Enzo is like I couldn't say. I imagine it's more violent and even better.
Matter of taste.

3/27/2007 2:47 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

Yes, a biker friend of mine from Pennsylvania says he loves Dakota highways and Interstates for that reason: you can just open the throttle and let it all out. What's a Kz1000? Some kind of two-wheeled Kawasaki 1,000cc Death Machine, I'm guessing? I'll bet AA and AI would put down money to get Pepe one that would go even faster...

Did your BMW have the patented drive shaft instead of the standard motorcycle chain? Someone told me they were quiet and smooth shifting.

I've yet to read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence, but understand the allure -- or feeling -- of freedom inherent in the openness of a bike. I'll bet the open bike would be better than an enclosed Enzo, regardless of speed. You ever catch the Sturgis Biker Rally in August? I'm going to encourage Pepe to take his French-Socialist political campaign there this summer.

3/27/2007 2:58 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

ok but can we torture him before?

3/27/2007 3:16 PM
Mr roT said...

Yeah, Pepe's was a Kawasaki literbike riceburner. You're right that it's fun to open a bike up on open straight road also, ut the curves coming into Austin on the country roads are just lovely.
The bimmer did indeed have a driveshaft. I think they all have had them since about WWII. Had chain bikes before and since. They are a pain to keep tight and lubed (as Pepe can attest in multiple contexts).
Pirsig is fun. Thought about him while we were in Bozeman. Been 20 years since I read that stuff though. Might like it less now that I think phiosophy is for the profs at the college that mostly want to imress with erudition rather than teaching anything useful or true. Taking dirty pictures is a much nobler profession.
I have heard from serious motorcyclists that Ferraris are a different thing than what you might expect.
Friend of mine here in town has ridden a lot of top-notch bikes and thought that's it for performance unil his boss took him for a ride in a new Spyder I think F460.
He said it was just amazing.

Pepe: Yes, you're right. International conventions don't apply to such idiots. I suggest he be drawn and quartered using 4 Yugos.

3/27/2007 3:40 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

JJ and Pepe: Click Here for footage of the Enzo smash! Remember what Nietzsche said: one must first destroy in order to create art.

JJ said: ...now that I think phiosophy is for the profs at the college that mostly want to imress with erudition rather than teaching anything useful or true. Taking dirty pictures is a much nobler profession

You might be onto something there, JJ. However, first read this before you decide entirely. Note: let me know if you want me to e-mail it your way.

3/27/2007 3:51 PM
Mr roT said...

Sure, send it. I think he's shown the speciousness of business management precisely in his showing that philosophy is applicable.
Let's see him design a jet engine.

3/28/2007 9:19 AM
Pepe le Pew said...

I hope this is enough to rally you to the "versaillian" view that some people simply shouldn't have access to some of the finer things in life.

3/28/2007 12:10 PM
Mr roT said...

perhaps not, but why's that person always me, goddamnit!?

3/28/2007 7:09 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

JJ, you're right: what purpose does the humanities have in even existing? Besides documenting change throughout time, besides analyzing how and why culture decides — consciously or not — how to Remember the Past, besides taking the time to conduct tens of thousands of interviews for the Veterans History Project...

Other than that, it's all just a bunch of bullshit. Let's all be Nietzschean, forget the past, live for the primordial NOW, and go fast on crotch rockets and jet engines. No time for reflection there! Reflection is for pussies, right JJ?...

3/28/2007 10:33 PM

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