http://austinontwowheels.org/2008/08/06/new-fashion-writer-needed/ The Online Magazine of Austin Cycling Culture Tue, 15 May 2012 00:59:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://austinontwowheels.org/2008/08/06/new-fashion-writer-needed/comment-page-1/#comment-34 elliott Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:28:47 +0000 http://austinbikeblog.org/?p=133#comment-34 Unfortunately, there is a trend right now at the larger papers to put non-race related bike articles in the fashion section, as if bikes are like a hand bag or night club trend. I hope they'll become part of a larger category on sustainable living, but I'm probably expecting too much from the media. Unfortunately, there is a trend right now at the larger papers to put non-race related bike articles in the fashion section, as if bikes are like a hand bag or night club trend. I hope they’ll become part of a larger category on sustainable living, but I’m probably expecting too much from the media.

]]> http://austinontwowheels.org/2008/08/06/new-fashion-writer-needed/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Edward Abbey Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:44:07 +0000 http://austinbikeblog.org/?p=133#comment-32 The fashion columnist needs to be sacked. Where is the petition? Fashion is about fashion and bikes are fashion. Creepy losers in planet-trashing tin-boxes are sooo last century. Just as there are no fashions in steam engines, there are no fashions in cars. Cars are history, admittedly one of the more interesting areas of industrial archaeology, but history nonetheless. Also, the tone is wrong. If the Critical Mass folk wrote on their blogs about how they don't 'set light to tin-boxes, occupants inside is because the fumes from their filthy little vehicles would release toxic poisons into the atmosphere' people would not be impressed. I don't see why the fashion columnist is able to say that only tickets and getting the tin-box scratched stopped a massacre of innocents. It's time to get that Austin Chronicle fashion columnist singled out and sacked. The fashion columnist needs to be sacked. Where is the petition?
Fashion is about fashion and bikes are fashion. Creepy losers in planet-trashing tin-boxes are sooo last century. Just as there are no fashions in steam engines, there are no fashions in cars. Cars are history, admittedly one of the more interesting areas of industrial archaeology, but history nonetheless.
Also, the tone is wrong. If the Critical Mass folk wrote on their blogs about how they don’t ‘set light to tin-boxes, occupants inside is because the fumes from their filthy little vehicles would release toxic poisons into the atmosphere’ people would not be impressed. I don’t see why the fashion columnist is able to say that only tickets and getting the tin-box scratched stopped a massacre of innocents.
It’s time to get that Austin Chronicle fashion columnist singled out and sacked.

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