Superiority

Walking is superior to bicycling.

• My feet will never go flat before, during or after my walk.
• Jesus never rode a bicycle on water.
• "There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast." -- Paul Scott Mowrer
• My feet don't need a lock, rack or cage, and Eugene is not the foot theft capital of the nation.
• There is no need for, and therefore no such thing as, a walking helmet.
  
• I only have to beware of distracted and/or psychotic drivers about 5% of the time, when I'm crossing a street. And even then I mostly have stoplights and crosswalks on my side.
  
• The LORD has not required of us that we do justice, love mercy, and go for a humble bike ride with Him.
• There are no catchy eighties songs with accompanying cheesy dances about biking like an Egyptian.
• I'm fine with walking a mile in someone else's shoes, but I'll pass on riding a mile in someone else's bike shorts.
• Falls being inevitable, would you rather skin your knee or rack yourself on a solid metal bar?
• Cool, thick, velvety green grass is meant to be felt between toes, not gouged out by tires.
• Biking across the stage for your diploma, or down the aisle to your groom, will get you talked about. Doubly so if you pop a wheelie.
• "Walking takes longer than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed." -- Edward Abbey
• Expensive bicycles are a status symbol, but a foot is a foot is a foot.
• God didn't pluck Enoch off his bicycle straight into Heaven.
• "There is this to be said for walking: it's the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog." -- Edward Abbey
• If God had gone biking through Eden in the cool of the day, He would've roared up on Adam and Eve before they could hide in the trees, and pastors everywhere would be denied a prime sermon illustration.
• Making a bicycle consumes finite resources and energy, generates pollutants, and is repetitive drudgery; making feet is part of makin' babies, which is all-natural and fun.
• "Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities." -- Lewis Mumford

Cinema

Just like last summer, I've spent the past three months checking a lot of movies out of the Eugene Public Library. Here, without further elaboration, is how much I enjoyed each movie I watched from start to finish between May 1 and today.

★★★★
None.

★★★☆
A History of violence
Eagle vs shark
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Fireproof
Happy feet
Little Miss Sunshine
Primer
The Pursuit of happiness
There will be blood
Waking life
World's greatest dad

★★☆☆
Amazing grace
Capote
Dark city
Something the Lord made
The Accused
The Chronicles of Narnia. Prince Caspian
The Cider House rules
The Curious case of Benjamin Button
The History boys
The Hours
The Ring
Patton
Walk the line

★☆☆☆
Bulworth
Chronicles of Narnia. The voyage of the Dawn Treader
Know1ng
Martian child

☆☆☆☆
None.