La Vie Velominatus is set to become the subject of intense scholarly analysis next week, as Frank Strack will receive an honorary PhV from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario (chapeau to @ten B for the PhV). It’s been a heady week for the cycling types around these parts; Strack will close out festivities that included the Bike Snob and Mario Cipollini. Too fat and slow to overlap with and give Super Mario the reach around, Strack will settle for regaling an audience on the Rules, Lexicon, and the finer details of la Vie Velominatus as the second speaker in the McMaster Rolling Seminar: La Vie Vélo.
On Thursday, October 4, he will sit down with Herr Professor Doktor Steampunk for a conversational interview in front of an enthralled public audience in the lofty and musty confines of McMaster University’s University Club (bow ties & elbow patches are a part of the dress code and polysyllabic pedantry is the language of choice””word is Strack will be sporting an orange ascot). This is a big moment for the Velominati community; as you all know, recognition from within the ivory tower (in all its cloistered wisdom) is the quintessential symbol of success in some cultures. Of course, now that the Velominati are under the intellectual microscope, they will be scrutinized, deconstructed, and proven to be nothing more than some post-modern, fictitious expression of postcolonial angst that doesn’t really exist. Tant pis.
In addition, Strack will also spend an evening at Café Domestique to imbibe fine beers and share his wisdom with the locals in what should be a rip-roaring good time. Come one; come all. This is, in effect, an intellectual Cogal of the mind. Sort of. Not really. But it should be great.
The details:
Seminar Session (open to the public)
When: Thursday, October 4 @ 2:30pm
Where: University Club’s West Room, McMaster University
Soirée @ Café Domestique (Millers Lane, Dundas)
When: Thursday, October 4 @ 8pm
Both events are free and open to the public, and everyone is encouraged to attend. The series is sponsored by the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award. Further inquiries can be sent to egan(at)mcmaster(dot)ca.
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I really wish I were independently wealthy so I could jet around to all the Velominati stuff. I hate being out in no-mans land. The only cool thing about living in Idaho is that I went for a 100k ride Saturday morning and only go passed by about ten cars.
PhV? Awesome!! Congrats Frank. Welcome to Canada, eh? Look forward to meeting you Thursday.
@Steampunk
Cipo and earnest North American academics, what a combo.
@Steampunk
I'm a bit relieved to hear that Cipo news. We were getting uncomfortably close to relevance and greatness.
@The Pressure
See? At least one person is showing up. And if @The Pressure manages to stay awake, that'll be one more than most of my lectures.
Frank, for someone so fastidious about appearance, does the text on the invite/flyer not grate on your senses? I'm certainly not the one to do it, but someone should explain the finer points of typography. Hyphenation & widows everywhere.
Oh, please!
@Jamin
No husbands were killed in the making of the flyer. I was adamant on that point.
@Steampunk
whew,okay, what little respect I had for you still stands. Was worried that you had shelled out a big chunk of your grant money to fly him over.
@Buck Rogers
But somehow flying Frank across the continent means I'm still aces in your books?
Second event poster (no hyphens or widows were hurt in the making of said poster). Advertising the café event. Krys @ Café Domestique assures me that there will be an abundance of frites in the house. And some of the most excellent Cheval Blanc's Belgian offerings on tap.