What is the difference between "dawn" and "sunrise"?
Someone, I forget who, said that if you call it "dawn", you probably aren't awake for it. Whatever you call it, it's early in the morning.
I'm not complaining. I was just thinking of a title for this post. "Dawn In The Bronx" seems like a Chamber of Commerce slogan. So I opted for "Mott Haven Morning." Whatever you call it, I was up for it. And it was good.
I just happen to live in one of those states where today--Lincoln's birthday--is a holiday.
When I was a kid, it was a holiday everywhere in the US. So was George Washington's birthday, the 22nd of this month. In 1971, Congress passed a law that collapsed the two holidays into one Federal holiday, known as dead white Presidents' Day. That day is observed on the third Monday of February, which happens to be a week from today. Individual states, however, could choose to observe Lincoln's birthday. Luckily for me, New York is one of them.
It's not likely that Abe ever rode anything we would recognize as a bicycle. Quite possibly the closest I ever came to seeing our 16th President on two wheels was this:
I would guess, from my admittedly limited experience with him (as a person), that he had a lot more fun than Abe ever seemed to have!
(By the way, Sheldon's birthday is 14 July--le jour de Bastille. Could it have been any other day?)
In a neighborhood where I once lived, there was a "high concept" bicycle shop.
Perhaps that tells you something about the neighborhood. As far as I could tell, though, "high concept" meant there wasn't much there but the intent of the owners. They didn't have the space to stock lots of high-quality (or merely expensive) bikes and equipment, but you were supposed to know somehow that such stuff would be there if the owners had the wherewithal for it.
It was sort of like conceptual art, I guess: The owner's intent, like the artist's, was more important than the product--if indeed there was one. That might've been the reason why the shop stayed in business for a few years before the dot-com bubble burst just after the turn of the century/milennium.
This picture got me to thinking about that place:
Are those conceptual or high-concept wheels?
