Not too long ago a cycling YouTuber reached out to let me know he’d be in New York and asked if I’d like to meet and be in one of his videos. I admit I didn’t know who he was, but I looked up his channel and saw that he had like eleventy million subscribers. Sadly, I never made it as a YouTuber myself, despite my tragically underappreciated Ritchey Breakaway assembly edit from 2010:
Therefore, I must rely on much more talented videographers in order to “pivot to video” (see, for example, my controversial helmet video with Terry Barentsen) and so naturally, I agreed. And here is the video in which I appear, and which I have not even had a chance to watch yet, what with wrapping presents and making fruitcakes and all:
Though naturally I did find the time to skip to the part with me in it:
Fortunately, they did me the favor of cutting out the worst of my rambling and bloviating, though at one point as I was blathering and gesticulating, I noticed a familiar face walking right past us and realized it was Hank Azaria:
I was hoping he made it into the shot as an extra, but alas if he did then he must have wound up among the footage that was cut. But our eyes did meet as I was prattling on for the camera, and I couldn’t help but feel as though he was looking at me with a mixture of pity and compassion–much the way I suppose I’d look at him if he were vainly struggling to ride a bicycle. Anyway, I can now put yet another item on my lengthy list of accomplishments, that being shooting a scene with Hank Azaria.
Thank you Seth Alvo for having me in your video, and I look forward to curling up in front of a crackling fire* with soft, purring cup of egg nog and a hot cat in my lap and watching it soon.
*[Actually, I don’t have a fireplace, so if I’m sitting in front of a crackling fire then either the Christmas tree has gone up or someone has knocked the menorah over onto the rug.]
Meanwhile, speaking of the holidays, they’re well nigh upon us, which means it’s time to close out the books on 2024. And what better way to do that than name a Bike of the Year? As you may recall, as of about mid-November I’d narrowed it down to three finalists. The Roaduno:
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