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About 2:00 this morning, I had a serious case of the munchies, so I headed across the street to get a vending machine cheese danish from the laundromat, which sits on our main street, Manitou Avenue. If you head east on Manitou Ave, it's downhill, and you can really get up a good amount of speed on a bike or skateboard. Which is what a guy was doing as I was heading home--hauling you-know-what down dark of night Manitou Avenue on a mountain bike. A mountain bike equipped with a stereo, which was totally rad. I did, however, find his musical choice a little surprising. He wasn't blasting something you might expect from such a daredevil, like, say, Black Flag, or N.W.A., or AC/DC. Or, this being Manitou, some jam band or other wouldn't have shocked me. Dude was rocking "Space Age Love Song" by A Flock of Seagulls, which was awesome. Out of character? Sure. But awesome nonetheless. "Space Age Love Song" was the best thing A Flock of Seagulls ever did, so why not crank it on a dark, late-night, high speed ride? Or maybe it was just the radio, and that's just what happened to be playing as he zoomed past. But that would ruin the mystique, wouldn't it?