Welcome, visitors from Nerve.com! I’ve moved this post up to the top of the stack to give you more background on the type of bike fun you’re looking for. Everyone else – you can now read three excellent and true tales from the BikeSexuality bookette over at Nerve. Enjoy! And then buy the zine to […]
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Call for submissions: Bikes and childhoo...
Posted onUpdate: This zine is currently being funded on Kickstarter now available! It’s official: Taking the Lane #7: BikeSexuality exists, and nearly every order has been mailed. If you haven’t gotten yours yet, drop me an email and I’ll check it out. If you also ordered Pedal, Stretch, Breathe, I may be waiting to mail them […]
Yoga, testosterone, and taking the lane
Posted onUpdate: Pedal, Stretch, Breathe is becoming a full-on book. Fund it here to get your copy! I’m hard at work today laying out Pedal, Stretch, Breathe, Kelli Refer‘s zine about yoga and bicycling. At the beginning, Kelli has devised some suggestions for a quick three minute stretching routine you can do before you get on […]
Everyday Bicycling
Posted onUpdate: Everyday Bicycling is out now! You can read more about it here and buy it here. For years I’ve been looking for a basic guide book to bicycle transportation that I can wholeheartedly recommend to people who want to start riding, but whose lives are more complicated than simply commuting to and from work. […]
Happy first birthday, blog!
Posted onNext week it’ll be the one-year anniversary of this blog. I started it after Caroline took me out for coffee and what may have been a pre-planned intervention-style conversation about the need to put all my projects under one roof. So I bought a theme, tinkered with it, named it after my zine, started to […]
Stuck on bikes!
Posted onSome new stickers just arrived at Taking the Lane Omnimedia world headquarters. I want to share them here partly to say “look, stickers!” but mostly to tell you about the artists who drew them. Update: You can now get your Proud BikeSexual stickers right here. One day a year or so ago I mentioned to […]
Lines Beneath the Map prints are here!
Posted onAbout a million years ago (alright, three months ago), when Katelyn Hale and I were putting together the last issue of Taking the Lane, we decided that a supplemental work of art would be a great boost for the zine itself and for Katelyn’s nascent block printing enterprise. We put the print as an offering […]
What's BikeSexuality all about?
Posted onWhat the heck is BikeSexuality? Something different for everyone, surely. “Primarily attracted to other people who ride bicycles” is one definition, but like most such summations it’s hardly the final word. One way to find out is by helping fund my latest publishing project – a zine that covers a staggering (and surprisingly un-smutty) range […]
Introducing "Pedal, Stretch, Breathe": a...
Posted onUpdate: You can now order Pedal, Stretch, Breathe directly right here. It’s an exciting day here at Taking the Lane Media’s mobile headquarters (currently located on a futon in a living room in midtown Houston, Texas). We’re publishing our first title that is entirely by an author who is not me. The zine is Pedal, […]
Lines on the Map -- they're here!
Posted onTaking the Lane Volume 6 is hot off the press and looking sweet. We’ll be addressing a lot of envelopes in the next couple days. Snag a place in the spreadsheet right here. (For a bit more on the making of this zine, look here. For more on the making of zines in general, here’s […]
Playing the publishing game
Posted onLast night I participated in Smallpressapalooza, Powell’s Books’ annual celebration of super small scale indie publishing. Out of a breathtaking variety of readings, most of them awesomely good, I was the token non-literary reader (my rendition of this essay was surely informative for all, if comfortable for few). The guy before me had a multimedia […]
The year ahead in zine publishing (and s...
Posted onHi everyone! Thanks for checking in with this sadly neglected blog. It’ll be up and running again soon; for now, it’s high time to post a quick update about a few different professional goings-on: Zines Taking the Lane #6: Lines on the Map went off to print this week! That means it’s important to fully […]
Bike-Sexuality -- a call for submissions
Posted onUpdate: BikeSexuality exists! You can buy a copy here. “Bike-sexual” panel from TTL5(click to make bigger) The seed of this idea started while the submissions for Our Bodies, Our Bikes were rolling in. The first several entries were also the most frankly sexual, and their writers, even the ones who chose to remain anonymous, ended […]
Lines on the Map
Posted onUpdate: Lines on the Map exists; you can get a copy here. The next (and sixth!) zine in the Taking the Lane series is in the works. I’ll keep this post short and sweet and leave you with this link to the Kickstarter project where guest editor Katelyn has described it well. I’m thrilled about […]