The Naked Bike Race and Terry Jones

Having experienced living in London for a few weeks, I have to say that this city will offer up entertainment for every sort. Two weeks ago my friends and I attended the Annual International Naked Bike Race, who consists of, you guessed it, naked people riding bikes. And they were. Naked that is. See video below for confirmation.


Supposedly it's a protest against dependence on oil and what not, but I think people get more of kick out of the hedonistic thrill of being legally naked in public. Another great thing about London is that a place such as Hyde Park can go from being exclusively available to the aristocracy to hosting a protest in the buff.

This past Thursday I was also able to attend a lecture given by Terry Jones (of Monty Python fame) on 'Was Richard II Mad?' The lecture was not only entertaining but quite educational too. I had no clue that he was a serious historian, and it was nice to attend an event that was focused on history and not politics or economics. (Us, with Terry Jones)

And, to appease my little history dork soul, there was the past year's worth of Historian magazines, so I grabed half a dozen of those up pretty quickly. Nice tube reading material. I just finished an article entitled 'Daddy, What Did You Do in the Hundred Years War?' Oh yeah, I am that cool. It mentioned that one of the researchers on this project (about the military during the 100 years war) specialized some of his graduate work studying the military under Richard II from 1388-1389. With a job description like that how can you not love academics?