While on the other side of the world in London, another little boy was having the time of his life, riding his bike, enjoying the endless summers.
"There was an incredible amount of stress out there," Jones said, adding: "You think about it, your life rides on every four minutes, or six minutes in a bout".
If you spend your life riding the links of the Internet, you probably won't get too far into The Big Shaggy either, because the fast, effortless prose of blogging (and journalism) lacks the heft to get you deep below.
Here, Mr. Ortlieb prefers a simple life, riding his horse, Classie, which he boards at a nearby stable, and spending time outdoors with his two kinetic vizslas, which jealously guard the house.
The almost percussion-free opening track See Her Out (That's Just Life) rides the year's best synth line, a monolithic yet dainty melody that pirouettes like a twinkle-toed mechanoid.
He had a new plan for each new day of the week: he was going to get his driver's license; he was going to write poems and act, both of which he did quite well; he was going to become an engineer; he was going to spend his life riding his motorcycle.
Berlusconi is an ebullient, canny man with energy to burn, who has gone through life "riding on a smile and a shoeshine", to borrow Willy Loman's famous phrase in Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman.
I'm mean, what more can you want out of life: rides on a Space Shuttle whenever, pissing in zero gravity, and a downloaded copy of Star Trek literally out of reach from the MPAA.
Writing in the Independent newspaper just after Salinger's death, Andrew Martin proffers this exact theory, suggesting that the American author, realising "his talent was ebbing," simply "decided to cut his losses" (he published his final work in 1965 – a short story in the New Yorker – then lived out the final 45 years of his life riding high on the success of the first 46).
No child should fear for their life riding mass transportation because of their faith.
