… unless you’ve already seen it somewhere else. This is the Internet’s next big thing, mark my words. Just in time, too — LOLcats are so mid-to-late-2007.
Visit
Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle
now. And then prepare for the next six months of everyone talking about Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle and its exponentially booming number of knockoffs. Expect think pieces in
Newsweek
on the “… is your new bicycle” phenomenon.
This article appears in Backstage Pass.

And I am going to keep my Barack Obama origami in a very special place.
My wife is an avid cyclist, and loves to talk about bikes and cycling. Recently, she’s gotten really active in the Obama campaign, and I had been kidding her that “Barack Obama is your new bicycle.”