Megalopolis is a lot of movie. To be precise, it’s 40 years worth of movie. Francis Ford Coppola first dreamed up the idea for the sci-fi epic in 1977, before seriously starting to develop it in the 1980s. It was, as Coppola described, less of a fully formed script than a series of ideas — a movie comprised of notebooks filled with thoughts and a vague ambition of “a Roman epic set in a contemporary New York.”

And that’s exactly what Megalopolis feels like: a bunch of ideas smashed together into a garish, baffling, dazzling, kind of atrocious, and totally audacious rejection of the cinematic form. It should never have been made. And yet, now that it has, we should be so grateful it exists.

You probably think you drive a lot more miles in a week than you do.

That was my assumption before I ditched my car and rode Rad Power Bike’s new Radster Trail, part of a very hot niche of electric bicycles, the electric cargo bike.

In one week, I racked up just a tick over 100 miles — and that wasn’t due to me holding back on my usual commuting habits. In the course of seven days my longest ride was about 35 miles, but most days, just going to meetings, shopping, and using the local trail network to get around, which are both paved and gravel, my average trip length was about 10-15 miles.