In an ironic twist of fate, musician/artist/verbose blogger David Byrne, who’s currently organizing the Alternative Transportation Music Festival, had his bicycle stolen outside the IFC Center last weekend. The cycling enthusiast, who’s often spotted pedaling around downtown, says “If anyone sees a bike with both a Che sticker and one for the MOST space telescope that’s mine.”

Though disheartened, Byrne is tooling around on a back-up set of wheels, thereby saving himself from a visit to an unscrupulous psychic, one who would inevitably counsel him that his stolen bike currently resides in the basement of the Alamo.

David Byrne’s Bike Stolen [Papermag Blogs]