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GoAskAlice
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'C.....An opinion? I'm shocked!
O -- I'm secretly a Godspell fan. I hum that darned "Pebble in my Shoe" song a lot.
As far as education goes, I have such a hard time with it. "Uncle Jack" had two...count 'em...two masters and he never found happiness. On the other hand, I have very little education and have the most perfect job in the world. :)
Me too...very little education and I also have the perfect job in the world! What can be better than hanging around, painting stuff, talking to my friends on the internet, searching for kitschy doo dads, doing things for my fam, watching cool TV shows, playing with my dog, buying tickets to concerts and Broadway shows and then showing up at the wrong time or on the wrong day, aw..you get the point (living in a fantasy world of my own creation)!
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5/16/2008, 3:38 pm
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piratemc
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Just to clarify, O, I've never thought of you as one of those high school quarterback hippies. Ever. I reread what I wrote earlier and realized it could be taken wrong.
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5/16/2008, 6:50 pm
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GoAskAlice
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Just to clarify, O, I've never thought of you as one of those high school quarterback hippies. Ever. I reread what I wrote earlier and realized it could be taken wrong.
I've been tainted on the hippie-front by my snob sister. She and her Husband were both Hippies (early seventies). Very crunchy, long flowing dresses(my sister...not her husband), all-natural, who needs material gratification...the whole deal. Now? I've never seen two people who are more materialistic and close-minded. So? It's obvious they jumped on the hippie band wagon (or Magic VW Bus) but were complete poseurs. I have a problem with this.
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"Idling, I find, is immensely underrated, even vilified by some who see inactivity as the gateway for the Evil One. Personally, I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise." J. Maarten Troost
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5/17/2008, 9:12 am
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buck 30
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So, is the key to life hating your high school years? I was completely misaerable until about age 21. Now I love getting older. Life just keeps getting better. The only thing I miss is my old P-Wagon. I'll try to make it my avatar.
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5/17/2008, 10:11 am
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So, is the key to life hating your high school years? I was completely misaerable until about age 21. Now I love getting older. Life just keeps getting better. The only thing I miss is my old P-Wagon. I'll try to make it my avatar.
I hope not. I loved my high school years. It's true that my life is more fulfilling now, and I don't mind getting older, but I sometimes miss the fun, carefree days of high school.
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5/17/2008, 10:28 am
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buck 30
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Fun aqnd carferee? Not for me. I really could've used a mentor in those days. Someone to say, "Dude. Chill. You don't need to know what you want to do when you grow up until you're thirty."
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5/18/2008, 8:54 am
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I was tame by hippie standards, no drugs for this girl, daddy worked for Calif. Youth Authority. Did not sleep around, protested the war, but not the soldiers, dated a few of them and wrote to several. Went to college with several who had served in 'Nam. Wore a bracelet for a POW/MIA, took it off the day the first ones came home.
I loved the music, well more of the folkie type music, saw lots of my childhood friends fry their brains and have no life as an adult. Did not attend Woodstock but I own the movie.
I miss the freedoms I had during that time, the naivite(sp?)
Oh well, now I try not to even watch the news it is so depressing, pregnant woman killed for the wheels on an SUV, girl flushes newborn down the toilet, serial rapist caught, all local headlines here.
I watched the season finale of NUMB3RS and that was really sad. The season finales of CSI (Las Vegas) was also sad.
I need some happy news,
Sorry to be on such a downer this morning
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5/18/2008, 10:13 am
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buck 30
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Yeah. I hated high school, too.
O-- What are you doing watching the news? Why would you ever do it? The media does not want you to be happy. It's unprofitable. I'm almost news-free and a pretty happy person. I turned on the news by accident and the story that was on was Obama being forced to apologize for calling a reporter sweetie. Although I'm not an Obama fan, that's one of the saddest things I've ever seen in my life. Will they be burning bras next?
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5/19/2008, 9:19 am
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GoAskAlice
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Speaking of the news...I don't know about you guys, but we here in NE have been bombarded with the news of Ted Kennedy's health problems. Seizures and no one knows why, yet. I've seen several news articles and reports about the med flight from Cape Cod Hospital to Boston complete with footage of his wife and other family members bringing him magazines, newspapers and dvds. Okay...I guess the Kennedys are big around here. What I can't believe is that they've already started to air career retrospectives and lifetime achievements. Kind of ghoulish, if you ask me. I mean come on...he's still alive!
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5/19/2008, 11:30 am
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GoAskAlice
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Oh...and another complete change of subject....Hurray for me! I actually got to see an entire show from start to finish. JCS was good...not according to my son, but doesn't count!. I had no idea that Ted Neeley, the original Jesus Christ Superstar (stage and movie) was in our show. He's 64 and he can still belt out a tune! Okay, he looks a bit scary but I can give him that. I wonder if he has any
identity issues after playing Jesus for 35 (or so) years. That's gotta do something to a person.
Oh, and Judas was played by the lead singer of the band In Living Color. At one point during the show, I had that Cult of Personality song stuck in my head....
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"Idling, I find, is immensely underrated, even vilified by some who see inactivity as the gateway for the Evil One. Personally, I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise." J. Maarten Troost
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5/19/2008, 11:36 am
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1. Chocolate should NEVER taste like yoda doo
2. Chocolate with ;avender and chocolate with blueberries sound almost as good as chocolate with raspberries.
3. WTH is wrong wif hippies 'Ces???? I wish I woulda been one but I got carded and wasn't old enough.  I LIKE the idea of people all being equal and taking care of each other and the environment and not being all into who has the biggest ................stuff..... 
4. I vote for JCS over Godspell. Great music in both but JCS about turned my catholic HS on it's head when we studied it in religion class- at the top of our speakers, and was the downfall of our teacher. (well that and we always believed he was outed over spring break)
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5/19/2008, 10:30 pm
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piratemc
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I. HATED. SCHOOL. PERIOD.
I think my life would have been more productively spent being self-educated. No, really. I was curious enough to have done it, with some serious help from my Mom.
Emmy, the problem with that whole "everyone is equal" and "no one cares about material stuff" is that everyone isn't equal and people do care about material stuff. The end result is that utopian dreams end up in repression, serious repression. Making everyone 'equal' isn't ever about allowing and according everyone respect as a human. The only way 'equality' can be accomplished is by force and by brining everyone, except enforcers, down to the lowest common denominator. That's why the bloody idiots in Cambodia slaughtered everyone with a college education, with money, with glasses, then everyone left was equally uneducated and starving.
The same ends up being true when we are forced to take care of everyone else. It becomes a robber baron's paradise, taking from the moderately okay to feed the 'i can't get off my ass and bother to get a frickin job so pay me'.
I like being comfortable and having nice things. Everyone does. But I don't give a rat's left buttock in hell what anyone else has, if it makes me happy I like it. Plus, as you know from previous rants - i think conspicuous consumption is conspicuously gross. But, I'm all about giving people plenty of liberty to look like jack-asses (coughParisHiltoncough).
Oh, plus, I'm a punk-rock girl.
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5/20/2008, 10:15 am
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buck 30
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Oh, plus, I'm a punk-rock girl.
One day I took a walk to Zipperhead...
It's natural to want stuff. In the old days it meant survival. I'm comfortable enough that I don't buy much. I've got a ratty old Saturn that was paid for about five years ago. My vice is music, though. The one with the most CD's wins. I kid you not but I always have a used CD coming in the mail. Gives me happy thawts when I wake up in the afternoon.
Say have you all heard Kathleen Edwards? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4934012 Click "Kathleen Edwards in concert". More alt. country. That's quickly becoming my favorite type of music after Chicago Blues.
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5/20/2008, 3:16 pm
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piratemc
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She's lovely, Bucky, really wonderful.
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5/21/2008, 10:01 am
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buck 30
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Her new disc, "Asking for Flowers" has gotten rave reviews. (I love the line in "The Cheapest Key"...ahem..."F is my favorite letter, as you know..."). I got her "Back To Me" disc. Really good stuff.
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5/21/2008, 10:18 am
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My high school actually did a performance of JCS. Now? I don't think it would be allowed.