The 20's is where its at.

[Kentactic]

Random thought. Were in a slump because we have nothing timewise to identify with. The 70's were groovy, the 80's were cool, the 90's were sick. Maybe well feel better in the 20's....

[crudos]

The 70's sucked plain and simple. The 80's everyone thought Raygun or the Soviets were going to nuke each other. The 90's mildly interesting with bad hair metal and grunge, and relative prosperity with Bubba Clinton. 00's were the age of the internet, and all the good and bad things that went along with it. 10's...... Hope, change, spare change, guns, preppers, and Donald Trump's hairpiece. 20's, who the hell know, but it won't be boring, nor the 70's all over again.

[thatGirl]

I'm pretty sure it's because the drugs aren't as good and the music sucks.  If that's the case, I'll drink to a brighter future where bath salts are for bathing, the pot isn't dipped in formaldehyde, and the words avant garde and music never leave my lips in the same sentence!   [url=http://yoursmiles.org/p-m   

[Grudgie]

Random thought. Were in a slump because we have nothing timewise to identify with. The 70's were groovy, the 80's were cool, the 90's were sick. Maybe well feel better in the 20's....

We never have an identity until we look back in hindsight. Nobody knew what the hell was going on in the 90s but we look back and remember the mullets and plaid shirts.

[thatGirl]

I wonder what hindsight will say about our young men wearing skinny jeans and getting girly emo haircuts?  The 00's and 10's were sensitive... we weren't constricted by gender roles... our president was a pussy, but Modest Mouse rocked pretty hard...

[1000meterstare]

There won't be a "twenties"...

[hjmoosejaw]

The 70's were pretty cool, that's where I spent my teens. The 80's were strange. They were okay if you didn't get into all that Duran Duran, and Thomson Twins crap, I stuck with Bob Seger and John Cougar. Here's a little blast from the past: Pass me a Stroh's Ron, and slide in that 8 track!

http://youtu.be/o-RuKFSdplg

[JohnyMac]

Wow, I remember them all, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, Y2K, '10's and now the teens (Don't remember the 50's though). I saw the shooting of Oswald by Ruby on TV.

IMO, I can't say a decade sucked and if you do you didn't try hard enough. 

Now the decade of double digits or the teens is going to be an interesting decade. Just think of what you will tell your kids. If you are so inclined write a paragraph a day of what is happening. If you are less ambitious write a page a week. I fall into that category.

Now concerning music... There is some music that is out today that my wife and I like; The Mountain Goats, Dropkick Murphys, The decemberists, Tom Petty (Still hanging in their), EM&EM, The Five Blind Boys of Alabama (Not five anymore), to name a few. With that said, our radio is set to channel 27, Sirius Radio, The Deep Tracks.

Enjoy what you have, as you may not have it down the road.
   

[Kentactic]

I wonder what hindsight will say about our young men wearing skinny jeans and getting girly emo haircuts?  The 00's and 10's were sensitive... we weren't constricted by gender roles... our president was a pussy, but Modest Mouse rocked pretty hard...

I just dusted off my modest mouse "Good news for people who love bad news" CD and found a new love for them a couple weeks ago.

[hjmoosejaw]

I saw the shooting of Oswald by Ruby on TV.

I remember that too JM. Man, we're getting old. LOL!

[JohnyMac]

Yes sir, we are getting old!  [img]http://www.arrse.co.uk/at

Talking about the Kennedy assassination:

I came home early from school. Don't know if it was due to the assignation or due to Thanksgiving with that said I didn't know what had happened; just glad to be done school early.

Once home I changed into my play clothes and grabbed my new six shooter and lever action rifle. They were pretty cool as they fired plastic bullets. The brass casing had a spring in them and you pushed down the plastic bullet into them for firing at a later time.

Well I went outside to do what kids do with their toy guns when my buddies mother came tearing out of her house screaming at me. She was screaming things like, "Don't you know that the President was just shot!" "How dare you be playing with guns as the President was just shot!" Etcetera.

Well I ran into the house scared shit-less, that I had done something VERY wrong. Well my mom put her arm around me and suggested that I play inside today. She went on to explain to me that Mrs. Bamforth was very upset  about the President being  shot and it had nothing to do with me.

hj, what is your Kennedy assassination story?

[Kentactic]

I never understood how some one could possibly squeeze out even a single tear over a leader they dont even know dying. If he was a good leader then it sucks hes gone but to have an attachment on a personal level is very odd. Almost sick.

[hjmoosejaw]

I was playing and my mother called us in to the living room and told us that the president had been shot. She had us watch some of the news coverage. But you know how kids are, we just wanted to get back to playing. My brother and I also got the same rifles JM. They were pretty neat. I can't remember, but I think they came with little targets that you set up on something and shot at to knock them off. I remember those spring loaded bullets. I too, watched over the neighborhood with my little six shooters. LOL!

http://blogonomicon.blogspot.com/2005/12/johnny-eagle-red-river-rifle.html

This may be the one JM.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=johnny+eagle+red+river+rifle&_armrs=1&_from=R40&_ipg=

This is what the bullets looked like.

[thatGirl]

I never understood how some one could possibly squeeze out even a single tear over a leader they dont even know dying. If he was a good leader then it sucks hes gone but to have an attachment on a personal level is very odd. Almost sick.

As a woman I find that I have attachments on a personal level to many people and pandas I don't know (stupid panda cubs dying all the time), I can't watch the news without crying.  If I had to guess, I would say that this ability to emotionally attach ourselves to animals we don't know has evolved to keep us from eating our babies.  You call that sick, I call that natural.  Now the people that talk about celebrities like they are BFF's, that's sick!

[mountainredneck2051]

I never understood how some one could possibly squeeze out even a single tear over a leader they dont even know dying. If he was a good leader then it sucks hes gone but to have an attachment on a personal level is very odd. Almost sick.

i can't agree more

[thatGirl]

The more I think about this, the more it bums me out.  I think what's sick is that we've become so disconnected from our government that you can't imagine being overcome by emotion if we lost the main puppet in our show.  The position of President is more of a PR gig these days, but what it represents, and what the act of removing that figure head in a violent manor represents, is something worth shedding a few tears over. 

I'm lucky enough to have seen what this country was like before Clinton lit that cigar with stay-dry matches and made a mockery of our country, and before Bush Jr. was portrayed as the devil by our own media for taking care of business.  I remember the sense of pride and awe that I felt listening to Reagan's speech to Gorbachev, saying "tear down this wall". 

During Desert Storm, my brother and I drew pictures of Saddam that we taped to cardboard boxes to plink our bb guns at.  I had nightmares about enemy war planes dropping bombs on our house, until my parents explained that the Iraq military only had cardboard planes that wouldn't make it overseas, and that I was lucky to be an American because I'm safe and free.  The relief I felt when Saddam was captured, can't be expressed.  I shed tears that day, not for Saddam and not out of happiness, but in mourning for all of the lives that rat-bastard stole or ruined. 

I hope with all of my heart that the younger generations get to experience what patriotism feels like under a leader that you're not afraid to follow, and what it means to feel blessed to be an American.   

[Colombo]

I know what I've seen and expect the worst, A larger more violent version of Yugoslavia.


And for those who are familiar with the level of violence in that region,     yes I meant what I said, a larger more violent and depraved version of Yugoslavia.

 While I'm on a roll I might as well throw in some private corporate hired contractors,  petty self appointed saviors of the community,  ignorant and hungry "looting with the stars" fans,  waves of rascal mobility chair food stamp gangs,  bubbas winching nukes out of subs down in Titusville,  swarms of skateboard and bmx punks marauding the countryside for cheetos and mt dew,  mimes screaming all night... 

O.K. maybe I go a little far sometimes.

[thatGuy]

These Gentlemen really are the best days of our lives. We are better off then we have ever been.... oh wait....

[JohnyMac]

yup hj I think that was it. I remember running out of the plastic bullets after awhile though...Or maybe my mom took them or maybe the dog chewed them up. Our dog 'Spice' was always fun to hunt.

TG, to your point: Enjoy what you have today as... 

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." Charles Dickens

[crudos]

yup hj I think that was it. I remember running out of the plastic bullets after awhile though...Or maybe my mom took them or maybe the dog chewed them up. Our dog 'Spice' was always fun to hunt.

TG, to your point: Enjoy what you have today as... 

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." Charles Dickens

Ah yeah, JM bustin' out some Charles Dickens!  [URL=http://www.smileyvault.co

[Kentactic]

The more I think about this, the more it bums me out.  I think what's sick is that we've become so disconnected from our government that you can't imagine being overcome by emotion if we lost the main puppet in our show.  The position of President is more of a PR gig these days, but what it represents, and what the act of removing that figure head in a violent manor represents, is something worth shedding a few tears over.

This emotional attachment is stronger now then ever before. It is why we are in such a bind. Weve Just re-elected one of the worst presidents ever. Why? Hes hip and cool and black. All personal reasons. Making emotionally charged decisions is why were so screwed. The less emotion and more rational thinking the better. Crying over a man youve never met and know zero about who happens to be president is no different then crying over micheal jackson dying. HOW one could get attached to these people who they never knew is just.... insane... same with all these football fans screaming at the TV... their all insane....

Its halfway offensive to call it patriotic to break down in tears over random ink on a paper that says unknown to you human died who you saw in pictures and video before.

[thatGuy]

then crying over micheal jackson dying.

their all insane....

Don't you dare judge me!  [url=http://yoursmiles.org/p-m

[thatGuy]

Mac Attack & crudos,

Here I was thinking that I was the only one who read the classics.. great line, totally sums it up doesn't it?

[thatGirl]

This emotional attachment is stronger now then ever before. It is why we are in such a bind. Weve Just re-elected one of the worst presidents ever. Why? Hes hip and cool and black. All personal reasons. Making emotionally charged decisions is why were so screwed. The less emotion and more rational thinking the better. Crying over a man youve never met and know zero about who happens to be president is no different then crying over micheal jackson dying. HOW one could get attached to these people who they never knew is just.... insane... same with all these football fans screaming at the TV... their all insane....

Its halfway offensive to call it patriotic to break down in tears over random ink on a paper that says unknown to you human died who you saw in pictures and video before.

Maybe you're right Ken.  It is possible that myself and millions of other people were too busy crying over MJ and accidentally smudged the ballot, making it appear as though we voted for Obama.  Those voter cubicles are kinda tiny and my tribute moonwalk's pretty sloppy, being so emotionally charged and all. 

Or, scenario #2, perhaps I was in such a huff over the your favorite football team name here game, that I grabbed my list of interesting, rich, black men I met while yachting, instead of my 'who to vote for' list (if you haven't heard it, I'll tell you all the joke that's the punch line for later)... 

Oops, nope.  TG is shaking his head no, that joke is apparently inappropriate for the forum.  Well boys, maybe another day over a beer...

It's all in jest Ken, keep on keepin' on!