tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post7074335350034560970..comments2024-03-28T12:10:26.197-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Lying Through the Troll Booth on the Way to the Satanic AgeGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88292116209468888592007-05-03T09:26:00.000-07:002007-05-03T09:26:00.000-07:00Van- I don't need no stinkin' training wheels! Th...Van- I don't need no stinkin' training wheels! The whole point of Walk-n-Roll is to use the technology of instability in the shoe to strenghten and align the body releasing pressure in the joints. Cuz that's how I roll....<BR/><BR/>But I will relish in the fact that I am still a baby compared to most Coons, except River, but he's way more mature than I am anyhow....In 2 weeks, I will be concluding my third dozen and am looking forward to enjoying the fourth with more wisdom...;)Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04969685296436358865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57424662592135711772007-05-03T08:43:00.000-07:002007-05-03T08:43:00.000-07:00JWM,Sorry I missed covering your straight line. Wa...JWM,<BR/>Sorry I missed covering your straight line. Watch out for those fiery swords.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87728040699279458032007-05-03T08:38:00.000-07:002007-05-03T08:38:00.000-07:00Lisa said "Not fair! I wasn't born until May of 71...Lisa said "Not fair! I wasn't born until May of 71!"<BR/><BR/>Note to Will - be sure to fasten training wheels to Lisa's Walk 'n Roll shoes.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69101252153857482102007-05-03T08:30:00.000-07:002007-05-03T08:30:00.000-07:00No man need fear me touching his fiery sword. DQ I...No man need fear me touching his fiery sword. <BR/><BR/>DQ I'm not so sure about.<BR/><BR/>Probably couldn't break the door down though.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5003717929886289752007-05-03T08:08:00.000-07:002007-05-03T08:08:00.000-07:00Joan of Argghh! said "I know how much I want to be...Joan of Argghh! said "I know how much I want to be good, and how much I can twist a situation to my advantage. Any philosophy that lets me off the hook is a wussy-ass dream of a religion. Any lovey-dovey theology that can't find me where I'm hiding isn't going to help me when I really need help."<BR/><BR/>Joan, that... well, what needs to be said after that? Perfect. <BR/><BR/>Looks like I picked the wrong night to go to sleep.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89661698292062092962007-05-03T08:05:00.000-07:002007-05-03T08:05:00.000-07:00Not fair! I wasn't born until May of 71! So, I f...Not fair! I wasn't born until May of 71! So, I figure that I must have been Janis Joplin in my previous life (ya know how all fortune tellers say you are a king, queen whoever but some ordinary shmo! plus she died nine months before I was born.) Unfortunately I did not get the voice again, but fortunately I did not get the looks either! I think I'm still drunk or something though! ha ha! Yes, it was a blast but sex,drugs, and rocknroll ain't free and it does come with a price....Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04969685296436358865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-77705410414777748782007-05-03T07:55:00.000-07:002007-05-03T07:55:00.000-07:00Sal: OMG. I forgot about my own story. Thank you !...Sal:<BR/> OMG. I forgot about my own story. Thank you !!<BR/><BR/>JWMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56854773127432477522007-05-03T07:36:00.000-07:002007-05-03T07:36:00.000-07:00Joan - that was fabulousAnglo-Catholicism is fairy...Joan - that was fabulous<BR/><BR/>Anglo-Catholicism is fairy castles in the air. Catholicism is concrete.<BR/>Or so I found...<BR/><BR/>JWM - "Doesn't Play Well With Others" was what I was referring to. Genius.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33201293785623872782007-05-03T06:52:00.000-07:002007-05-03T06:52:00.000-07:00Excellent, Joan!Reminds me of Matt. 11. "The viol...Excellent, Joan!<BR/><BR/>Reminds me of Matt. 11. "The violent take it by force."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2927657938803569412007-05-03T06:35:00.000-07:002007-05-03T06:35:00.000-07:00Although I certainly don't feel that young, I was ...Although I certainly don't feel that young, I was actually just 8 for most of 1967. I would not even have noticed what happened if not for my older brother, who was influenced by the new time during his teen years. (He has since recovered quite well.)<BR/><BR/>Larry Norman was indeed famous in the 70es, to the point where I remember "I wish we'd all been ready" even though I never bought it or even copied it.<BR/><BR/>(Oh, and I'd also recommend fire against gelatins, but I didn't want to seem too obsessed with my fiery swords, lest Van break down the door to my room and confiscate them.)Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30214135470323173432007-05-03T06:09:00.000-07:002007-05-03T06:09:00.000-07:00Thanks Rick!Keep yer eyes peeled and those cannons...Thanks Rick!<BR/>Keep yer eyes peeled and those cannons filled.<BR/>Thar be trolls in them thar swells.<BR/>A well placed shot might bring a bit O reality to their sinkin' vessel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88080850036204924682007-05-03T06:04:00.000-07:002007-05-03T06:04:00.000-07:00Hmmm. The summer of love-1967.My experience with t...Hmmm. The summer of love-1967.<BR/>My experience with the summer of love will be an upcoming story (soon).<BR/>It will be quite different to most, and familiar to some.<BR/><BR/>Truly, some heartfelt comments here today. My thanks for sharing them. :^)USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56210777051222617242007-05-03T05:38:00.000-07:002007-05-03T05:38:00.000-07:00Joan,That was wonderful.Off to work too.Riv,“That’...Joan,<BR/>That was wonderful.<BR/>Off to work too.<BR/><BR/>Riv,<BR/>“That’s just a big ‘ol steering wheel, is all I’m sayin..”<BR/>This must be on YouTube.<BR/>Darn, off to work.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71860247696002428882007-05-03T05:28:00.001-07:002007-05-03T05:28:00.001-07:00Maineman,As I said it wasn’t my time. But in a way...Maineman,<BR/>As I said it wasn’t my time. But in a way I had a different detached, pulled back vantage point. Like things settled by the time I arrived and I could look at the whole thing at once. I remember every morning my dad would drive me to school. 1970 or 71? This was a 10 minute drive maybe. Back then you could set your watch by the particular song playing on the radio. Every morning I heard “My sweet Lord” on this drive. Every morning. Just your average run of the mill radio station. My dad was not a hippie-type and actually was in the Navy during Korea. Anyway, he never changed the station.<BR/>(Now that I think a little harder – that car radio may have only picked up one station.)<BR/><BR/>Today, those songs would just seem so out of place. I can’t picture them just coming out now.<BR/>And they didn’t seem that way then.<BR/>I was young and everything went into that head with no rejection.<BR/>But Dad, he was pretty mainstream typical American Dad, he knew what was going on and he didn’t say “that damn song again.” Or “those damn Jesus idiots.” And he’s not one to keep even a mild feeling to himself.<BR/><BR/>That’s my impression anyway.<BR/><BR/>RE “Lennon's comment about being more popular than Jesus” I remember he had a lot of ‘splaining to do” after that comment. Was not well received at all.<BR/><BR/>Today he’d be a hero for saying it. Even though that’s not the point he was trying to make.<BR/><BR/>Hope this is not coming across like I’m arguing. I think it’s interesting to look at it from two perspectives. You from the inside, me from the outside. For what that’s worth.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-32848990264163033902007-05-03T05:28:00.000-07:002007-05-03T05:28:00.000-07:00Aw, crumbs and crackers!I'm itching for a foray in...Aw, crumbs and crackers!<BR/><BR/>I'm itching for a foray into the fields of frothing trolls, and here the Real World is once again driving the bus.<BR/><BR/>*sets aside battle array*<BR/>*picks up briefcase*<BR/>*adjusts her adoralbe sling-back heels that are oh-so-right for the day*<BR/>*pets the pup and leaves a treat for her*<BR/><BR/>Sigh.Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8555016629408444952007-05-03T05:19:00.000-07:002007-05-03T05:19:00.000-07:00I was 10 in 67 and had 7 siblings preceeding me. S...I was 10 in 67 and had 7 siblings preceeding me. So many negative things at home were used as a hammer to shape us all into the workaholic, no-nonsense, conservative, A-type retentive germanics that we are.<BR/><BR/>As Catholic kids, none of us bought into the concept of purgatory since we were pretty sure we were raised there (think, Prince of Tides or Chrisopher Titus... I <I>know</I>!). For each of us, faith was more important, staying sober was necessary if we wanted to escape, being vigilant if we wanted to survive. So the whole free-love-drug-scene had no appeal whatsoever. It wasn't so much about being "good" it was about being in control. Sweet control. Self control. Ahh. Eh? Where was I?<BR/><BR/>Hmmm, Life won't let me drive the bus. But dammit! I'm smart enough to drive the bus. I really am! C'mon, Life, hand over the keys.<BR/><BR/>I guess that's why it's easy to see the cheats of so many philosophies. Not because of victimhood or some sordid reality, but because through all the pain, we had been given an underpinning of Truth that kept tugging us through the knot-holes of some pretty rough timber where nothing was in control, no matter how desparately we desired it. <BR/><BR/>I know how much I want to be good, and how much I can twist a situation to my advantage. Any philosophy that lets me off the hook is a wussy-ass dream of a religion. Any lovey-dovey theology that can't find me where I'm hiding isn't going to help me when I really need help. I <I>know</I> what even a nice girl like me (!) has learned about the parts of life that are indeed brutish. I know how all of my points of view are skewed to the skeptical side.<BR/><BR/>So dear trolls, BRING IT. You're not getting anywhere with the whiney "can't we all get along" japery. BRING something that doesn't crumble under the weight of what your sheltered little dreams can "Imagine". Cuz I'm imagining the Kingdom of the Cosmos can suffer a little rock-em sock-em without a single threat to its foundations. Gasp like little girls at the audacity of someone with spiritual underpinnings who will defend Truth with extreme prejudice.<BR/><BR/>Maybe that's why the depiction of the divine order found in the Bible is so trustworthy. God and Jesus both just make you gasp with their incorrect and inconvenient Truth.<BR/><BR/>And Jesus? He racially insults a beggar woman, he puts people off, he <I>physically</I> whips the backs of those who would fleece his sheep, he says he's come to bring a sword, to divide families, he disappoints would-be followers, he even <I>judges harshly</I> the spiritually elite of his time. He didn't "go along to get along" and He got what every other non-absolute philosophy of the world has to offer: a Death sentence.<BR/><BR/>Yeah. It's a brutish world we have to live in. Trolls? We use 'em for stepping-stools to reach up for the really tasty tidbids in the pantry.Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18722801935470430112007-05-03T05:06:00.000-07:002007-05-03T05:06:00.000-07:00RE: Christianity - my impressions was, we were alw...RE: Christianity - my impressions was, we were always in the crosshairs but for awhile the guns were jammed...<BR/><BR/>I think the era also had its impact on Christians themselves, though not having been alive I cannot say.<BR/><BR/>Interestingly, I think there were 'counter counter cultural' things going on as well, which definitely includes (at some point) Dylan as well as probably explains that Doobie bros. song.<BR/><BR/>About the classical music/eras what you say is definitely true, Debass, though of course my point would be it was never just that simple. I think 'classical' music was dead when every new 'form' that replaced an old one was still too academic to be accessible. This means, I suppose, that each era had a shorter impact after that. My music history book, in their 'defense' group everything after romantic as '20th century'. My impressions was they did that to minimize the realization of how 'academic' music itself had utterly failed in this century and that 'popular' music had attained a level of sophistication that made it <I>itself</I> the next era. Which though none are old enough to remember was probably how each of the prior 'era's happened.<BR/><BR/>For some odd reason with the 20th and their favorite academics the academy suddenly becomes the source of new 'serious' music, and consequentially serious music is no longer taken seriously by the public.<BR/><BR/>My impression? After impressionism came the Age of Jazz. I think we're still in it. <BR/><BR/>Ricky: The next line would be: "Good one, tiny E..."<BR/><BR/>wv: kfhugleg ... no you dooooon't!Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40046605223709732472007-05-03T04:57:00.000-07:002007-05-03T04:57:00.000-07:00Dear Captain,Ended the night watch with little inc...Dear Captain,<BR/>Ended the night watch with little incident.<BR/>As you review the log you will see two days pass and quiet.<BR/>The stiff breeze brings no sense of trolls from its direction.<BR/>One vessel Drama Queen seen off port quarter.<BR/>Sense she was a scout as one parting shot before retreating.<BR/>Range too great for engage.<BR/><BR/>Too quiet. We are watched.<BR/>Lt Charles Brown thinks “You killed it.”<BR/>I ‘owever, suggest we load the guns and shore her up.<BR/>Double-shotted broadsides would be my choice should his Divine hand provide such close engagement.<BR/><BR/>For our Enemy has shown that he prepares for the long nite.<BR/>We should know this and prepare our hearts and our good ship as well.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91270982410953714682007-05-03T04:08:00.000-07:002007-05-03T04:08:00.000-07:00"has anyone else noticed that back then, Jesus and..."has anyone else noticed that back then, Jesus and Spirit were MORE than perfectly acceptable to this crowd back then – but not now."<BR/><BR/>Not exactly how I remember it, Ricky. The Jesus Freaks were looked on as a quirky anachronism -- by me, anyway. And the occasional "Born Again" Christian was generally seen as annoying and a bit laughable. Harrison's song was considered to be an Eastern religion thing, given where the Beatles had gone -- don't forget Lennon's comment about being more popular than Jesus, which we all thought was cute. I remember how weird the Doobie song seemed when it came out, although I think that must have been the early '70's, since they presumably had to have already sobered up.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, the condescension about everything that had gone before was well underway. You couldn't quite be vicious about Christianity yet, maybe because the civil rights movement had its roots in evangelicism, but the assault had begun long before the Summer of Love, when school prayer was shot down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10697609957430042362007-05-03T03:50:00.000-07:002007-05-03T03:50:00.000-07:00Not to beat a dead gelatonous blob troll (bloll?),...Not to beat a dead gelatonous blob troll (bloll?), but fire or lightning bolts work well on them too.<BR/>I heard...<BR/>Just sayin'.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48499606303355260432007-05-03T02:55:00.000-07:002007-05-03T02:55:00.000-07:00Captain B'ob-Truly a post fer the record books!'Sp...Captain B'ob-<BR/>Truly a post fer the record books!<BR/>'Specially that part about Skully!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12182128157165601502007-05-03T02:49:00.000-07:002007-05-03T02:49:00.000-07:00Dagnabit! I missed the party...again!I guess I'll ...Dagnabit! I missed the party...again!<BR/>I guess I'll hafta wait fer another troll to show up, so's I can let loose some heavy-duty cannonfire!<BR/>Give new meanin' to the term: cannonball run, har har!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29427447153796387992007-05-02T23:25:00.000-07:002007-05-02T23:25:00.000-07:00And he just gets better with age...http://www.yout...And he just gets better with age...<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBQv1-yZsPU&mode=related&search=Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9682878983909001562007-05-02T23:01:00.000-07:002007-05-02T23:01:00.000-07:00I'm up way too late taking trips down memory lane ...I'm up way too late taking trips down memory lane on YouTube.<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YihISpj-JP0&mode=related&search=<BR/><BR/>Keaggy starts up around 2:20. Looks like they've got Glass Harp reunion videos up too. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-606111646465702882007-05-02T22:03:00.000-07:002007-05-02T22:03:00.000-07:00ricky said:has anyone else noticed that back then,...ricky said:<BR/><I>has anyone else noticed that back then, Jesus and Spirit were MORE than perfectly acceptable to this crowd back then – but not now.<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>That is an excellent point. The Jesus People started showing up about '70, or '71 (at least around my corner of Southern Cal). Of course we called them Jesus Freaks, but at first they were actually pretty well received. They were nice guys, if a little annoying with the 'praise the lord' bit. I actually went to some Jesus rock concerts. I don't remember being blown away by the music, and it didn't make me want to go out and get saved, but it was nice to go to a gig where there wasn't any trouble from idiots or the police looking for idiots.<BR/>Now, Devil stuff is cool. Go figure.<BR/><BR/>JWMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com