tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post4668228688060964581..comments2024-03-28T22:15:17.067-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: 1990sFest: Day Four—"Love at first byte."Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-17688366463603545422018-01-24T15:48:10.277-06:002018-01-24T15:48:10.277-06:00Ironic that there were no age restrictions on dive...Ironic that there were no age restrictions on diversions and distractions.Tony Galatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944671504245191140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-79487380968251360662018-01-24T10:58:19.166-06:002018-01-24T10:58:19.166-06:00I turned 21 one week before the rioting began. Fan...I turned 21 one week before the rioting began. Fancied myself a student radical. Didn't go into a bar for another six months. Too many other diversions and distractions available...[wink-wink, nudge-nudge] Grizz 65noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-81591831386033221402018-01-23T20:38:13.631-06:002018-01-23T20:38:13.631-06:00Sounds fabulous. Well except for the robbery. Thou...Sounds fabulous. Well except for the robbery. Though who knows might have been a highlight. Nowadays we hitch via the WWW more reliable just as frightening. FMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829632906445535928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-8903743958151076272018-01-23T19:06:01.462-06:002018-01-23T19:06:01.462-06:00Griz, a buddy of mine was in the National Guard st...Griz, a buddy of mine was in the National Guard stationed at the 68 convention. He was only 20 years old then. Now he tells me stories about how he felt he was on the wrong side. Tony Galatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944671504245191140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-65513912475321465022018-01-23T18:58:18.384-06:002018-01-23T18:58:18.384-06:00It's been too many years to recall (early 90&#...It's been too many years to recall (early 90's?) since I've hitchhiked or stopped for one. Except last month. There is a Walmart about 1/4 mile from the nearest bus stop, a familiar sight is seeing pedestrians making the trek. In the cold weather, spotted an old man hobbling along with a cane in one hand and the other with extended thumb. Gave him a ride right to the door, a veteran so I thanked him for his service.Berniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17157600812959885192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-44442487647882469682018-01-23T15:53:20.476-06:002018-01-23T15:53:20.476-06:00Fifty years have whizzed by since the summer of &#...Fifty years have whizzed by since the summer of '68, when I hitchhiked 8,000 miles in less than two months' time. Chicago to Montreal, then down to Boston and NYC, and finally all the way out to Southern California. <br /><br />Compiled a 150-page journal while "on the road"...who knows, I might have been the next Kerouac, if I hadn't been robbed by bikers in Texas. Thumbed 1,500 miles home from Corpus Christi, with seven bucks in my pocket and the clothes on my back, just in time for the Democratic Convention. But that's another story for another time.Grizz 65noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-86571465205182088602018-01-23T15:28:34.224-06:002018-01-23T15:28:34.224-06:00The other thing that seems crazy is that we once h...The other thing that seems crazy is that we once hitchhiked. You know stood on the corner with your thumb out? Then when somebody would stop we'd get in their car. A total stranger! Seems nuts that we were so stupid. I would never do that now. And I sure wouldn't want my kids doing it. I mean you never know who might pick you up right? FMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829632906445535928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-12518227952966785072018-01-23T12:44:43.063-06:002018-01-23T12:44:43.063-06:00Already afternoon and no comments. Is everybody a...Already afternoon and no comments. Is everybody afraid of self-incrimination? By the way, that pyramid looks awfully dangerous. Can we suppose that Neil and wife have girded their loins and scaled it?<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-7305273082831275552018-01-23T11:56:22.860-06:002018-01-23T11:56:22.860-06:00In the late 19th century, "penny dreadfuls&qu...In the late 19th century, "penny dreadfuls" like the New York Herald built audiences and amassed advertising dollars by running classified ads from, as Gore Vidal put it, "every prostitute with a few dollars and a desire to see her name in print." <i>Plus ca change...</i>Bitter Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645909858616987997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-46212694730719028602018-01-23T10:50:17.002-06:002018-01-23T10:50:17.002-06:00Those Yellow Pages were so useful at one time....
...Those Yellow Pages were so useful at one time....<br /><br />Yup, the Internet is the most wondrous source of information and communication we could imagine; free and available to most everyone, everywhere. I find myself sometimes weighing the few negative aspects of it against the mostly positive, but the scales are hugely tipped. We humans are hard-wired to be social, and no doubt the ease of anonymous written interaction will always be appealing. (Thank God for "filters" :) <br /><br />SandyKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-68193983036657081192018-01-23T07:42:30.210-06:002018-01-23T07:42:30.210-06:00It's funny how our lexicon changes over 20 sho...It's funny how our lexicon changes over 20 short years. Yellow Pages; words never uttered today; honky-tonk; that's precious; tar pit; not that there's anything attractive about it, but in 2018 we just say shithole.Tony Galatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944671504245191140noreply@blogger.com