sprawled out

she is beautiful, jonny. hey, my son's 21, just graduated from college and got a great job--you think she might want to move to NY?

BINGO! by the way, invisibledan, i'm hoping to take the foundational DWTOAS* class! i hear it's really bland. *Dried White Toast On A Stick

Looking to see if they had any anniversary "news" on twi's website, i stumbled across their "terms and conditions" page. it all looks to me like what's really prevailing over there is FEAR. check it out.

try this

johniam--almost the same timing for me, come to think of it. what a drag--i never even thought about about many fun dead shows twi cost me! instead, i went to heartbeat festivals and men's advances and rock of ages(s). yikes. ugh. brrr. zzzzzzz.

now THAT'S an anniversary worth celebrating! (funny--i walked out of a dead show in '76, and never saw them again until 1988, the year after i left twi.)

the same episode they expanded into the first star trek movie, the greyest story ever told! (where the superpowerful artificial entity thought its name was "Vger" because there was dirt on the Voyager's nameplate! man, was that dumb.)

kathy, i really have a problem with you calling craig an @sshole. he was much, much, much, much, MUCH worse than that! (my apologies to his kids: i'm really sorry your dad was such a nasty, deluded, dangerous, thick, egotistical, neanderthal @#$%^&! really, i am.)

you did not do a lousy job. i just thought it was a good time and place to do a little NY PR. thanks again, dot. and as for pat p., YEAH!

thank you, dot. you're a sweetheart. and thanks for the coffee, rascal. my only comment is this: i don't live in new york CITY. i know that people who have never been here often picture new york as one sprawling metropolis, and are surprised to find that it isn't. i grew up on long island, and am back there today. it's a suburban place you'd probably find familiar--not all that different from the places i lived in texas, washington, massachusetts, and even kansas! i have never been awakened by the sound of a jackhammer. (i have, on occasion, awakened with a jackhammer in my head. but i was younger then.) just a clarification, because my experience is that new york is often misunderstood. as for me, i'm not a tough guy. in fact, i've always been quite the opposite. but i am very definitely a new yorker. the realization of that is what brought me back here after traipsing around the country for all those years. today, i live on a lake. really, a lake! last night, i walked on the beach. next month, i'm spending a weekend in the mountains. that's the new york i live in. (of course, it's nice that i can hop in my car and be in midtown manhattan in about an hour!) you guys should check it out sometime. i think you'd be pleasantly surprised.

i'm pretty sure he still gets a monthly stipend from his rich cousin Wink.

thank you, dot. maybe that should be required reading for gsc. (a secretary??!! i don't even have a laptop!)

i guess it was someone else. rascal, i've gone back over every one of my posts, and i just don't see "all of the personal insults." really. maybe we have different definitions of "insult." so much of it is point of view, i guess. when i look back, i see myself bending over backwards to be nice, to explain, to give people the benefit of the doubt--and often getting just the opposite in return. but i can't expect you to see things the way i do; you're not me! and i wouldn't say i've been "disgusted with most of grease spot" at all. though sometimes i'm surprised by people. even shocked. but again, that's because of my point of view, and the expectations that go along with it. thanks. i'd appreciate it.

rascal, i don't know what it is, but for some reason i rubbed you the wrong way from day one. i think i even PM'd you about it not long after i arrived here. i really think you've read into my posts, in some cases, anyway. and maybe you just don't like the way i "talk." but you're not alone. a few others here have had their problems with me, most of which i think has to do what i called the email syndrome a few posts back. or maybe it's just that i hold (and voice) unpopular views. all i know is i try to be considerate here. and i bite my tongue more often than not. i certainly don't think i've ever been anywhere near as nasty to anyone here as folks have been to me on occasion. of course, that's just my opinion. which is all i've got. look on the bright side, rascal--at least you never have to deal with me in person. :D

thank you, dot. very sweet of you. and i agree with you 100% about pat p. he was one of those (many) guys i always thought was a complete jerk, and wondered what anybody ever saw in him. but i never spend too much time wondering about him, because there were so many others just like him!

greg123-- i didn't respond to your initial post because i didn't want to be nasty to someone who seemed well-meaning and not-that-bright. but now that i know the words weren't yours, i can tell you the truth: it's an idiotic "definition." could you make it a little longer? shove some more into it? tell your "mentor" that words mean ONE THING--not dozens of things that you feel you want them to mean. that "literal translation according to usage" stuff the way used was just another way to make the bible mean what they wanted it to mean. and honestly, do we really need some absurd, cobbled-together "definition" to tell us what love is?

thanks for the clarfication, sunesis.

i think, you went, a little crazy, with the commas.

i thought he meant "GREASIEST." like a greased pig. so maybe it's got something to do with pork, like in leviticus. but what about the "great whales and every living creature?" doesn't gen 1:21 says he CREATED them, too? (it's the same word, right? bara'?)

wouldn't losing people's trust hamper your ability to minister to them? invisibledan--vpw would NEVER have apologized. NEVER. it was not part of his repertoire. i don't think it was ever in his nature to do so, and once he'd erected his fortress of sycophants, he never had to face his fallibility again.

you got that right, waysider! it did help that we had such a great soundtrack. the beatles, motown, all that great stuff on AM...and then those early FM stations that would play whole albums (when whole albums were worth listening to!)--with those stoned-sounding djs who'd actually take requests...paying $3.50 to see THREE great bands at the fillmore east... the more i remember, the better it sounds!

i wanted to respond to rhino's comments about the 60s without derailing the DDT thread. i think the 60s were amazing. not perfect, by any means, but wonderful nonetheless. though i was only 12 in 1967, i remember that time as one of real hope. there really was this feeling in the air that positive change was possible, and that the world really was going to take a giant step forward. there has never been a time like it in my lifetime, so open and full of possibilities. some of it was wrongheaded. and it had its share of a**holes. but i hold to it as an incredible time--my memory of it is all bright and shiny and sunny and clear, like the most perfect day you can imagine. it still gives me hope, even in times like these. you can condemn it if you want. i realize it's the christian thing to do. but it's the spirit (that's right) of those times, still reverberating inside me, that keeps me young at heart and hopeful. there's no way i'm gonna condemn that--so i'll still celebrate it.

so is a "near-death experience" like an administrative screw-up, like when a hotel loses your reservation? i don't get it--who's in charge? and doesn't the whole "it's not your time" thing mean that our death is scheduled in advance? so who do i call about cancelling my reservation?

too bad about cummins and geer. i always liked walter. :(

eye of the beholder, i guess, white dove. to me, he wasn't throwing a tantrum--he was making faces at twi. but i changed it--any better? as for the tag line, i have nothing to do with that, do i? right now, it looks to me like someone's editorializing. if so, that's kinda f'ed up, isn't it?