Grrrr......

[samurai_joe]

I love watching the History Channel's take on the sixties. Granted, I wasn't there, but I know that you're not gonna get much of a historical perspective when you have National Review writers as commentators.

Whatever. More pabulum for useless old fucks to reassure themselves while they stroke their dead cats and wait to die.

Also, and more pressing

Comments

[dandy_gregory]

Three words for you: external hard drive
No good author should be without one

[samurai_joe]

yeah, I learned that shit the hard way. Worse, I was smack-dab in the middle of a short I was excited about shopping around.

By the way, nice icon. Need to add you.
j.

[atomicbear]

I second the external drive. Or if the files are small text ones there are services to back them up on the internet.

[samurai_joe]

yeah, I've seriously learned my lesson with this one.
j.

[reneesarah]

I was on the young end of the 60's since I graduated in 1969. Let me assure you, however, that I am not a useless old fuck waiting to die, and I do not have a cat- dead or alive. Currently I am working two jobs, one doing counseling for a women's day treatment program and another teaching anger management classes at a hospital. I take Farsi language lessons and translate classical poetry that most likely has never been translated into English before. I go to religious services twice a week, and have a garden that is producing a steady crop of tomatoes for friends and family right now. Recently I planted winter crops of kale, Chinese cabbage and broccoli. I have onions waiting to go in, and flower bulbs ready to go as well. If all of that does not disqualify me as a useless old fuck waiting to die, then perhaps it might matter that I love you as my friend, my son's friend, and I am in awe of the incredible writer that you are.

[reneesarah]

I'm sorry, didn't see the documentary. But from having been there, like with any group of people, there were scam artists and sleezeballs, there were druggies and people who just wanted to get laid and have a good time. There were also a very large number of people who were serious about ending the Vietnam War, who wanted to make sure something like that never happened again if at all possible- and truly, deep in their hearts and souls believed that we could change the world, and that people and the world needed to be loved. For myself this translated into working in community organizing and community programs for more than thirty years... and the belief that my life has meaning if I am of service to others. I know a lot of people from the 60's and early 70's who were formed by the times into lifelong careers of service and community work. Just as an aside, I always thought they could never, ever turn the Rolling Stones into elevator music... about five years ago I heard a violin elevator music version of their songs when walking

[samurai_joe]

Um, perhaps I should be more specific

[kafkateer]

As a writer for the National Review, I take exception to your characterization of my documentary, "Goddamn Communist Traitor Jamboree".

Wait, really?

[samurai_joe]

Is that what you've been up to?

My god.
j.

Re: Wait, really?

[kafkateer]

Nah, I'm just yanking your chain. I've actually been selling the organs of the homeless to prisons for cheap meat.

Re: Wait, really?

[samurai_joe]

Well, at least you're doing something that helps rehabilitation.
j.