From: nenslo <nenslo@yahooX.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Oct 31, 2002 1:58 PM
Here's what I have done in the past week or so:
I got a grocery sack of figs from a tree at a friend's
house and
canned five pints of Fig Conserve flavored with orange
peel and some
walnuts for crunch (Sunset Magazine canning book recipe),
I made a
lemon pie for my wife and since it's time to clear out
the garden I
made a green tomato pie for myself - it has a unique
and not
altogether pleasant flavor which I seem to be the only
one who likes.
It. I've been working on some book repair jobs for
a local TV news
reporter - when he called I was afraid he was going
to put me on TV
for some reason! And I have practiced some eighteenth
century jugs
and reels on my concertina, some of which I have had
to transpose from
the key of E to C.
Today I've been working on a quilt I'm making for my
mother, and I did
some minor repairs to the one I made for my wife last
year and to two
afghans made by her late grandmother. I am getting
the quilt I made
for my Aunt Marilyn last year ready to send to her,
along with a pint
of the blackberry jam I made from wild blackberries
I picked this
summer. In addition I am preparing the amazing DOBBSHEAD
QUILT I
started last year (using a pixellated design made on
the computer
which calls for five grey tones which I did in tones
ranging through
yellow, tan and brown to a dark blue for the darkest
- it is about six
feet by four and a half) for its final work of finishing
the quilting,
and binding the edges. Also for breakfast I made waffles
with walnuts,
sesame and cinnamon.
Here's where I need advice. Looking back on all these
activities I
find that none of them ridicules, insults or belittles
anyone and I
can't figure out how to change that. Oh wait...I think
I just did.
Never mind.
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From: "Rev. Magdalen" <magdalen@subgenius.com>
"nenslo" <nenslo@yahooX.com> wrote in
message
news:3DC17D62.C86E4966@yahooX.com...
> Here's what I have done in the past week or so:
<description of granola-eatin hippie activities snipped>
> Here's where I need advice. Looking back on all
these activities I
> find that none of them ridicules, insults or belittles
anyone and I
> can't figure out how to change that. Oh wait...I
think I just did.
> Never mind.
First of all, everything you did in the past week implicitly
belittles,
insults, and ridicules everyone who ate breakfast at
McDonalds, drove a car
to a slave job, and ate pizza for dinner while watching
Sex in the City,
because you obviously feel your way of life is just
SOO much superior to
theirs. Otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned the walnuts.
"Ohhhh yes, I
am just SOOOO much better than YOU people. Not only
do I COOK from SCRATCH
for my wife, in between QUILTING and being FAMOUS, but
I go that EXTRA MILE
to put WALNUTS in what I cook. For crunch."
Whatever. No matter how many walnuts you put in your
figs you will never be
able to erase the burden that your entire generation
carries. Look at the
world you left my generation. Oh, boo fucking hoo,
they killed Jim, Jimmie,
Janice, and Martin Luther King. Oh wah wah, they shot
JFK. Let's all crawl
into a big fucking pile of granola and forget we said
anything. You people
let the world down and now everybody has to pay for
it, and you can ridicule
politics and protestors all you want, but the fact remains
that in LESS THAN
TEN YEARS, global warming will be irreversible, and
since YOUR GENERATION
decided it was more important to save your own asses
than to keep fighting
the good fight, there aren't any space colonies for
us to escape to. So
excuse me for being less than impressed with your organic
whole-earth
lifestyle, Mister Walnut Pancakes.
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From: bobdiddley@aol.com (Bobdiddley)
Magdalen wrote:
>No matter how many walnuts you put in your figs
you will never be
>able to erase the burden that your entire generation
carries. Look at the
>world you left my generation. Oh, boo fucking hoo,
they killed Jim, Jimmie,
>Janice, and Martin Luther King. Oh wah wah, they
shot JFK. Let's all crawl
>into a big fucking pile of granola and forget we
said anything. You people
>let the world down and now everybody has to pay
for it, and you can ridicule
>politics and protestors all you want, but the fact
remains that in LESS THAN
>TEN YEARS, global warming will be irreversible,
and since YOUR GENERATION
>decided it was more important to save your own asses
than to keep fighting
>the good fight, there aren't any space colonies
for us to escape to. So
>excuse me for being less than impressed with your
organic whole-earth
>lifestyle, Mister Walnut Pancakes.
>
I totally agree with your post, up to this point. It's
not about generations.
Years ago, I saw a bunch of protestors trying to make
an impression upon the
thick noggin of then-P-resident Ronald Reagan. They
were chanting, "Heil
Reagan!", etc. He retorted, in his affable sound-bites-for-nitwits
fashion, "If
it hadn't been for my generation, you'd all be saying
Heil Somebody." It was
then that I recognized that generation thing was way
past used up. HE hadn't
fought Hitler - he just talked his way through a few
movies, while others his
own age fought and died to stop tyrannical aggression,
which arguably won the
war anyway. People my own age went to VietNam, while
some my age went to jail,
while some my age moved to Canada, while some my age
travelled around the US,
preaching an end to personal and institutional violence.
Perhaps, as a
cumulative result of these actions, that particular
war is now history, rather
than evening newscast. It takes people of all ages working
(slackfully) all the
time to keep life on Earth tuned up to a tolerable operating
level. And we old
codgers don't want to feel left out. Even if ONE of
our (age demographic)
number is perpetually out-of-sorts.
My wooden ship is about ready for launching - the woodfired
Dilithium
extraction chamber is warming up as we speak.
I was impressed with the quilting. I recently visited
my Alzheimer's-stricken
Mom in Paducah, where there's a quilt museum. I tell
you what, there's a lot of
freakin' stuff that can be done with quilts, and you
still have a useful item
for a long cold northern night. But you youngsters wouldn't
care about that
stuff, would you?
http://www.aqsquilt.com/
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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
In article <3DC17D62.C86E4966@yahooX.com>, nenslo
<nenslo@yahooX.com>
wrote:
> Here's what I have done in the past week or so:
>
((dull pleasantries))
GET A JOB.
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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
In article <Iygw9.252916$121.7119566@twister.austin.rr.com>,
Rev.
Magdalen <magdalen@subgenius.com> wrote:
> First of all, everything you did in the past week
implicitly belittles,
> insults, and ridicules everyone who ate breakfast
at McDonalds, drove a car
> to a slave job, and ate pizza for dinner while
watching Sex in the City,
> because you obviously feel your way of life is
just SOO much superior to
> theirs. Otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned
the walnuts. "Ohhhh yes, I
> am just SOOOO much better than YOU people. Not
only do I COOK from SCRATCH
> for my wife, in between QUILTING and being FAMOUS,
but I go that EXTRA MILE
> to put WALNUTS in what I cook. For crunch."
>
> Whatever. No matter how many walnuts you put in
your figs you will never be
> able to erase the burden that your entire generation
carries. Look at the
> world you left my generation. Oh, boo fucking
hoo, they killed Jim, Jimmie,
> Janice, and Martin Luther King. Oh wah wah, they
shot JFK. Let's all crawl
> into a big fucking pile of granola and forget we
said anything. You people
> let the world down and now everybody has to pay
for it, and you can ridicule
> politics and protestors all you want, but the fact
remains that in LESS THAN
> TEN YEARS, global warming will be irreversible,
and since YOUR GENERATION
> decided it was more important to save your own
asses than to keep fighting
> the good fight, there aren't any space colonies
for us to escape to. So
> excuse me for being less than impressed with your
organic whole-earth
> lifestyle, Mister Walnut Pancakes.
Well I be gol dang. I said PRECISELY these EXACT same
words to Nenslo's
dad... in 1974!! WORD FOR WORD, practically! Well REAL
CLOSE anyway.
In fact MY WHOLE GENERATION was HOLLERING that as loud
as we could at
Nenslo Sr. throughout the entire 70s. I even remember
the baby Nenslo
yelling it too!
WHAT DOES THIS IMPLY?!?!? OH DEAR GOD
--
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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
In article <20021031170106.06198.00000498@mb-cn.aol.com>,
Bobdiddley
<bobdiddley@aol.com> wrote:
>
> I was impressed with the quilting. I recently visited
my Alzheimer's-stricken
> Mom in Paducah, where there's a quilt museum. I
tell you what, there's a lot
> of
> freakin' stuff that can be done with quilts, and
you still have a useful item
> for a long cold northern night. But you youngsters
wouldn't care about that
> stuff, would you?
>
> http://www.aqsquilt.com/
A gigantic QUILT is how I plan to preserve my collection
of unique home
made Dobbshead T-shirts. Overv the years many people
have made just a
few each of many different Dobbshead variations for
T-shirts, and often
they gave me one as a souvineer. Those shirts now fill
6 or 7 boxes in
storage. Storage is no place for those shirts and neither
is my ever
fatter body with its ink-destroying exudations.
BUT, I had no QUILTER, you see. That probably hasn't
changed, but it's
good to know that somewhere out there is at least one
living
quilterman.
Nenslo, what program do you use for quilting?
--
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