No wardrobe changes

[Gary Chambers]

Okay, I'll switch to this thread if you insist, but I'm not giving up the sequined bell bottoms.

EMERGENCY EDIT:
Hey! What happened? This was supposed to be part of the Old sex and religion thread. Sheeesh! A guy can't even surrender in peace.

 

[cantdog]

Funny, it sounds more like the Elvis thread.

 

[gauchecritic]

I thought it was reminiscent of the AH-as-Monty Python sketches thread

 

[Guest]

Gary, Cant and Gauche. Heavy sigh.

Perdita

 

[cantdog]

We are quite a crowd. How would it be to sit in a room with a Franklin stove, selected inebriants, good food, and a chance to really talk about the world?

I live for that sort of talk.

 

[Gary Chambers]

Elvis is buried in my back yard without his trousers, because I'm wearing them.

Elvis' refusal to die and Monty Python's casting calls aren't helping here. I'll have you know this is apparently supposed to be a philosophical discussion. It has been decreed by the saint of all things sensuous. We're supposed to get serious here. The subject matter hasn't been revealed yet, but I did see a hint:

Shereads to Rgraham666
What makes you and Gary C think the Puritans wanted people to live happily, by twos or in any other combination?

That suggested that I harbour some illusion that Puritans had/have some traits that might be considered half way human. It's utter nonsense. The Catholic church was still in turmoil in 1620 over its unforgivable overindulgences, such as selling splinters of wood as remnants of the original crucifix. In defiance Martin Luther had given birth to a new and more liberal protestant church. Puritan crime lords responded by developing a religion more Catholic than even the Pope could have imagined, and then they set about forcing it upon everyone. For this, they were all bound for dungeons or gallows where they belonged, but a vile admiral of the narrow seas named Christopher Jones, managed to command the Mayflower across the Atlantic, delivering the first terrorist attack against North America (not counting Spain's decimation of the Mayans). Osama Bin Laden's crimes almost look like schoolboy pranks next to the disaster of the Mayflower landing safely at Plymouth Rock. There isn't a thing wrong on the North American continent from usury and drive by shootings to the pathetic Iraq War that can't be traced back to Puritans with a little effort. Shereads knows that too, she's just trying to bait the trap and I guess she succeeded. The lady is irrecusable.

 

[Guest]

I live for that sort of talk.

That's what my party was like tonight. Just imagine me talkin'bout Shakesbard while inebriated. P.

(Carry on, Gary C. But Elvis is so over )

 

[Gary Chambers]

We are quite a crowd. How would it be to sit in a room with a Franklin stove, selected inebriants, good food, and a chance to really talk about the world?

I live for that sort of talk.

If we started working on it now we might be able to pull it off by December 2005, but not in Maine, and certainly not in Canada; somewhere warm with some real age about it.

 

[cantdog]

His sort of education, Shakespear's I mean, isn't being done anymore, most places. MBAs is what the students want, and the colleges are being managed by managers with nothing to suit them particularly for the place they find themselves. That sort of background, in the classics, embeds one in the civilization. If you begin from a realization that you're participating in a large multigenerational project like western culture, it has to color your goals and the modes you choose to meet them.

I enjoy being what I am-- modern, American, 21st century-- but I see my culture cheapened to the service of industry. It could be ignored too long or casually thrown away in the next fad. Most would never realize what had been lost.

People should talk about Shakesbard while inebriated. It's important that it be done.

Some of the disdain for that culture also traces to the Puritans. They had been victims of its oppession and they disdained it even before that, looking at it all through the lens of their moralism. And both stem from the same era.

 

[Guest]

Cantperro, I agree with you. I could not have said it that expertly in my present state though. Gracias, P.

 

[cantdog]

How about Natchez? That was an old place. Did "the mighty fire" John Lee talks about burn all the old French and Spanish places in Natchez?

Just a random warm place.

 

[Gary Chambers]

Natchez sounds interesting. I was once arrested and labeled a terrorist for a week or so until diplomats sorted it out, so I worry a little about entering the U.S.A. during the Homeland Security scare, but for good conversation and truth enducing wines and spirits, plus perhaps a swing around the dance floor with the likes of Perdita and Shereads, it might be worth the risk.

 

[Guest]

... perhaps a swing around the dance floor with the likes of Perdita and Shereads, it might be worth the risk.

I hope they know the tango in Natchez.

Perdita

 

[cantdog]

I don't know what brought it into my head. It dates 'way back, but that doesn't mean any of the old places survived the War or the Mighty Fire. It would be sad to be there and have to book a room in a Comfort Inn because there was nothing else.

I like Santa Fe, and there are some good restaurants and so forth. If the old Natchez is gone we could move west a little. Or New Orleans. Mobile is supposed to be taken over by the casino.