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March 27, 2003
Why Should I Care About Posterity? What’s Posterity Ever Done For Me?
The other day I was looking for some Groucho Marx quotes and Google headed me toward someone’s personal Marx Brothers page. They had taken everything down and written, “This is not the time for jokes,” and then had a list of worthwhile places to send money, such as Oxfam.
Well, now. Yes, Oxfam and UNICEF and the Red Cross/Crescent are wonderful organizations and can always use your money, double especially now. And of course it’s a really good thing that so many people have the power of the internet to use in conveying their political voice and incite action. However, I don’t believe for one second that people need to stop laughing right now. I don’t think that any one person is any less concerned about the state of things just for looking up some funny man words. I don’t think it’s possible to forget just how fucked up things are, and in light of this, I think it’s very important to laugh, to watch “Duck Soup” just one more time, to spin around in the front yard until you fall down dizzy. You must giggle in times like these. That doesn’t make this time any less dire or mean that you are any less concerned and angry about it; it just helps keep you sane. And a little silly. And that’s good.
Some silly things I have enjoyed in the last week include:
*This Groucho Marx random quote generator.
*Buying sumac to cook with. Even though it’s not the poisonous stuff, it still seems strange.
*Watching Jacob play Zelda.
*Reading Krazy Kat comics for the millionth time.
*Making a felt-y France monster.
*Giving a pint of blood and then proceeding to drink a million beers on the front porch (I don’t know if this qualifies as silly, or just plain dumb, but I sure did giggle a lot. At first.)
*Playing Buck Owens records and singing along at the top of my lungs.
Posted by pogo at March 27, 2003 4:46 PM
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It should be noted that all the beer drinking I did on the porch the other night I did utilizing the most amazing beer goblet that I made Leah steal for me when she was in town recently. It’s beautiful. It holds an entire beer and is covered with pink elephants and advertises “Delirium Tremens” beer.
Posted by: tam on March 27, 2003 5:02 PM
Also, time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Snort.
Posted by: tam on March 27, 2003 5:35 PM
Yeah! You use the gobblet! I’m so glad it’s useful and fantastic.
Posted by: leah on March 28, 2003 2:46 PM
Yes! Buck Owen! The page you linked to fails to mention the session work Buck did for Gene Vincent. The idiots!
cheers,
Andrew Abb
Osaka, Japan
gmtPlus9
Posted by: Andrew Abb on March 29, 2003 7:17 AM
Andrew, I know! I just wanted to make sure that I got the “Pledge to Country Music” in there, though.
I think I just might go up the road to Hamburger Dan’s and get some coffee this morning, since I’m feeling so Buck-y…
Posted by: tam on March 29, 2003 10:09 AM
And oh yeah, I really enjoyed all of your rockabilly links from a little bit ago, especially the Wanda Jackson stuff. Ooh, and all that Czech photography? Fantastic stuff!
Kampai!
tam
Posted by: tam on March 29, 2003 10:14 AM