I totally agree with Mike.

Really... take some time to try & write something that actually makes sense. I know you think you are this deep thinker and you are some sort of profound writer but sometimes less is more.

Dude!!! shut down your computer.... get out and live. One picture & you go dissect a community you obvisouly know nothing about.

Nope, sorry. I don't get it. You went from the police (the post below this one), to the 70s, to earlimart (the post above this one), then stuff about generational differences.

The whole post was two sentences, about a politician with a picture of iguana. How does that turns into you dissecting the last 35 years? Beats me.

...dude, you need to find another jump in line besides 'what the heck are you talking about...'
-last time you used that one, you answered everything I was talking about,,, which meant that you at least understood it... (maybe didn't agree, but at least understood.)
read it, try again,,
c'mon buddy, make the home team proud, you can do it...

i'm with not mike, huh?

what the heck are you talking about?

...looks like I spoke too soon about referring to the police as 'pigs.'

stepping back and watching the flow?

I don't know whether to congratulate folks on the fine job of recreating the early seventies, (strange glasses, huge collars, greasey hair, cheap heroin, etc...) -even the cars and trucks are praised and blessed by not having and emission restrictions...

-Folks wonder aloud and get pissed at certain perspectives (such as what was expressed in the Mitch on Speed: Earlimart article, where the subject of the interview points to the area as being 'backward,' and closed minded?) -when the art/alt/creative community makes these sort of comments, (repeatedly.)

Anybody else notice the ammo that is given by the truckload to people who feel this way?
It's not a ship in a bottle,
it's a snap to gether airplane kit that really only needs three moves, open box, hold in hands, look at it, and toss... (okay four... certainly not complex.)

I have nothing against retro culture, but C'mon does the phrase 'eat the meat, spit the bones mean anything? (oh wait, heavy vegetarianism... how about 'eat the food, avoid chewing fingers up to elbow?')
This is upwardly mobile: the sequel?

We just shed 35 years, (most folks involved aren't even that old...)
-It's not slimming and going back to a simpler time,
it's worse than nostalgia,(which is only fantasy using orig. costumes,)

It ignores three plus decades of society and wisdom.
(...Please: nobody tell me 'this area has not learned anything in 35 years,,,'
1. at the very least, they've learned how to create and raise most of the participants of the site,
2. Coma's lasting this long are quite rare, and nobody's awakened this week according to JAMA.
3. and, even if you were raised in a box of puppies in the back of a housetrailer, -you've at least figured out survival and common sense to make it this long...

We throw rocks at certain genre's of society that do nothing but stay drunk for a generation or three, (and the kind hearted ones say, 'well, look at their opportunites, they can't help it, and their hooked.'
-but I'm witnessing others are doing the same, (just on better grade intoxicants, better jobs, and better upbringing.)
Masturbating this stance of:
'...police are the man, the man wants to keep us down, the man hates us and are facists.'
-is not only posturing, but illfitting as well,
(show of hands: how many of you actually own Sly and the Family of Stone or Chicago Transit Authority Albums? How many of you penned such lyrics? How about actually knowing what events they were referring to?
... now, lets turn the lights on real slow...
-Do you realize that even those people are now 40 years older and have changed many of those perspectives???

Considering the the opportuntiy of education of this place, (least expensive upper education per state in the country,)
-not to mention the history of those who've come before us within a five hour radius, and their example:

-WHY are we returning to this gerbil wheel?

Last week we were announcing an excellent new housing complex.
This week, we're guest starring as 'the misguided radical junkie' (with granny glasses and suede vest,) on 'Streets of San Francisco.'

Amazing, simply Amazing...

Pot-bellied pigs ... they'd work nicely, too.