I recently moved in to a trailer park in Vermont. I like it because there are lots of birds, rabbits, and chipmunks and obviously skunks as well, judging by the smell permeating my bedroom this morning. The park has been here for fifty years and I think has grown organically on some old farm land. What it need is a little shop. but at least there is a gas station out on the road that sells stuff and where people meet a bit over coffee. The elderly gentleman who owns the place lives in Florida and never fixes anything much. The property manager is a grouchy old guy who doesn't do much either.
The tenants are mostly retired, working class people who smoke cigarettes and aren't likely to stop. There are plenty of kids and they ride around on bikes unsupervised. I treasure the comforting level of anarchy I sense here.
I’d like to get back to the good ole days but I’m of the opinion they are never to rise again…”woke” finished them off and this iteration of the Dems will never let that kind of happy living go unpunished.
Growing up in the South, I remember when popsicles were eaten very quickly because the heat would melt them in your hand before you could eat half 😂 many a brain freeze did I experience!
It's such a lovely concept and the fact that we need one is symptomatic of so much which has gone wrong in the last 40 / 50 years.
I remember Conrad Black, who used to own the British newspaper the Telegraph, talking about how he once asked Rupert Murdoch why his newspapers constantly had stories about paedophiles in them.
The reply: "To make people distrust each other"
Absolute sociopathy if you ask me.
Interestingly there is a new documentary series coming out in Britain called "Shifty". It's produced by Adam Curtis who's done loads of great documentaries about what's happened in the last 45 years. It focuses on how we've lost faith in ourselves because we've been told for four decades that everyone is solely motivated by selfishness.
I recently moved in to a trailer park in Vermont. I like it because there are lots of birds, rabbits, and chipmunks and obviously skunks as well, judging by the smell permeating my bedroom this morning. The park has been here for fifty years and I think has grown organically on some old farm land. What it need is a little shop. but at least there is a gas station out on the road that sells stuff and where people meet a bit over coffee. The elderly gentleman who owns the place lives in Florida and never fixes anything much. The property manager is a grouchy old guy who doesn't do much either.
The tenants are mostly retired, working class people who smoke cigarettes and aren't likely to stop. There are plenty of kids and they ride around on bikes unsupervised. I treasure the comforting level of anarchy I sense here.
That sounds...awesome.
I remember when popsicles were 10 cents. Oh the good old days.
I’d like to get back to the good ole days but I’m of the opinion they are never to rise again…”woke” finished them off and this iteration of the Dems will never let that kind of happy living go unpunished.
Your popsicle index helped to change my entire life, as did the Coming Clean article. It’s been really, really difficult but I thank you nevertheless.
Growing up in the South, I remember when popsicles were eaten very quickly because the heat would melt them in your hand before you could eat half 😂 many a brain freeze did I experience!
It's such a lovely concept and the fact that we need one is symptomatic of so much which has gone wrong in the last 40 / 50 years.
I remember Conrad Black, who used to own the British newspaper the Telegraph, talking about how he once asked Rupert Murdoch why his newspapers constantly had stories about paedophiles in them.
The reply: "To make people distrust each other"
Absolute sociopathy if you ask me.
Interestingly there is a new documentary series coming out in Britain called "Shifty". It's produced by Adam Curtis who's done loads of great documentaries about what's happened in the last 45 years. It focuses on how we've lost faith in ourselves because we've been told for four decades that everyone is solely motivated by selfishness.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jun/13/thatcher-farage-and-toe-sucking-adam-curtis-on-how-britain-came-to-the-brink-of-civil-war
Reminds me of a scene in “American Beauty” in which a teenaged girl decides to walk home and her friend says, "Janey, thats like almost a mile."