Howie Klein!

Fitz!

Alice’s Resteraunt has been a tradition for me for years. That and Laurel and Hardy’s “march of the Wooden Soldiers”

Jane! Happy thanksgiving.

I may be a hippie. But I am not dirty. I took a shower, with soap I might add, a year or so ago. Thank you very much. ;)

Jane,
Happy Thanksgiving.
I give much thanks for you and all of the FDL gang!

looseheadprop @
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Alice’s Resteraunt has been a tradition for me for years. That and Laurel and Hardy’s “march of the Wooden Soldiers”

I’m still pulling pee-wee’s outta my butt.

Thanks Stanley and Ollie.

-GSD

Arlo’s got a MySpace page, and he’s got an audio/video of him singing it in 2005.

Hi everyone… I’m on a train and stealing wireless from the Jack London Square Inn next to the station. Thought I’d say hello real quick. I need a mobile wireless linkup for this thing so I can blog from the train.

Ahhh…..that brings back them memories. Without the dope, of course. Though now I can get a perscription, so I guess times have changed…a little.
And Jane, I forgot to write this back-thread, I loved the sermon. It takes a visionary to look beyond the lables and see the Spirit, and then bring it into context so we can see Spirit as well. Thanks.

Thanks for the memories Jane. I wanted to be a hippie but I couldn’t let my hair grow out due to that pesky monthly Air National Guard thingy. I was a first generation metalhead (I still have Black Sabbath, Iron Butterfly, and a bunch of lesser known headbangers on vinyl) but my hair couldn’t touch my ears LOL.

Happy Thanksgiving to all the Firedogs. I love this place.

“and the seein’ eye dawg”.

Kills me every time.

aw, now you made me miss my little sister. Both she and I used to be able to do the entire massacree, in four-part harmony, from memory. A very cool lil sis, who I need to call now.

This tune brings back memos. I actually had a VW micro-bus that I bought in Huntington Beach, Ca in ‘65, picked up my girlfriend (later my wife) and drove straight through back to the City (SF). The wife made paisley curtains for it and we did all the stuff hippies are supposed to do in that van. Gawd those were the daze. Trippin’ in a VW bus in “the Haight”. Boy oh boy!

I always fall apart when I think of the military shrink who was jumping up and down yelling “kill…kill…KILL…KILL”.

God, how times have changed, eh?

I wonder if Justice Scalia ever identified with the blind judge — “a case of American blind justice” when he reviews the Bush v. Gore 2000 election case?

If you wanna stop war & stuff ya gotta yell LOUD!

This is a repost of an earlier comment but
it looks like Fitzy is going to appeal
Judge Walton’s ruling…
What are the ramifications if he loses the appeal?

Jack

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01998.html

OT: You know what grinds my gears? “News items” like this: Bush transforms into avid mountain biker. This qualifies as “political news?” If I were the editor, “news” like this wouldn’t rise to the level of celebrity fluff, holiday or no.

We’re thinking about looking at Van Morrison on Austin City Limits on PBS out of OK. City, in a bout an hour and 12. I think it’s a re-run. Has anybody seen it and if so is it worth a look see?

Bay State Librul @ 16

This is a repost of an earlier comment but
it looks like Fitzy is going to appeal
Judge Walton’s ruling…
What are the ramifications if he loses the appeal?

Is it even possible to evaluate the possible ramifications? The article states that the substance of Walton’s ruling is sealed. Do we know enough to even be sure what Fitz objects to about the judge’s decision?

EvilDrPuma @ 17

OT: You know what grinds my gears? “News items” like this: Bush transforms into avid mountain biker. This qualifies as “political news?” If I were the editor, “news” like this wouldn’t rise to the level of celebrity fluff, holiday or no.

I’d like to grind Bush’s gears.

Hey! I was a hippie, and I was not dirty. None of my friends were dirty. We really got off on baths and showers and hot tubs and…..

Bruce – USA
Mellencamp – Pink Houses

I’m thankful I’m still able to speak my mind. I’m amused and saddened when politicians can’t grasp what the people are thinking. To the rest of America – Happy Thanksgiving.

Ok Kiddo – watched the Van Morrison ACL the other night and enjoyed it thoroughly – go for it!

and Jane dear lady – what a brilliant set of posts today – such meaningful, inspiring and thanks-giving pieces to keep us company this day.

Thank you.

Dear Jane, Christy & all the Firedogs,

Thank you for sharing your Thanksgiving greetings and expressions of friendship.

When the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock celebrated their first thanksgiving it was to give thanks to the Lord for the opportunity to begin a new life with spiritual freedom.

Today the turkey has become a symbol of a secular national holiday and many people have forgotten or do not know of its origin. When we try to list the things we are thankful for, our families, our health, our friends, we may forget to thank the Lord for our lives and the blessings He has given us.

Here’s a partial list of things to be thankful from the Rev. James A. Bramlage pastor of St. Peter in Chains Cathedral.

For the smell of new rain, for pumpkins, and Snoopy, for the aroma of newly baked bread, for cotton candy, for funny looking animals like giraffes and koalas and even human beings.

For the smell of fall in the air, for pay checks, and smoked ribs, for the intricate details of window frost, and for ice cubes and ice cream.

For clean sheets and peanut butter, and perma-press and computer games, for vacations and seat belts, for escalators and elevators, for views from tall buildings, and for red balloons.

For first romances and golden wedding anniversaries, for eyes to see colors and ears to hear music and feet to dance, for dissenters and the right to dissent, for pine trees and daisies, for newspapers and sandals and frogs.

For parks and wood smoke and newly fallen snow, for the smell of leather, for funny buttons and powerful pictures, for pecan pies and long hair and French fries and re-cycling centers, for jet planes and for finding a nearby parking place,for zoos and splashing fountains and rock music and Bach music.

And for the many other countless things that we have or take advantage of day after day and never stop to thank the Lord for.

Cheers.

Linkmeister @
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Arlo’s got a MySpace page, and he’s got an audio/video of him singing it in 2005.

Thanks so much, I added it above.

You’re far too young to remember this movie, Jane. A true classic, but only for hippies/sympathizers. My favorite cookbook is the Alice’s Restaurant Cookbook, especially the chile recipe.

“you can have anything you want,
at Alice’s Restaurant,
(’cepting Alice . . .)”

Hope everyone is with friends/family tonight.

Two stoners dump a half a ton of garbage on the side of a country road — and turn it into an antiwar statement. Only in the 60s.

Arlo’s Pop was Progressive. He was OK.!

I knew my younger kid was a keeper for sure when he started to sing ALL of Alice’s Restaurant when he was about 9 or 10.

I was in Stockbridge in the summer of 2005. Still one beautiful town.

There’s a Guthrie Center in Alice’s old home, the church. SSeems to be a community center/ Buddhist meditation hall.

I was sort of a hippie. I wasn’t dirty either, but I did my share of orange sunshine and windowpane.

Hi Firepups, Jane, and Christy -

I hope all are enjoying this day with friends and loved ones; my heart goes out to those who lost a loved one over this past year.

Happy Thanksgiving, Firepups. Among the many blessings I’m thankful for this year is this wonderful community and the good people here.

Jane, thanks for creating the Lake – and thanks to you and Christy and TRex and the posters for sharing your work and effort. And thanks to all the pups – commenting or yet to de-lurk – who make the community.

Cool. I needed that.

And Jeralyn has the link to the cookbook.

Talkleft link to Alice’s Restaurant Cookbook

Bush transforms into avid mountain biker.

“Avid” is different than “Competent”. One can be avid/enthusiastic yet still a klutz in the endeavour.

What good memories this song brings! And your earlier post reminded me of my dad…he liked hippies, too. He gave blankets out to people at the nearby communes.

amazing the extent to which I still sprinkle the occasional phrase from Alice’s Rest into daily life – - “hairy eyeball” – “fillin’ out forms and playin’ with the pencils” – “hung down, brung down, hung up and all kinds of mean, nasty stuff”.

People look at me funny.

Remek @ 34

Bush transforms into avid mountain biker.

“Avid” is different than “Competent”. One can be avid/enthusiastic yet still a klutz in the endeavour.

True enough. I still don’t see why the rest of us should be expected to give a shit, though.

Thank you, Jane, for the gift of Alice’s Restaurant.

It just isn’t Thanksgiving for me until I hear this song. This morning I missed the first 16 minutes today of the live version my local radio station plays each year and the day was feeling incomplete.

Now I feel full. Thank you.

A great line…”The army didn’t think I was moral to burn women, children, and villages after bein’ a litterbug.”.

I remember when the others on the group “W” bench asked Arlo “what’d ya get?”. He said “I didn’t get nothin’. I had to pay 50 dollars, and, pick up the garbage.” Crime of the century folks.

jayt @
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amazing the extent to which I still sprinkle the occasional phrase from Alice’s Rest into daily life – - “hairy eyeball” – “fillin’ out forms and playin’ with the pencils” – “hung down, brung down, hung up and all kinds of mean, nasty stuff”.

People look at me funny.

Yeah, people look askance when using the line, “… got good and drunk the night before so I looked and felt like the all-American boy.” :)

The new version from 2005 is still pretty funny. I woke up far too early this morning for my own good, and the university student radio station was playing it at 4:30 AM today. :)