A little reminiscence about the '60's.
Sunday, 15 September 2002 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carose59"Nope, Nope, Nope! You Can't Start Singing Loud Just At The End Of Something! You Would Have Thought After All This Time--Decades Worth Of Time!--That You Would Have Learnt By Now If You Want To End War and Stuff, You've Got To Learn To Sing Loud All The Time So People Can Hear You!"*
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I took a long walk this evening, and while I was out I saw something . . . odd.
There was this statue in someone's front yard. Now, a lot of people have statues in their yards--the Blessed Mother, Jesus, St. Francis. I didn't recognize this one--it definitely wasn't the Blessed Mother, and I don't think it was Jesus, though he was wearing a robe. It could have been St. Francis, though my St. Francis has a dog at his side, and a bird on his shoulder and this one didn't have either.
He did have something, though. He had a small, plastic American flag draped across his shoulders like a shawl.
My first thought was of Abbie Hoffman. I don't know how many people remember Abbie's flag shirt, the one that was censored on The Mike Douglas Show. (For anyone who doesn't remember, and is wondering how you censor a shirt, they put a big blue dot over him.) It was disrespectful to wear a shirt like that.
At least, it was disrespectful if you were Abbie Hoffman. It wasn't a bit disrespectful when Roy Rogers wore the same shirt. When Roy wore it, it was patriotic.
I don't know what it means when some saint I can't identify wears it. I suppose it's that God is on our side, though I've never understood that philosophy. I really need to go back and figure out just who that guy is.
*Arlo Guthrie
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I took a long walk this evening, and while I was out I saw something . . . odd.
There was this statue in someone's front yard. Now, a lot of people have statues in their yards--the Blessed Mother, Jesus, St. Francis. I didn't recognize this one--it definitely wasn't the Blessed Mother, and I don't think it was Jesus, though he was wearing a robe. It could have been St. Francis, though my St. Francis has a dog at his side, and a bird on his shoulder and this one didn't have either.
He did have something, though. He had a small, plastic American flag draped across his shoulders like a shawl.
My first thought was of Abbie Hoffman. I don't know how many people remember Abbie's flag shirt, the one that was censored on The Mike Douglas Show. (For anyone who doesn't remember, and is wondering how you censor a shirt, they put a big blue dot over him.) It was disrespectful to wear a shirt like that.
At least, it was disrespectful if you were Abbie Hoffman. It wasn't a bit disrespectful when Roy Rogers wore the same shirt. When Roy wore it, it was patriotic.
I don't know what it means when some saint I can't identify wears it. I suppose it's that God is on our side, though I've never understood that philosophy. I really need to go back and figure out just who that guy is.
*Arlo Guthrie