There we go again… stupid Disqus (or stupid me), I had one last thing to say and Disqus decided to post my above comments for me already. I suppose I should be grateful, as last night I wrote a long post and my text completely disappeared before I could hit ‘Post.’ Aargh. Of course, it was late at night, and I could not remember most of what I had written. Perhaps that is ‘a good thing’ especially for the person I was replying to. I wish there was a ‘Save Now’ feature in Disqus to use as we write so text would not disappear like that.
In any case, the last comment I meant to say was how I appreciate your help with Disqus (Ha! And yes, I get the irony of it). I suspect part of the problem is that I’m a Mac girl (sans Mac) and a friend loaned me an old PC (PeeCee and we in the Cult of Apple like to say – with disdain, I might add) and I’m running IE.
I suspect Disqus prefers Google Chrome on this machine as I’m also using Gmail. As you know, Google wants to ‘clear the planet’ of all other email, search, and browser software.
Well, on to Tony’s current story….

My statement that “youth has no memory” is meant just as a fact, but also just because things are a certain way, that they should realize that things weren’t always that way.

I have a friend who is 10 years younger than I, and, because he’d never ridden on a train made some assumptions about train stations that I knew weren’t true because as a kid, I made several trips using the train.

The one thing that happens when people immigrate to the U.S. is that they live in a society where old tribal slights and injuries aren’t confronting them every day, like they do in their native land. That makes it easier to get along.

Oops just found this in my inbox. Still trying to figure out Disqus and notifications, etc. Also how to find and respond to posts from earlier days.

Thanks for taking the time to tell me all this. I am going to Google the other cars you mentioned. My avatar and username is a little deceiving. I know very little about cars actually. I owned a 1974 Camaro for 14 years, 350, V8 – vroom, vroom… (until the Maritime ocean air rusted it out in no time. Worse than the road salt they use in the province I now live in.)

Yes, a pre-1956 car with fuel injection was ahead of its time.

You may be right. There might be a 300SL in this city but I don’t know about. Funny that you mention it, as I recently picked up a magazine that listed vintage car shows in the city with the intention of finding someone, with a similar interest, to give me a ride to a show. The irony, of course, is that I no longer own a car! I am totally dependent on public transportation and the generosity of friends. Yikes!

You also said, “Youth has no memory.” I agree but why should they? Without years of accumulated life experiences, unless they are taught in school or by their parents, they wouldn’t much of a memory. If they do have a memory, I suspect (and maybe that is ‘a good thing’) it comes from Google. Lord help us nonetheless! What I find most distressing and angers me are the adults in government that have no memory – or they simply don’t want to have one. They keep reinventing the wheel and spending money on projects, studies, organizations, etc. that have already been done in their city, state/province, country, and other places globally, and have proved to be ineffective or downright failures.

Yet, in other countries such as the Middle East, they have too much memory! I have always thought (but never dared voice it) that I’d like to put some amnesia medication in their water systems so the tribal memories are erased (at least for awhile) and see if peace could be restored or created.

But I digress…

No No NO NO

Hubbard was delusional and under the influence of many a pharmaceutical OTC and prescription drug AND his own horseshit! I am passionate about this issue! And that is prolly why I am not popular with the Indie crowd! I don’t like the Hub, never will, and when I do you will know Bella has been indeed replaced with a FemBot!

I would say “metal disciple” for I do listen to ABBA, Britney Spears, and Billy Idol. Those musical choices do knock a few points off the board for me! But thank you!

OMG I have seen that movie many times and it is both METAL and EPIC as fuck! I love the way Paul points out the temp of a discharged Desert Eagle! My ex got one of those monsters and I have to admit I have no desire to shoot that hand cannon! I much rather use his sniper rifle or M16! I am contemplating firing a few rounds of the 1911 .45, but even that thing is too damn ridiculous for my smurf hands to handle properly! I am cool being in the rear with the gear or scope!

I guess speed reading, which I usually do, brings the crap out sooner when I read something, so I’m less tolerant of it.

Realize that what you’ve probably read out of the 30s and 40s was the stuff that survived.

The Great Gatsby, written in 1925, wasn’t particularly well regarded when published, and didn’t sell well until the 40s. I know, that’s from an earlier time, but realize that since printing made cheap publishing possible, there has always been a lot of crap that is written, sold, and read, that doesn’t really survive, especially stuff written for magazines.

Can you see People magazine being mined for its great prose in the future?

Sorry, they’re both Really Big Beings and she’d have to go through auditions and train quite a lot before she could be considered for either 1 of them. But she can go on the list and next time 1 of them is looking for a mate we’ll see. Meantime, make sure she’s on the curtain to total ceiling. Regging Officer is just down the hall. 😉

The 30s and 40s were not a time of horrible writing, though. It’s not like we just discovered how to write well recently.

But my question was really rhetorical. A sort of scream of frustration. Crap writing still sells incredibly well today.

I think the quote is right on point.
I still think she was incapable of writing characters who were very one dimensional. I found them ultimate quite cartoonish because she was preaching. Your mileage may vary.