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Hiya folks. Ya say ya lost your job today? Ya say its 4 A.M. and your kids aintt home from school yet? Ya say your wife went out for a corned beef sandwich last weekend - the corned beef sandwich came back but she didnt? Ya say your furniture is out all over the sidewalk cause ya cant pay the rent and ya got chapped lips and paper cuts and your feets all swollen up and blistered from pounding the pavement looking for work? Is that whats troubling ya fellow? REFRAIN Well lift your head up high and take a walk in the sun with dignity and stick-to-it-ness and ya show the world, ya show the world where to get off. Youll never give up, never give up, never give up...that ship! Hey there friend. Ya say your radiators never worked all winter and now that its summer they started up again and ya cant turn them off? Ya say your wife sent your light weight suits to the cleaners and that means youll have to wear your itchy tweeds this morning when they say itll hit 106 and ya gotta meet an important business man in an hour and your bridge just broke and ya pasted it together with bubble gum and ya hope it dont fall apart while youre doing some fast talking to this man? And - and your shoelace just busted and ya opened a big cut on your cheek trying to even out your sideburns and your daughters going out with a convict and your wife just confessed she gave your last sixty dollars as a deposit on an air plane hanger? Is that whats troubling ya, friend? REFRAIN
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Well lift your head up high and take a walk in the sun with dignity and stick-to-it-ness and ya show the world, ya show the world where to get off. Youll never give up, never give up, never give up...that ship!
Hey there friend. Ya say your radiators never worked all winter and now that its summer they started up again and ya cant turn them off? Ya say your wife sent your light weight suits to the cleaners and that means youll have to wear your itchy tweeds this morning when they say itll hit 106 and ya gotta meet an important business man in an hour and your bridge just broke and ya pasted it together with bubble gum and ya hope it dont fall apart while youre doing some fast talking to this man? And - and your shoelace just busted and ya opened a big cut on your cheek trying to even out your sideburns and your daughters going out with a convict and your wife just confessed she gave your last sixty dollars as a deposit on an air plane hanger? Is that whats troubling ya, friend?
But there is a time to laugh. My Poised Prauge Pig Post is such a giggle.
If your point is that I am Feeling sorry for myself in these diaries, then you missed MY point.I and my family are incredibly fortunate, like most of the posters on ET. We escaped from the Empire. We are HERE!!
I've been studying cities that work for 30 years, and the great miracle is how much there is to learn- and how little of what I've learned can be applied elsewhere.
It looks as if I need to rethink the diaries- and their usefulness.
Pierre bourdieu, an eminent French sociologist and social activist, talked about the same thing in his little book, "On Television". Great book-- talked about the media's reframing of the public dialog to reject all the hard, complex questions. George Soros talks about the failed nature of what he called a "Feel-Good society", and the fact that he has been unable to find a route past that roadblock.
So at least I'm in good company. Useful talking follows experience, the more experience the better. Talking that precedes experience is known as bullshit.
Yer say ya lost ya best friend in Irak. Ya country wants to drop a nucular bomb on Iran, Yer gonna lose yer house to forclosure next week, Don't have insuance to remove that cancer in yer colon, etc. etc.
Well lift yer head up high; Hillory or Obama's commin in. etc.
I was too lazy too write it up but I figured not too many here are old enough to remember him. I told Bush; don't play chess with the freakin' Russians.
