13: Hey You
1. I think of “ Get Off My Cloud” as the Rolling Stones answer to the Beatles “I Wanna Hold Your Hand.”
2. But the best song about clouds, which came a year after the Rolling Stones song, might be THIS.
3. I don’t have anything on The Cloud. My blog is My Cloud. It’s also my writer’s filing cabinet.
4. I have a friend who focuses on local politics while I follow national news. “You might be a kicker and I might be a goalie,” I told her, “but it’s all the same game.”
5. Moon walk.
6. The Judy Chops at Dogtown: No One in the Band is Named Judy but They Got the Musical Chops. More HERE.
7. Floyd’s Dogtown Roadhouse is my adult version of The Surf in Massachusetts, where I danced to live music every weekend growing up.
8. Our own local Bansky?
9. Microscopes and telescopes / tell the same magical story / We walk on ground / like Jesus walked on water / Memory is the gravity
that holds the world together / and love and death / are not bound by it… Read Quantum Leap in its entirety HERE.
10. Poetry lives outside the confines of academic convention or technologic mass-production. It’s not house broken.
11. Adam or atom?
12. July 4th post from 2006: Fireworks are illegal for Massachusetts citizens to possess, let alone to set off. In the past, Hullonians watched official firework displays, set off from offshore barges or from the local playground field. But then, even those were deemed by the powers that be unsafe or too costly, and so, being the freedom-loving and independent Yankees they are, Hullonians took matters into their own hands. Here’s what I saw on the beach… Spectacular fireworks, as professional as the ones that small towns display, were going off continuously and in both directions for as far as the eye could see. There were Revolutionary War-like bonfire encampments from horizon to horizon along the 5 mile stretch of beach. Groups of people were gathered and some were still coming out of their houses, as though an invasion from Mars might be occurring.
13. The funny part was that both John and I were on the beach until 7:00 p.m. before the fireworks started, and there was no bonfire preparation going on, no sign of what was coming. The next morning the beach was immaculate, as if the whole thing never happened. We didn’t expect to see firework photos or read about the display in the newspapers the next day, and we didn’t. “The only evidence of it that you might eventually read about is how much it cost the town to clean-up,” my brother John suggested. “Prohibition never works. It just fuels the fire,” I answered. Read Boston Tea Party revisited from 2006 in its entirety HERE.
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July 5th, 2023 9:59 am
Had to check out your TT on Wednesday ? Another good one. Did you mean to have both 6 & 13 going to the tea party revisited? I really like that 2006 blog and it makes me miss the fireworks. We always made sure we went somewhere to see them.
July 5th, 2023 11:20 am
Sherry, #6 fixed. Look how much goes wrong when you don’t visit and keep me on my toes. I usually post Thirteen Thursday on Wednesday and keep it up for a couple of days since I post less frequently than I used to.
July 5th, 2023 4:21 pm
We have a patchwork of cities that ban fireworks next to ones that permit them. So, we could get some from a neighboring town… It’s not as much fun, though, when the air gets so smoky and the dogs panic and the area sounds like a war zone. 2006 sounded like good times. (My 13 post goes up tomorrow.)
July 6th, 2023 8:46 am
Many fireworks are also illegal in Virginia, but that doesn’t keep people from setting them off. That seems to be one of those laws on the books that no one notices.