Beer strike!

[nekot]

I like charts...all kinds of charts....graphs, pies, tables, and emoticons.

Okay...something interesting.

I had no knowledge of Laurel Canyon until this past week. I forget how I tripped upon a site of a dude that has written 21 "parts" online about the musicians and actors and such that congregated in Laurel Canyon in the 60s. It's quite fascinating. It's not really well written though, but still intriguing.

The author implies possible ties to conspiracies and (possibly) MKUltra, though he hasn't outright stated such. (I'm only on Part 10.) That aside, I'm enjoying reading about some of the history of the people who lived in or had ties to Laurel Canyon.

I'd like to visit that abandoned Murphy's Camp if I make it to that area of California. (Murphy's Camp is not part of Laurel Canyon, but is nearby. )
Murphy's Camp link: http://www.hikespeak.com/trails/rustic- ... azi-ruins/
Part 10 link of the online Laurel Canyon stuff I'm reading: http://informationfarm.blogspot.com/201 ... ry_26.html

A link in one of the comments from the Laurel Canyon piece sent me to a site which shared that the 60s hippie movement has its roots in Germany.
I never knew that either; I was surprised. Clean cut Germans and hippies. It seemed so odd to me.
The word hippie has its origins in Ebonics(?). Malcolm X used the term in 1933 calling white men that acted more black than white, hippies.
Here's a link to the piece I read: http://www.hippy.com/modules.php?name=N ... le&sid=243

[nekot]

Haha...I was just proofing my post and noticed that I "tripped" upon the site about Laurel Canyon.

[Eternum 1]

You'd be surprised how avant garde modern Germans are. The German baby boomers are the antithesis of the old western stereotype of conservative worker bees. Germans have music festivals that dwarf ours in attendance and in general the public has a very liberated view of sexuality and of course still love big mugs of beer. I often meet up with Germans on the local ski hills or camping outdoors and invariably have a blast. The hippy lifestyle is just one facet of a layered society that embraces life's pleasures along with responsible socialism

[nekot]

"Responsible socialism" ... I like that term.

I recently told Hubby, "I think I might really be a socialist."

Then I took one of those online test about 'what political leaning are you' type things. (It even has a graph! ) Anyway, I was in Gandhi's quadrant except I was a little farther left on the economic scale and lower on the social scale. I don't know how accurate the test is though. I'd taken it in the past and was in the same quadrant then too.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2

[nekot]

Here's another quiz..it's a US quiz and very short.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2012/quiz/

I scored as a moderate democrat.

[Eternum 1]

Very Liberal Dem.

[LadySaturn]

I took the test and clicked next and got a 404 error page... Well, hell that can't be good.

[MJPease]

Well bust my britches, belly up to the bar, this liberal democrat is buying the next round. What a relief I was afraid I might come out of the test a conservative republican

[LadySaturn]

Okay, this test is rigged. I call Shenanigans! I too am supposedly a liberal democrat. My left foot. Again... SHENANIGANS!

[bags123]

I took the test,...and I'm somewhere between a liberal Democrat and and consevative Anarchist.