Flower Power!

[shiredancer]

Oh, I'm on quite the posting roll, I am... *is pleased*. Of course, it's mostly spammage, but it's colorful, fun spammage! Gacked from starwatcher307 and snailbones:

Your Hippie Chick Name Is:

Cinnamon

Hippie Chick Name Generator

I'm a cinnamon girl! Ooh, that just automatically set up a craving for cinnamon toast -- I used to love eating that. I remember eating stacks of it at my girlfriend's house in my teens, while we played cribbage together, or poker with her family. Real poker, where the dealer called the game, not this newfangled Texas Hold'Em that's all the rage...

I also remember 1977 -- the heart of my hippie days -- painting flowers and vines on faces at some kind of festival in Isla Vista (the site of the bank-burning in 1970, during the war protest years). The same girlfriend and I, and her boyfriend, had driven up to I.V. in 1970 to try to get in on the action (we were just sophomores in high school then and it seemed like a cool idea), but got turned back at the gate to UCSB and couldn't get through. I moved there after I graduated in 1972, when it was a sleepy hippie village, and lived there for six years. Looking back, it was idyllic -- hippies, street people, festivals, jugglers, and okay, mimes too (guess it wasn't entirely perfect!). I learned entirely too much about the drug scene, but I also learned about food co-ops and brown rice and herbs and tarot cards and belly dancing, and sundry other things that make me who I am today.

All that brought on by the hippie chick's flower on her face! Funny.

Comments

[shiredancer.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, the heat problem wasn't part of my '68 model. I do remember that the heater worked *very* well, though, and I would get so terribly sleepy driving at night. I gave Gris a tune-up myself once, which made me very proud, and toward the end there he guzzled oil like nobody's business. It was the Camry, though, that I needed to hit with a hammer just so when it stalled. Boy, those cars sure do have their quirks, don't they?

[aslowhite.livejournal.com]

They sure do! But at least you could work on them yourself; I even replaced Louie's clutch myself. No way would I try anything like that on today's cars.

Sorry for hijacking ur thread! :D