Four Questions upon Returning from Battle of the Bands
I sometimes think that we miss out on a lot of human interaction. Nothing specific, but in general. A sort of general missing out, a quiet missing out. Not a big deal, but nevertheless, we miss out. I do not know what makes me think that rowing in a rowboat will make it better, but I know for a fact I have a better chance to meet a girl that way than I do at the grocery store.
1. As you look at the environment, what is your biggest concern? I mean let us all assume we are going to live to be 200, what changes NEED to be made? I think the fact that we are all going to die, and won’t really be able to get yelled at by the people that we are screwing over, is our only reason for keeping on the way we are. For me, I thought about Kleenex this morning. Oily, lotion-soaked, pieces of paper. I am going to buy a handkerchief. I do not know where they are, but I am going to go look.
2. Have you ever gone to the ear doctor? As a music dude, I have gone a few times. I even had a pair of prescription earplugs made a decade ago. Do you take care of your ears? What part of your body do you think you have done the most damage to?
3. I accidentally shaved my head a bit ago, after taking too many Advil PM. Please, let us not have an intervention. What is the worst hair cut you ever got? I have two, one time I went to the Beauty College, because I had a crush on a girl and she flirted with me and I went, and she shaved my beard and I had a mustache, like a cop. I looked so silly. The other was college, and I do not want to talk about it.
4. Have you gone swimming yet?
Cheryl Mathis said:
1. I would like more people to consider their impact. It drives me nuts that my parents think nothing of burning milk jugs and styrofoam in their burn barrel up north. “It burns.” Yes it does. That’s not the point. They think that what they do doesn’t matter because they are only one family, but it doesn’t work like that.
2. Ear doctors are expensive. Due to frequent childhood ear infections, I have scarred ear drums. I do not listen to loud anything anymore (though I can’t convince my children to stop shrieking sometimes). I absolutely love having my ears vacuumed out by the ENT. The part of my body that I have done the most damage to is not something I’ll talk about. Let’s just say that there’s been surgery to repair the massacre, and it’s related to childbirth.
3. I had my chin-length hair permed in high school. It wasn’t even the ’80s. I ended that tragedy by getting a cute little pixie cut that made me look very much the lesbian. In other news, I’m cutting my son’s hair All By Myself this weekend for the first time ever. He may soon have the worst hair cut of his young life.
4. No, though we have tentative plans for tomorrow. We’ve only recently discovered that there’s a community pool in our neighborhood. Our minds are boggled.
June 20th, 2008 at 2:19 pm #
visualizeit said:
1. It seems we suck at conservation in pretty much every aspect of our American lives.
2. No but I blew my eardrums out as a teenager/young adult. Music got good again back then (early ’90s) so I turned it up way too loud…Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Blind Melon, Widespread Panic…plus even the oldies sounded great loud–Grateful Dead, Neil Young and so on…so now I can’t hear a damn thing, especially my wife…
3. I get a hack job by an $9 barber every month.
5. Not yet. I used to get into the 45-degree Lake Michigan by May…but those were back in the loud music days.
6. Holy crap I lost count of your questions!
June 20th, 2008 at 6:00 pm #
deepintheheart said:
1) Having enough feed for the cattle. What will a poor boy eat if he has no cow to come home to?
2) There are ear doctors? Is that an audiologist?
3) I think it may have been the faux-hawk in 1985 from Robert Anton. There is a picture somwhere. Father was not pleased.
4) No. However it was 101 degrees on Father’s Day but I was driving homw from Norman, OK. and could not muster the courage at the end of the day. . .
June 21st, 2008 at 7:37 am #
Alex Tallitsch said:
1. Mercury.
2. No.
3. Shopko Plaza - 1985.
4. No.
June 21st, 2008 at 9:10 pm #
erik said:
1. Renewable energy. We need to switch to an energy source that we don’t use up faster than we can produce it.
2. I’ve never been to an ear doctor, but one time I got sick and had MAJOR ear wax build up to the point where I couldn’t hear very well. My family’s doctor had to clean it out, first they try running water through your ear to get that stuff out. If you’re really clogged up like I was, then they take a pick to your inner ear and chisel it out. That may have been the most painful experience of my life. The doctor said: “When they find Osama bin Laden, this what they’ll do to him for the rest of his life.”
3. Master Cuts in the Mall, summer of 2006. I was relatively new to the area again having just moved back and needed to lose my college hippy hair. Wrong choice.
4. Negative. Just not enough time.
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:16 am #
retrogal15 said:
1. My thoughts on the environment are well, not much. As cynical as it sounds, and this coming from a geography major, too, there is alot we, as citizens of this earth, can do, but won’t. It takes tremendous effort, time, laws and most importantly money to achieve anything even remotely better for the greater common good. Thus, as far as the environment goes, I think we are pretty much screwed. In all honesty, I don’t think of the imprint I personally make on the environment, and to some degree I really don’t care. Also, I think we are to a point of environmental damage that it is not irreversible.
2. I have yet to visit an ear doctor.
3. My worst paid haircut: I was seven years old and had shaved sides, with a real long back. My bangs were short. Can you say Mullet?
4. I have yet to go swimming. In all honesty, I am more apt to sit next to a pool with a personal cooler and drink.
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:58 pm #
cupcake said:
1. I do the basics - recycle, use reusable cloth bags for groceries, etc. But I don’t worry excessively - there are always more dire warnings than every seem to occure; in the 70s we were warned about global cooling and now it is global warning. There will always be environmental issues in some countries ( lack of water in China due to too many people; lack of food in Ethiopia due to too much sand;, etc).
2.Never
3. I was 14 was beautiful, long auburn hair. I wanted a “shag” haircut, which was just a layered version of shoulder-length hair. Instead I came out looking like David Cassidy. Went home and shut the door and cried.
Didn’t get my hair cut regularly by a stylist until I was in my 30s and moved to Wausau.
4.Every year I make a New Year’s Resolution to NOT have to wear a bathing suit, and I manage to keep it, so NO, haven’t been swimming
Note to deepintheheart: Are you from Norman? I grew up in Midwest City (Tinker Air Force Base) near OKC; then lived in Tulsa for 9 years before my husband dragged me back here to his hometown. We visited OK & Texas in March
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:10 pm #
swearingen said:
1. I’m with Erik…enewable energy.
2. What? Can’t hear ya! Let me get my hearing trumpet. No ear doctor, but see a retina specialist who pokes me in the eye with needles (can you say “freaky”?)
3. There have been so many. Probably the one my sister gave me when I was 3 or 4 years old (snip snip here, snip snip there and a couple a fa la la’s)
4. Took a dip in a river in Serbia (or was it Somalia?)
June 29th, 2008 at 8:10 pm #
deepintheheart said:
No, Cupcake I am not from Norman. I was visiting the “aged p’s” to get a little face time. They reside in Norman. My girlfriend grew up in Paul’s Valley, OK. I am a former Wausausonian who flew the coop, as all the crazies do.
June 30th, 2008 at 9:01 am #
cupcake said:
Paul’s Valley, Oklahoma - Pecan Capital of the World!
(Properly pronounced peh-cahn, not pee-can!)
June 30th, 2008 at 5:52 pm #