<p>Sinner’s Alley is where we get a grip. On our virtual glasses. Hi Astromom! Have some coconut rum punch. Or, like me, pineapple mango rum punch. We are bringing in some Hawaiian slack key guitar players for entertainment and surfers will be our waiters for the evening. I’m thinking of a poetry slam, with slugg taking the mike first…</p>
<p>I’m feeling good! It’s 4:17PM and I have not been to Curm’s thread yet today!!! (In fact I’ve been off CC all day! 
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<p>I’m not going back…I’m not going back…I’m NOT going back…</p>
<p>Excellent time of year for a virtual beach party! In spring, our thoughts turn to summer plans. Assuming we all survive the winter, that is. :D</p>
<p>Make Love Not War! Yes, it’s time for a Love In. It can be at the beach, mommusic. But I don’t remember what hippies wore to the beac… <em>slaps head</em>; oh, that’s right, we wore nothing!</p>
<p>Being nearly the eldest and right smack dab in the middle of hippiedom during the era in question(Boston/Cambridge/Berkeley/“The Haight”), I will be happy to lend-lease appropriate garb from my stash to any of you young whippersnappers in need.</p>
<p>Party on!</p>
<p>*no scratch that, “Party on” entirely too '90s in phrasing. Make that (in my best low no intonation voice):</p>
<p>Oh. Wow. Righteous.</p>
<p>I just want one of those drinks with the little umbrella in it. I’ll use it to wash down one of jmmom’s brownies…that is, if you kept the recipe stashed away in the same trunk as your hippie clothes!</p>
<p>I’ll have one of everything.</p>
<p>Why in the world do I let the mean comments of people who don’t know me bother me? Or what seems like a deliberate attempt to twist my meaning? I DID visit the stupid thread, but I’m not going back. </p>
<p>My kids and spouse think I’m demented for still reading CC now that kid 1 is in college. I don’t know why, either. But at least this place seems to be the only civilized, tolerant gathering on the entire website. If you all don’t mind, maybe I’ll just spend my screen time in here. It seems safer.</p>
<p>I went back…WHY??? :eek: (But I managed not to post - did have to erase three times though.)</p>
<p>Did anyone get a chance to see this show on PBS a few weeks ago? </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.janisjoplin.net/kozmic/festivalexpress.html[/url]”>http://www.janisjoplin.net/kozmic/festivalexpress.html</a></p>
<p>It was great! The best parts were on the train, when the cameras just kept rolling. But I think the people in this joint have nothing on Janis et al with regard to drinking! From the parts I saw, they really knew how to put it away.</p>
<p>Let us all gather on the beach.</p>
<p>Let us assume palm trees.</p>
<p>Let us assume some sort of cord.</p>
<p>Let us engage in macrame, or braiding lanyards.</p>
<p>Let us use these ties we have made to carefully, considerately, protectively…</p>
<p>TIE EACHOTHERS HANDS BEHIND OUR BACKS TO SAVE US FROM POSTING IN THE THREAD FROM HECK…</p>
<p>And then go back to the drinks with umbrellas. Ahhh.</p>
<p>There was NOTHING in the mailbox again today!!!. But it’s opening night for the play DS is directing, so I’m at least busy.</p>
<p><em>puts hands behind back, wrists crossed</em></p>
<p><em>heads over toward Alumother’s macrame group</em></p>
<p><em>uncrosses hands for just one sip of the umbrella drink and a small nibble of brownie</em></p>
<p><em>recrosses hands</em></p>
<p>Whoa, Alu… I read the “TIE EACH OTHERS HANDS…” and I have to sheepishly admit I did <em>not</em> think “to save us from posting in That Thread”. Git my mind out of the gutter, someone, quick!</p>
<p>(In a serious and totally uncalled for aside, I am so so so tired of being so strong for everyone around me. Someone slide me into a warm mud bath, have we got any out back there?)</p>
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The mother’s lament. Slide into the clawfoot tub right over here, mootmom. The one with the sign saying “Calistoga at Sinner’s Alley.” Don’t forget the protective shower cap. I’ll set the timer for 10 minutes, then guide you over to the massage table. Followed by a heat wrap. Ommm.</p>
<p>A heat wrap or a scotch straight up. With lots of peat.</p>
<p>Break a leg to BethieVT’s son’s cast!</p>
<p>I think you gals need a twelve step program to wean yourself from Curm’s thread. I am feeling proud of myself for not joining in and getting suckered into it and needing the tied hands you guys are now requiring! I likely need a 12 step program for time on CC but alas, I managed to not post on that thread.</p>
<p>^ Can we start with those 12 steps now? I just finished reading the most recent post, and out came this big loud sigh – and that after two glasses of Batonet Cuvee Maitre Pierre-Alfred. ($5.99/bottle. I’m not a wine snob.)</p>
<p>Hi guys, its my BIG FAT BIRTHDAY tomorrow and I will be celebrating it at the local elementary school talent show tomorrow. :eek: You are welcome to join me – what could be better than live entertainment and a cookie for the big 5-0???</p>
<p>Happy Birthday! I celebrated my 50th recently by lying on the couch all evening. A first! I LOVED it!!!</p>
<p>I would applaud you soozie but my hands are still tied together:).</p>
<p>Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear mstee, Happy Birthday to you.</p>
<p>OH, Happy Birthday, mstee!!!</p>
<p>Let me buy everyone a round in celebration.</p>
<p>SJmom–last time I peeked at “the thread”, i said to myself, “Sjmom’s gonna have to refuel over at SA soon!”</p>