Nostalgia time

Reading Thomas’s latest I thought of this from my own (comparative) youth –indeed in 1975 (I think it was that year) I was groomsman at an Italian/Polish wedding in Wollongong. Arthur just might even know (or know of) the groom, Renato Schebici, now an Associate Professor at Murdoch. Great wedding it was too. I even took dancing lessons so I could do a passable bridal waltz!

Well back in 75 “all of our friends were getting married” — or in my case already were! I even had a female or two after me around that time… (I allude to this in passing in my story tabbed above under “fiction”.)

Now to the nostalgia:

On not posing as a polymath

Funny thing, this blogging. Dear Kevin in Colorado Springs got pissed off with me last week.

Ninglun, whatever your beliefs, DO NOT TURN OFF COMMENTS when they get hard to handle. There is little doubt that we agree on almost nothing, but if you keep turning off comments, we never will learn to agree. A better question would be, do you WANT to come to a consensus? Or would you rather just state your view unchallenged?

I understand that you view me as some evil corporate supporting conservative from America (I am all of these things), and to be fair, I view you as an older (since I’ve seen your pic, but BARELY older) misguided hippie, sure that the enemy is the corporations themselves.

We’re no doubt incapable of solving the hippie vs. normal person debate, but I bet we could come to an understanding. If you didn’t turn off comments..

Hey, did you notice how I contrasted hippie vs. normal? Pretty evil, huh? I’m like that. Ah, who am I kidding. Come over to the dark side, Ninglun! 72 Virgins? What hogwash. We’ll give you 73!

To which I replied: