[Vision2020] If the shoe was on the other foot (was A Plea

[Tom Hansen]

Solid, Carl.

June 1968 . . . a gathering of some local non-violent SDS students 
gathering for a sit-in protest at MacArthkur Park against Vietnam, racism, 
the omni-present "establishment", and any other argument to serve as 
purpose for common cause.  I still have my dark Navy blue bell-bottoms and 
red/white striped Dashiki shirt.  Those were the days . . .

"MacArthur Park" 
By Richard Harris
(video shot in 2007) Jeesh! Has it really been that long?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHS8hj4TdT8
 
Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Oh, no
No, no
Oh no!!

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Catcha on the rebound, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


> 
> Given that apparently anyone, anywhere, at any time can now
inexplicabl> y find him/herself as a Presidential running mate, the 
prudent thing
woul> d appear to be voluntary pre-disclosure of any possibly embarrassing 
or
uns> avory events in one's past. I'll start. 
> 
> 
> 
> Should I ever find myself occupying the bottom of a Presidential ticket,
> I confess in advance, before the blogosphere releases the info, that
ci> rca 1960 I impulsively decided, while cruising Fonk's 5 and Dime, to
st> eal a rubber knife that my 9 or 10 year old self suddenly decided I
really> , really needed to have.  I've also been known to be friends with
Republi> cans.  I have secretly believed that "MacArthur Park" by Richard 
Harris
was>  and is a great song, while seemingly everyone else hates it.  I wore
pai> sley shirts and actually owned a Nehru jacket.  I attended the 
Universal
Li> fe Church Picnic at Farragut State Park in 1971, which turned out be a 
3
> day long mini-Woodstock, with some 55,000 people doing things that
55> ,000 people at such an event did in 1971.  I stayed the entire 3 days,
> but entirely out of intellectual curiousity.  But if I am ever accused of
c> onsorting with known Boise State fans, I will deny such slurs
emphaticall> y.  Politics is a tough thing.   Carl Westberg Jr.
>


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