Happy Thanksgiving from us to you
A few years ago MD and I were in a product development meeting with a handful of thirty something people. During a break, she and I were huddled together having our own little discussion about something when the meeting got started back up. In an effort to get our attention, one of the other people said, ‘Hey, you two, we need to get going again.’
I looked up and said, ‘Sorry, we were just having fun fillin’ out the forms and playin’ with the pencils on the bench there.’
Blank stares all around. ‘What forms?’
‘Huh?’ says I.
‘What forms are you talking about?’
‘There are no forms. I was just quoting that line from Alice’s Restaurant. You know, from where he was on the Group W bench’
More blank stares.
‘You know’, I explained, ‘the song, Alice’s Restaurant.’
Still more blank stares.
‘By Arlo Guthrie.’
‘Who’s Arlo Guthrie?’
It finally dawned on me that these kids hadn’t a clue who Arlo Guthrie was or anything about his famous song, Alice’s Restaurant. Their parents I’m sure knew, but the kids didn’t. I tried to explain that the song was a huge Vietnam war protest song. That it was hilarious. That there had been a movie made of it starring all the characters in the song, including Officer Obie. And that the real Officer Obie played himself in the movie. And that Arlo Guthrie was the son of the famous folk singer Woody Guthrie. But my efforts were all sort of like performing a card trick for a dog. They seemed interested, but they really didn’t have a clue. It was a total generational disconnect.
So, for those of you who remember the song with the infectious melody, here is the original recording below in two parts. Listen and feel the waves of nostalgia wash over you. For those of you who, like the thirty somethings in that meeting, have never heard the song, sit back and listen. It’s not something that won’t appeal to you. All of our kids are now 30-something, and they all love the song. And can quote parts of it. And would have known exactly what I meant.
And today is the perfect time for this song, which has become a Thanksgiving tradition for about 40 years. You’ll see why when you listen.
Here’s to hoping that you, too, can get anything that you want. And that you have a Thanksgiving dinner that can’t be beat.
Happy Thanksgiving!
The YouTubes below are Mr. Guthrie singing his famous song 30 years later. Still pretty good. And pretty close to the original.
Dear Michael and Mary D., i’m writing to ask where I can watch you on t.v. as my neighbor does. She gets a PBS station that we don’t get at our house. She enjoyed your low-carb Thanksgiving. She says you are looking good and very trim. I repeat what the others said, funny comment “card tricks for a dog” and I know that look also. I get it whenever I start reminiscing about any decade before the 2000′s. Health and happiness from Adrienne Hirschfeld, St. Louis, MO.
Good to hear from you.
I don’t know what to tell you about how to find us on PBS. Each of the 150 or so affiliates has its own scheduling, and the PBS website is a nightmare to navigate. These are just a couple of the reasons we are bolting from PBS at the end of this contract year.
Give our regards to Rebecca.
“If you want to end a war and stuff you have to sing it loud.”
It must have worked.
Another of my favorite lines, especially if I show up to a store or something that is unexpectedly closed:
We’d never heard of a dump bein’ closed on Thanksgiving.
What do you think of this email that showed up in my inbox:
http://www.topsecretfatlosssecret.com/
Hmm. I had to rescue your comment from my spam filter because it contained the link that showed up in your inbox. Enough said. It’s BS.
what a thanksgiving treat, thanks so much! haven’t heard this in years and it was always a favorite. and speaking of generational disconnects, on thursday i made a reference to haldeman, dean and erlichman in a business meeting and NOT ONE of the twenty/thirty somethings i work with knew who they were….
best of holidays to you and yours!
A sad state of affairs. You know what they say about those who forget history…
I still dont understand how people claiming preposterous medical facts for a reason to make economical gains are allowed to do that? Dr Mike can you explain how it works. I watched that clip that someone sent to you about reasons we are fat featuring some doctor claiming ugly clusters of whatever those things are called. So if I decide to create some absolutely bogus claim and send it all over the net using scary statistic and sensational claim I will be able to do that> And then I will sell sugar water to treat it. How is it legal? What are the loopholes that allow these scam artists to operate? I am sure there are desperate people that are willing to do anything to loose weight. I just dont get it!
It’s a bizarre situation. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is supposed to be looking out for these kinds of things, but they don’t. Not unless these folks start to sell a lot of product will the FTC do anything. The whole marketing of bogus products and plans and how the FTC works would require many pages to explain.
It just boils my blood, really does! I can at least let it slide a bit if someone does sell sugar water and claims mysterios results, at least it might have some psychosomatic effect if nothing else. But some of these people sell some dangerous staff or give dangerous recipes. For one that comes to mind is Kevin Tradeu, I cant believe he became a health expert after other scams were stopped. i know some people that read his book and almost ended up in emergency rooms. I mean you cant stop people from themselves, at least some, but these guys need to be handcuffed. How can you be so irresponsible and take advantage of the most desperate and weakened? Just escape my reasoning!
To lighten up a mood a bit, I just mixed soem staff and oh my God! I recently read a book by Jonny Bowden, called 150 best food on earth! So I always try to add one meal into my busy day that would incorporate the most healthies foods into one and quick meal and taste good. I wont bore you with all my experiments up to date. Some were better then others. But today I made one and it came out just short of orgasmic. At least for me, lol. I mixed half of cup of frozen organic blueberries and oraganic blackberries with 1 cup of almond milk. I stirred 2 packets of truvia ( which is mixed stevia with erythritol I dont know if you heard about it, its pretty good ) and cinnamon. Then I also mixed in few almonds and half and half. Oh my God! I kept whisking it until it bacame an ice cream conssitency. It was dark blue ice cream. I gave it to my 14 years old nephew and he said it is eatable. Mind you, he eats nothing, I repeat nothing but junk food! So when it passes his palate, i knew found something special! I am happy as a kid!
Sounds good to me. Of course, anything with blackberries in it sounds good to me.
“To them, Vietnam is no more relative than the Civil War. Every generation ignores the previous.”
Amen! I am well and truly in my 50′s and as I age I have observed that every generation believes it invented sex and social justice. Ours was no different. Our children and grandchildren will do the same.
How true. I’m contemplating a short essay on this very thing as it relates to Alice’s Restaurant.
It isn’t Thanksgiving until you hear “Alice’s Restaurant.”
I had my own moment a couple months ago with a young co-worker who was putting together a shipment going to Clear Lake, Iowa. I mentioned going there a few years ago and seeing the Surf Ballroom where Buddy Holly played his last show.
“Who’s Buddy Holly?” asked my co-worker in dead seriousness.
“Oh, come on, everyone knows Buddy Holly. He was huge. ‘American Pie’ by Don Maclean was written about him dying in a plane crash, the day the music died.”
Co-worker blinks. “Who’s Don Maclean?”
I went back to my desk after that, feeling very old.
Yes, indeed. It does make one feel old. Don’t these people have parents who shared their music. All of our kids know Alice’s Rest and Buddy Holly and Don McClean. A funny story. I was sitting in our local coffee shop a couple of days ago having a cup with our middle kid when Gary Busey (the actor who played Buddy Holly in the movie) drives up, gets out of his car, and walks in. I see him when he gets out of the car and recognize him. I say to my kid, ‘Look, do you know who that is?’ My kid looks and says, ‘It looks like an old Buddy Holly, but it can’t be because I know he’s dead.’
Couple of things:
1. Loved the video!
2. Isn’t krill oil a type of fish oil?
3. Several acquaintances have either gone low-carb or showed a lot of interest in low-carb after seeing how Wil and I are doing on LC. Of course, my immediate family hasn’t noticed anything……
Krill oil is oil from krill, what are tiny, shrimp-like creatures that make up most of the biomass of the ocean. Fish oil is from fish, which are, well, fish. Cold water fish, typically. The fatty acids in krill oil are hooked up differently than those in fish oil, making krill oil easier to take, easier to absorb, and more potent for a given amount.
Glad you’re serving as a good example.
“At this point I can completely control all my symptoms with a single krill oil softgel and a circumin capsule per day.”
This interests me because I have taken so much acetomeniphen (sp?) and ibuprofen for joint pain over the years that I am really beginning to worry about toxicity. The krill oil is familiar, but not the circumin. What is the typical dosage for inflammation? Is it relatively common? Any side effects?
Circumin is from tumeric and has been used in Indian medicine for centuries. More and more studies are finding that circumin is a great all-around anti-inflammatory and even anti-cancer supplement. I use the one listed in our product catalog. You can look at this one and get one that’s similar and give it a try. At first I used a couple of fish oil caps per day along with a couple of krill oil caps and a circumin capsule. I’ve worked down to the single krill and the circumin. I would take the circumin, though, even if the krill oil alone helped the inflammation. Here is the first post I did on krill oil talking about my original regimen. I posted on krill several times. If you enter ‘krill oil’ in the search function on the upper right of the blog, you can find all the posts.
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