Long Hair, Goats, and Grain Belt Beer

This is a rewrite of a post I did eleven years ago.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Long Hair, Goats, and Grain Belt Beer

I was sitting in the big fluffy recliner yesterday, and I started thinking about how much it was costing me to entertain myself. The price of cable television, the internet, and all the components, and the electricity it takes make it all work. It made my butt clench just thinking about it.

It made me think back fifty years, to when I was living on a hippie commune out in Iowa. We didn't have television, nor even a radio. What we did have was long hair, goats, and an ability to entertain ourselves in strange ways that often involved chemical or herbal enhancement. One of our favorite venues of entertainment was the unused feed silo out in back of the big old farmhouse. Many an evening you would find a bunch of us sitting in the bottom of that thing with guitars, drums, tambourines, and a couple of six-packs of Grain Belt Beer. That big round silo reverberated as if you were actually inside the intruments.

There is no doubt we had a good time back then, but I don't think I would want to depend on that to entertain me now. For one thing I don't have a twenty year old body anymore, and the idea of sitting cross legged in a pile of old hay, filled with chiggers, and ticks makes me itch thinking about it. Besides, it didn't smell all that nice, and the silo had no air-conditioning. No, I'll just sit back here in 'Big Fluffy', my recliner, and control the world with my collection of remotes at my side.