just_checking pilgrim Do you have words? ( No Nevermind, i have nothing to say.) 020513 ... pilgrim Great big gobs of Gooshy Grimey Gopher Guts Chopped Up Chicken Feet Mutilated Monkey Meat ..................... Everybody here is Doin' It Doin' It Pickin' Their Nose an' Chewin' It Chewin' It They think it's Ice Cream But It'snot ..................... (these things echo around in my empty skull, where do these things come from?) 020521 ... lulie I bet your wife worries about you. 020521 ... pilgrim Sometimes I still feel like Peter Pan. ......... "Lather" by the Jefferson Airplane Is still one of my favorite songs. 020522 ... lulie "And sometimes he's so nameless, That he hardly knows which game to play..." It's alright, I still feel like running away from home. 020522 ... pilgrim I was really just wondering how many of those childhood ditties are familiar to other people, and how wide spread they are. "Great Big Gobs" and Every body's Doin' It" certainly never got any air play. I can't even remember where I heard them originally, but crap like that was repeated over and over when I was a Kid. 020522 ... kerry both her parents and her grandmother recently came down with cases of covid. her grandmother, who is ancient, felt "a bit under the weather" (said in a liverpudlian accent), her mother felt "like absolute crap," and her father was "a little tired but basically fine" (hoarse voice like a rusty gate) which he would say even on death's door. he doesn't take medication for anything--as children they were given water for any symptoms, occasionally pepto bismol. i am sure he thinks my epilepsy could be cured using the keto diet or some kind of herbal mixture. i dreamed he died, and i called her, and it was terrible, both "i knew it" and also total shock. i woke up thinking it was silly of me to worry based on the images and feelings my subconscious had scrambled together but stranger things have happened--for example a couple times i dreamed about danny and then received a text or call from him the next day. i texted her asking how her dad was feeling. she wrote back, "he's doing ok. what, did you dream he died??" 220725 what's it to you? who go blather from