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Old 07-17-2009, 10:09 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Weird is just a word...and a poor one at that....eclectic might be better....creative....open minded...receptive....tuned-in....anything but weird..prob the lamest motto ever.....sorry they got saddled and seemingly forever cursed with it..
The OP used the word and I answered with the word.

Let there be light........................
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Old 07-17-2009, 10:19 PM
 
Location: Austin
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weird can be lame too.....just cause someone is weird doesn't mean they are interesting or creative, or even necessarily have any talent.....actually, you can be sub-human in smarts and be weird....
weird in the guise of talent or creativity is attractive...weird in the sense of just plain bizareness without any redeeming anything is just stupid...or scary, for that matter, per the following..

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Old 07-17-2009, 10:20 PM
 
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Michael Jackson was the epitome of creative. He is just wearing too much white face paint and had too much surgery on his face.

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weird can be lame too.....just cause someone is weird doesn't mean they are interesting or creative, or even necessarily have any talent.....actually, you can be sub-human in smarts and be weird....
weird in the guise of talent or creativity is attractive...weird in the sense of just plain bizareness without any redeeming anything is just stupid...or scary, for that matter, per the following..
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Old 07-17-2009, 10:27 PM
 
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Yes Austin has been a blue speck in a very red state. That's about to change in a big way. The whole state is going to flip to a blue state in the next 2 or 3 elections. Texas is about to flip parties just like CA did a few decades back. With the rising Hispanic population and the people moving in from CA and the north that blue speck is about to get a lot bigger. The fundamentalists are about to become the minority in TX. The days of hardcore fundamentalism are almost over.
Wow, I'm not so sure I'd like to see Texas change. What they've been doing seems to be working. Why in the heck do we want to try and fix what isn't broken?
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Old 07-17-2009, 10:28 PM
 
Location: Austin
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Michael Jackson was the epitome of creative. He is just wearing too much white face paint and had too much surgery on his face.
MJ actually was creative...for about 5 years...say from "Off the Wall" to Thriller......then he jumped the shark quick....he evidentally decided about '84, post Pepsi-commercial, that playing with 11 year old white boys was more fun than making good music.......and blew his mind out in a car till he passed...

Now Charlie....ahhhh, poor Charlie.....what can we say about him?.....Besides hanging out with Brian Wilson, he tried to make music himself...

Anyone interested can click on this...

http://mansonmusic.blogspot.com/


And don't say I didn't warn you...
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Old 07-17-2009, 10:39 PM
 
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MJ's Bad was amazing. It has smooth criminal and Dirty Diana on it. His look at that time was really cool. The dance moves were still classic.

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MJ actually was creative...for about 5 years...say from "Off the Wall" to Thriller......then he jumped the shark quick....he evidentally decided about '84, post Pepsi-commercial, that playing with 11 year old white boys was more fun than making good music.......and blew his mind out in a car till he passed...

Now Charlie....ahhhh, poor Charlie.....what can we say about him?.....Besides hanging out with Brian Wilson, he tried to make music himself...

Anyone interested can click on this...

Manson Music


And don't say I didn't warn you...
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Old 07-17-2009, 10:52 PM
 
Location: At the center of the universe!
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Wow, I'm not so sure I'd like to see Texas change. What they've been doing seems to be working. Why in the heck do we want to try and fix what isn't broken?
Well it's not a matter of fixing or breaking anything it's just that all the people moving in are changing the political landscape. California used to be a conservative state. As hard as it is to believe SF used to be a conservative city. As you can see that's changed in a big way. In the 60s liberal people started pouring in from other states and other countries so the state flipped from conservative to liberal. That's what is about to happen in TX too. We're about 50 years behind CA for this but it's coming.
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Old 07-17-2009, 11:24 PM
 
Location: Austin
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Well it's not a matter of fixing or breaking anything it's just that all the people moving in are changing the political landscape. California used to be a conservative state. As hard as it is to believe SF used to be a conservative city. As you can see that's changed in a big way. In the 60s liberal people started pouring in from other states and other countries so the state flipped from conservative to liberal. That's what is about to happen in TX too. We're about 50 years behind CA for this but it's coming.
I'm relatively perceptive, but never thought of that....you are 100% correct in that the bay area was conservative for years, after it settled
down per the gold rush....by 1906 caruso was singing at the Opera House during the earthquake.......very conservative place till the beatniks came in and took over North Beach in the mid 50's, per Ginsburg, Kerouac, Cassady, and friends........and Jesus, katy bar the door when the mass infusion of hippies came in from the east coast in the 60's.....we aren't saying that SF's going hard core lib was not local in any way, just that it got a huge jump start from outsiders, especially from the east coast...
The Haight was a hardscrabble area like the Tenderloin before the Hippies from the east coast overran it....

So, yes, Texas can and will change its stripes when the horde of new folks, from cal and other ramparts, finish inmigrating.....we know one thing..nothing stays the same for long anywhere....

The only constant is change....per whoever said that....
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Old 07-17-2009, 11:57 PM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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I hope they just don't dig us into the same deep hole they've gotten the other States into.
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Old 07-18-2009, 12:23 AM
 
Location: Austin
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Default Will be at least as bad as Cal's current fiscal crisis..

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I hope they just don't dig us into the same deep hole they've gotten the other States into.
They prob will.....Austin's local unemployment rate just topped over 7%...
I really prefer not to touch on that, but indeed it is the case...

Austin unemployment hits 7.1% - Austin Business Journal:

You can blame the large in(not im-)igration numbers almost 100% for that.....job growth essentially flatlined to just above zero the last year, while population growth from outside(not natural increase) jumped another 2.5-3%.....and all those people fleeing(and I can't blame them) poor regional job markets all over the US, and running to Austin, are most assuredly being felt in the unemployment rolls.....

Per where Texas will be if it keeps up another 10 years(3-5% annual pop growth, per natural AND in-migration).....at least as bad as California is now, if not worse......

Simple law of life...people tend to create the same problems/scenarios at the places they run away to as well, in a micro AND marco sense...

Well, let's hope for the best...
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