Back in the sixties there was a main stream media report (urban legend?) that some hippies used to stand in the middle of Highway 1 in the Big Sur area and extend both hands in the hitchhiker's thumb a ride style and take the first ride they were offered.
That kind of ambivalent approach to life might have worked back then, but it doesn't work. Sure, most folks in the Sixties could name several famous counter-culture personalities but sorry to say, the Sixties are over! Can you name one prominent counter-culture personality alive and thriving today?
Will the World really end this Saturday? The World's Laziest Journalist has received reassurances from a reliable source, that the "fixeroo" is "in" and that it ain't gonna happen.
Do not, whatever you do, do not tell your boss on Friday to do something that is physically impossible because you are going to need your job on Monday morning to be able to make those every growing monthly mortgage payments and perhaps, if your credit card isn't maxed out, buy some new designer label threads to arouse some good old fashioned envy in your neighbor's heart.
It's just like St. Ronald Reagan used to say on the sign-off for a weekly TV show: "At GE, progress is our most important product."
Now the disk jockey will play "This old house," "Come On-A My," and "Home on the Range." We have to go buy a fondue maker and also give a shout out to the folks who will be having the Saturday evening barbecue on the roof of the Sydney Backpackers' Hostel just about the time that the world is supposed to end. If it does happen, mates, you'll have a marvelous view of the spectacle. Have a "Chill out, dude!" type week.
Afterward: Personal message for MM and KM in the area that hosted Sherman's famous 1865 "March to the Sea" Tour: You should work out a quid pro quo agreement with "Blue." See if you can get an offer to use his home as a short term crash pad so that you might learn the "No worries, mate" attitude (you will love Australia; it's like America without war crimes) and, in return, let him have a night (or week?) serving as your vacation substitute host. Ask Blue if Harold Holt was "Osama-ed" for his opposition to the Vietnam War.
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