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An Appreciation of the Hippiechick
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An Appreciation of the Hippiechick As you know, my friend the hippiechick won my competition to suggest the name for my niece's not-exactly-pet rat, Rizzo. I promised a blog favour to the winner and Hip has asked me to write a post about her blog as her prize. She says: "In this post, you should say how you first discovered my blog, why you watch my blog, and name and link to at least 3 specific posts of mine that have affected you and how they have affected you." Well I don't know how I first came across you Hip, but I think I visited your blog probably after seeing a comment you had left on someone elses, maybe purpletrashcan who I think we were both reading at that time, or maybe runswithknives? Also I find often what catches my eye as well as someones picture is their username and I liked the idea of someone feeling like a throwback to the hippy era so I wanted to know more. When I was at school in the seventies we had a bit of a Woodstock cult going and for a while we all had flares and wished we had been old enough to be hippies. Then glam rock, stadium rock, disco and girls came along and flower power got forgotten a bit. I guess it hung on a little longer in the States, lol. The first post of yours I saw was, I think, Full Circle and unusually for you it was a poem. It was all in a rainbow of colours. (Remember I did a Christmas message for you like that one time?) Anyway I saw some quirky progression-through-life allegory in it and thought it was really good, but you just said you found it in a cracker-jack box. I didn't know if you were serious or being modest. Then I had forgotten, until I went back to check just now, that last Thanksgiving you posted the lyrics to "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie, Thanksgiving and it reminded me of college days when I first discovered that recording and my friend and I learned the whole monologue off by heart. Great memories, and you were living up to your hippiechick billing. Not long after that you had a post up called Another Saturday Night which was about how you and your sister got caught in a storm and you ripped your jeans and had to walk up to the bar in the hotel backwards. I loved the style of that post - a kind of mental free flow, so I began to watch your blog because it always had really interesting stuff on it and I liked your attitude to life. When I read A Fairy Tale I had a feeling that the reason it was called a fairytale was because you were saying you wish it had happened that way to you and it hadn't, but I didn't expect so many people to misunderstand it, and I admired you for not seeing to mind. That made me read back a little way in your blog and I found out that you had had a tough childhood. A tough life really. I really admired the way you still had such a sensible non-judgemental outlook despite having been through so much, but it was only while researching this post that I read some of your earliest blogs where you openly describe some of the things you have been through. I am proud to be called "dude" by you Hip, and I hope I can keep toughing it out despite life's troubles, just the way you do: You should be mandatory reading for anyone on this site who is having a bad time or recovering from having a bad childhood. It would have been easy for you to be hard, but you are not. |
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Good job, dude. You get an A+.  'Full Circle' is one of my favorites too; I'm glad you thought it was good.  I've used my blog as a place to reconcile a less-than-ideal beginning, and it's helped me work through some things I've pushed down for years. I find it endearing how you're almost apologetic about having a healthy, functional childhood, but I'm happy for you! It makes you who you are, just as my stuff makes me who I am. You've written a lovely post, more than I even expected. When's the next contest? I might have to get you to rewrite my profile for me.  Elevate me... 
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Good job, dude. You get an A+. 'Full Circle' is one of my favorites too; I'm glad you thought it was good. I've used my blog as a place to reconcile a less-than-ideal beginning, and it's helped me work through some things I've pushed down for years. I find it endearing how you're almost apologetic about having a healthy, functional childhood, but I'm happy for you! It makes you who you are, just as my stuff makes me who I am. You've written a lovely post, more than I even expected. When's the next contest? I might have to get you to rewrite my profile for me. I am only apologetic because I know I get carried away by my small emotional troubles, when really I have always had it so easy and others continue to have it so hard. Thanks for asking me to write this; I had fun, and it brought back some good memories of the last year and a half researching it. Keep posting.
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