An open letter to our readers of FTTW
by Turtle Jones

We have a lot of ideas and posts in the can. Ones that are done. Ideas in folders that we haven't started yet. Random thoughts. We will probably do something about underated actors later today, but when it will see the light of the sunshine is anyone's guess.

But, as you all know, we like to push ourselves. We like to have fun. We always laugh when we write this stuff and it's always fun when we get to share it with you. It's kind of funny when these get shot off to other web sites and people rip them up and laugh hysterically. It's what we do. Some people are going to love you and others will hate you. That's what we love.

We feed off readers' reactions.

So Michele and I were thinking, "let's take this one step further." Cause that's what we do at FTTW. Push it each day. Keep going farther. We won't break.

So our idea for today is that you guys pick a year. Your favorite year. Michele will grab one and I'll grab another and write about it. Don't ask me where it will go. Keep in mind that telling us a little bit about what happened in the year helps us out in writing. If you just saying "1972" doesn't give us much to work with. Just tell us a few things that happened and why you liked the year so much. Then we can work. Well, shit, we can work on anything, but it will help us more if you guys get a little involved.

Which is the goal of this theme.

So this is yours, mein readers. Find a year and tell us in a few sentences why it was so cool. Don't be offended if we bag on it. We reallly, really don't know where we are going when we start this writing process. That's part of the fun of FTTW. We just go and you get to hang on for the ride. Like Disneyland on LSD, this is FTTW.

Ride with us.

So what was your favorite year?

After we both grab a few years, we will write about it and kick it out later tonight.

Comments

just to throw in some ideas for you guys, 1980

The United States Olympic Hockey Team defeated the Soviet Union in the semifinals of the Winter Olympics in the Miracle on Ice.

President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Comedian Richard Pryor is badly burned trying to freebase cocaine.

John Lennon is murdered by gunshot outside his New York apartment, by Mark Chapman.

Richard Chase, the "Vampire of Sacramento", kills himself by overdose on San Quentin prison death row

Hey, I lived in Sacramento.

Anyways, thats the idea of this post. give us ideas.

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You really had to bring up Disneyland and LSD, didn't you.

it was about 1995. Maybe the last time I ever touched the stuff.

highlights:

Tea Cups (still recovering from this)

Space Mountain (woah)

You know how they have those water mist thingers there? we were in toon town. some woman was fucking with one of them, and an employee dutifully said "Ma'am, please stop pulling the mister" and we all died laughing for about 10 minutes.

this is what broke me. still in toon town. have to pee. go into the bathroom, get in front of a stall, start peeing, notice the "doot dee doot dooty doot de doot doot dee" music and I jam my face up trying not to start giggling, I look over and my pal's face is all scrunched up from trying not to laugh and I lose it.

ok so this is kindof off topic, but you just HAD to mentioin Disneyland and LSD.

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dude, going off topic is what we do here at at FTTW and you have given me a great idea. Thanks!

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1776 baby.

* Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense. Henceforth, the world slowly begins to lose it.

* The Declaration of Fuckin' Independence.

* Stomping the Brits.

Also, 1789
* First U.S. election
* Alexander Hamilton begins putting the Dept. of the Treasury smack down.
* Bill of Rights proposed (not completed until 1791)
* Thomas Jefferson brings the first macaroni to the U.S.

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i like the macaroni angle

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i knew you'd get off on his disneyland story, turtle... see mark? i tollyew...

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when i was on acid in disneyland i was almost arrested for jumping out of the haunted mansion ride,they don't don't like that, smoking a joint in the peoplemover, they really don't like that, and flicking smokes at some the seven dwarves, cause that was just funny.

20 smokes in a pack

7 dwarves

i got pretty good odds at hitting at least one of them. but thats a different story for another day

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1977 - Star Wars comes out, Ramones release both Rocket To Russia AND Leave Home, first Clash album and oh I guess this is why they have a really stupidly named genre called '77.

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It was a year before i was born but - 1968. There were so many good things about that year including the earliest days of Punk-Rock as it came to be known on Detroit's Garage Rock comps 'Nuggets'. Rock n Roll was at it's peak and Punk was on its way. And of course, my parents were making me... and we all know, that rules.

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1986:
SNFU released If You Swear, You'll Catch No Fish. That was great.
Judas Priest released Turbo. That was not great.

Cliff Burton died and the Challenger blew up. Hands Across America and Iran-Contra.

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1976.

Not my favorite year, but chock full 'o' blizzards, bad cars, and Jimmy Carter's malaise.

How can you go wrong?

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I don't know why anybody goes to Disneyland sober, as a result.

I wonder what idea I helped you come up with...

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The scary thing is that with the experiences you two relate you could have been my neighbors, or friends or me, back in the day.

I (still) have Molly Hatchets "Flirtin with Disaster" on LP. Venom, Motorhead, Possessed, Slayer.. all on vinyl. Pink Floyd, The Wall, on 8 track...

1985, bored kids in the burbs with nothing but parties, cars and girls to keep us occupied.

Damn. I'm lucky to have survived it, and I'm glad to see other people went through it too.

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1987. the year I discovered real music, sitting on a rock at the beach with my walkman headphones on, crying my heart out over a tall, lanky blonde boy who decided sonic youth and husker du were the groups to woo me back with.

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