The Next Big Thing
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Comment from Sandra Nelms-Ludwig
You and Karenina are running down memory lane. Well, maybe not running but walking at a fast clip. lol This was a good reading. Most of the things you wrote about were part of my grade school years. I enjoyed this piece of prose because it gave a glimpse into our culture but also a glimpse into what you as a teenager thought was a big deal. Most were for sure big deals because they are still talked about today.
You know what I mostly say about your visual. I don't get it. lol Is it a reference to the mod clothing or psychedelic mood of the 60's?? Who knows. Thanks for sharing a trip down your memory lane.
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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You and Karenina are running down memory lane. Well, maybe not running but walking at a fast clip. lol This was a good reading. Most of the things you wrote about were part of my grade school years. I enjoyed this piece of prose because it gave a glimpse into our culture but also a glimpse into what you as a teenager thought was a big deal. Most were for sure big deals because they are still talked about today.
You know what I mostly say about your visual. I don't get it. lol Is it a reference to the mod clothing or psychedelic mood of the 60's?? Who knows. Thanks for sharing a trip down your memory lane.
Comment Written 08-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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Sandy, thank you for the review, Karenina, took it to a whole new level, I am delighted she posted the story. Mod was short for Modern, There was even a TV show, The Mod Squad, young cops. The Mod clothes were inspired by the Beatles' outfits. Terry.
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You are welcome. I watched the Mod Squad show. I forgot Mod was short for modern. You both wrote good descriptive prose pieces.
Comment from nancy_e_davis
I remember all the changes my father talked about in his lifetime, 1902 to 1987. He was amazed too. You did a great job of recall and so did Dad. I just don't remember what he recalled. There is no end to the progress. Is it for better or worse? Only time will tell. Nancy:)
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I remember all the changes my father talked about in his lifetime, 1902 to 1987. He was amazed too. You did a great job of recall and so did Dad. I just don't remember what he recalled. There is no end to the progress. Is it for better or worse? Only time will tell. Nancy:)
Comment Written 08-Dec-2022
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Nancy, thank you for reading and for your review. You ask a good question, I don't know the answer. Terry.
Comment from Sarah Das Gupta
This discussion resonates with me! It is true that your favourite pop music usually depends on when you were a teenager. It tells a person's age, like teeth tell the age of a horse! Every new generation something or someone BIG comes along. I think I'm too old to appreciate it!
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This discussion resonates with me! It is true that your favourite pop music usually depends on when you were a teenager. It tells a person's age, like teeth tell the age of a horse! Every new generation something or someone BIG comes along. I think I'm too old to appreciate it!
Comment Written 08-Dec-2022
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Sarah, thank you for reading and providing a good insight. Terry.
Comment from Jesse James Doty
This is a marvelous commentary on the age of the Beatles and other things that went on during the sixties. I want to mention one little edit that might be suggested. Garage bands started across the county when I think you wanted to say across the country. Just a suggestion as to how to improve this already wonderful essay about the highlights and lowlights of the age of the babyboomers.
Jesse
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This is a marvelous commentary on the age of the Beatles and other things that went on during the sixties. I want to mention one little edit that might be suggested. Garage bands started across the county when I think you wanted to say across the country. Just a suggestion as to how to improve this already wonderful essay about the highlights and lowlights of the age of the babyboomers.
Jesse
Comment Written 08-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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Jesse, thank you for reading and catching the edit, county might be a little limiting, LOL, Terry.
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Yes, it would be, my friend.
I am glad I could help with the edit.
Jesse
Comment from Kaiku
This is great. I may have been one of the few boys who didn't want to be a Beatle. I was all sports and couldn't carry a note let alone a guitar. Although in 8th grade, we did perform a Beatle's song for our spring concert, 'Hey Jude'. I married a gal named Judy, 36 years and three children. You have me by a couple of years but your memory rings true and is step-in-step. Thanks.
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This is great. I may have been one of the few boys who didn't want to be a Beatle. I was all sports and couldn't carry a note let alone a guitar. Although in 8th grade, we did perform a Beatle's song for our spring concert, 'Hey Jude'. I married a gal named Judy, 36 years and three children. You have me by a couple of years but your memory rings true and is step-in-step. Thanks.
Comment Written 08-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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Kaiku, thank you for reading. There are some great memories there. Terry.
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For sure.
Comment from Debi Pick Marquette
Terry, I wondered once how much more advanced it could be then an eight track tape player. That's as far as I gave life much thought. I was too young to really be into Elvis or the Beatles when they first came out, but remember that my three older sisters had to go down our spooky basement to listen to their records.My parents didn't allow it where we could hear it in the house. When I turned 13, the Monkees were just hitting it big. I remember watching them on tv when my mother got home from one of her meetings with HHH, and she came into the living room and said, "how would you feel if your brothers came home with haircuts like that?" Well she asked, so I answered that I thought it would be pretty cool. Back in those days, that was frowned upon as very disrespectful and good thing for me that she was too tired to get into it any farther. But I was being brave, sticking up for the man that I loved, Mickey Dolenz. In fact I dreamed of marrying him someday, but since he wasn't available, I settled for a guy with a green 69 Road Runner. Then when I had my first daughter, my husband wanted to call her Michelle. I said fine, as long as we call her Mickey. As soon as he figured out why, that nickname never did stick. Lol.
Then when I got my first computer, I thought dial up was great. It actually helped me get so much done. I would click on something and then while waiting for it to load, I'd go throw a load of wash in. Then after viewing, click again, and my bed got made. I didn't learn too much on the computer, but sure accomplished a lot of housework.
So with all the humongous changes we have seen in our lifetime, would it be so far fetched to think that someday perhaps we could look at a screen and see any part of our life that we lived without someone there video taping? Important and not so important, such as a little girl getting stuck on an electric fence, while her three brothers tried pulling her off and them getting shocked, catching frogs and snakes down at the creek with them, seeing yourself in the old one room country school with six grades, etc... As Kodak used to say, "these are the moments of your life" yet even Kodak moments rarely happen anymore.
If someone had told me as a kid that I would see what I am living today, I would have laughed. So my answer to your question, what is the next big thing?
Maybe a way to view your life, (without it flashing before your eyes, as they say happens before death) Does that really seem so absurd? It probably wouldn't be possible for us, but if little cameras are injected someday into those open to it, who knows? In fact it maybe used to cut down on crime and......
Suddenly I am having second thoughts on this answer. It is starting to sound a little bit too much like the coming of the marks of the beast. Therefore Terry, I'm going to have to leave this one up to you to figure out. I tried tho!
Great story my friend. It got me thinking, and we both know how dangerous that can be.
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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Terry, I wondered once how much more advanced it could be then an eight track tape player. That's as far as I gave life much thought. I was too young to really be into Elvis or the Beatles when they first came out, but remember that my three older sisters had to go down our spooky basement to listen to their records.My parents didn't allow it where we could hear it in the house. When I turned 13, the Monkees were just hitting it big. I remember watching them on tv when my mother got home from one of her meetings with HHH, and she came into the living room and said, "how would you feel if your brothers came home with haircuts like that?" Well she asked, so I answered that I thought it would be pretty cool. Back in those days, that was frowned upon as very disrespectful and good thing for me that she was too tired to get into it any farther. But I was being brave, sticking up for the man that I loved, Mickey Dolenz. In fact I dreamed of marrying him someday, but since he wasn't available, I settled for a guy with a green 69 Road Runner. Then when I had my first daughter, my husband wanted to call her Michelle. I said fine, as long as we call her Mickey. As soon as he figured out why, that nickname never did stick. Lol.
Then when I got my first computer, I thought dial up was great. It actually helped me get so much done. I would click on something and then while waiting for it to load, I'd go throw a load of wash in. Then after viewing, click again, and my bed got made. I didn't learn too much on the computer, but sure accomplished a lot of housework.
So with all the humongous changes we have seen in our lifetime, would it be so far fetched to think that someday perhaps we could look at a screen and see any part of our life that we lived without someone there video taping? Important and not so important, such as a little girl getting stuck on an electric fence, while her three brothers tried pulling her off and them getting shocked, catching frogs and snakes down at the creek with them, seeing yourself in the old one room country school with six grades, etc... As Kodak used to say, "these are the moments of your life" yet even Kodak moments rarely happen anymore.
If someone had told me as a kid that I would see what I am living today, I would have laughed. So my answer to your question, what is the next big thing?
Maybe a way to view your life, (without it flashing before your eyes, as they say happens before death) Does that really seem so absurd? It probably wouldn't be possible for us, but if little cameras are injected someday into those open to it, who knows? In fact it maybe used to cut down on crime and......
Suddenly I am having second thoughts on this answer. It is starting to sound a little bit too much like the coming of the marks of the beast. Therefore Terry, I'm going to have to leave this one up to you to figure out. I tried tho!
Great story my friend. It got me thinking, and we both know how dangerous that can be.
Comment Written 08-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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Debi, thank you for the six stars! You and Karenina write reviews that are better than the story you are reviewing, you should consider a post using your review. I don't know what the next thing is but you know it will be big. Terry.
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After you mentioning Karenina's review, I went and looked at some of yours. She does have a way with words. And you have a way with being so kind and giving. If you have a minute, will you go and read my Christmas Bonus story again. I changed it up to better understand why Travis was a Bonus for so many. Also I told about something in author's notes that you might find interesting. Thank you for what you have done for me, for Karenina and so many others. You my friend are the true Christmas bonus to all of us lucky enough to call you a good friend.
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After you mentioning Karenina's review, I went and looked at some of yours. She does have a way with words. And you have a way with being so kind and giving. If you have a minute, will you go and read my Christmas Bonus story again. I changed it up to better understand why Travis was a Bonus for so many. Also I told about something in author's notes that you might find interesting. Thank you for what you have done for me, for Karenina and so many others. You my friend are the true Christmas bonus to all of us lucky enough to call you a good friend.
Comment from Midi O'Rourke
Interesting question, Terry. I'm thinking it's already here, but we boomers don't get it. Haha. My personal next big thing in music is Christmas jazz (gasp) YES JAZZ. Everyone has cut a Christmas album, even the jazz artists. Great arrangements! Very well written and incisive.
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Interesting question, Terry. I'm thinking it's already here, but we boomers don't get it. Haha. My personal next big thing in music is Christmas jazz (gasp) YES JAZZ. Everyone has cut a Christmas album, even the jazz artists. Great arrangements! Very well written and incisive.
Comment Written 08-Dec-2022
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Thank you for reading. A very Jazzy Christmas Album is a favorite of mine. Thank you for reading, Terry.
Comment from T B Botts
Hello Terry,
You're a few years older than me, but all the things you mentioned, I remember. At the time there was still penny candy, and you could tell one make of car from another. I remember buying Sputnik bubble gum at the local neighborhood store. For a quarter you could buy a Pepsi, a candy bar and a bag of cheese nips. Mickey Mantle was a star in baseball and was searched for in every pack of baseball cards, which incidentally had the best bubble gum. Lord knows I may have given away a million dollar card because I didn't like baseball, just bubble gum. Thanks for the memories.
Have a blessed evening.
Tom
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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Hello Terry,
You're a few years older than me, but all the things you mentioned, I remember. At the time there was still penny candy, and you could tell one make of car from another. I remember buying Sputnik bubble gum at the local neighborhood store. For a quarter you could buy a Pepsi, a candy bar and a bag of cheese nips. Mickey Mantle was a star in baseball and was searched for in every pack of baseball cards, which incidentally had the best bubble gum. Lord knows I may have given away a million dollar card because I didn't like baseball, just bubble gum. Thanks for the memories.
Have a blessed evening.
Tom
Comment Written 07-Dec-2022
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Tom, thank you for reading. Yep I remember all of those. I did have a couple of Mickey's cards, but they were not the valuable one. Thanks, Terry.
Comment from Dolly'sPoems
Yes the Beatles were on everybody's lips back in the say and I had Paul written on my satchel as he was my favourite. Those lads from Liverpool were unapologetic and natural and the world loved them for their raw and unique talent. They morphed over the years and kept their music current and we grew up loving them. I loved the Monkees too, we had some sola artists too: Cilla Black and Dusty Springfield, also Sandy Shaw, Petula Clarke and Marianne Faithful. I loved them all Terry and your post is full of nostalgia, much enjoyed, love Dolly x
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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Yes the Beatles were on everybody's lips back in the say and I had Paul written on my satchel as he was my favourite. Those lads from Liverpool were unapologetic and natural and the world loved them for their raw and unique talent. They morphed over the years and kept their music current and we grew up loving them. I loved the Monkees too, we had some sola artists too: Cilla Black and Dusty Springfield, also Sandy Shaw, Petula Clarke and Marianne Faithful. I loved them all Terry and your post is full of nostalgia, much enjoyed, love Dolly x
Comment Written 07-Dec-2022
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Dolly, thank for reading, I did like Dusty and Petula, and Marianne. Terry.
Comment from Mary Vigasin
Since we graduated from High school the same year I have the same memories. This was a time of so much change in science, in culture and politics.
I do not think though 17 year old today is thinking about the next big thing or even notice .Our time was in transition from the old world order.
Well done . An interesting thought provoking post.
Mary
Mary
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Since we graduated from High school the same year I have the same memories. This was a time of so much change in science, in culture and politics.
I do not think though 17 year old today is thinking about the next big thing or even notice .Our time was in transition from the old world order.
Well done . An interesting thought provoking post.
Mary
Mary
Comment Written 07-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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Mary, I am delighted you enjoyed the story, thank you for reading. Terry.
