MalibuChloe
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:46 PM
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Alright, so where were you when you heard Elvis died... |
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you old, old, old, old people?
:evilgrin:
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:48 PM
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I was enjoying my last week in the womb at the time :)
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:49 PM
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2. Playing with my Barbie Country Camper on our front porch. |
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:49 PM
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3. I was 5, and visiting my grandmother |
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who was not a fan. Actually, my parents weren't either. I'm surprised I even knew who he was. I must have, because I can remember it clearly, and I don't think it would have registered otherwise.
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:50 PM
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4. I was on a 1970's family road trip in the faux wood-paneled station wagon. |
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We were dining at a Sambo's (gawd-remember those racist restaurants?) in Lake Tahoe. It was the talk of the whole diner.
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:50 PM
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Edited on Tue Aug-16-05 03:50 PM by edbermac
OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!!!!!!
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MalibuChloe
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:53 PM
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that made me spew my egg flower soup all over the screen. :-)
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Tue Aug-16-05 04:22 PM
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18. No, he went to his home planet. |
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:53 PM
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6. I was sitting in front of a microphone |
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Edited on Tue Aug-16-05 03:54 PM by rsdsharp
and the voice I was listening to was mine, as I interrupted regular programming, and read the AP Flash that Elvis was dead. It was no more than 15 seconds from the time the story cleared the wire.
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:54 PM
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8. Sitting on the crapper coming down from a barbituate high |
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eating a peanut butter and fried banana sandwhich
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:54 PM
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:55 PM
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10. Fuck if I know. Really didn't care all that much, |
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still don't really care.
Though I do feel sorry for the poor guy. He really got fucked by his "manager".
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:57 PM
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11. Here's a poem that describes it: |
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Albin's Drugs
This I recall from a day in August of 'seventy-seven: Hollywood Way and Magnolia Boulevard meet a few blocks from here, in the city of Burbank. Now there's a Thrifty, but once the name of the store on the southeast corner - a drugstore - was Albin's. Then, long ago, in the summer, Danny O'Heron had many flyers he needed delivered. Placing the flyers on people's cars, homes and lawns was my job. I stopped to get lunch at the in-store counter at Albin's. I heard a customer taunting the waitress, "Elvis, your hero, your lover's dead." I cared little, as rock for me had begun with the Beatles. Elvis had seemed like an old-time idol, not unlike Sinatra. That I recall from a day in August of 'seventy-seven.
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Tue Aug-16-05 04:03 PM
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12. I was attending a summer session at the University of Hawaii |
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before taking off for my first stay in Japan. (Yeah, I know. Real hardship, huh?)
I was coming out of some meal or other (I forget which one) at the East-West Center cafeteria when I noticed the headline in the newspaper dispenser.
I was in my twenties.
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Tue Aug-16-05 04:03 PM
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13. celebrating my 8th birthday |
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and asking everybody "who the hell is this Elvis guy"?
You see, my mom was a big Beatles fan... :evilgrin:
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Tue Aug-16-05 04:08 PM
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14. Upstate NY, Paleface Dude Ranch, our favorite summer haunt |
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Tue Aug-16-05 04:10 PM
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15. I was on a bus coming home from Girl Scount Day Camp |
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And I cruelly said I was glad he was dead cause I hated his music
Of course it was wrong to think anyone being dead was good but I was never an Elvis fan
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Tue Aug-16-05 04:14 PM
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16. Grandparents' house in Fort Myers, FL |
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I'd generally go down there during summer vacation.
It was the headline in the Ft. Myers News-Press that they had delivered every moring: "King of Rock dies".
Grandpa was more interested in his crossword. Years earlier he had infamously warned Mom against listening to "that fat-lipped n----r music". Really.
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Tue Aug-16-05 04:20 PM
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17. in Houma La. watching Dan Rather....I was 18. |
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Tue Aug-16-05 04:24 PM
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19. Tyngsboro ma. at my Grandparents cottage. |
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Tue Aug-16-05 05:14 PM
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20. Basic training - Ft McClellan Alabama |
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Edited on Tue Aug-16-05 05:15 PM by mandyky
My boyfriend also proposed to me on the phone that day.
on eidt - I was 22.
My Dad died this year on Elvis' birthday.
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