"You can get anything you want..."

[gerisullivan]

...at Alice's Restaurant.

With many thanks to minnehaha B. for the link.

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[maruad.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing that today. I got my son to watch it with me. He liked it and it lead to a long discussion about the origins of the Vietnam conflict.

I took it back to the colonial era, even throwing in a bit of the British/Chinese Opium war, why the French were thrown out and why America could never have succeeded. All at a sixth grade level. Professional historians would have shuddered but I got the basics and used it to tie into the Iraq conflict and to illustrate some problems with the Afgahanistan conflict.

At his age all I knew about vietnam was I liked the model aircraft and I had read a book called "Air War:Vietnam" (I think that was the title). It was a propaganda piece that was Pro American involvement. It took a few years to be deprogrammed from that one.

BTW... If Minnehaha K is reading thanks to you as well for passing it on to Geri.

Thanks, I needed that.

[drpaisley.livejournal.com]

Rohanna, Dragonet, Jimmy Hollaman and I saw Arlo in Lawrence on the 40th Anniversary Massacree tour last year. It was the third or fourth time I'd seen Arlo in concert, but the first one where he'd performed "Alice's Restaurant."

Rohanna has one on all of us, in that she was in the audience when it was originally recorded.

[kaffy_r]

Hey, sweetie - hope your Thanksgiving was great. We sat around and swigged from the bottle (don't worry, he insisted, and there's lots left for him to enjoy) and agreed that this stuff is indescribable. FanTAStic....

Re: Thanks, I needed that.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Wow. Yep, rohanna rules on this one!

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

I'm so very glad. As I told both carnyjack and dr_whuh when I called, it was the story that got me. I'm thrilled that the bottle's contents live up to and quite possibly exceed it.

And, just to be perfectly clear, I think swigging under Thursday's circumstances was damned near as ideal as life gets.

Translation for those not in on the conspiracy: a bunch of us collaborated on a b'day prezzie for carnyjack -- a bottle of hand-distilled, unblended cognac older than he is. It's one of 1500 bottles distilled in 1946 (first vintage after production was suspended during the war) but not bottled until 1998, after it turned up during an inventory of the family-owned cognac house.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

NPR's been doing a series called something like "Giving Thanks", and they had Alice Brock on not too long ago. Also, I don't know if you already know about this but she's done two books you might be interested in: My Life As A Restaurant & The Alice's Restaurant Cookbook

[parsleigh.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing this...always one of my favorites.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! We got it from maiac.

K.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Loved the idea of swigging it from the bottle. Right on.

K.

[sethb.livejournal.com]

I think I'll wait until tomorrow to hear it (live, I hope; he usually plays it Thanksgiving).