Wednesday, august 18, 1982
daily nebraskan
page 43
Traditional pastimes lose their thrill
By C. Scott Thompson I won't mention the bar
name, but it's out of the
I must be either pre- way and its initials arc D.D.
maturely cynical or hyper- Nobody knew who was
critical by nature. For mc playing so we shot for pot-
the summer's pastimes gen- luck. Mistake No. 2.
erally seemed less than satis- The ambience was at best
factory. Yet my peers show- locally colorful and the
she had this big brown and dislocated torso. "I Did It
green tatoo of a marijuana My Way" took on whole
leaf on her left breast. We new connotations. Think
ncared the music room and about it. And the sad part
naively paid a cover charge was the roomful of people
to get in. Mistake No. 3. who paid to see this guy. Oy
Elvis Presley cat your vay.
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cd every sign of enjoying clicntellc . . . well, I saw one all: Don Ho wig, white poly- just make a three montn
any number of activities woman who was wearing a ester jump suit, rhincstonc date with a little brown bag
that tell short in my stretch-out halter top and
estimation. Let mc enumer
ate. Anyone who's watched
Italian dressing separate
knows that the oil rises to
the top. So naturally, when
you toss into a pool 5,000
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sweaty bodies that have
been greased up and lubed
down with Pina Colada
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the net result makes Santa
Barbara disasters look like
child's play.
Speaking of child's play,
I'm starting a movement
that advocates age segregat
ion at public pools. No
more surprise attacks by
soaked tennis balls, hurled
Frisbces or blitzkrieg water
dousings.
For the less aquatically
inclined, there is always the
cinema. And this summer,
by all indications, has been
setting box office records
left and right. Why escapes
me.
Next week I'm having an
"E.T." voodoo party. To
get in, you have to chant
"E.T. go home now, E.T. go
home now," and then toss a
piece of "E.T." parapher
nalia into a bonfire.
"E.T." mania is difficult
for me to understand. How
can an entire nation go ga-ga
over an animated character
that resembles a prune or
legs? Very soon, I suspect,
Steven Speilberg will be
declared a national hero.
Congress will erect a giant
shrine in his honor in the
shape of an elongated cigar
and begin printing stamps
and coins in his likeness. A
thousand years from now,
historians will interpret him
as a contemporary Moses,
leading the masses to tithe
and worthip in dark halls.
This summer's music
hasn't been terrific either. If
I hear "Eye of the Tiger"
one more time, I'll scream.
Bad, but not uninteresting,
is the Waitresses "I Know
What Boys Like," a song
about the ultimate tease.
Perhaps the most
nauseating and amusing
musical innovation is Moon
Zappa's "Valley Girls." Yes,
now an entire generation of
women will be reduced to
the stock reply of "Gag me
with a spoon." As the fad
reaches unbearably epi
demic proportions, "Gross
me out totally" will quickly
become passe. Entire hordes
of little pseudo-prepettes
with bouncy pittails and ox
ford collars and arrogantly
defy gravity will parate
around with a cocky expres
sion going "And like I can t
believe those grody toe
nails." Arg! "Valley Girls.
For sure, for sure.
For those who don t
swim, go to movies or listen
to music, this summer also
offered Lincoln's common
denominator pastime -BARS.
Now that Lincoln is
no longer a bastion of Sun
day abstention, I thought it
appropriate one unfortunate
Sunday to sample the night
hfe. Mistake No. 1.
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