Comments on: Daily Gut: Rebels, Eccentrics and Berkeley

By: bahiabob

bahiabob — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:44:57 +0000

Hey Greg! So you did drama class and learned to play a banjo, huh. Did you play the little redneck kid with the banjo in Deliverance? You were very believable. Yuk, Yuk, Yuk!

By: Scooperbob

Scooperbob — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:40:33 +0000

Hey, I went from 78 to 83. I was an engineering major so I missed most of the liberal indoctrination.

By: susan

susan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:48:02 +0000

There is no such thing as a Berkeley rebel. Berkeley is full of the most narrow minded conformists and
non conformists (conformists that conformed to non conformist) people gathered together in one place. You have created a nice bubble for yourselves. Did I hurt your aura?

By: stevo

stevo — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:28:49 +0000

keep on keeping it real with the banjo! the subversive's secret weapon. Just ignore pete seeger when he stops playing and talks

By: srhoades

srhoades — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:20:20 +0000

Bummer. Not surprising, but still a bummer.

By: nom de geurre

nom de geurre — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:45:08 +0000

in "the loo sanction", the late great trevanian wrote a great mini-scene in which skinny hipsters, all dressed alike in their cool t-shirts and blue jeans, were having to move: had been evicted for not paying the rent, and were moving to another place where they'd not pay the rent.

he said they were taking "identical paths to nonconformity".

By: mojo

mojo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:04:41 +0000

Went to Berzerkley in the mid-70's. I left the day I saw a naked hippie sitting in a tree on Telegraph, doing bird calls. I haven't been back.

By: Harper

Harper — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:12:58 +0000

Unfortunately, the Naked Guy IS one of those mentally ill people from Berkeley who killed himself without any non-conformists around to tell him how cool he is.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/...

By: sybilll

sybilll — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:39:10 +0000

I loved Andrew describing his epiphany, while watching the Thomas hearings. If you'd care to share, I would love to hear yours. I love hearing them to gain perspective. Because I am just the opposite, never a Democratic bone in my body, and had a countdown calendar for the first time I could pull the lever…..for Ronald Reagan.

By: RJs

RJs — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:02:13 +0000

Wow, I was never a rebel and never will be a rebel, was in the military at 17 in Beruit then college 21-25 to gain a marketable skill & working hard since. But I am very surprised that there are that many converts. It gives me a good feeling that the fascist will be gone in four and will loose the ability to rule by decree in the mid term elections.