Era living

I would probably choose the 60s, when things were new, plentiful, and we were stoopid re the environment. I mean, really, the innocence cant be beat. The future was fab, except for the womens/civil rights movement and some of those, withoutadoubt, dire circumstances. However, it certainly called one's attention to the awful social digress (?!). I like that people stood up and assembled, unionized (way before, too). I like that women were the colloquial woman and that they also stood up for themselves. I like that races called attention to themselves, and the the "little guy" rose up a little with them. I like the allpointy bras of the generation and the burning of them. I like that garters were worn on an everyday basis. I like the pinup girls and Playboy clubs, sort of. Antibiotics were alltherage, as was Valium. I like midcentury art when done well, especially the architecture There was a newness, I guess, Its a little before my time, but when I hear people talk, I want to get naked outside and listen to Jimi Hendrix. Of course, Im not innocent of Vietnam history or the horrible deaths re raciam, and and Ive read about the ramifications of Studio 51 (although that may be the 70s?), and so forth. All the hideousness of the fight. But, there is something about those 60s that appeal to me, and although Im not a Mad Men girl, I probably should be.

When would you have liked ot have lived,

 

I'd like to go back and see the Middle Ages, say around the time of the Hundred Years War but I sure as hell wouldn't want to live there!
The 60s are very interesting to me as well. I think they fit my pace better than current times?

 

I want to live in the late Paleozoic Era and witness the Permian-Triassic extinction event.
Now I realize that the event itself may have taken a few million years so just put me where the action is.
Can I bring anyone with me?

 

my sense of other eras i might like to live in is limited by my liking of indoor plumbing and electricity.

maybe mid-to-late 40s nyc under the assumption that i'd have been hip enough to like bop and would look good in a zoot suit.

 

France in the 30s. I'd want to hang out with Henry Miller.

 

Unless you're transformed into a sturdy white male, you're probably going to have a bad time exploring these places.

Being a woman or minority before the 1970s, I suspect, would suck a fat one. In many ways.

I like today. We're more equal. And because science.

 

I was planning on going whoring with Henry Miller... I am okay with the inequity of the 30s.

 

HAH! You're such a classy mofo, Chuck. It's why I like you.

 

Even as a sturdy while male I wouldn't be able to explore these places because at my age I'd already be dead then.

I'll stay right here with central air, color TV, indoor plumbing, phenomenal medical care, and the innerwebs. Really everything we have now is what these previous eras were striving for. Besides the 60s were basically boring.

 

Unless you were a sturdy white male stuck in Vietnam.

 

My time period would have to be during 1860's out West, right after the Civil War.
So many characters I would love to meet. See if they lived up to their legends.

 

"You can be Henry Miller, and I'll be Anais Nin...."

Great, now I've got Jewel stuck in my head. Thanks, Charlatan.

/threadjack

 

You are more than welcome to join... though I can't be sure they will have cereal, the coffee and croissants will be excellent.

 

I keep forgetting how well everybody here knows me and it's really scary at times.

 

Once you know about a person's smooth spot, the rest is superfluous.

 

Focus man! skanky French prostitutes, hard liquor and living large like a hobo Henry Miller!

Spend your days writing hard or hitting your friends up for money. The rest of the time is between Anais Nin's knees.
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Looks like we are gonna be a trio of terror on the 30s. We just need a June.

 

I'd like to pop over to the early 90s so I can have sex with Rollins before he got less angry.

Yeah, that's my only motivation.

 

I'd probably make myself about 10 years older...a kid in the 70s, a teenager in the 80s, a 20-something in the 90s.

Then again, the '40s would be pretty rad, too.