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October 2, 2003 10:45 AM Subscribe
I don't despise most aspects of the '60s generation, but everything I do despise about it can be characterized by the blight that is Wavy Gravy.
posted by squirrel at 11:18 AM on October 2, 2003
posted by squirrel at 11:18 AM on October 2, 2003
Anyone that grew up in the I-5 corridor learned to despise this hippie freak. Now, thanks to the magic of the Web, the whole world can join in!
posted by psmealey at 11:22 AM on October 2, 2003
posted by psmealey at 11:22 AM on October 2, 2003
Wavy Gravy was never just an ice cream flavor.
Anyone who nominated Pigasus the Pig for president can't have been all bad. He was one of the early culture jammers. Ok, so he's goofy, there aren't too many good clowns in my book.
Never mind these naysayers, konolia - we won't invite them to our love-in. Um, and now that I think of it let's not invite Wavy either. ;-)
posted by madamjujujive at 11:44 AM on October 2, 2003
Anyone who nominated Pigasus the Pig for president can't have been all bad. He was one of the early culture jammers. Ok, so he's goofy, there aren't too many good clowns in my book.
Never mind these naysayers, konolia - we won't invite them to our love-in. Um, and now that I think of it let's not invite Wavy either. ;-)
posted by madamjujujive at 11:44 AM on October 2, 2003
Cool link. I just ordered my wavy gravy polo shirt.
posted by srboisvert at 12:02 PM on October 2, 2003
posted by srboisvert at 12:02 PM on October 2, 2003
Flash back - Shortly after Woodstock, the Hog Farmers helped keep the peace between the cowboys and the hippies at the Texas Pop Festival, where blues giant B. B. King gave Wavy Gravy his name. "It's worked pretty well through my life," he says, "except with telephone operators – I have to say 'Gravy, first initial W."
That's pretty cool.
posted by thomcatspike at 12:14 PM on October 2, 2003
That's pretty cool.
posted by thomcatspike at 12:14 PM on October 2, 2003
Another hippie with a press kit. I'm hating baby boomers more with each passing day.
posted by cadastral at 12:32 PM on October 2, 2003
posted by cadastral at 12:32 PM on October 2, 2003
It bummed me out when B&J changed their Wavy Gravy flavor, and now they don't even have it at all.
Complete sellouts, those two. At least Wavy Gravy never sold out to The Man.
posted by briank at 12:56 PM on October 2, 2003
Complete sellouts, those two. At least Wavy Gravy never sold out to The Man.
posted by briank at 12:56 PM on October 2, 2003
Alternately funny & serious...seeing Wavy is a bit of hip history on parade." -St. Louis Globe Democrat
Goodness Gracious, that paper has been no more since 1983. He must be desparate for press to use something that ancient.
posted by jester69 at 1:25 PM on October 2, 2003
Goodness Gracious, that paper has been no more since 1983. He must be desparate for press to use something that ancient.
posted by jester69 at 1:25 PM on October 2, 2003
Ouch, that hurt. All baby boomers are not bad, just as all of your generation, whatever it may be, are not bad. I would respectfully request that you self-described hippie haters rethink your positions about WG, as he is involved in a couple of very positive things.
posted by Lynsey at 2:06 PM on October 2, 2003
posted by Lynsey at 2:06 PM on October 2, 2003
Nothing scares me more than waking up from a clown nightmare, clicking on a Metafilter link [thinking it had something to do with the Ben & Jerry's flavor or maybe some sort of nice java applet] and seeing this clown.
Nothing.
posted by phylum sinter at 2:26 PM on October 2, 2003
Nothing.
posted by phylum sinter at 2:26 PM on October 2, 2003
Now I know why I'm getting so burned out on the internet discussion scene these days - too many people making comments about things and people that they have no real knowledge or experience of. "Oh, he's a hippie has-been, to hell with him." "It's so 60s ..."
Of course none of you have ever met or talked to the man. I have. A nicer, more compassionate and friendly man would be hard to meet. If I got nothing else from that conversation, it's that he was definitely one of those people who spend their lives trying to make a world a better place. Would that you, or I for that matter, be able to say that and mean it.
But I guess it's cooler to be disdainful and trenchant these days. We could do with a lot less cool and a lot more soul ...
posted by pyramid termite at 3:43 PM on October 2, 2003
Of course none of you have ever met or talked to the man. I have. A nicer, more compassionate and friendly man would be hard to meet. If I got nothing else from that conversation, it's that he was definitely one of those people who spend their lives trying to make a world a better place. Would that you, or I for that matter, be able to say that and mean it.
But I guess it's cooler to be disdainful and trenchant these days. We could do with a lot less cool and a lot more soul ...
posted by pyramid termite at 3:43 PM on October 2, 2003
"Oh, he's a hippie has-been, to hell with him." "It's so 60s ..."
My hatred of hippies knows no boundaries... "has been," "is," or "will be."
he was definitely one of those people who spend their lives trying to make a world a better place
Yeah... I know a lot of people trying to make the world a better place... except most of them don't espouse communal living and brotherhood while selling $50 polo shirts with their own personal logo on the internet.
Read that again... HE HAS A LOGO... [and a website... with a 'merchandising page'... but I digress].
posted by cadastral at 4:12 PM on October 2, 2003
My hatred of hippies knows no boundaries... "has been," "is," or "will be."
he was definitely one of those people who spend their lives trying to make a world a better place
Yeah... I know a lot of people trying to make the world a better place... except most of them don't espouse communal living and brotherhood while selling $50 polo shirts with their own personal logo on the internet.
Read that again... HE HAS A LOGO... [and a website... with a 'merchandising page'... but I digress].
posted by cadastral at 4:12 PM on October 2, 2003
When did the language of searching for slight contradictions in order to discredit someone completely become so pervasive?
So here's a man who's done an extraordinary amount for the world, and has genuinely lived up to his personal vision of what it means to be good, but "HE HAS A LOGO". Well shit, I guess we should just scorn the guy and do our best to ignore him then.
posted by Space Coyote at 4:44 PM on October 2, 2003
So here's a man who's done an extraordinary amount for the world, and has genuinely lived up to his personal vision of what it means to be good, but "HE HAS A LOGO". Well shit, I guess we should just scorn the guy and do our best to ignore him then.
posted by Space Coyote at 4:44 PM on October 2, 2003
"Well shit, I guess we should just scorn the guy and do our best to ignore him then."
Over a logo? No, of course not. That would be silly.
But. He's. A. Fucking. CLOWN! Upon which there is no limit for the heaping of scorn.
posted by majick at 6:12 PM on October 2, 2003
Over a logo? No, of course not. That would be silly.
But. He's. A. Fucking. CLOWN! Upon which there is no limit for the heaping of scorn.
posted by majick at 6:12 PM on October 2, 2003
Dang you people would have had a lot of fun if you'd been alive back in the 60 's and early 70's.
I'm not that great a fan of flower power myself but this guy is a bit of a cultural icon, and in that regard I find him interesting. Which is why I posted the link. I'm really surprised at the negative reaction to Mister Gravy.
posted by konolia at 7:51 PM on October 2, 2003
I'm not that great a fan of flower power myself but this guy is a bit of a cultural icon, and in that regard I find him interesting. Which is why I posted the link. I'm really surprised at the negative reaction to Mister Gravy.
posted by konolia at 7:51 PM on October 2, 2003
I agree, konolia, that this amount of bile does seem strange. I can't speak for others, but my disdain for the clown doesn't stem from an anti-60's, anti-hippy or anti-boomer position. When I was in college, he would emcee our annual spring festival that was known campuswide as the time for freshmen to take their first tokes, kick a hackey sack, bang a bongo, etc. I always had a great time--I'm not knocking it.
But every time this loser would take the stage, it was a cosmic bring down. He talked about Wavy Gravy in third person, he had lame jokes and tired "counter-cultural" riffs that didn't make sense anymore. He honked a filthy horn. People would chant for the next act, and he would get snippy if we didn't do the wave or whatever he tried to orchestrate. He said things like "the 80s are the 60s twenty years later!" And then (and I'm not kidding) when 1990 arrived, he started saying "The 90s are the 60s upside-down!"
His whole routine was a warm-over from some time when he wasn't even funny, but just knew the fight people. In short, he's not a has-been, he's a never-was who got lucky and rode along for a while, but is now damned to the purgatory of public college drum circles. He made us sad. Bigtime buzz-kill.
Sorry to be so negative about a man who arguably spent his life trying to make people laugh. You wanted to know why people despise him: he's the boomer Carrot Top.
posted by squirrel at 8:27 PM on October 2, 2003
But every time this loser would take the stage, it was a cosmic bring down. He talked about Wavy Gravy in third person, he had lame jokes and tired "counter-cultural" riffs that didn't make sense anymore. He honked a filthy horn. People would chant for the next act, and he would get snippy if we didn't do the wave or whatever he tried to orchestrate. He said things like "the 80s are the 60s twenty years later!" And then (and I'm not kidding) when 1990 arrived, he started saying "The 90s are the 60s upside-down!"
His whole routine was a warm-over from some time when he wasn't even funny, but just knew the fight people. In short, he's not a has-been, he's a never-was who got lucky and rode along for a while, but is now damned to the purgatory of public college drum circles. He made us sad. Bigtime buzz-kill.
Sorry to be so negative about a man who arguably spent his life trying to make people laugh. You wanted to know why people despise him: he's the boomer Carrot Top.
posted by squirrel at 8:27 PM on October 2, 2003
Wavy Gravy is God [ God is all ]
Meanwhile, Ocean Circulation is shutting down, little scuttling humans.
Bwah ha ha ha ha Bwah ha ha ha.....ha.....
posted by troutfishing at 9:56 PM on October 2, 2003
Meanwhile, Ocean Circulation is shutting down, little scuttling humans.
Bwah ha ha ha ha Bwah ha ha ha.....ha.....
posted by troutfishing at 9:56 PM on October 2, 2003
The hippies had a dream.
The dream was good.
Most hippies forgot the dream.
Wavy didn't.
Wavy is good.
People who make fun of Wavy are small.
Look past your own selfish thoughts and accept the Gravy.
posted by caddis at 10:57 PM on October 2, 2003
The dream was good.
Most hippies forgot the dream.
Wavy didn't.
Wavy is good.
People who make fun of Wavy are small.
Look past your own selfish thoughts and accept the Gravy.
posted by caddis at 10:57 PM on October 2, 2003
"Of course none of you have ever met or talked to the man."
I've caught his act a few times as well as run into him at a handful of parties. While I don't loathe the man in the way I reserve for, say, Tim Leary or John "Lyricist for the Dead" Parry "Lyricist for the Dead" Barlow (Lyricist for the Dead) or RU Sirius, my clownscorn goes on unabated. Being nice or goodhearted is no excuse for being a clown.
posted by majick at 11:31 PM on October 2, 2003
I've caught his act a few times as well as run into him at a handful of parties. While I don't loathe the man in the way I reserve for, say, Tim Leary or John "Lyricist for the Dead" Parry "Lyricist for the Dead" Barlow (Lyricist for the Dead) or RU Sirius, my clownscorn goes on unabated. Being nice or goodhearted is no excuse for being a clown.
posted by majick at 11:31 PM on October 2, 2003
Perhaps we could get David Brooks to write about all you clown-haters from his new perch at the NYT.
posted by nofundy at 9:04 AM on October 3, 2003
posted by nofundy at 9:04 AM on October 3, 2003
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