Try the next state, guys.
Honestly, I kind of wanted to see both measures pass, if only for the interesting legal ramifications.
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Lawyers smoke it.
I owned this poster (subway-sized!) and hung it on my HS wall:
you've never smoked in your life, have you?
Not exactly.
Doesn't make my opinion of the legal regime any less valid.
Smoked, no. I always preferred the edible version....
also...
Ohio says no, no, no.
So, it might have been more than a year since my last 70s reggae kick. This may get me started on the next, if I can only get iTunes working again.
Fixed the iTunes. Still 10.7!
Got the 1970s Reggae on the iPod (It's a lot of Tosh. Bob Marley is not part of this particular sub-genre for me.)
Listened to it on the commute. Yum.
Tosh had such a great voice for this stuff, particularly the activist stuff. (I gotta remember to keep "Don't Look Back in Anger" with Mick Jagger off the iPod.)
Bob Marley is not part of this particular sub-genre for me.
That is the most hipsterish thing you have ever said.
...yeah ... I didn't quite know how to phrase a response to that, but I think you've captured it.
Mostly, it's that I've got a poor grasp on what this subgenre is that I dig so much. I think it runs from maybe 1974-1983 or so, so I call it "70's Reggae" for lack of a better term. I don't really know the limits or definition very well, but I know Marley falls outside of it. Some Tosh stuff should be outside it as well (mostly on Bush Doctor). Marley's "Wailers" stuff (Catch a Fire, Burnin') could fit, but it pretty much precedes the sound completely.
Maybe it's that Island/Blackwell production style that separates Marley from the dirtier stuff that was being made on-island.
Maybe it's his wide influence and me hearing things out of order, but Marley sounds more like pop and "world music".
Maybe I just overplayed Marley's stuff to myself and I'm not finding it as exciting or interesting as I once did. So my definition may just be paraphyletic, based on exclusion of Marley's sound.
paraphyletic
D@mn, that's only in the unabridged edition of Merriam-Webster.
paraphyletic
showoff
Looking at the wikipedia entry might make it clearer where I picked up the word.
There is a thin line between hipster and nerd.
You better keep the beard!
I'll remember to avoid discussions of my internal taxonomies if I ever have to shave.
(My Dad's had a shaven chin once in my life: when he grazed it with a chainsaw and had to get stitches. Last time I was clean-shaven was for an ill-conceived Halloween costume during my Sophomore year of college.
I have trimmed down to the inverted Horseshoe a coupla times since then, but it's been more than a decade since the last time.)
The end line comes somewhere between Black Uhuru's 1982 Chill Out and 1986 Brutal.