Caveat: Like Seinfeld After Time Spent At Burning Man

I recently saw the first episode of a show called Portlandia. It has a bit of a Seinfeldian vibe, in the abstract, but cross-pollinated by a lot of hippies and hipsters and other hip-related-objects. I've never lived in Portland, but I grew up in a kind of rural extension of Portland's culture-sphere known as Humboldt County, California. The show is an utter exaggeration, but the germ of the cultural factors parodied in the show is to be found in Humboldt, there's no doubt.

What I'm listening to right now.

Portlandia, "Dream of the 90's." Arguably, this video is NSFW – for semantic content.

Incidentally, I think I recognize that neighborhood in LA where they're walking around, in the video.

Caveat: Petals

Petals

Life is a stream
On which we strew
Petal by petal the flower of our heart;
The end lost in dream,
They float past our view,
We only watch their glad, early start.
Freighted with hope,
Crimsoned with joy,
We scatter the leaves of our opening rose;
Their widening scope,
Their distant employ,
We never shall know. And the stream as it flows
Sweeps them away,
Each one is gone
Ever beyond into infinite ways.
We alone stay
While years hurry on,
The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays.

Amy Lowell

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