stuff to leave behind when your turn 25

[cavorting with nudists]

I'm 56 and don't think early Burroughs or Ginsberg are without merit.  Keroauc, eh, brief dips can be fun until the stoopidity starts to whelm.

[Sarah]

The most important question here is, what kind of juice?

[hardweek]

The most important question here is, what kind of juice?

Glad you asked: the goopy, "hey everybody, look at me!" kind that liberal arts students drink and bandy around to prove that they're not slaves to the Minute Maid coproration.

[Sarah]

I don't know what goopy juice is.  I don't think it exists where I live.

[Pidgeon]

I live in a college town, but I don't see any of this street trash-y stuff at all, really. I guess that's one thing the southeast has over the rest of the country.

[cavorting with nudists]

I don't claim to be down with the kids, but I can't even picture a kind of juice that screams "Hey, look at me!"

This is juice, right?

[hardweek]

I'm back at school this year after a looooong hiatus, and feeling "Back To School" Rodney Dangerfield old. Of the many things which make me want to wave my cane around--most of which being covered in this thread, just add in the oversized glasses, cowichan sweaters, acid-wash jeans, and american apparel v-neck tees with the hair tuft--the mason jars are the ones that just kill me.

My annoyance started a few years ago when my wife suggested that we go to a Hayden concert on Valentine's Day. The juxtaposition was too good to refuse, and it happened to be in my favourite local venue/church hall.

The acoustics in the room are so good that I was actually enjoying Hayden's moaning and groaning. That is, until the arts student sat in the pew in from of me and removed that dumb jar of goopy vegetable juice from her courier bag, that she smuggled into the show. It wasn't enough to stink up the joint with her particular choice of contraband, or that her choice was so bizarre, but she had to slowly slurp the stuff for the entirety of the show and make a show of it.

For me, now it's like the phenomenon of when you're thinking of buying a certain type of car and you start to see it everywhere on the road: I notice those mason jars everywhere on campus, and the pretension bugs me. Especially for those old enough to know better.

[emma]

The most important question here is, what kind of juice?

Glad you asked: the goopy, "hey everybody, look at me!" kind that liberal arts students drink and bandy around to prove that they're not slaves to the Minute Maid coproration.

I bring tea to school in a mason jar because it stays warm in those things for longer than it does in my shitty thermos. But when I bust it out in class or on public transit I make sure to yell 'HEY EVERYBODY LOOK AT ME!" before bandying it about a little, so I guess I see what you're saying.

[Sarah]

But is it goopy?  That seems to be key.

Note:  I cannot imagine giving a shit about most of the stuff in this thread.  But then I don't care if people wear sandals to work, sweatpants on airplanes or jury duty, or oversized sunglasses in Brooklyn parks, so I'm obviously no judge of what's proper. 

[buffcoat]

All I know is I can't quit you, Ennis.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

is this mason jar juice drinking a regional thing?

...because midtown memphis is obviously lacking in this.

[SJK]

But is it goopy?  That seems to be key.

Note:  I cannot imagine giving a shit about most of the stuff in this thread.  But then I don't care if people wear sandals to work, sweatpants on airplanes or jury duty, or oversized sunglasses in Brooklyn parks, so I'm obviously no judge of what's proper.

Dear Sarah,
You're the best. You always seem to say the right thing at the right time.
Please start a cult or a radio show....I will follow/listen!
All the best,
Steve

I tried to find, "Ted's church of the very bright lights", this will have to do. Should I have left KITH behind at 25? I couldn't do it.

Kids in the Hall - Skora, the Gentle Shark

[yesno]

I bring tea to school in a mason jar because it stays warm in those things for longer than it does in my shitty thermos.

kampachuchuchuchu tea?

[Sarah]

SJK, you are very kind to me. 

[Paul DeLouisiana]

is this mason jar juice drinking a regional thing?

...because midtown memphis is obviously lacking in this.

I've seen it here. When are they going to understand that everyone else like them is doing this same exact thing they're doing? What fun is that? Or are they concerned about having fun? Maybe not.

Maybe something I should leave behind is caring about all this.