Gordo mentioned listening to SKA this morning, so I am putting up these two links, which I was gonna put up today but got sidetracked. I REMEMBER SEEING THIS ON TV back in 1979. I was only 13, but remember it well.
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- Gary Rith is a full-time studio potter and also an instructor of pottery at Cornell University's Pot Shop. Gary started learning pottery in 1983. In 1985 he served as an apprentice to Dean White of Deansboro, NY and earned a bachelor's degree in art from Bennington College in 1987. He has been a full-time sculptor and potter since 1997. Gary started his business in New Hamspshire, where he was selected as a member of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen in 2004 and in 2005 was named one of New Hampshire's Emerging Ceramics Artists. He moved to the Ithaca, NY area in 2006, near where he grew up, and is happily making pots and sculpture in a purple house on Fall Creek. Gary likes to laugh, and his first goal is to have fun making pots.
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Thanks, Gary! Now, I show my wife that I don't dance like a total dork. I'm ska-dancing!
Gordo, these guys are FRANTIC and jittery. Somehow it works, yes?
Note: the are also quite trim and fit, therefore ska dancing=good exercise.
Before my metabolism slowed down, I was built like those guys. That was 7 years ago.
Actually gordo, one reason people back then were so darn thin is that everybody SMOKED, (and maybe didn't eat as many cheeseburgers because of that), but they didn't neccessarily exercise either. So, in conclusion, we are healthier, oh yes.
I suppose. I ditched cigarettes when I was 18 and haven't looked back (well, other than the odd cigar).
I blame my mother-in-law for the weight gain. She lives with us and I was so paranoid about taking care of her that I cook much better food than i did before. Now, I'm pudgy.
ska dancing is called skanking.
I was impressed last summer when a friend of mine with whom I was sharing pizza and beers at a tasty college dive turned to his very young child and said: hey junior, what are they playing on the radio? To which the child replied: SKA! And the wee tyke was correct. What a family! But can they dance?
Gordo, middle age (!!!) has resulted in my lactose intolerance becoming EXTREME lactose intolerance. Nothing like being forced to remove CHEESE and ICE CREAM and just about everything other than leafy veggies and beans to keep a person in fighting trim. Sigh, not even cheesecake or blue cheese dressing.
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