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Bobby Joe's Hooterville Hillbillies Website
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ROY'S YOU TUBE
The main reason I'm making this page is that nobody said I couldn't. For years I allowed people to say "you'll never make it," or "you can't do that," as if they knew something I didn't. So I thought to myself--better get a page set up before somebody yells, "Hey, you can't do that!" Too late, heh, heh!
About me? Well, currently, I'm somewhere between the cradle and the grave. Given what few alternatives there are available, I kind of like it!
As for my personal ideologies, I can safely say we would have been in a lot of trouble if that decade known as the '60's hadn't happened. Think about it. People would have gone to bed on 12/31/59, listening to Venus by Frankie Avalon on their Silvertone solid state radios, then awoken on 1/1/70 with Eli's Coming by Three Dog Night on their Sony stereos, looking in the mirror and seeing their hair longer and bigger, their trousers wider at the bottom, and their shirt collars broader, and the ladies' skirts shorter; finding psychedelic blacklight posters adorning their walls instead of Marilyn Monroe pin-ups, picking up their newspapers and wondering how Richard M. Nixon went from vice president to the country's top man overnight--without even so much as an election, and generally going into panic and thinking "WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?!!!!" So I'm glad we had the '60s. |
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Politics? Well, in 1992, I formed my own political party--post haste, so nobody could tell me "Hey, you can't do that!" I am founder, co-chairman, recording secretary, treasurer, sergeant-at-arms and cheap cook and bottle washer (how do you wash a cheap cook?) of The Ed Nortonist Party--named after Art Carney's character on The Honeymooners. I figured, enough people are left, right, and center of the political spectrum. I'll take the BOTTOM!
Religion? Well, back in early 1995--again before somebody dared to say "Hey, you can't do that either," I sent off a single greenback to The Universal Life Church in Modesto, Ca, and became an ordained minister. I have had the esteemed pleasure of joining numerous dogs, cats, squirrels and, yes, even a couple of pigeons in joyous wedlock. And I'm sure if they could afford stamps or postcards, they would have sent me thank-you notes.
A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others."
William Blake (1757-1827)
"Judges, accused, and witnesses exchange positions with exemplary rapidity."
-Albert Camus (1913-1960)
[My philosophy of life?] I'm all for it!"
-Sheriff Andy Taylor*
*I know there's no connection; I just like the quotes
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