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Does anyone know how possible it is to join the circus or a traveling carnival? I'm considering joining a carnival that travels around the country but I have some concerns.

a. Do you get your own bedroom?
b. What kind of hours do you work?
c. When being fed, do you get to go back for seconds or is it kind of like being in jail or elementary school where they limit your caloric intake?
d. Would they be cool with Michelle coming along and just hanging out while I do carnival stuff?

Also, I have another question for the hippies:
I'm trying to be very cool and down to "earth" by not watching TV. I've seen these "Kill your Television" bumper stickers and have since placed one on my bumper. Anyway, I'm wondering if it is okay to listen to radio shows. I mean, I can see how TV is "bad" because it forces me to make pictures AND voices in my head while I read a book. It's cool because while I'm reading I like to make all of the voices in my head sound like Kermit the Frog and all of the people (or characters) I like to make pictures in my head of people who I was friends with in High School. Anyway, where was I.....oh yea...is it okay if I listen to Radio Shows because this just makes me make pictures in my head but voices are already taken care of. I mean, I don't want to cross the boundaries of what's allowed with being a hippie and what's not. It seems there's a thin line with being a hippie and I don't want to screw it up because I want to travel with a carnival soon and want to be seen as acceptable.

Hope I haven't confused anyone. I have some more questions as well...
a. I understand that "organic" food is good to eat while I attempt to remain a hippie. Does this mean I can't wear deodrant? I've always been confused about why the laws allow me to drive a car, wear synthetic rubber climbing shoes, wear rubber condoms while I beat off, live in an asbestos siding house...you get the picture. But I'm not allowed to wear deodrant? I mean, people are getting pissed off because I smell like shit.

b. Back to being organic. While I was in Mexico, I found that it was "cool" to buy tomatoes from the roadside stand "manned" by a peasant Mexican woman who lived in a grass hut and slept on a dirt floor. Even though these tomatoes weren't "organic", I found that my hippie cohorts said it was okay that I bought non-organic tomatoes from this woman. I'm having a hard time understanding why it was cool to buy non-organic from this woman and it's not cool to buy non-organic from Kroger? Would it be okay if Kroger was dressed up as a poor woman in Mexico selling tomatoes from a cart? I'm so confused. Please help me out.

c. I'm a dumb ass ethical trad climber. I refuse to climb sport routes because I know that I'll go out and get shut down by little boys fresh out of the gym. If I climb trad, especially at the Red, I can separate myself from the others by not clipping bolts and placing cams in the crack to protect myself in case of a fall. Well, what I'm wondeirng is, is it okay that I clip a bolt on a mixed route? The reason I ask is Joshua Tree is full of mixed routes that were put up by all of my Yosemite idols and sometimes the bolt is kind of close to a place where a cam may have been possible to place. I carried a ruler with me and measured some of the spots where those guys put a bolt in next to a kind of crack and it showed that up to a 1.233" shallow crack was acceptable to be cool with a bolt placement. Well, I've been trying to emulate some of my old school idols and during the process I placed a bolt next to a crack that was 1.234" deep. Does this mean that I can't call myself an anti-sport climbing "hardcore traditionalist" climber anymore? Please tell me it doesn't because that is what allows me to fall on a V4 and still feel like I've got some magic up my sleeve that the others don't have.

Oh dear ethics police, please help me out with these difficult life decisions.

I think you can watch PBS as long as you wear petulie.

dear bumbling trad daddy wannabe...

the concerns you have are most common amongst non-athletes who got cut from the high school badminton team, but "joined" climbing because of the solidarity it gave them with real athletes who wouldn't judge them as inferior. well, that was all well and good, until sport climbing and bouldering came along. once it became apparent that these posers could no longer hide behind their dope induced spray fests chillin at the fire pit with their homies, they decided that the rules would have to be changed. 12 year old girls kicking your ass on a bolted line? no prob...blame their strength to weight ratio, and ignore your fat ass and beer belly physique. damn, trim that beard and lose a few pounds.

but here is the key..the same quandry you have with climbing can be applied to living organic. those stinky bastards who eschew deodorant but buy tomatoes in mexico are changin the rules on you again. you know the party line....save the forests, but live in a home made of wood, make fire pits indiscriminately, and by all means roll your joint with papers approved by the international rain forest community. and don't forget to buy your cell phone, made of plastic which, dare I say, come from OIL by products, (that evil stuff we are killing over seas to hoard.) so jump in your foreign car, put some foreign oil and foreign gas in the tank, and go protest.

don't worry trad daddy...the rules change so fast that once you feel the hippie vibe, you'll already be last years model.

the circus isn't a bad option...

well, al things considered, i feel you can still feelyourself superior to all those sporties.

I mean, hey your more articulate than them so...

plus strum like cams

it is absolutely not ok, dear dumb ass traddie

oh my dear SCIN...tis, tis, tis. you think it is sooo witty on your part for you to lash out and attack the hippies and frustrated trad climbers, but yet it is you that needs to be lashed out at. you are so smug sitting there in your leather couch watching movies with Artsay, but you are the one who is such a hypocritical fool. don't play coy with me scin. you pretend that the hippies have too much shit between their toes, and the old, washed-up, never-was climber complains too much about the "new generation", but you are the one with all the problems. so what if brother starlight and sister tulip protest animal cruelty marching around in their birkenstocks, and so what if bitch titties preaches to the sportos about how they can't climb a 5.9 handcrack. you are the one with REAL problems. you insensitive prick. you don't even call me anymore because you're out candy flipping and blazing with the rest of them. you say you're "in love" with Artsay, but why do you dress me up like Pamela Anderson and squeeze the bags of hawaiian punch that i use for my titties? why do you like sniff crotch? i'll tell you why, because i just found a dog in heat and masturbated with the bloody scum looking at a picture of you through 3D glasses. trying my hardest to manifest you with my 6th sense, but you stay as the paper bag that i drew eyes and a mouth on with the cable from my VCR as legs. you do not become "little ray". you stay at home and lust over my juice tits and blood-laden sack like a little bitch. you fuck.

I heard Horatio has a vagina, so it's conceivable that he could, well, conceive.

I think that's pretty inconceivable.

So does this mean nobody climbs and all hippies are fake? Or are all hippy climbers fakers? Or is that just hippy trad climbers with beards and Birkenstocks?

they dont feed us very good in the circus

They don't feed you very well, dear. Pay attention to your grammar or you'll end up a piece of shit dirt bag.