{"id":1039,"date":"2004-10-14T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2004-10-14T06:04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T13:04:00","slug":"meme-uniqueness-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1039","title":{"rendered":"(meme) Uniqueness Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[snarfed from <a href=\"http:\/\/tsgeisel.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">tsgeisel<\/a>. Why am I posting this from home. I&#8217;m driving into work today; I have a 7:30 <font size=\"-2\">AM<\/font> CSUN Industry Advisory Board meeting.]<\/p>\n<p><b>Name a CD you own that no-one else on your friends list does:<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><i>Shep Cooke<\/i> (Shep Cooke). To be truthful, it is actually vinyl that was burned to CD. This was his first album (his second was <i>Concert Tour of Mars<\/i>). I saw him many, many years ago at McCabes in Santa Monica. He&#8217;s a folk artist out of Tuson AZ, who used to play in the Stoney Poneys with Linda Ronstadt.<\/p>\n<p><b>Name a book you own that no-one else on your friends list does:<\/b><br \/>\nMost folks probably don&#8217;t have <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0671162519\"><i>The Rape of the A.P.E.<\/i><\/a> by Allen Sherman (yes, that Allen Sherman, of <i>Hello Muddah Hello Faddah<\/i> fame). It has one 20 page chapter that consists of the word &#8220;Fuck<sup>*<\/sup>&#8220;. The remainder of the chapter is the footnote.<\/p>\n<p>Other books (that I recommend) that are pretty rare are <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/089174021X\/\"><i>The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California<\/i><\/a> by Curt Gentry, and <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0345303253\"><i>Who Censored Roger Rabbit?<\/i><\/a> by Gary Wolf.<\/p>\n<p><b>Name a movie you own on DVD\/VHS\/whatever that no-one else on your friends list does:<\/b><br \/>\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.austinloungelizards.com\/store.html\"><i>Lizards Times 20<\/i><\/a>, the concert video from the Austin Lounge Lizards. 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Runner Up is my wife&#8217;s <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.videoflicks.com\/titles\/1017\/1017805.htm?SHOW=1&#038;TYPE=3&#038;ASSN=20482\">Roger Whittaker in Kenya<\/a> video.<\/p>\n<p><b>Name a place that you have visited that no-one else on your friends list has:<\/b><br \/>\nWell, there&#8217;s Camp Hess Kramer and Gindling Hilltop Camp in Malibu, but someone might have gone there. It&#8217;s got to be someplace that I went to before my wife. So, it is <strike>either the steam tunnels under UCLA, or<\/strike> the old UCLA computer club &#8220;lab&#8221; in Engineering I.<\/p>\n<p>[Arm Update: Back to normal state: OK when looking forward, tingling when looking down]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[snarfed from tsgeisel. Why am I posting this from home. I&#8217;m driving into work today; I have a 7:30 AM CSUN Industry Advisory Board meeting.] Name a CD you own that no-one else on your friends list does: Shep Cooke (Shep Cooke). To be truthful, it is actually vinyl that was burned to CD. This <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1039\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1],"tags":[77,58],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes","category-lj-xfer","tag-memes-aboutme","tag-memes-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}