Advice for those who are Freaking Out

[mellowinman]

Stay off the Mescaline

It won't do you any good at all. Those bats flying out of your monitor? They aren't real. Bush taking New Jersey? No more real than the bats.

Don't let a bunch of flying mammals get you, man; it's not worth it.

1. Take valium. It'll settle things down a bit
2. Drink some Orange Juice. That always helped me, back in the day. There's never a time when Vitamin C isn't a good thing
3. Put on some early Led Zeppelin. Preferably II; that's got a good feel. If you don't have II, try "Houses of the Holy." Do NOT put on anything from the eighties by ANY band. It will make things worse. Especially stay away from Huey Lewis at all costs
4. Light some candles. Candles always help. I would suggest placing yourself between a candle and a blank wall, and casting a shadow. Now look at that shadow. What animal does it look like? Try and move and think like that animal. That is your spirit animal, and it will guide you from now on
5. Get off the internet, and shut off your TV for at least another week. Na Myoho Renge Kyo. Say that over and over. Its a mantra
6. Do you have a lover? I recommend some pretty furious sex. If you don't have a lover, I recommend some fairly gentle, slow masturbation. Perhaps in the tub
7. Once it gets dark, try and get outside if you can. A nice walk on an early fall evening can do a lot to bring the spirit back into focus. If you're in the city, look for a coffee shop that isn't Starbucks. Stay away from bars
8. If the first seven don't work, take a big club, or ping pong paddle, and beat yourself over the head until you realize that another four years of Bush, although very unpleasant, will not necessarily kill us (hopefully!) We are going to work very hard to see Kerry to the White House, and give it our every effort. There is NO inevitablity to Bush getting a second term, but we've always known it COULD happen. No one should kill themselves if it does, because we don't work for the NOW, we work for the FUTURE, get it? Do you want to live forever? Well now you can, and here's how: Write a song, or a poem, or bring a child up well. Those are just some of the many methods to immortality
9. Finally, don't take hallucenagens any more. Those days are over, man. If you want to see visions, take a nice nap, and have some good dreams, or skip lunch next Tuesday. They're putting a lot of things in those drugs that can enable them to do mind control on us, man, and we don't need that, now do we? I didn't think so

Good luck on your quest. Remember:

"mellow.... mellow.... mellow...."



AAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

(sometimes that helps)

[cheshire]

1. I am so dying with laughter I can't type. Shit that is histerical. Bless

you. They should read this and go with it.

[henslee]

2. Go ahead and freak out but don't blame Rik James.

[bluedonkey]

3. you have no idea

how freaked out I am today.
I usually can keep it together,but I had a run in with some bushchits
today and it was not pleasant.I'm surrounded by them!
I have an unbelievable urge to run and I don't know where to.
I am terrified!No joke!

[cheshire]

4. OK what's the worse that can happen?

[mellowinman]

6. Settle the hell down.

I'm not joking.

I have a hard time taking this post seriously.

Most Republicans are just Americans like you and me. They're not all freepers, you know.

[mahina]

11. Cleansing breath, baby...

ok now?

[shockingelk]

19. Calm yourself down wih logic

Good arguments can be made that the polling we're seeing uses flawed methodologies, but not in the way most people here are complaining about.

It doesn't take into account newly registered voters, as most of the pollsters go off lists of registered voters they get from secretaries of state. Kerry does much better among the general population than "registered" or "likely" voters.

Also, in the 1996 polling, just 9 days before the General Election, Gallup had Clinton doing 9 points better than what he actually got at the polls.

Also, it's my opinion that the methodologies most pollsters use are being thrown off by the huge "Anybody But Bush" phenomenon - most are eliminating voters from "likely voters" for reasons that are rendered impertinent due to the anger at Jr. ... I talk about it at length in the thread Likely voters, flawed methodologies and ABB, which I think would be useful to assuage complaints that many are voicing.

[still_one]

5. Just like LLoyd Bridges said in airplane

Damn! This wasn't the week I shoud have given up sniffing glue

[Buck Rabbit]

7. All fine except #8.

If * gets elected I'm going to have to shoot off part of my draft age son's foot. Neither he nor I am looking forward to this.

We should have a different solution but this is a family tradition dating back to my older brother's declaration to us younger ones when he got back from his Marine Corp stint in 'nam. "If your (draft lottery) number gets called, run to Canada or learn to hop 'cause I'm shooting off you foot."

[mzmolly]

8. I'm in for the Valium, I've never tried it ... buuuuut if anyones got any?

:P

[LittleClarkie]

9. I got out the Mighty Mighty Bosstones

And put on "The Rascal King"

And thought of our Rascal-in-Chief. Hope Bill is well.

The Doors and Buffalo Springfield have been good too. For some reason, late Vietnam era music feels appropriate. Or some nice heavy rock to get out the frustrations. Tool works well.

I wonder if this is what saving the free world in 1971 felt like.

[bluedonkey]

10. saving the world

felt good,at times,but it hurt a lot,too.
The music brings back many painful memories.
I don't think I have the stomach for this anymore.My son is 22yo,I'll kill him myself before I let him go to Iraq!

[baltodemvet]

13. No

I was there in the '70's. The difference is we can win this election.
The bummer back then was that we couldn't get the country off the death express.

[cheshire]

15. I like anti-war stuff. Stones, Dylan, Country buffalo springfield is great

[LittleClarkie]

18. Oh yeah!

Country Joe and the Fish Cheer!

Arlo's always good. I can play Alice's Restaurant on my guitar now. If I could get the patter down, I could go places.

I wonder if there is a use for me and my guitar in the campaign. Streetcorner guitar player for Kerry?

[baltodemvet]

12. Let's boil it down to two steps

I was going to go with just one step but I just couldn't bring myself to eliminate your #6. So,

1. Do something to help us win this.
2. Have furious sex

[zulchzulu]

14. Polls are Crack at this point

Two things:

1. Get off your ass and help out. Find a local Dem group/club and dig in and go for the WILD ride!

2. Ignore the polls for now. Especially the ones with a MOE of 5%!

[cheshire]

16. Me thinketh Mint-julep is full of boubon.

[John_H]

17. Stay away from bars? What, are you on Mescaline or something?