Monthly Creative Challenge #1 - Eternal September

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Weekly Monthly Creative Challenge #1 - Eternal September

Each month I will wrap and present to you some hopefully stimulating material from a range of mediums. Your task is to soak these in and see where your imagination takes you, and to provide a response for others to share in.

 

This week month we have a song (and lyrics), a magazine story and a wiki-defined phrase. You can take them at face value as they appear on this page and work with their concepts, or delve deeper if you see fit. Whatever, man! Just write something!

 

If you have any comments, queries or further thoughts about this then please discuss here. Any responses to be posted in reply to this, and please feel free to comment on each others... assuming we get multiple replies!

 

	Audio

I keep hearin' you're concerned about my happiness

But all that thought you're givin' me is conscience I guess

If I was walkin' in your shoes, I wouldn't worry none

While you 'n' your friends are worried about me I'm havin' lots of fun

 

[Chorus:]

Countin' flowers on the wall

That don't bother me at all

Playin' solitaire till dawn with a deck of fifty-one

Smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo

Now don't tell me I've nothin' to do

 

Last night I dressed in tails, pretended I was on the town

As long as I can dream it's hard to slow this swinger down

So please don't give a thought to me, I'm really doin' fine

You can always find me here, I'm havin' quite a time

 

[Chorus:]

Countin' flowers on the wall

That don't bother me at all

Playin' solitaire till dawn with a deck of fifty-one

Smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo

Now don't tell me I've nothin' to do

 

It's good to see you, I must go, I know I look a fright

Anyway my eyes are not accustomed to this light

And my shoes are not accustomed to this hard concrete

So I must go back to my room and make my day complete

 

[Chorus:]

Countin' flowers on the wall

That don't bother me at all

Playin' solitaire till dawn with a deck of fifty-one

Smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo

Now don't tell me I've nothin' to do

 

Don't tell me I've nothin' to do

 

There are frequent fliers, and then there are people like these two. Both men bought tickets that gave them unlimited first-class travel for life on American Airlines. It was almost like owning a fleet of private jets.*

 

Eternal September (also September that never ended) is the period beginning September 1993, a date from which it is believed by some that an endless influx of new users (newbies) has degraded standards of discourse and behavior on Usenet and the wider Internet.**

 

* - http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/05/business/la-fi-0506-golden-ticket-20120506

** - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September