tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post3971535440813198153..comments2024-03-28T21:56:51.675-04:00Comments on Face to Face: More signs that people have abandoned the woods as a public placeagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-84819788588163292302014-08-19T22:17:48.792-04:002014-08-19T22:17:48.792-04:00Result to should be resort to, delete this comment...Result to should be resort to, delete this commentAudacious Epigonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07495507254628580077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-59755309324261767852014-08-19T13:13:15.602-04:002014-08-19T13:13:15.602-04:00My friends and I had heard about porn in the woods...My friends and I had heard about porn in the woods, but I don't think we ever found any.<br /><br />A friend and I did bury a small stash under some dirt at the end of a nearby parking lot in our neighborhood. Took some nudie pics from his little collection that he'd pilfered from his old man's magazines (which my friend kept hidden in the box of a board game, inside his closet). Put them in a plastic sandwich bag, dug a shallow spot, and marked it with a twig stuck in the ground.<br /><br />It was only 4th or 5th grade, so we didn't use them. Just stopped by the spot every now and then for a little titillation.<br /><br />That whole parking lot has now been built over with a small hotel and apartment complex. Our stash would've been better preserved for posterity if we'd have chosen a more undeveloped area.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-50181786949161082014-08-19T12:06:20.610-04:002014-08-19T12:06:20.610-04:00I would wager that few Millennials could relate to...I would wager that few Millennials could relate to <a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/22130/Porn-in-the-woods" rel="nofollow">this obscure bit of</a> 60s-90s nostalgia as well. Jason Malloyhttp://humanvarieties.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-17654497933948473932014-08-19T00:51:51.233-04:002014-08-19T00:51:51.233-04:00Things will "begin reverting," if you wa...Things will "begin reverting," if you want to split hairs.<br /><br />Outgoing orientation won't have to reach the levels of the '70s and '80s for folks to begin returning to the woods. I've seen a good number of tree carvings with dates from the '60s (compared to very few from the '50s), so they had already started to treat the woods as a public place by then.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-35735048582679026112014-08-19T00:28:15.024-04:002014-08-19T00:28:15.024-04:00"I'm confident that the state of things w..."I'm confident that the state of things will revert to how they were once we switch from the cocooning to the outgoing phase in our social-cultural cycle, sometime within the next five to ten years."<br /><br />And if they don't?<br /><br />The signs are that crime will rise, for example, but it's extremely unlikely to approach the peaks of the 70's and 80's.<br /><br />You're making a falsifiable claim here. This blog I presume will still be around in 2019.<br />Cahokianoreply@blogger.com