Thanks to Susan S. for sending this link to me. It frightens me how happy I was to see Happy Days again. I think I watched that show for the entire 10 years it was on, despite the fact that the plots never changed. If you’ve never seen it, you have now.
liz | 9:20 AM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
This video seems to have kind of a dual message – being partly about what a difference hair, or its absence (depending on location), can have on a person’s physical appearance, and partly about why it’s important to be able to change political perspective when the evidence warrants it. That’s how it seems to me, anyway. I suppose it’s possible the hair thing could be meant to kind of subliminally reenforce the message about being open to change.
I used to have that same kind of fascination with the “Happy Days” show as you, despite the sameness of all it’s episodes. I think it was because it was always about something fun happening in an environment where nothing could go very seriously wrong – kind of like riding on one of the less extreme attractions at an amusement park.
This is really amazing. Thanks for sharing this.
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