A Sense of Doubt blog post #3647 - Reprint of Hey Mom #194 - Plate of Shrimp

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3647 - Reprint of Hey Mom #194 - Plate of Shrimp

As announced, I am going into low power mode for a week or more in a series of mostly reprints.

Here's the first one from a little over nine years ago.

Exactly, time travel!

Thanks for tuning in.

Link to original post that I am reprinting below:

Sunday, January 17, 2016

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #194 - Plate of Shrimp

LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading.

Mom on the phone at her planning desk
West Gull Lake Drive house 1980s

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #194 - Plate of Shrimp


Hey Mom,

So, I am in class last term, and I cannot think of the name of The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, a special phenomenon in which you don't notice something until it comes into your consciousness. Like, say, I have never heard of M.I.A. the musical artist. I do not believe I have seen her name mentioned anywhere or heard her music or seen videos or anything. But then someone tells me about her, and suddenly she's everywhere. I see her name everywhere. I hear one of her songs while in the mall. I see a video in Best Buy playing on a TV for sale.

Thing is, how do you Google search for The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon unless you remember the name of it?

Synchronicity sort of works. And Carl Jung (You know that I am a huge Jungian, right?) coined the term. Jung used the concept to justify the paranormal.

Thanks to my friend Gregg Morris for reminding me about the "Plate of Shrimp" speech from Repo Man as seen here. Sound on this one is not great. If you want better sound, search the title I use here and there's a better clip on You Tube.

Repo Man (6/10) Movie CLIP - Flying Saucers & Time Machines (1984)


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"Yeah, you got it. Time machines."

"The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."

"It's all part of the cosmic unconsciousness."

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I told you some of these would be short.

Reflect and connect.
Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.
Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.
- Days ago = 196 days ago
- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1601.17 - 10:10
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2502.11 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3512 days ago & DAD = 167 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.