Alice's Restaurant Redux

I was over and YouTube, going to see if there were any more comments on SevenLap's marvelous video based on my piece "Darfur: Jesus Wept" when I stumbled upon something. To quote "2010", "something wonderful".

Another video artist has made a video from the song, so if you want to see this one, check it here:



Why am I calling this "Alice's Restaurant Redux"?

If you are familiar with that brilliant talking folk-blues piece by the great Arlo Guthrie, he describes a scenario about avoiding the draft (it was an anti-war, anti-draft protest song, after all):

"And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'm singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into the shrink wherever you are ,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out. You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement."
- Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"

We're up to three now...