Subcultures 101, Tuesday, Period 3

[living_endless]

Class met in the Danger Shop today, and it had been programmed to look, sound and smell like a Grateful Dead concert in 1980. Didi hit a button to mute the music and crowd noise as she spoke.

"Hey, today we're talking about Deadheads," she said. "These were people who spent months or years on the road, following a psychedelic rock band called the Grateful Dead. Some of the most hardcore fans sold food, taped shows or t-shirts to other fans so they could afford to stay with the band indefinitely. For them, it wasn't about music -- it was about community, and about what a lot of them perceived as an almost religious connection to the music and to each other."

"What I want you to do today is enjoy the concert. Listen to the music, get a veggie burrito, talk to the people. See what about this band was so special for so long. And then tell me what you found out."

101 Ways To Survive In The Field, Tuesday

[suitably_heroic]

"Right," Atton said. For once, he didn't look particularly busy; he was sitting on top of his desk, something that was only remotely weird because said desk was sitting in the middle of the simulated arctic environment they'd been working in for weeks now. Luckily for the class, the square area they were in right now was heated - they'd have to walk a few dozen feet to hit the actual cold.

"I said we're going to be dealing with emergency medicine repeatedly during this class. Now, you'd think that in icy environments like this, you'd think the chief thing to know is how to deal with frostbite, hypothermia, snow blindness, and stuff like that. But those are conditions that are actually really easy to avoid if you know how. Next week, we'll deal with treating injuries - today, we talk about avoiding the big cold trappings."

( Frostbite, we more or less already dealt with. )

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