Comments on: Hang up and drive. http://jakemohan.net/archives/317 Thu, 20 May 2010 12:03:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sam Brookover (yeah, no shit) http://jakemohan.net/archives/317/comment-page-1#comment-1885 Sam Brookover (yeah, no shit) Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:30:44 +0000 /?p=317#comment-1885 Ok when I Googled "John Paul Mohan" in a fit of nostalgia and desperation while just trying to find the whereabouts of certain other CAMPERS who attended Crystalaire Camp with me after watching one too many Richard Linklater movies this snowy Sunday evening in Michigan (so like, please tell me nobody's life really ends up like Ethan Hawke's in Before Sunset, does it?) and I came up with a blog with the name "Jake" Mohan, I was suspicious. But then when I skimmed through and found the references to Grinnell, Kerouac, King Crimson, and yes, even Crystalaire Camp, I knew it had to be the counselor I knew way back when I was a long-haired vegetarian (male anorexic) 14-year-old camper. So now here I am commenting on your blog, wondering what the hell happened to that pristine place and time... And why my life can't end up like a fucking Richard Linklater movie... I mean, can't my usual 2005 cynical self just get a break once? But yes, it's really me, Sam Brookover, of the long-haired glasses-wearing hemp necklaces skinny-as-hell Ginsberg reading Grateful Dead shirt-wearing 15-year-old you knew back then. Although, now I'm 22, with short hair and a healthy full belly. Anyway, how the hell are you? Send me an e-mail, dammit! Chris Hamilton has been working at Crystalaire for years now... he and Heather have a baby (or two now I think)... Dave's still Dave, Cathy's still Cathy... I visited camp this past summer... They were hurting for staff at first... Unfortunately, the post-Dubya economy has meandered itself into affecting Crystalaire... Fewer college students wanna work at a summer camp with questionable wages when they can work somewhere where they know when and how much they're getting paid.. It was weird as hell going back there... The atmosphere was just so different... It was a real trip. Ok when I Googled “John Paul Mohan” in a fit of nostalgia and desperation while just trying to find the whereabouts of certain other CAMPERS who attended Crystalaire Camp with me after watching one too many Richard Linklater movies this snowy Sunday evening in Michigan (so like, please tell me nobody’s life really ends up like Ethan Hawke’s in Before Sunset, does it?) and I came up with a blog with the name “Jake” Mohan, I was suspicious. But then when I skimmed through and found the references to Grinnell, Kerouac, King Crimson, and yes, even Crystalaire Camp, I knew it had to be the counselor I knew way back when I was a long-haired vegetarian (male anorexic) 14-year-old camper.

So now here I am commenting on your blog, wondering what the hell happened to that pristine place and time…
And why my life can’t end up like a fucking Richard Linklater movie… I mean, can’t my usual 2005 cynical self just get a break once?

But yes, it’s really me, Sam Brookover, of the long-haired glasses-wearing hemp necklaces skinny-as-hell Ginsberg reading Grateful Dead shirt-wearing 15-year-old you knew back then. Although, now I’m 22, with short hair and a healthy full belly.

Anyway, how the hell are you? Send me an e-mail, dammit! Chris Hamilton has been working at Crystalaire for years now… he and Heather have a baby (or two now I think)… Dave’s still Dave, Cathy’s still Cathy…

I visited camp this past summer… They were hurting for staff at first… Unfortunately, the post-Dubya economy has meandered itself into affecting Crystalaire… Fewer college students wanna work at a summer camp with questionable wages when they can work somewhere where they know when and how much they’re getting paid..

It was weird as hell going back there… The atmosphere was just so different… It was a real trip.

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