Comments for Roberta's Voice

Comment on Not grounded. by Ken

Ken — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:41:33 +0000

Every time I stop here and see this post, I start thinking of “Defying Gravity”… and then I think of this…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdXkGXD7gDc

Comment on Roberta’s Voiceovers by mic

mic — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:41:33 +0000

it’s because she was the only one clean and sober hince the name cas and the mama was a way of translating her maternal instincts over the rest of the band in saying “don’t do drugs” but if you don’t have any other vice accept eating you get fat , hidious & sexually unattractive .then we see why and how she died , in misery …

Comment on Not grounded. by Tracy

Tracy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:02:11 +0000

My Roberta, find a quiet place and just breathe.

Love ya,

Comment on don’t hate me ’cause I’m beautiful, but DO NOT love me because I’m fat! by Lookfar

Lookfar — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:51:55 +0000

I identify with all of this. It’s hard to disentangle what part of my fatness is symbolizing whatever wrongness I still feel about myself – the way a big nose, or a stutter or “bad” hair might – and what part I might legitimately feel bad about. Maybe none. I mean, I don’t like being overweight, I know it’s not great for my health, and I’d rather put great clothes on a thinner body, but if anyone has found a workable, long-term cure for it, I’d like to see. What I do see is lots of people going on diets and then gaining the weight back + 5, and I’ve done that, so I’m giving that up.

I’ve begun to work on the “acceptance” part of “fat acceptance.” I mean, I have these Buddhist leanings, and a lot of the exercise there is to accept what is. My life is good otherwise, and I’ve sometimes thought, Well bummer, I have nothing to practice acceptance on. Then I think, The Weight, and then I think, “Hey, could I have a different thing to practice acceptance on, and be thinner?”

That’s not what you’re talking about, though. Here’s what I think about that; there’s something a bit perverse and objectifying about a lot of good sex and sexual attraction. I myself have a special fondness for funny-looking men. What’s it about? Oh, I could go into that, but hey, if I’m attracted, that’s a pleasure. We all have these semi-kinks, or else only Brad Pitt lookalikes would get any action. You are totally right that, if a man treats you with respect and love, it doesn’t matter whence springs the attraction. If he doesn’t, can him.

Comment on my Kevin Bacon degrees by Charlotte

Charlotte — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:46:36 +0000

I usually don’t kiss & tell but my degrees of separation with Kevin Bacon is by tongues…:)

Comment on Everyone’s getting fat ‘cept Mama Cass by Roberta Lipp

Roberta Lipp — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:31:45 +0000

I may well be mixed messagey with my agenda, or goal–I hardly have one. This is a very personal blog with very personal viewpoints, and I’m always clear, or at least attempt to be, that I have no objectivity, that all things are filtered through me and my experience. I certainly had no intention of exploiting Cass. If I inadvertently did so, my bad.

Therefore I don’t feel it’s a realistic expectation for me to not write my thoughts and opinions about a dead celebrity without first speaking to people who knew her. I’m not a professional biographer. I’m a blogger.

I’m also a singer and an actress and a fat chick and Cass is one of my dream roles. Just thought I’d mention.

I dunno. Maybe there are ways in which I understand Cass better than Michelle Phillips does. You can’t assume that someone who knew her has the accurate assessment. I’m not saying that I do, I’m just saying that you never know what people’s slants are.

Comment on Everyone’s getting fat ‘cept Mama Cass by Slickriptide

Slickriptide — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:13:30 +0000

Interesting blog entries. I realize it’s two years old at this point, but I’ll go ahead and necro-post anyway.

Whatever else Cass may have been, she fashioned herself into a larger-than-life character to go along with her larger-than-life size. I sense an agenda in the original blog entry that, if you’ll excuse me for saying so, seems almost to be a self-confirming idea, and one that’s looking to exploit Cass more than understand her.

I never had the pleasure; I was a kid in those days. If you really want to understand her as opposed to make assumptions, there ARE still people around who DID know her. Look at the _Creeque Alley_ song that has been bandied around in this thread. Michelle Phillips is still around. John Sebastian is still around. Roger McGuinn is still around. Heck, he had a performance last year not far from where I live. Jim Hendricks of the Mugwumps is still around.

If you really want to understand and/or judge her or analyze her, then I’d say that you should talk to the people who knew her first-hand rather than make assumptions based on her public persona and the lyrics of a single song.

Comment on Maybe tonight by Roberta Lipp

Roberta Lipp — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:58:22 +0000

Okay so I was literally falling asleep for the last five paragraphs. I’d wake up having written words that didn’t make any sense. The ending doesn’t quite feel like how I might have wrapped it up had I been awake. Oh well.

Comment on Things… by dancing tree

dancing tree — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:13:25 +0000

bout time you got over that Joe dude. and I heard he wears a dress. natural fibers, of course.

smooch, be well and blessed, no really, BLESSED!

Comment on It’s really human of you to listen to all my bullshit. by Roberta Lipp

Roberta Lipp — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:20:34 +0000

Anne B, you are a very special and lovely person. I am genuinely glad to know you, and I trust that over time more is to come.