this household is absolute chaos now, fern just runs around in her fig leaves wreaking havoc on her family member, i love her 🥺
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The party was a true roof raiser. Everyone was just so happy that Catherine and Betty could finally have a life together.
How will that life look like in the future? What about Andrew and Brandi? Will he meet the other kids of Brandi and will they like him? Will he continue living with his aunts or do they want an empty nest to found their own little family? Find out next season!
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Book Review: Sly Stone with Ben Greenman - “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir”
There have been plenty of bookings - in concert halls, festivals, jails and prisons - for Sly Stone. But now he’s throwing the book at his fans.
Co-written with Ben Greenman and featuring a forward by Questlove, “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir” finds Stone unspooling his life, his music, his reputation for being tardy and/or missing gigs and his herculean drug use across 320 wittily written pages of memories - it’s remarkable he has any - non-sequiturs and good humor. Even if it wasn’t the belated telling of one of popular music’s most-underreported stories, “Thank You” would be easy to devour for the prose alone.
And the contemporary Stone proves himself an introspective guy. He finally cleaned up in 2019 after four trips to the hospital - The Four Visits, he calls them - and a series of aborted comeback attempts, shambolic and embarrassing public appearances, unstable living conditions and stints in court-ordered rehab and jails.
“Alone, I could remember packed houses, those where I lived and those where I played,” Stone recalls of doing time. “In silence, I could remember the music I wasn’t able to make.”
It’s an interesting confession, in that Stone spends a good portion of the book writing about how he continued to create new music during his fallow decades. Yet the discography at book’s end reveals a paltry number of unreleased compositions among his relatively small output (12 albums) between 1967’s A Whole New Thing and 2011’s I’m Back! Family & Friends.
Born Sylvester Stewart to musical parents in Texas in 1943, Stone was raised in California and was a deejay and producer before forming the Family Stone - a band of siblings, pals, black and white and men and women - that blazed brightly before burning out nearly as quickly. The mixed makeup of the band was a deliberate decision in keeping with Stone’s desire to consistently “generate a glow of goodwill,” even as the Black Panthers pressured him to replace the white members of the group.
From clubs to theaters to Woodstock to Madison Square Garden, the Family Stone was an unstoppable force, scoring hits like “I Want to Take You Higher,” “Hot Fun in the Summertime,” “Family Affair” “Dance to the Music” and the titular track for this memoir until Stone’s unreliability - he blames it partly on himself but mostly on tour routing - and drug use derailed the group after less than a decade.
“I should have stopped sooner,” Stone writes of his drug consumption, which, he says, made his party buddy George Clinton look tame by comparison. “Much sooner: less dust and powder, fewer rocks and pipes, enough days given back that they might have added up to years.”
Stone was turning 80 as he neared the end of the book. Home “most of most days,” he spends time with his children and grandchildren, reminisces about the good old days, wishes more friends came around to see him in person and continues to espouse his “glow of goodwill.”
“The point is to care about all living beings,” Stone says of life’s big picture. “That’s the bottom line. There’s got to be room for all of us to live, to move, to breathe, to say what we mean, to argue, to not argue.”
Grade card: Sly Stone with Ben Greenman - “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir” - A-
12/14/23
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Riverblossom Hills, my loves!
So, as usual, my timelime is happening like 5 years before TS2, it means that Linda Martin is still alive, Xander is a toddler, Jules and Jacob are kids and that the Greenmans aren't a thing yet.
The Roth family was made using the Goths as a base (obviously) and that's why Sandra is still a teen.
Everybody lives in Henford except Alexandra O'Mackey who lives in Tartosa and the Roths who live in San Sequoia.
I now have more than 350 sims in this save and I chose to delete some TS4 families that I don't play with :(
Cleo Shikibu, Patricia Wan, Jacob Martin, Andrew Martin, Betty Goldstein, Catherine Viejo, Linda Martin, Alexandra O'Mackey, Jules O'Mackey, Gabe O'Mackey, Leod McGreggor, Stella Roth, Xander Roth, Sandra Roth and Morty Roth.
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Uberhood (75) - Greenman
Chrysanthemum Greenman. You can call him Chris though. 😁
Basil Greenman with the family's cat, Sunflower.
Daisy Greenman aged up into a teenager this round. Enjoy these pics of her taking off to space. 😂
In addition to Daisy, Basil grew up to a teenager. 🎈 The two of them are total enemies though. I don't know why but they absolutely don't get along with each other.
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Well the OG three have all grown up! I forgot that plansims’s don’t have a child or teen state, so here they are as cute lil adult babies!
Fern!
Oleander!
Daisy!
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VeronaHills, Round Seven: Greenman
Daisy enjoyed the company of a fellow fae in Woody. She found extra enjoyment in the fact that he was the same age.
The existence of baby brother Basil was exciting and all but Daisy wanted - needed to fill her own cup. After all, a teenage era begat independence. So she spent an afternoon in the garden with Woody in what dad would call a date (but dad didn't need to know that).
"I like your eyes." Daisy threw the words out there as she threw the ball for Woody to catch. He briefly fumbled but managed to recover, lest he collect another letter in the word DONKEY.
"Thanks. I get the feeling they freak people out. DONK!"
Daisy had dropped the catch, earning the letter K. "Damn. So do you know why they look like that?"
The ball flew into Woody's palms with a satisfying smack. He laughed, and snorted a little. "Apparently dad ate a lot of apples when he moved to the forest. Like, SO many. So me and my sister got apple seed eyes when he grew us - no, seriously!" Daisy had joined him in the laughing and snorting.
Faerie biology was funny like that. That became even more apparent as baby Basil grew. Despite being born with the resemblance of a human - nary a leaf to be seen - his skin gradually greened, and eventually, his head sprouted a mighty fine daisy.
The Greenman clan held a celebration for their expanded garden. Rose served freshly squeezed juice and observed the chemistry of her niece Jules and family friend Puck. Faerie-human relations seemed to be growing across the village; perfectly healthy tendrils reaching towards each other's light. Rose could only imagine the possibilities for a future filled with magic and love.
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