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The Rock

All my fellow Los Gatans should relate to this feeling...as a child you are a passenger in your parents car driving home from a wildly exciting day in Santa Cruz. The buzz of the beach is wearing off and the long ride is making you carsick...all you see are trees, trees, and more trees. Your father is cursing the traffic, your mother is asleep...when the HELL will you be home?? And then you saw it...the bright beacon on the hillside that announced your arrival in your hometown...I am speaking of course of the SCORPIONS rock. Oh how I loved that rock and all the mysteries it held. Who wrote it?? When did it appear?? Was it a group or an individual? Why were they willing to risk life and limb to advertise their devotion to a rather non-controversial German hair band? That rock was the absolute best. It made LG look raffish and rugged. Outsiders might want to think twice before attempting to infiltrate this town of agile and fearless metal afficianados. It was up for sooooooo long that I suppose I took it for granted (for granite?haha). Now, it is an expressionless expanse and that makes me sad. The old guard can (and does) fill in the blanks mentally, but whither the children?? The new generation deserves a landmark that assures them that under the cutesy surface, true bad-assery flows thick in the blood of the Cats.

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