Is 'Bonnaroo' the Most Hippie Word Ever Created? [Linguistic Challenge]
I was talking to a friend last night whose response to Bonnaroo is that he's going to Chicago for a week, starting tomorrow. Let's just say he's not a fan. Sure, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, David Byrne, St. Vincent--all artists he really likes--are playing this year, and the festival has clearly grown beyond its jam-band beginnings. But my friend hates anything even remotely hippie. You could call him prejudiced, and he'd be fine with that. The real problem with Bonnaroo, I think, is the name. He'll never get past it. Even if The Beatles came back from the dead and the entire festival took place under a gigantic, air-conditioned dome, he would not go, because he could not attend anything called "Bonnaroo." 
But what's in a name? Would that which we call "Bonnaroo" by any other name be just as hippie? Or is it the name that makes an otherwise catholic festival seem singularly hempified? I think my friend would lean toward the latter. He said he was talking with his wife yesterday, trying to make up a word that sounds more hippie than "Bonnaroo." Basically, they couldn't do it.
Creamers, the challenge is on!
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