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So...VDP tweeted that he'll donate $100 to charity (of one's choice) for the first person who gives him photo evidence of Mike's hatless 2016 head.

I...like this guy.

Guessing he's not on Facebook.  :)

If I were Mike I would post the picture myself, then I would offer to donate $200 if VDP can explain what the Smile lyrics mean  ;D

This is the way VDP likes to represent himself these days? Wow.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised at all if:

1) Mike actually takes him up on the offer and provides his own picture, or
2) It was good-natured ribbing.

After all, Mike has always said nice things about VDP publicly.

VDP's behaviour since TSS has been on the baffling side of intriguing.

You need to tell Mike to take VDP up on that offer.  It would be awesome.  :lol

KInda funny and kinda sad too.

Mostly sad. One wonders how often Mike Love thinks about VDP...

I suspect VDP only thinks about Mike as much as he does because so many people ask him on Twitter about the Beach Boys.

Wow.... VDP is slowly becoming more and more of a jerk day by day. Never thought I'd say that about VDP..... I kinda feel sorry for Mike now. Just imagine waking up in the morning and being like: "I'm Mike Love." Look, I get it. Mike's done some extremely stupid things throughout his life, but Jesus, this whole "let's all spew hate on Mike Love" thing is getting kind of repitive, hurtful, insensitive and highly annoying! Give the guy a break!

Truth

Finding it hard to take in that someone as intelligent - intellectual - can get so icky personal over something that oughtn't trouble him any-time-ever. Now, we here Smilers can be petty piss-spraying dunks, but I thought he'd always rise way above our level. Anyone else suspect signs of an age-related mental degeneration?  I respect this guy way above most of my heroes, and I hate to even suggest that.

VDP rules! ;D

I suspect that VDP is entirely capable of having his own feelings about his own life.

Exactly, he not alone in his dislike of Mike Love.

While I don't condone teasing someone over their physical imperfections (regardless of how I feel about that person), at least I'll say that unlike Mike, VDP appears to have publicly owned up to mistakes. That's a much bigger thing to tease Mike about, and quite laughable if put to poetry the way only VDP can, if VDP feels the insatiable urge to tease the Lovester.

It wouldn't surprise me if it was maybe more often than some might think.

If you look at his interviews, he seems to stew on some very predictable topics, and old topics at that. He still goes on and on about the songwriting lawsuit even though it was over with over 20 years ago, and he won!

It's potentially extra ironic considering the early 90s interview where he goes on about how it's Al that gets hung up on stuff from the past, etc. That may have been true (Gary Usher's comments from the mid 80s suggest it's very plausible), but Mike's own interviews over many years seem to indicate he also continues to be hung up on several topics and people.

So it wouldn't surprise me if VDP is one of those people/topics. Doesn't mean Mike thinks about it constantly, every day.

I say to Mike Love: Show the world that wonderful cranium!  Do it for charity, do it for world peace, do it for Love  ;)
It's okay to be bald.   
You have very nice cutlery btw.

Mike had posted photos of himself hatless at home on FaceBook a while back. I believe it was for his birthday celebration with his family. Frankly, he looked rather good without the hat.

I have seen photos of Mike hatless throughout the years, but they are always personal pics. When he's onstage, he's the guy in the hat and Hawaiian shirt; offstage, he seems to be very different. And I think that's healthy.

I don't think so. He's seemed the same as always on stage and in interviews over the last few years. I suspect, actually, that something happened to reopen old wounds regarding the Smile Sessions box, and given how recently that was I can't blame him too much for wanting to get the occasional joking dig in.  It just means he's a human being. He still strikes me overall as about the classiest and most basically decent person involved in the whole Beach Boys story, even if he can occasionally want to make the odd petty joke.

If co-lyricist John k would agree, i would like to donate our haiku-palindrome (though I doubt seriously that this could be worth anything like 100 $ to anyone  - like 'us' or 'U.S.'(?):

>"debut-NUDE US, MIKEe

    (M.E. Love = vole 'M')

EEK, I,m sued - un-tubed!"<

I agree, Rasmus----you're the boss in that department. But what the world really needs is a VDPalindrome. I shall work on it...

I know you'll come up with something NICE for the occasion.
[The old 'drome, originated by Theydon Bois and hai(ku)jack's by Li'l~palin'drom'erBoy is too mean-spirited for charity:

>Parks says: "S.I.P.?
Alas, a Love-vol. as (a
la) pissy as skrap!"<]...

 :thumbsup :thumbsup And, more and more folks are finally realizing that myKe luHv  really belongs no where else than your tool box.  :tm

Yes, this is nicer (I suppose) and more cryptic (which shouldn't worry VDP none):

<Dork said V.D. Parks tut-tuts krap DVD. I ask Rod>

Thanx, John!
And talking charity - while still being NICE about it - I'll even throw in my own 'haiku-palindrome' shown furthest down below! Any BIDDERS?

I mean, come on, Van! Can't you appreciate some convoluted Van/fans-generated puns instead and STILL give to charity? OF YOUR OWN CHOICE ...

You do know that he has made insulting tweets concerning Brian as well....right? Funny it's all just good fun when Parks acts like a bitter child. Of course the handful of usual suspects here always give him a thumbs up. Thank God Twitter exists, without out it Parks might have to really stoop low and post his nonsense in a place like this directly. But then he would have to defend it and things would turn all nasty.

We're I Mike, I would offer $10,000 to anyone that provides proof that Parks alone suggested the triplet cellos for GV.

Well, John. You really nailed it BIGTIME, imOHO. I only needed to fill out some blanx! And you all know the drill from there... I can't help but obsessing when it comes to re-shaping John's splendid 'dromes (or anyone's!) into neat little haiku-palindromes.
For this one I wanted Mike into the action, making it HIS reply to Parks' tut-toting Summer In Paradise (and in his perplexity, referring to that as a DVD instead of a L.P./CD).

MIKE & Van DYKE over THE TOP.                                                                                                                                           See how they even rhyme together! I'm finding them MOAN-spirited rather than mean- ditto:

    >LOVE-VOL. <        [haiku-palindrome by Theydon & P'dromer Bois]

>Parks says: "S.I.P.?
Alas, a Love-vol. as (a..
la) pissy as skrap!"<

  >TUT-TUT<        [haiku-palindrome by JOHN King TUT (& hai{ku}jack'd by P'dromer Boy)]

>Mik' said: "V.D. Parks?

Tut-tut-tuts 'KRAP' DVD?!

I ******* ASK 'im ..."<

[Beware of hidden meaning when reversing last line, adding the 'd' (take that - Beatles)]

And speaking of obsessing; could it be that Parks has been doing just THAT (almost being one of them KOKOMbOVERS?) ever since he helped writing he's Goin' Bald?
Such 'insight' oughta make them both donate hundreds! I know I would if I had that kind of money... Let's give them the benefit of the doubt during this weekend!

I do have an answer for that, but...I'm not going to share it. Why? Because it'll just fuel debate, which is not what I want right now. It was either say this much, or stay silent and imply that I'm backing down like someone who's afraid of that wave....which I'm not.

WAIT ... just in! Hold on to your 'DEPPY KEELs! (Leave-it?)' ...
Here come Van Dyke's latest 're-tweets' to Mike & his head (p e r  v e r s e!):

#Debut-NUDE-us,MIKEe!#

#M.E.Love=vole'M'#

#EEK!,I'mSUED,un-tubed#

Posting stuff publicly on an account with over 11,200 followers probably exposes him to significantly more criticism of what he says than posting it to a board which has had less than a third of that number of users in total over its entire history.
As for him insulting Brian... so? They've known each other fifty years. Brian once called Van Dyke "the biggest butthole in the world". They know each other well enough that if they have problems with each other they're entitled to talk about them however they choose.
Doesn't lessen my admiration of either man. Or of Mike. Or of anyone.

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