CULTURE

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I missed the radical importance of the transformation that had been happening since I sat in front of the tiny black and white screen in my parents’ apartment in New York City, my mind beginning to fill up with disparate images, far-flung images. (FROM AN AMERICAN STORY) This video is a link from You Tube. […]

I was ten when Elvis came along. I sang his songs in front of the mirror. I imitated his smile, raising the corner of one side of my mouth. I tried to move like him, rotating one leg from the hip. And I tried to comb my hair like him. I used Vitalis, Butch Wax, […]

I began to wonder why I’d been led to believe that marijuana was so harmful, addicting.  Marijuana just seemed to make things better. Simple things. Apple juice. Sex. The great sunshine days of California. Marijuana was a good time. Alice in Wonderland? You thought you understood Alice in Wonderland?  Read it stoned. Copyright remains with […]

‘Drugs. With America tearing itself apart, split down the middle about everything, everybody pointing a finger at everybody else, there was no way anyone in the counterculture was about to admit that drugs were a problem. Drugs were what first turned a lot of people on. The nightmare consequences of marijuana as conjured up by […]

  HBTV: Depth of Speed – Simple Soul from HBTV on Vimeo. HBTV: Depth of Speed – Simple Soul from HBTV on Vimeo. The Playmobile of the 60s. Still crazy after all these years. “Craig Johnson represents a long list of devout Volkswagen fanatics who have carried on the legacy of several iconic products from […]

When the men returning from the war found wives, they cut to the chase and formed families. That meant babies and plenty of them. Between 1946 and 1950 20 million babies were born in the USA. But what to do with them? How to care for them? What to feed them? How to raise them? […]

For FULLSCREEN click control below-right of video. Please add any comments below. (From “Dear Mr. Fantasy: An American Tale”:) Dylan hit a nerve for me, opened a door into a trove of barely distant memories when I was a grade-schooler and would be told to huddle under my desk in case of attack. I had […]