sixties | sixties
Dec.05.2012
Years ago, if you were like the rest of us, you were a little bit wacky and a little bit cynical, and that led us to Kurt Vonnegut's books. He wrote as if he were a good-hearted anarchist, and he wrote plenty, and so we had a lot to read.
Now his books - and books about him - are experiencing a...
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Aug.24.2012
This year marks the 50th anniverary of The Port Huron Statement, a democratic manifesto drafted largely by Tom Hayden and modified and adopted by Students for a Democratic Society, a leading activist organization of that period.
For many people like myself who came up in the sixties, it...
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Jul.17.2012
Jon Lord, former keyboard player for Deep Purple, one of my favorite Brit bands back in the day, died yesterday of cancer. He was a co-writer of the band's signature song, "Smoke on the Water," so I thought it'd be a nice tribute to Lord, and the band, to critique the songs lyrics....
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Feb.22.2012
...can be found here: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/jpsmith/2012/02/review-fug-you-ed-sanders/
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Feb.05.2012
More than once upon a time, mass protest movements have arisen in this country. In some of these, I have been privileged to witness and take part. If you believe there might be something to learn from experience, read on and judge for yourself. In three sections, I describe my personal...
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Jan.26.2012
If you’re interested in the private lives of people who make the fashion world, how they started and how they got to the top, you might want to pick up a copy of Karen Moller’s memoir,Technicolor Dreamin’: The 1960′s Rainbow and Beyond.
In her fresh and engaging voice, award-winning fashion...
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Sep.06.2011
Not the sex, drugs and rock’n’roll kind of hippies but the ones who extolled the virtues of living simply and during the 60’s and 70’s had both a back to the land and a Jesus Freak streak in them (don’t ask me how I know). Think about it. Thousands of young people fled metro areas for the country....
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Jul.24.2011
It's grown quite popular to sport a yin yang symbol on a t shirt, bumper sticker, etc. but it's significance in agriculture has historical importance as far back as 3000 B.C.E. when the ancient Chinese Botanist, Shen Nung, recognized that Cannabis's female flowers had more yin (female energy) than...
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Apr.28.2011
Please see my latest slice of life at: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/jpsmith/2011/04/almost-infamous/
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Mar.24.2011
Here's my latest snippet of autobiography, prompted by the recent death of Owsley Stanley: http://bit.ly/e7fyBI.
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