Content advisory 16+ I was having a spirited conversation today, early, with a really bright man — he was frying breakfast eggs while talking with me on Skype (the ONLY way to eat breakfast !) — about the best way to go about living one’s life.
Of course, the thing about this very bright man (aged 47 and me — a stout 69 as of today, 8 May–) is that … Read the rest
Контент 18+ Taxis and taxi drivers are among the things in life that I generally hate. Which does not mean that I lump them together as a single evil force or that I would cast them, one and all, in a concentration camp if I could. As in all walks of life, the odd Good Samaritan may pop up in one of those meter-machines, plenty of decent sorts are just … Read the rest
Third part. The second part is here. First part is here.
In the spring of 1968, a 'counter-culture' rock musical hit the Broadway stage. It was called "Hair" and was a celebration of the bohemian live-style and anti-war idealism of a generation of young Americans known as "Hippies." Along with the famous gathering on a spread of farmland in New York state which has come down to us as 'Woodstock', … Read the rest
