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The sad ballad of 'Easy Rider'
Many movies have depicted events of the 1960s or tried to show what the era was like, among them “Woodstock,”“Hair,”“Midnight Cowboy,”“Medium Cool” and “Blow-Up.” One stands apart in having depicted...
View ArticleAm I still a Democrat?
I still consider myself a Democrat, but I also agree with all of these statements:*Modern anti-racism (as promoted by Ibram Kendi) is a deeply flawed ideology; *Mandating equitable outcomes is...
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Clubius Contained Part 1 - Regular School (September 1960)
Me at age 5 and Bach School circa 1960Mom and I were sitting in one of those “office” places, like dad’s in the basement. But this one was in this regular school place called “Bach School” (pronounced...
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Clubious Contained Part 2 - President (October 1960)
It was a new month, October, when mom said the leaves on a lot of the trees would be changing colors and then falling off onto the ground. I was now walking to school by myself and I had to walk...
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Clubius Contained Part 3 - Dinosaurs (November 1960)
It was Saturday and mom took me over to Molly’s new house like she did last Saturday. We drove to the end of our street to where the giant high school was, and then turned left on the “Stadium”...
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It's HOW one uses religion...
It's HOW one uses religion… ideology Pray for peace Happy,Peaceful,Blessed New Year!* To begin off with the first genocide (in recent history), the ArmenianGenocide, whether it was a jihad[1] or not,...
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IVH: Joan Jett Plays the Hits
Tonight’s selections are cover songs by Joan Jett (most with the Blackhearts). These are all from early part of her career (70s/80s). I find it interesting that many of Jett’s biggest hits are covers...
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Clubius Contained Part 4 - Blue Books (January 1961)
I really liked listening to stories that dad or mom read to me from a book. Most of the stories mom used to read to me had pictures on every page and just words on part of the page around the picture....
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Clubius Contained Part 5 - My 6th Birthday (April 1961)
I woke up to the wind blowing against the window by my bed. It felt cold like that wind was getting inside too. My bed was now on top of David’s because they were “bunk beds”. I looked over the edge...
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Clubius Incarnate Part 6 - Last Day of School (June 1961)
Bach SchoolI could smell those lilac bushes with all the big bunches of little purple flowers as I walked by them into the park towards the trees on the other side. Mom had told me about the seasons,...
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Clubius Contained Part 7 - Day Trip (August 1961)
The summer didn’t take as long as it used to. I did all the same kind of stuff, playing in the basement, in the backyard, in the park. Playing with Paul or Danny or Gabe, or Molly on Saturdays. Riding...
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Clubius Contained Part 8 - Second Grade (October 1961)
I liked looking out the big windows in my second grade classroom at school. That side of the room was all windows, looking out onto the corner of Jefferson and Fifth streets. There were four corners....
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Clubius Contained Part 9 - Rivals (November 1961)
Herbie said he knew about the Civil War because he had lived in the “South” before he came to Ann Arbor. He said the Confederates were the “rebels”, and all the kids he knew thought they were pretty...
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Clubius Contained Part 10 - Civil War Cards (March 1962)
I heard the window by my bed rattling and I could feel cold coming from it. I opened my eyes. I looked at the clock on my dresser and the little hand was closer to the “8” than it was to the “7”. I had...
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Clubius Contained Part 11 - The Rock
One of the thousands of paint jobs of the Ann Arbor "Rock" over the past 80 plus years!It was Saturday and mom drove me over to Molly’s house, but this time she didn’t “drop me off” but stayed too, to...
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Clubius Contained Part 12 - Jinx Island
I was listening to songs on the radio a lot now. There were three songs this summer that I had heard a lot on the radio and were interesting because they were different from each other. Two of them...
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Clubius Contained Part 13 - Third Grade (October 1962)
Last night I was watching TV, but mom came down and said she wanted “to hear what President Kennedy has to say about what’s happening in Cuba.” Dad was already down in the basement at his desk. He...
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Clubius Contained Part 14 - Football Saturday (November 1962)
I woke up and I could hear the rain tapping on the window by my bed. Not hard like a storm, but just a little bit like what mom called “showers”. I always liked waking up on Saturday morning, because I...
View ArticleIVH: Vampire Bites
It’s Halloween time again. Enjoy this fine selection of vampire tunes and be sure to add your favorite spooky songs in the comments!.Screaming Lord Sutch :: Dracula’s DaughterxxYouTube Video.Roky...
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Clubius Contained Part 15 - Long Division (January 1963)
“So what you doing in math these days, mister Clubius?” mom asked as I was eating a baloney sandwich I had made for myself in the kitchen, and she was making a “big pot of spaghetti sauce for dinner”...
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"We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we...
Since this morning, a number of additional editorial cartoons have been posted online; hence, I posted a second diary.Link to My Second Diary — JFK on Trump, The Week in Editorial Cartoons — and Happy...
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Clubius Contained Part 16 - Mary (April 1963)
I was over at Joey’s house. We had both just played in what the older kids called a “pickup” baseball game at Allmendinger Park. That was where two of the older kids decided to be the captains, and the...
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Clubius Contained Part 17 - Little League (June 1963)
I was extra happy that day third grade was finally done. The last day of school each June was already my favorite day of the year, even better than Christmas or my birthday. On those two days I got...
View ArticleIVH: Thee Headcoatees / The Sisters of Suave
Tonight’s selections from Thee Headcoatees‘The Sisters of Suave’, a compilation of singles.Somewhat surprisingly, there’s not much written about them online. I have a book on the gals but running out...
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Clubius Contained Part 18 - Saugatuck
“Cooper, wake up”, dad whispered, and I felt something shaking my foot under my covers, “Molly’s here and it’s time for your big trip.” I had trouble opening my eyes and figuring out what was going on....
View ArticleMLK Day 2024: Celebrating a Great Thinker
“At cusp, choice is. With choice, spirit grows.”— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange LandMLK would know. We Americans are at cusp. This year we have a grave choice. Either we continue our...
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Clubius Contained Part 19 - Fourth Grade (September 1963)
My fourth grade teacher, Mrs Larkin, was different than all the other teachers I had had. I mean, she was a regular grownup like my third grade teacher Mrs Rodney and my second grade teacher Mrs...
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Clubius Contained Part 20 - Assassinated (November 1963)
I was excited that even though it was Friday, I didn’t have to go to school today. Mom said there were “parent-teacher conferences” instead of a regular school day, and she walked to my school, instead...
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Clubius Contained Part 21 - D-Day (January 1964)
The biggest present I got for Christmas was from “Santa”, which I knew now was really mom and dad. But mom wanted to keep pretending that Santa was real, maybe for David, because he was still a little...
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Clubius Contained Part 22 - Panic Attack (April 1964)
Aunt Pat kissed me on the cheek, looked at me and said, “Tell your mom I’m thinking of her and that you and your Aunt ‘Hant’ Pat had a great time together and you're welcome back any time!” I nodded...
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Clubius Contained Part 23 - In the Lilac Bushes (June 1964)
It was the last day of school. I was finally done with fourth grade. The last day of school was my FAVORITE day of the whole year because I didn’t have to have grownups in charge of me anymore, or at...
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Clubius Incarnate Part 24 - Burns Park (August 1964)
Looking across Burns Park with school at far endIt was just a week ago that we moved here. Mom said we needed to move for her “mental health”, so “your dad and I can have more of the kind of life we...
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Clubius Contained Part 25 - Fifth Grade (September 1964)
Burns Park Elementary SchoolI woke up to that guy on the radio, that “disc jockey” guy, talking in his fast way that kind of went up and down and was almost like singing, but not really. Dad had gotten...
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Clubius Contained Part 26 - Snow Day (November 1964)
It was Monday morning and I woke up to that disc jockey guy on the radio on CKLW again just talking away about the weather…Twenty twenty weather word, “snow”. It’s comin down boys and girls, flake by...
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Clubius Contained Part 27 (February 1965) - Out Sick
“Are you feeling better Coolie?” mom asked as I sat at the kitchen table eating Campbell’s chicken noodle soup out of a bowl. I nodded. I had opened the can and heated it up myself on the stove.“Oh...
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Clubius Contained Part 28 - My 10th Birthday (April 1965)
It was the middle of March about two weeks before my birthday, but it still seemed like winter outside, even though there was hardly any snow left on the ground.“You know Coolie”, mom said as she...
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Clubius Contained Part 29 - State Report (May 1965)
Our teacher handed back our stories today we had written for our big monthly writing assignment for April. The story I had written was called “Enroute to Ekoe”, and it was about a very large pretend...
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Clubius Contained Part 30 - The Blue Front (June 1965)
Yesterday, the last day of school, had been the best day of the year, just like it had been for the last four years. When the school bell rang yesterday and we were done with fifth grade, so many...
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Clubius Contained Part 31 - Cape Cod (August 1965)
I was in this giant house where I kept going up in the attic but there was still another attic above it, so I went up there too. In each new attic I found a different stairway that went up to ANOTHER...
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Clubius Contained Part 32 - Sixth Grade (September 1965)
I was in the attic of that giant house again, but there was still a stairway over in the corner going up to what was another attic above the one I was in. As I climbed the stairs and looked around this...
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Clubius Contained Part 33: Divorce (November 1965)
School was school, and there were still six weeks of it until Christmas vacation. Mrs Herman had us doing more homework and more writing to “get us ready for junior high”, which was that Tappan place...
View ArticleIVH: Halloween / Rockin' in the Graveyard
No commentary, just a collection of assorted Halloween tunes tonight. Enjoy.Jackie Morningstar / Rockin' in the GraveyardxxYouTube Video.Ralph Nielsen & the Chancellors / ScreamxxYouTube Video.The...
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Clubius Contained Part 34 - Cats & Satire (January 1966)
My legs were tired. We’d been moving all day along the side of these mountains. My pack felt heavy on my back, and my rifle, hung by its strap on my shoulder, banged against my body with each step. The...
View ArticleIVH: Dusty Springfield / Dusty in Memphis
Tonight’s selections from Dusty Springfield’s fifth studio album, 1969’s Dusty in Memphis; a potent mix of Brill Building songwriting and Memphis soul music. Have to start off with this one of...
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Clubius Contained Part 35 - Thunderball (March 1966)
It was Saturday, and it was cold and gray and windy and wet outside. We were all still waiting for that first day of spring. You knew it when it came. All of a sudden the day would be a little warmer,...
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Clubius Contained Part 36 - Pencils (May 1966)
It was May and it was spring, and there was less than a month left of school. I could feel summer wanting to start, I could feel other kids wanted it too. I SO wanted it to start, I was SO sick of...
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Clubius Contained Part 37 - Last Day (June 1966)
It was Friday morning, the last day of school, and the CK DJ on my clock radio woke me up…Twenty twenty weather word, “Ahhh”. For many of you out there, boys and girls, it’s the last day of school, the...
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Clubius Contained Part 38 - Tube Benders (July 1966)
A bunch of us were hanging out at Arthur’s house, including Andy, Stuart, Frankie, Mike and Cal. It was the middle of July, which was the middle of summer, the middle of my favorite time of the year....
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Clubius Contained Part 39 - Generals & Admirals (July 1966)
Besides doing stuff with my regular friends like hanging out at their houses, playing in the park, and playing Little League baseball, I had a secret life playing wargames with a different set of...
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Clubius Contained Part 40 - Front Seat (August 1966)
As I walked by her open bedroom door, the TV was on and I could see all the pieces of paper on mom’s bed. I couldn’t quite see her, but I knew she was in there, sitting cross-legged at the head of her...
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