"If this man should fall ...
Who will lift the flag and carry on?" Remember this line from Glory (which is based on a real incident in the Civil War)? There are a lot of people on Daily Kos who weren't around in the 1960s, and...
View ArticleFavorite Game Shows of all time
I have, ever since I was a young BFSkinner, gotten into game shows. I have never been on one myself, but I grew up watching them as a kid... and although I still watch some of the modern shows, nothing...
View ArticleI have a confession to make
I HAVE A CONFESSION TO MAKE. I may have to give up my membership in the Democratic Party to say this, but I will no longer live with the secret shame: I think the pre-Oil Crisis cars made by American...
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IAN: Tuesday, September 8, 2015: All Hail the Phone Booth!
Yes, Folks, the phone booth. Now mostly departed the US landscape and once the scene of many a college prank.Tuesday! A day to round up some coinage, hand sanitizer, and start looking for the...
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The road to cinematic hell is paved with good intentions and bad choices
The cast of Roland Emmerich's 'Stonewall' For those of us that were kids in the era of the Afterschool Special and sitcoms that would go serious for a very special episode, they're a relic of a time...
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Freaky Friday:: The San Francisco Sound: Retrospective
Welcome to Team DFH'sFreaky Friday weekly music series.Because Team DFH operates more or less like a herd of cats, we’re here at roughly 9PM Eastern, every week. So take off your shoes, plop down on...
View ArticleThe Glass Lot
I often think of my hometown of Berkeley, California; living on Berkeley Way up the street from the Glass Lot Baseball Field. We called it the Glass Lot because it was, to the casual observer a vacant...
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Harold Hayes and the Golden Age of Journalism
It was Thursday, March 14. 2013. On the subway ride downtown to view the documentary Smiling Through the Apocalypse and hear thoughts about the movie from Tom Hayes, Gay Talese and George Lois, I had a...
View ArticleDecades: '60s Monday Edition
Drift below the Tang flavored Cloud for the 2nd edition of Decades, this time focusing on December in the 1960s...
View ArticleEarly AM music - The Incredible String Band, Ducks On A Pond...
ISB were known as a "psychedelic folk music" group, went through several incarnations and continued sporadically till a few years ago. They also played at Woodstock - the real one - and appeared on a...
View ArticleThe Meaning of Life
The 1960's were a turbulent period in our nation's history, especially if you were a student at the time. The events cascaded through the months, and given the already present polarization over our...
View ArticleQuestion of the Night: Which Andy Griffith Show Character are you?
I do not know about you, but I grew up on reruns of the The Andy Griffith ShowThe humor never got old, and the feel for the show made me wish I was growing up with the characters, in the same town as...
View ArticleQuestion of the night: Which decade did you grow up in?
Are you a child of the 1940s? 50s?90s? 00s?For some of us, like myself, we grew up in two decades... for me it was the 70s and 80s, but I identify mostly with the 80s, but I do have many memories of...
View ArticleQuestion of the night: Which decade was your favorite for television shows?
Each decade seems to have shows on the teevee that summarize the prevaling values of the decade.Even if you did not recognize the show, chances are if you were to pop in front of a television and a...
View Article5 things I learned writing an e-book about Bernie Sanders
Cross-posted at Attytood:Just six months ago, I was dreading the 2016 presidential race. After all, the Beltway pundits were all telling us the same thing, that it was a done deal -- the dual of the...
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Martin Luther King Jr Unsanitized: confronting the triple evils of...
If I didn’t already know better, I’d be tempted to think that Martin Luther King Jr. Day is either a day in which large retailers offer items to consumers at discounted prices, or a federal holiday...
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How CBS Smothered the Smothers Brothers
In the late 1960's, at the height of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the hippie revolution, the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour became the most controversial show in TV history and,...
View ArticleQuestion of the night: 1920s to now: Which decade had the best dance music?
Why start with the 1920s? Since I wanted to. :) Well, ok.. a few reasons. Number one, it provides an easy starting point. It is easier to find youtube clips for the 1920s than prior decades, and I know...
View ArticleHippies Unite! (Confessions of a wanna-be)
Another late-night diary. I’m shy that way. Except for posting this pic of me back in 1984 or whenever it was.I WANTED to be a hippie, but it was 1971 and the Hippie Movement was already dead. They...
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