because the sixties didn't just end with the '60s
MY APOLOGIES for neglecting regular readers of my blogs for the past few months. Fortunately, there is a good reason for this that has nothing to do with those silly rumors circulated by the VRC that I had run off and joined a progressive commune in Vermont left over from those hippie-wannabe days of yore. [Read more] “far out, man, just “tell it like it was””
I STUMBLED AROUND the Internet looking for the name of the artist who did the poster for the 1968 movie The Green Berets. I found the Dangerous Minds website which not only identified the artist as Frank McCarthy, but had an entire page devoted to his art: “The Kick-Ass Poster Art Of Frank McCarthy” by Paul Gallagher includes four dozen pieces of art by McCarthy! [Read more] “frank mccarthy and the art of the movie poster”
WHEN THE SINGLE The Ballad Of The Green Berets was released in January 1966, I was 14-years-old (“one hundred men will test today”). Being a good, patriotic American lad, I went out and bought it on the same trip to the record store that I picked up the Byrds’ latest record, Set You Free This Time / It Won’t Be Wrong (“but only three win the green beret”). [Read more] “john wayne and “the green berets” as pentagon propaganda”
OPEN CULTURE bills itself as “the best free cultural and educational media on the web.” They have recently published two pages where artist Todd Alcott uses his computer and his love for old magazines and paperbacks to create “new’ cover designs that look like old magazines and paperbacks. [Read more] “todd alcott’s repurposed quotes and old images *”
AUSTIN IS NOTORIOUS among Texas cities for being so damn liberal. This state of affairs has baffled many people over the years and one of them asked this question on Quora: “What caused Austin, TX to be more liberal than the rest of Texas?” The common-sense answer is the influx of educated students at the University of Texas in Austin. [Read more] “the true story of how austin became the liberal hotspot of texas *”
THE ROUND PLACE IN THE MIDDLE is a website devoted to several topics, one of which is movies—mostly older movies. Blog host/chief-cook-and-bottle-washer John Ross seems to love every kind of movie ever made and writes eloquently and enthusiastically about them. His articles and reviews regularly have me borrowing DVDs from the library. [Read more] “we all had a crush on janet munro and hayley mills”
ON JANUARY 29, 1966, one of the strangest hit records in popular music made its debut on the Cash Box Top 100 chart. It was a simple, folk-like song that sounded like it should have been played over the closing credits of a movie, not played round-the-clock on Top 40 radio stations across the country. [Read more] “ssgt barry sadler and the ballad of the green berets (plus a few dominoes)”
SELECTING TEN NOVELS that sum up the era we refer to as “the Sixties” would be a task worthy of a minor Greek demi-deity. And by the Sixties, I am referring to the whole peace-love-do-your-own-thing counterculture: pot and acid and consciousness expansion and free love—lots and lots of free love—and rock & roll and Zap Comix and you know the rest. [Read more] “is the novel catch-22 representative of the sixties?”
THE ECOLOGY SYMBOL has been with us so long that it looks and feels rather ancient. That it resembles the Greek letter theta, which has been around for thousands of years, certainly helps with its look of antiquity. In fact, it is less than fifty years old, another piece of today that originated with the hippie-counterculture movement of The Sixties. [Read more] “ron cobb and the designing of the ecology symbol”
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