Supremes pose 1967 DFM 1500

a look at 101 swinging chicks of the swinging ’60s

AT CHRISTMAS A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO, I met my sister’s boyfriend Mark, who was two gen­er­a­tions younger than I was. Not un­der­standing what his tastes in any­thing were ex­cept that he liked good-looking women, my present to him was a book, Swingin’ Chicks Of The ’60s. It’s a col­lec­tion of photos and bi­ographies of 101 women fa­mous for their beauty decades ago. [Read more] “a look at 101 swinging chicks of the swinging ’60s”

Medium IMAGE 1969 Apollo11 Aldrin 1500 aqua

far out, man, just “tell it like it was”

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””

13thFloorElevators LaMaisons 1966 1500

the true story of how austin became the liberal hotspot of texas *

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 *”