Californian Sensibility

Steven mcquaryq at comcast.net
Wed Aug 23 20:18:17 CDT 2006


	Another outsider's take on the Haight/Ashbury scene, esp. that  
'summer of love', is the comic artist R. Crumb, whose misanthropic  
sensibility has scraped most of the soft mossy dreck away from the  
'official' mythology.

	Steve


On Aug 23, 2006, at 8:28 AM, John Carvill wrote:

>  The title
> essay of Slouching Towards Bethlehem was actually written in 1967, and
> dissects the ascendant hippy scene in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury
> area with a mixture of wry observation and mounting unease. 'I didn't
> see a lot of peace and love on the Haight in the so-called summer of
> love,' she says now. 'It seemed like every kid I talked to there was
> desperately unhappy.'

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