Sixties futility

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Allonby" <joeallonby at gmail.com>
To: "Richard Fiero" <rfiero at gmail.com>
Cc: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: Sixties futility


> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Robin Landseadel wrote:
>>>
> 
>>
>>> Showing up at junior high school with long hair in 1967 got me a lot
>>> of "hippie bum" and "are you a boy or a girl?" The shock of the new
>>> still was capable of un-nerving the straights back then.
>>
> 
> 
> Try walking into a convenience store in 1980 with blue hair. The
> open-minded longhairs suddenly became very straight and un-nerved.

Unless you're a little old lady.

P.