CoL49 (5) Two or Three Things About Her

[Michael Bailey]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:00 PM, <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
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> Say what?
>
>> In many states, laws placed stringent limits on breast size and penis length-- freedoms that, today, we take
>> almost for granted.

the whole piece is a well-executed spoof of the sort of readymade
backward glance one saw all thru the 70s, sort of a collage of
woolly-minded summings up...(which used to exasperate me, since imho
what was real about the 60s is just as real now, and it wasn't any
easier to find the genuine article then than it is now)
(but anyway)

Noticed the dateline on Monte's quotation is 1983.  By then everybody
had read a whole bunch of reminiscences lamenting and writing off the
spirit of the 60s.  I wouldn't be surprised if somebody  wrote such a
piece in earnest the day after Woodstock, and I know I read a bunch of
them after Altamont.  And of course Hunter Thompson (RIP) was a major
contributor to the genre.

The misapplied Dylan quote was a nice touch.  People were always doing
that back then (egad, I've fallen into reminiscence mode myself), in
fact the Weatherman chose a misapplied Dylan quote for their very
name: If it's true that "you don't need a Weatherman to know which way
the wind blows," then, yea verily, that makes them the people who
weren't needed.

Few people back then, and probably no Weathermen at all, were endowed
with funny-bones perceptive enough, though, to find the humor in
confusing John Heard with William Hurt (and possibly Mississippi John
Hurt) which I don't mind saying I've always been amused by too.



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