TSI: "The kids...not a patch on the kids of the '80's"

[ish mailian]

Grover is a smart one, but the members of his whole sick crew seem none to
bright. Tim, for example, invites the African American bass player,  Mr.
McAfee to join the boys in pool hopping in the rich neighborhoods, and when
McAfee tells the white boy  that if he were caught his color would get him
murdered, Tim argues through McAfee's anger and fear by telling Mr. McAfee
 that his dark complexion will protect him, since he's Black and they pool
hop at night.

The magic of the counterculture, though powerful stuff,  is never as easy
to coordinate as the Sorcerer's apprentices imagine it will be.

The kids of the '60's, though greater in number, are no match for the kids
of Reagan's '80's who counter the counter culture and don't even need magic
to do it.

But today, MLK day, I am more optimistic.  I won't be fooled again, but as
I sat through a couple-few MLK films today, watched Selma again jist
because, and listened to some moving music, thumbed through that book on
Thomas Pynchon and the Counterculture, I got to thinking that Pynchon is
perfectly honest in that SL Introduction cause most of the tales are deeply
flawed, but TSI, today anywayz, is a Dream
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