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  MICHAEL ALAN STIPEK October 21, 2010 at 7:26pm

  Maybe Tom subscribes to the practice: "Beatings will continue until morale improves." I think one of the good points of this whole AFI blog is that we all get to air our differences, as long as we don't call people names, but keep to the issues. And I thought this thread did show a lot of differences in peoples' thinking, with some thinking the artwork (remember, way back at the beginning, before people got sidetracked into moaning about the Good Ol' Days) was splendid, some thought it was contrived or unoriginal; some thought it didn't matter, because the money was worth it; some maybe thought they wouldn't sell out, at any price, etc.
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  Willie McTell October 20, 2010 at 5:22pm

  Mr. Tom, Are You One Of Those Reincarnation Guys?
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  Tom Steele October 20, 2010 at 4:48pm

  I can't get back to the discussion because I am not permitted. My comments might get me banned as apparently we are not permitted to discuss these things from ALL angles, only the angles that don't ruffle any feathers or are politically correct, because we're all one happy community here.
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  MICHAEL ALAN STIPEK October 20, 2010 at 1:47pm

  I forgot to mention: the rise of the Black Panther Party and the notoriety of the Black Muslims during this era really scared the poo out of a lot of White folks!
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  MICHAEL ALAN STIPEK October 20, 2010 at 12:21am

  BTW back then, when the word "pot" was used, everyone knew that that person either was 1) new to the scene, 2) a young Republican, or 3) a narc.
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  MICHAEL ALAN STIPEK October 20, 2010 at 12:18am

  Aaah, the smoke-filled rooms of Camelot, with sweet tales of yore and lore. It's nice to be able to claim hippy chops, but when Frank Zappa said "If you remembered the '60's, you weren't there," he really wasn't talking about memory loss, but about the people who laid claim to all of those happy, stoned images they saw on TV or in the movies. Lest we forget, there was Altamont, with the Rolling Stones; the '68 Democratic Convention riots in Chicago; the murders of John, Bobby, Martin, with the subsequent riots that burned parts of dozens of cities; reefer cut with PCP that destroyed a lot of minds and hearts; bad acid that burnt the cortexes of still yet more minds; the poverty of people living on bad food, poor sanitation, venereal disease - all in communes, whether in the cities or in the "bucolic" countryside; imitative art of swirling dervish posters; deafening music that showed the limitations of not knowing how to really play any kind of instrument; straights with short hair beating up anyone with long hair (though now those cowboys, if they have hair, wear it long); the draft; Vietnam, with many of my friends, if they came back, addicted to the drugs of that country; protest marches with police whacking the marchers with batons and tear gas; the tapping of phones and arrests without warrants by the FBI of people who led those marches; the list goes on. That was the reality as much as the warm, fuzzy memories were.
  So let's get back to the art theme that this whole thread started with about 140 comments ago! Or should we just end this thing now and go onto something else that hasn't spun out of control?
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  Tina Cloud October 19, 2010 at 1:45pm

  Ahh, I miss Stockley - unless there's a nor'easter that floods the park.
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  Tina Cloud October 19, 2010 at 12:42pm

  Poor Mrs. Sadler would be sad to see the missing "e" on the end of Chesapeake. I know several kids that recently went to Chittum, and I think it has been invaded by dragging and crack jeans disease. So sad.
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  Connie Mettler October 19, 2010 at 10:22am

  No, I believe it was Sister Trinita at St. Jude's School in Fort Wayne, IN, who made the rules. Spelling is important, most of the time (sorry, Sister).
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  Willie McTell October 18, 2010 at 11:22pm

  u r livin n the last century. they have texting now.