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4:20 4/20 2024

April 20, 2024 – 3:20 am

Police and parents demonized Marijuana during my youth. Reefer smokers were condemned by the courts. John Sinclair, the MC5 radical, was sentenced to ten years of prison for the crime of ‘giving’ an undercover agent two joints. The severity of his punishment did not deter the millions of marijuana smokers of the 60s from becoming […]

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12/7/1960

December 7, 2023 – 1:01 am

Seventy-SIX years ago Japanese aircraft attacked the US Pacific Fleet. Nearly every capital ship in Pearl Harbor was sunk of severely damaged by bombs or torpedoes and the Pacific Ocean became a Japanese lake until Midway. The next day President Roosevelt declared before Congress, “December 7th shall live forever as a day of infamy.” This […]

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Missile Away

November 21, 2023 – 8:29 pm

Having returned to my split-level house from Our Lady of the Foothills, I tore off my Catholic school uniform and dressed in a tee-shirt and jeans. My mother was in the laundry room. My brothers and sisters were watching WHERE THE ACTION IS on the TV. It was too nice a day for the lip-synching […]

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Pumpkin Stand Bowling 1962

November 5, 2023 – 4:06 pm

The Blue Hills 1962 Route 28 ran through the Hills From Chatham On Cape Cod To Manchester New Hampshire. The four laner contracted to two Through the Blue Hills South of Boston. It broadened again after the lights at Chicktawbut Road, The Blue Hills 1962 Route 28 ran through the Hills From Chatham On Cape […]

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Danger Mr. Smith

October 31, 2023 – 8:38 am

The 1960s Space Race between the USSR and USA exterminated young boys’ worship of westerns. Cowboy hats, vests, guns, and holsters were retired to the closet next to toy boats and teddy bears. I pleaded with my parents for an astronaut costume for Halloween and my father answered my dream with a gleaming space suit […]

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