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The counterculture consisted mainly of white middle class college students. The most concentrated area of these people was located in Haight-Ashbury, in San Francisco, California – one of the only places whose laws on weed were extremely lax.  Read More »

I was having a go at short-story writing the other night when everything my life has led up to till now came into focus. The story was total crap, I'll admit, but somewhere along the way my strong, sardonic protagonist found himself emotionally unstable. After reading it today for the first time I realized that I wasn't writing a story. I was expressing my deepest fears of losing myself.  Read More »

In the past I’ve taken issue with the Baby Boomers for a number of reasons: for giving up after Vietnam, for falling for Reaganism, for Kenny G. Lately, though, I find myself having more empathy for the Selfish Generation. For all the mistakes they made in adulthood, they gave a lot in college.  Read More »

"I am hatred, I am love, I am the people."

Are we in the midst of another zeitgeist? The Smashing Pumpkins recently came out with a CD titled Zeitgeist. The definition of zeitgeist according to Webster's is, the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era.  Read More »