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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Goofiness Central
News Flash:
For the past 50-60 years, Goofiness Central has been located in San Francisco (CA) and points north, up to the California-Oregon border.
In the 50s it was the Beatniks (google it yourself). Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Cassady, Ferlinghetti, City Lights Bookstore.
The sixties (as opposed to The 60s) continued the 50s and featured Carol Doda (again, google) and her 44s.
But...
The 60s (as opposed to 'the sixties') - which brought us Jefferson Airplane, Fillmore West, Haight-Ashburyl - live on as aging hippies and New Agers, all unencumbered by Reality, cling to the ways of their youth. The epicenter of this silliness is just across the Golden Gate from Baghdad-by-the-Bay (yup, google it) in lovely Marin County.
True story:
I was at a Little League (baseball) game in Marin in the late 80s (or maybe the earliest of the 90s). One kid stepped up to the plate. The crowd encouraged him: "Keep your eye on the ball!" "Wait for a good pitch!" "You can hit this guy!" All of the usual baseball stuff.
Then his mother stood up and yelled "Remember your mantra!"
I rest my case.
For the past 50-60 years, Goofiness Central has been located in San Francisco (CA) and points north, up to the California-Oregon border.
In the 50s it was the Beatniks (google it yourself). Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Cassady, Ferlinghetti, City Lights Bookstore.
The sixties (as opposed to The 60s) continued the 50s and featured Carol Doda (again, google) and her 44s.
But...
The 60s (as opposed to 'the sixties') - which brought us Jefferson Airplane, Fillmore West, Haight-Ashburyl - live on as aging hippies and New Agers, all unencumbered by Reality, cling to the ways of their youth. The epicenter of this silliness is just across the Golden Gate from Baghdad-by-the-Bay (yup, google it) in lovely Marin County.
True story:
I was at a Little League (baseball) game in Marin in the late 80s (or maybe the earliest of the 90s). One kid stepped up to the plate. The crowd encouraged him: "Keep your eye on the ball!" "Wait for a good pitch!" "You can hit this guy!" All of the usual baseball stuff.
Then his mother stood up and yelled "Remember your mantra!"
I rest my case.
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