So there I was, just sitting around after going shopping. Some thought was annoying me, attempting to claw its way into my consciousness…wait! My wife had asked me to pick her up some graham crackers, and I just realized that those are the base ingrediENT in firecrackers! Now, back in the sixties and seventies, nobody cooked […]
Tag: sixties
Ask Old Hippie – How Has the Marijuana Culture Changed Since the Sixties?
This post is in response to a question put by the Ent xlamplighter in my /r/trees AMA, to wit: “Over your many years of smoking, can you describe the prevailing attitudes and culture surrounding cannabis and how you think they’ve changed over the decades? Also, lingo and phrases you might have heard over the years […]
How I First Heard The Yes Album
The year was 1971. I was going to a small liberal arts college in New York City. It was so small that we had only one drug dealer for the whole school! He was a pretty good guy, and one night me and a bunch of other fellows went down to his apartment in the […]
Ask Old Hippie: Tell Us About Your First Time
I was a freshman in high school. I had started hanging around with a “fast crowd”…the kind who listened to all the newest music, talked about forbidden things like sex, and had opinions that sounded like they really mattered. One day, the hippest kid in the school (the grandson of a famous radical political figure) […]