Since the incident occurred in the sixties I have put my episode of having green ears to my Sixties blog.
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Sunday, July 6, 2025
Making lemonade out of lemons or in this case, wines
I just read this article about how vineyards in Oregon are taking grapes that absorbed the smoke from the recent fires and making them into smoky wines. Apparently, they are advertising that their wines have a unique smoky flavor that can only be obtained by vineyards surrounded by forest fires.
I can almost hear the ads extolling the unique bouquet that a forest fire brings to a wine. "Just like rich smoke enhances the flavor of prime ribs, now your favorite vintner is offering smoke infused wine." Making lemonade out of lemons.
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Netflix comes to New Jersey
Twenty years ago, when I was a librarian, I was involved in finding information on the recently vacated Fort Monmouth which eventually led to this publication. Now I see that Netflix is planning on turning the land into a 21st century studio lot with multiple sound stages.
It should be interesting. Movie stars spending their off time at the Freehold Mall or even walking on the boardwalks of Asbury Park. Celebrities sipping tea in Long Branch, Perhaps Megan will be on hand hawking tea and jams.
Editor's note: I'm getting a lot of views from Brazil. Since the blog is not in Portuguese this is a bit of a mystery to me. Brazil viewers leave me a comment.
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Pizza tracker
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Happy Birthday Wavy Gravy
Wavy Gravy was one of the great counter culture heroes of the sixties. He fed the hungry at Woodstock and ran the Hog Farm commune in California. I first discovered him one Saturday when I told my parents I was going to marching band for a football game. Instead of going to the game I took a bus to New York then a subway to the Village. I walked around Washington Square Park then walked on East 8th Street and went to a book store. There I bought Demian by Hermann Hesse and a copy of the Realist. In the Realist I read a long article by Hugh Romney about the Hog Farm.
Here are links to the article on the Hog Farm 2nd page of article, third page of article, last page of article,
Truthfully, I did not move to the Hog Farm. Instead I went to Rutgers College and Library School. I never even went to Woodstock.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
America pre and post I Want to Hold Your Hand
America before I Want to Hold Your Hand;
Children respected the opinions of their parents.
Parents controlled the living room television.
Young people were well groomed. No beards outside of Greenwich Village.
Black people kept to their own neighborhoods or lived in the South.
Mexicans lived in Mexico except when they were needed to pick crops.
Women took care of the children but did not have to work outside the home.
Gays were forbidden from teaching in schools.
No Black History Month.
No Women's History Month.
No Cinco de Mayo in the United States.
No such thing as trans rights.
Gasoline, coffee and eggs were cheap.
Secretaries made coffee for the men in the office.
Now with our new administration we are going back to those years before the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show. Everything that happened after that time will be gone, forgotten. We'll go back to the halcyon days prior to 1964. Men will have to start wearing ties again. Women will have to start wearing skirts again. The one exception is that women will have to take care of the children except now they will still have to work outside of the home.
Monday, April 21, 2025
But honey, I haven't been to a demonstration in years