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
Friday, April 18, 2025
Good Friday
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Dial a Demonstration
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Are they on pot, alcohol or sober?
Thursday, February 27, 2025
So now i"m eating duck eggs

This year many things we have believed to be true are now turned around. Canada, Mexico, and Europe used to be our friends but now are our enemies. Russia, Hungary, Argentina and Belarus are our friends now. I am checking Lonely Planet on guides to Belarus. Guess you have to keep up with the times.
Saturday, February 15, 2025
the New Yorker
Saturday, January 25, 2025
The Required Minimum Distribution
There are many milestones one has as one gets older. They include retirement, children's weddings and graduations, as well as the death of one's friends. Of course, there is signing up for Social Security and Medicare. Many of us don't realize that there is another milestone awaiting the senior. This kicks in on the year you turn 73. If you have a traditional IRA, that is when you have to start paying your accumulated taxes on the IRA. It is a simple proceeding really; the morbid part is when you have to look at the table that tells you when you are likely to leave this earth, at least according to the IRS.
Looking at my number I thought "How much money and worrying I do about my health. Going to the doctor when he tells me, and doing all the procedures when, no matter what I do, the age of my demise has already been spelled out by Uncle Sam."
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Memories of a cold January in 1961
Here is an old blog I wrote about the election of 1960, On Inauguration Day we were off because of a snowstorm in New Jersey, I can still remember seeing Eisenhower and Nixon in top hats. It was a joyous day for Democrats. Tomorrow feels like embarking on a storm filled Interstate in order to get home on time for work the next day. You check your tires, put on your warmest coat and hope for the best.
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Drinking age in America