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Posted May. 22, 2007,
Summer of Love: Believe the Hype
By David Hershkovits
There's much ado being made about the Summer of Love, that glorious time in 1967 when anyone on the East Coast who smoked pot, opposed the Vietnam War, believed in free speech and free love, let their hair grow long, listened to rock music, believed in black liberation and wanted to have a good time looked west to San Francisco where the hippies of Haight Ashbury had created a youth culture utopia on the wings of LSD. As the media looks back on the 40th anniversary of that miracle moment, it's quick to remind us that it was not all love all the time that summer, as the meth-using street people came in to kill the buzz.
But for kids like myself living in New York and reading about it in the Village Voice and Time, it didn't much matter. It was still the experience of a lifetime, a defining moment that launched me into a world of possibility and magic. Sure there were bad trips, bad drugs and bad people but the vibes, man, the vibes. You had to be there! The San Francisco Chronicle is running a series of articles interviewing some of the people who were around then including Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, one-time digger now actor Peter Coyote, writer Paul Krassner, Steve Wozniak and many, many others. So don't believe the anti-hype.
Posted Apr. 20, 2007,
Happy 4-20
By David Hershkovits
In case you hadn't noticed, we have. Today marks the harmonic convergence of month and date with the universal daily call to smoke up at the appointed time. In other words, today at 4:20 o'clock on the date 4-20-2007 there will be an even more massive smoke in than occurs daily at this time. As added inspiration, I include a sample from Build This Bong: Instructions and Diagrams for 40 Bongs, Pipes and Hookahs with text and illustration by Randy Stratton.