Call me a silly goose, but I remember watching the news when I was a kid growing up in Detroit, and seeing recalcitrant, soap-dodging Marxist hippies becoming intimately acquainted with the business end of the policemen’s billy clubs, thus compelling them to rethink their “rebellious” plans for the evening. Hilarity ensued. My, how things have changed.
For starters, the “rebellious” beatniks have changed drastically. The male hippies of the 1960s no longer look like a hirsute Expedia troll, à la George Harrison on his iconic LP, “All Things Must Pass.”
FACT-O-RAMA! For you youngins, LP stands for “long play,” meaning a full-sized record album to be played on a hifi at a speed of 33 1/3 rotations per minute (RPM). LPs usually contained roughly ten songs, compared to a “45,” which was a smaller record that typically contained one song per side and was played at a speed of 45 rpm. “EPs” were “extended play” records that usually contained four songs, and thus were somewhere between a 45 and an LP.
Today’s apparatchiks, whether male, female, or otherwise, have become nothing more than a collection of purple-haired brats who, unlike their counterculture…
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