First of all I would like to  Mention what looks like a great opening of an Art Gallery Bar In Ivanhoe Village —

THIS SATURDAY 7/29 AT LOUD GALLERY…with art works, live music, a best shoe contest and live models….WOW

Check it out at their site–check the “Soft Opening” box on the right side to give you some idea what the 29th has to offer and since they were doing some major work on the site I anticipate you’re in for ever bigger and better:

Loud Gallery

                                               and thanks for the sneak preview for me and           my blog including a  view of the Stand Tall Show being set up—which I have not included in my pictures since my theory is—you want to see it—go to Loud  on the 29th and get your own personal look —

We’re finally on our own.

And a BIG THANKS to Rock ‘N Roll Heaven also in Ivanhoe Village on N. Orange for the main picture and my ones of records, and goods from the 60’s on this Blog—This huge record store has years and years of records to CDs as well as posters and all manner of other collectibles.  If you’re looking for something to do with Rock and Roll—check here first.

This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

Just click here for the song of the day.

So today we’ll look at some of the peoples and organizations that make up the interaction, activities, dramas and even deaths of that troubled yet tremendous time.

First there were the men who put us there….neither guiltless in the war, but neither a villain—important men that were governed by history and tradition as much as they themselves governed.  A famous army general who was the commander and chief of War War II Dwight D. Eisenhower and a wealthy Senator from Mass–the first Catholic president of the USA, John F. Kennedy.  They were the men who given the horrid fear we had of the Communists both in Europe and the newer growing threat in the Orient ,  along with their possession of that ultimate weapon we created but found we could not keep to ourselves;  coud not fail to act with if not fear then with at least extreme caution.  One passed the presidency along after the defeat of his party to another president—the second would die in office, a young president shot down in a Texas town in the prime of his life.

The Texan who took over on Kennedy’s death of course was Lyndon B Johnson–or more commonly referred to as LBJ (just like Eisenhower was Ike and Kennedy JFK),  Born in 1937 in the Texas town of Stonewall, he started as a high school teacher and went on eventually to the Senate and then VP—when Kennedy was killed he became of course president.  The man and his Democratic party had the potential for good and his Great Society did much for civil right law changes as well as Medicare and Medicade not to mention his war on poverty—but the man who was elected in 1964 by a landslide on a platform to de-escalate the war effort–would at no time allow that promise to have affected his escalation of the conflict in Nam.  The record speaks for itself with 16,000 advisors on the ground in non-combat roles in 1963 to 525,000 active combatants (i.e. troops) by 1967.   He became a major point of anti-war protestors and in fact he announced in 1968 that he would not run for re-election and his party went on to loose the presidency to the Republicans.  LBJ went on to lament his loss of his Great Society by his involvement with the war, but not for long as he died in 1973 at his Texas home.

The Republican’s Richard Nixon (not so lovingly referred to as Tricky Dick) had lost the presidency to John Kennedy, many thought due to his poor showing against the TV camera’s “love” of Kennedy.  Those of us who were anti-war didn’t like him any better than we had liked Johnson—they all had become part of the ESTABLISHMENT—the Them in the us against them…..that many of the youth of American perceived the world to have broiled down to.  Many remind us that he did get us out of the war….But he again, like Johnson, advising of a plan to end the war in his campaign he went on to preside over as many years as his predicessor , with about 1/3 of the total causalities of US combatants in the entire conflict, being attributed to his presidency—the reason for the reduction was his putting Viet soldiers on the battle lines instead of American troops, not from de-escalation– and he eventually extended the war into Cambodia before we finally signed a treaty and withdrew our troops in 1973 allowing the fall of the South despite all the years we had fought to prevent just that.  Nixon would go on to the Watergate Scandal and became the first president to resign (he was facing an impeachment hearing) in 1974, pardoned by his successor Gerald Ford he survived 20 years more before passing on in 1994.

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down

BETTY FRIEDAN was one of the women who stepped forward in the 1960’s  to push for women rights.  We were in a generation, the first, when women who were no longer held to the reproductive norm–the pill had given us freedom and now we started looking around.  The  woman who authored THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE was in 1966 drafted by a group of women, who were tired of being put off by the government, as the first president of the  National Organization of Women (NOW).  The organization began with lobbies against labor laws that prevented women from working in certain jobs and ads that limited job applicants by gender.   In the 70’s she left NOW to lead Women’s Strikes for Equality .  She passed away in Washington DC in 2006.

Abbie Hoffman was to me totally irritating and terribly self-centered—but he made his point and became a bigger than life activist for peace and a poster child for the movement.  In 1968 he co-founded the Youth International Party (Yippies) against the Viet Nam War as well as the U.S. economic and political system.  He spent the rest of the 60’s protesting, interrupting first Pete Townsend of the Who in performance at Woodstock (he was high on LSD and Townsend and the Who would reference this in a later song decrying what the movement had become);  then the Democratic Convention in Chicago, which further made his recognition soar when he stood trial as the best known member of the Chicago 7–after this he went on to a notorious drug deal (coke) then bail jumping, a complete redo of his face with plastic surgery and paper identity with a new name.  but never content to stay under the radar he resurfaced and did a short time in jail.  In the 80s he sank from sight and worked as an environmental activist  before he left the fray forever in 1989,

Martin Luther King has been mentioned frequently in my accounts.  Rev. King was a Black, Baptist and Civil Rights activist who worked peacefully for his people’s rights starting in the 50s.  Dr. King, who was the son and grandson of Baptist ministers,  was born in Atlanta, Ga in 1929.     In the 60’s he continued to  work all over the country from Alabama against extreme segregation practices to DC where he marched for peace and told the world “I Have A Dream.”  And places further north like Chicago for issues on segregated housing.  In 1964, Dr. King  who worked tirelessly for his people and had been jailed and decried at various demonstrations, won the Nobel Prize for Peace.  Dr. King never saw the results of his work as he was assassinated in 1968 while in Memphis, Tenn.  on the balcony of his hotel where he was staying in preparation for a demonstration to support striking garbage workers in that city.  Despite his death he has continued to be an icon for the movement and his story and image lives on in the hearts of those of us who have always believed in peace and love.

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.

What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

AND CAN’T FORGET  MY GUILTY PLEASURE

AND DUTY—OUTLANDER AND GETTING THROUGH

DROUGHTLANDER.

ONLY 43 MORE DAYS

THREE THEMES TO WATCH FOR IN SEASON 3: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-comic-con-2017-three-recurring-themes-to-watch-for-in-1500692067-htmlstory.html

Comic Con got to see Episode 1 of Season 3: http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/outlander-season-3-premiere-comic-con-sam-heughan-caitriona-balfe-1202502913/

and why they did that aired episode 1 at Comic Con: http://ew.com/tv/2017/07/24/outlander-why-starz-screened-premiere-at-comic-con/

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

So you’re back again and we’re still in the year of 1965–we have looked at civil rights movement (as well at the war and the world’s status) now we’re going to other areas of that time so long ago, when I was just getting myself together for my assault on life….that eventually brought me here to tell you what’s it all about!

And admit that the waters
Around you have grown

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          And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone

But not all marches were against the war as shown by the 25,000 pro-war  and LBJ supporters who marked in Washington led by five Congressional Medial of Honor winners supporting the president, the war and patriotism.

It was in 1965 that Draft Card burning first became a common protest against the war and the first arrest is made of a burner was made in New York City at the Catholic Worker’s Movement in Manhattan.

And non-violence reached a new level when a Quaker protesting the War at the Pentagon set himself on fire followed by a Catholic Worker’s Movement Member outside the UN in Mahattan in New York.

If your time to you is worth saving
Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’

Now don’t get me wrong—there were positive things—-we are a big country and many of us never lost anyone in the war—and there was no fighting in the US—except for the crazy potestors and our own general crime issues—-so pretty much (mostly) it was business as usual.

The Space program continue to progress with Gemini 2 being launched on a substantial test of space craft systems and a month later Ranger 8 crashed on the moon and then Ranger 9 marked the last unmanned probe.  By the end of the year Edward White had taken the frst space walk and Gemini 5 was launched.

On Broadway The Sound of Music is born and on closer home Playboy’s pages presented us with its first African American Playboy Playmate.  My Fair Lady wins 9 Oscars including Best Picture and Actor Rex Harrison–but Mary Poppins, which won 5 awards, got the Best Actress Award for Julie Andrews and that’s  a chem, chem my dears.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen

In New York they reopen The World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows…while Bob Dylan (to the dismay of many fans) goes electric and  releases Highway 51 Revisited and what some considers the greatest musical of all time The Man of La Mancha debutes..

Meanwhile in  San Francisco a group that would eventually aspire to the stars becomes an airplane–The Jefferson Airplane.  The British, in the form of the Beatles, returned to the US playing in Shea Stadium but while Shea witnessed hits  another stadium witnessed none as Sandy Kaufax pitched a perfect game..but not as perfect as Yankee Stadium where the Pope (Paul VI) gave mass.

And we lost the title of world’s largest city (NYC) to Japan (Toyko) but gained The Days of Our Lives an NBC soap as well as A Charlie Brown Christmas on CBS.   Both are amazingly still alive–one unchanged and one not—you figure it out.

And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again

This was the year that Mary Quant brought us the mini-shirt and the Grateful Dead premiered.

We watch an energetic  Tom Jones sing”What’s New Pussy Cat” and laughed at Cat Ballou, while we read Dune and fell in love with Dr. Zhivargo starring a Russian who was really Egyptian.

And medically the respirator replaced the Iron Lung

And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin

 But there were bad things beside the war and the Civil rights issues:  April was deadly with the Palm Sunday Tornadoes, when 47-51 (depending on your source) funnel clouds touched down in 6 states killing at least 256 and injuring 1,500 others .  In September Hurricane Betsy hit near New Orleans with 145 MPH winds and while there were no deaths there was $1.42 billion in damages which made it the first storm to cause a billion $ in damages.

And not all killers were natural–the killers featured in Capote’s In Cold Blood book were hanged in Kansas for killing 4 members of one family.

Meanwhile we got a new kind of disaster in November there was the Northeast Blackout affecting 7 states and part of Canada which were without electric for 13 1/2 hours.

And there’s no tellin’ who that it’ss namin’
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’

Have you seen the new trailer yet?  Check it out: http://www.ibtimes.com.au/outlander-season-3-new-trailer-break-down-1557160

and the latest on Season 4—yes 4: http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/outlander/264455/outlander-season-4-cast-release-date-plot

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call

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The battle outside ragin’
Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’

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Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agein’
Please get outta’ the new one if you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’

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Just click here for some 60’s tunes to tune into while you drop out to the day in the house of 64.

And when I look in my window
So many different people to be

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That it’s strange
So strange

The Civil Rights movement Continued on with Dr. King starting the year registering voters in the south while Federal Courts in Mississippi indicted 18 for violating civil rights.

Not all of the issues were white against black as in the case of Malcolm X who was  killed by members of Elijah Mohammad’s Nation of Islam.

If you ever question the rights in this you only have to look at Selma, Alabama in which over 50% of the populations was black, but they only made up 1% of the voters.  It was the days of TV and  when King’s march for voter’s rights was attacked by state troopers with clubs and tear gas it made the evening news and then some.

You got to pick up every stitch
You got to pick up every stitch
You got to pick up every stitch

And suddenly the nation was on fire with protests for civil rights from California to Michigan, where the Governor, George Romney lead a parade of 10,000 and in Chicago where demonstrators blocked rush hour traffic….meanwhile back in Alabama in Selma additional protests were blocked and a white Unitarian minister,demonstrator is beaten into a coma and his trip to the hospital delayed.  He dies three days later and more demonstrations errupt

But the US was not the only place that blacks were abused and down trodden–in South Africa it is said that allowing the African native vote would result in domination by Witch doctors and the only way they can have a decent life is by allowing the white man to continue his rule.

And then LBJ summons George Wallace to the Capital while white men are arrested for demonstrators being murdered in Selma but the beating goes on now in Montgomery where the police attack another group of marchers.  And Johnson’s civil rights bill reaches congress.  and still all manner of other demonstrations being met with violence and resulting in many cases in death

Mmmm, must be the season of the witch
Must be the season of the witch, yeah
Must be the season of the witch

Then  a federal judge’s ruling allows Dr. King and 3,200 to march from Selma to Montgomery while on August 6 the Voting Rights Bill is past into law.

But if we thought that was going to help–5 days after the bill was signed Watts erupted into 7 days of riots which started with a traffic stop and just grew from there.  Eventually thousands of National Guardsmen were brought in to assist.   In the week of  confrontation 34 were killed, 1,100 injured, 4,000 arrested and $100 million dollars of damage was done.

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Son everyone was getting involved including The John Birch Society who claimed that American Negroes had no room to complain as they were better off than anywhere else in the world and accused the Civil Rights movement of being created by Communists.

When I look over my shoulder
What do you think I see?

And Johnson, not a new president, but the first time he was actually elected to the position was sworn in and introduced the country to his plans for the Great Society  after being sworn in.

When a Viet Cong raid in South Vietnam resulted in the death of 48 Americans LBJ ordered the bombing of the country to be increased. Many felt the Cong just saw us as right up there with the French who had ruled the country just a few years previous to this and invader and dictator but our government didn’t see it that way and LBJ also sent in 3,500 Marine in March, insisting that the fight was “to live in a world where every country can shape it’s own destiny.

By May the South had a new leader–the 10 th government in 20 months–and despite claims from our government that the country was stable and by July LBJ had increased the ground forces to 125,000 and raised the montly draft from 17,000 – 35,000.

Some other cat lookin’ over
His shoulder at me

When CBS’ Morley Safer covered US Marines burning down homes of Vietnam citizens Johnson accused him of being a Communist, but it turns out he was actually a Canadian.

On November the Battle of la Drang erupted between the US and North Vietnam forces…it was the first formal battle of the conflict–like Korea before it–it would never be a WAR and we declared it a win but many have questioned that.

What happened there, in the Ia Drang Valley, 17 miles from the nearest red-dirt road at Plei Me and 37 miles from the provincial capital of Pleiku,…Pentagon as they tallied the American losses… 234 men killed and more than 250 wounded…November 14-17, in two adjacent clearings dubbed Landing Zones X-ray and Albany. Another 71 Americans had been killed in earlier, smaller skirmishes that led up to the Ia Drang battles.     http://www.historynet.com/ia-drang-where-battlefield-losses-convinced-ho-giap-and-mcnamara-the-u-s-could-never-win.htm

And he’s strange
Sure is strange

Not that the rest of the world was in much better shape:  In Casablanca, Morocco students and workers against King Hassan II were attacked leaving 1,500 dead.  He would soon go on to suspend the constitution and assume all powers with the support of his military.

Johnson couldn’t resist using troops either and deployed 42,000 Marines to the Dominican Republic in defense of ousted President Juan Bosh and to protect U.S. citizens in the country against a supposed Communist take over.

There was a coup in Algeria and off the coast of China Chiang Kai-Shek tried to reclaim China loosing 2 of his naval vessels and 200 of his troops in the effort.

You got to pick up every stitch
You got to pick up every stitch, yeah

In Indonesia by late 1965 there is fragmentation and a war against perceived communist results from conflicts–generals are killed and ethic Chinese who are all perceived to be Communist.  By the end of the year the US ambassador claims that 400,000 have been killed, a figure not agreed with by other non-involved observers.

About the world the Muslim nations have joined the fray and vigilantes are murdering anyone they think are Communists including labor union members.  In Paris an internationally known Moroccan leftist in exile Medhi Ben Burke disappears, never to be seen again.

And our own Communist neighbor allows 3,000 – 4,000 Cubans to be air lifted by the US and relocated in the USA.

Beatniks are out to make it rich
Oh no, must be the season of the witch

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Sorry I can’t give it up

Learn a bit more about Bonnie Prince Charlie than you will on the show: http://observer.com/2017/06/vatican-loans-national-museums-scotland-bonnie-prince-charlie-jacobites-exhibition/

What to expect

http://www.ibtimes.com.au/outlander-season-3-ronald-moore-teases-what-expect-first-few-episodes-1555749

another complete guide:  http://www.inquisitr.com/4293855/outlander-season-3-your-complete-guide-to-the-spine-tingling-new-season/

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You got to pick up every stitch
Two rabbits runnin’ in the ditch
Beatniks out to make it rich

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Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars

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Was there ever a generation that believed so much and fell so far from that belief…..was there ever a time when we went from we can do anything and America the Beautiful to Better Red Than Dead….a generation that would rather drop out and drop Acid than fight anymore for a stop to the war….when we became the violence instead of the Peace—and went from Strawberry Fields to We Won’t be Fooled Again….but let me take you down thru the ages and today’s another of my background pieces on the Good, The Bad and the Ugly of the 1960s—basically starting at 1964 and ending at 1970.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE

Just click here to play the featured song while you read on

Please note the songs I have picked do not reflect the specific years I am reviewing but rather ones I feel best comment on the times.

Aquarius
Aquarius

 

 

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and my DOG OF THE DAY

or rather DOGS

As they were all hanging together along a street in

COCOA VILLAGE

last Saturday

Neurosurgeons scream for more

Want to listen to my featured song—just click here and then read on

Welcome to 1964—-the beginning of the end for the USA as we knew it–for better or worse it was coming and it was ushered in very interestingly by 4 young men with British accents and suits (Nero Jacket) with out lapels—and hair while conservative by latter examples–was revolutionary on it’s own….and “Get a hair cut” became a staple for the older generations and the not so hip younger around the world.

Jan Margolias called 1964 “The Last Innocent year.  It was the year Cassus Clay gave up his “slave” name and joined the Nation of Islam to become Mohammad Ali and he also became the Heavy Weight champion when he knocked out Sonny Liston.  Meanwhile activist Malcom X broke with–you guessed it–the Nation of Islam.

While Broadway gave us “Glorious” Carol Channing in HELLO DOLLY,  DR. STANGE LOVE with the always bizarre Peter Sellers taught us “how to stop worrying and love the bomb” (yes that bomb–obviously never far from the national consciousness) and Arnold Palmer showed us that an average, white man would still excel in sports by continuing to win at golf.

At paranoia’s poison door

The year started good for us younger generation with the Beatles arriving in the US and performing on 2 Ed Sullivan shows 1/9  & 1/16–all of it accompanied by screaming girls—it was not a phenom that I had seen before—in fact when Sullivan announced them—and there was some of those screams—though in a much lower level than usual–Ed admonished “You promised” as if that worked—but like I said they were much less screaming than the average appearance–on or off stage of the FAB FOUR  Handsome Paul, Quiet George, Crazy Ringo and Sarcastic John,

But thing showed no sign of improving elsewhere when in January there was a coup in Viet Nam with the military of that country overthrowing the government resulting in the country’s  3rd government in about that many months.

Oh and then there was the DUH factor–on January 11th the Surgeon General gave us a report stating that smoking was hazardous to the health….and several major magazines stop taking ads for Tabbaco products..we just shook our heads—hadn’t we been calling them cancer sticks most of our lives?

Twenty first century schizoid man

1964 gave us the 24th amendment which outlawed a poll taxes in several (5) southern states which was used to prevent voting by the black minority.

The African-American cause continued to progress and leaders Malcolm X, a black Muslim, met with Dr. King, a black Christian.  Malcolm also went on to found a Muslim Mosque which was a religious organization for Afro-American unity.  While King would be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in October.

By June of the year we had entered Freedom Summer, which was organized to increase voter registration and build a grass root party in Mississippi.  Soon (6/22) 3 of those working on this effort:  Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney disappeared.  Their bodies were found in August and 21 people were arrested and by 1967 7 –all  Klan Members were found guilty of conspiracy in their deaths.  But that wasn’t the end of it and justice ground slowly as we’ve seen before in these racial cases and it wasn’t till exactly 41 years (6/22/05) that Edgar Ray Kellens was convicted of murder for masterminding the killings.

But on 7/2 the Civil Rights Act Legislation was passed–one of those things the Johnson Administration got right–It outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or nationality.

Blood rack barbed wire

It was the year that we first saw the Ford Mustang—I liked them better then—too boxy now.  And we laid eyes on the Beatles’ first movie Hard Days Night in a epic that some compared to the Marc’s brothers—All we knew was we got to see them being funny for a much longer time than Sullivan had shown them playing.

The Best movie that year was TOM JONES while the best actor was Sidney Poitier (LILLIES OF THE FIELD)–with best actress Patricia Neal (Hud).  The Rolling Stones released their debut LP in the UK in April and we had it here by May.  It was the only Stone’s LP ever not to have placed in the top 5 in the US.

In August Disney gave us a movie that would give us a title for people that we didn’t think looked at things seriously–MARY POPPINS with Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke was released.  And for the more adult viewers there was the 3rd 007 still with Sean Connery.

Politicians’ funeral pyre

But it had so many other things happening like in March when an earthquake hit Alaska by a 9.2 magnitude earthquake (moment magnitude scale)and was the 2nd most powerful ever recorded. Resulting  in the death of 131 people:  119 of those died in tsunamis–the tallest tsunami wave height was 219 feet (67 m).  The damage totaled about $300 million in 1964 dollars (over $2.3 billion present value).  https://www.livescience.com/44412-1964-alaska-earthquake-facts.html

Papa Doc in Haiti expelled the Bishop and proclaimed himself Dictator for life.   While the Chinese debuted as a nuclear power when it tested its first atomic bomb in August.

Back here we had 2 days of race riots in Philadelphia.

Innocents raped with napalm fire

In August in the Gulf of Tomkin off the coast of North Viet Nam one of our ships was attacked by a North Viet Nam ship…a second attack was also reported but has since been determined to be fiction.  The item above label of 1965 is incorrect it should be 1964.  This happened 30 miles from Viet Nam, well into international waters.  The Congress totally into the war thing moved to let Johnson attack the country without a full declaration of war and the flood gates were open and the rush of troops and supplies would become seemingly endless after this.

This was also an election year–for as you might remember Johnson held the office having inherited it when Kennedy was assassinated and not by popular vote….I do not remember this election well, perhaps because I was not yet of age to vote—nor were the hundreds of American boy rapidly pushed to men that were being drafted at 18-20 years of age.  Interestingly enough Johnson ran on a stance of cutting back on the war’s current escalating course against Goldwater who ran as the Hawk candidate pushing to get in there and get this war done with.  Johnson won the election with 60% of the popular vote–many attribute to the hiring by the Democrats of a top 10 ad agency to help present their candidate and issues in the best possible light.  Johnson’s body count for the next 4 years of his presidency was to show just how insincere his campaign rhetoric really was.

And that  had set us up for 1965’s slaughter and the rise of the student protestor–free love, and no war campaigns.  But never fear–’64 did give us the introduction of Pop Tarts (Kellogg’s) to the Breakfast table and George Bush (Duh) to Yale

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Twenty first century schizoid man

Can’t you feel it in your bones—it’s getting closer every day

You can see them sooner in San Diego:  http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Starz-to-Bring-Hit-Series-OUTLANDER-to-Comic-Con-International-San-Diego-20170706

While your waiting check out the new theme: https://www.hofmag.com/outlander-season-3-theme-tune-2/221704

and check out this cute story while you’re spending your time:  http://us.blastingnews.com/showbiz-tv/2017/05/sam-heughan-caitriona-balfe-dating-outlander-season-3-couple-reveals-secrets-001734083.html

Death seed blind man’s greed

Poets’ starving children bleed

Nothing he’s got he really needs

Twenty first century schizoid man