07/18/2024

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San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair), Scott McKenzie (05/13/1967)

This week's theme: The Summer of Love (1967)

Groovy, man, groovy! I can dig it! Far out!

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Wow, man, this place is crazy!
I just got here a couple of weeks ago and have been dropping acid ever since!
I've been so out of it, I even thought Gov. Reagan was president for a while.
(I sure liked him in "Bedtime for Bonzo").
And later that some black guy named Obama, or something, was president!
Unreal! Imagine - a black guy as president!
And instead of people talking to each other like normal human beings,
everybody was walking around using these little walkie-talkie gizmos!
Kind of like in that the movie "The President's Analyst"!
How crazy is that!
Anyway ... 
Wait, .. What? ... 2024?
No man, it's 1967 - like I said, I just got here a couple of weeks ago.
Really, ... it's 2024?
You mean I've been trippin' steady on acid for over 50 years!
Guess that explains my gray hair.
I always thought that was just a side affect of all the drugs.
(I guess in a way it is.)
Oh, well. 
Has anything important or interesting happened since then? 
How do I get back to 1967? I think I left the water running. 
Hey, it's not too late for me to register for the draft is it? 
I think I might have missed that. Is that a problem? 

By the way, man, can you spare some change? 

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DISCLAIMER!
I want to be perfectly clear 
I was NEVER in Haight-Ashbury in 1967. 
and 
I have NEVER taken Hallucinogenic drugs in my entire life.

<-or->

I did those things and I just can't remember them (!!!)
After all, you know what they say, 
"If you can remember the 1960s, you weren't really there".

Wait, ... I wasn't at Woodstock either, was I?
No, I don't think so.
Did it rain a lot there?
Where is Woodstock exactly.

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Summer of Love
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Love

Counterculture of the 1960s
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s

Peace symbol
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_symbols#Peace_symbol

San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_(Be_Sure_to_Wear_Flowers_in_Your_Hair)

The President's Analyst (movie)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_President%27s_Analyst

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Unfortunately, on the flip side of reality:
Long, hot summer of 1967
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long,_hot_summer_of_1967
"The long, hot summer of 1967 refers to the more than 150 race riots that erupted across major cities in the United States during the summer of 1967."

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Stay Jazzed, man!
And keep the faith, baby!
Groovy! Far out!
How do they make the keyboard sparkle and bend like that?
--Tom Swezey







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Incense And Peppermints, Strawberry Alarm Clock (1967)

Incense and Peppermints
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense_and_Peppermints

Strawberry Alarm Clock
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Alarm_Clock

Strawberry Alarm Clock
https://strawberryalarmclock.com/






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Good Vibrations, The Beach Boys (1966)

Good Vibrations
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Vibrations
"The song served as an anthem for the counterculture of the 1960s."

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I found I had to listen to this song 3 or 4 times before "I got it".
There's a lot going on in it that's not aparent the first time through.
It's kind of like one of those optical illusions where you 
see it - but you don't really see it - at least not at first.
Just a feeling, not sure how to explain it better than that :-)
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Checkout my:
Psychic Hippie Advisor (Web Page Version) 
He's so far out - he's back in again! 
http://winternet.com/~swezeyt/fun/hippie.htm 
Just ask him any yes or no question 
- then press the button to get his advice.

As a friend you can have my fancier 
Psychic Hippie Advisor - (Android App) 
for free. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9W8XD_33ak

I was hoping that would be the next "pet rock" 
and make me rich beyond my wildest dreams 
but nothing ever happened :-) 
So please, just have it for free if you want it. 
(I don't want money from friends :-) 

"My advice is free - expenses start if you follow it!" 

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