(1412) Afternoon all. (1459)

 

20. Uh huh

19. It was Them all along

Obviously Putin’s no angel, he’s done many questionable things, even in the conduct of the war, but threaten Russia from next door … what does anyone with a brain expect? Would be the same with any major country.

18. Reform

17. If I’m still dwelling on the last post

… then it was because I was close to the scene for some time … though not in north LA. In the late 80s, I was finally in north LA, Hollywood, beyond Hollywood, up in the hills but as the narrator says … by then it had all changed … a chic rich area, expensive homes. I saw some of those hotels featured in songs.

My understanding is that the hippy lot had moved over to Topanga Canyon, nearer the coast. This was in comments under the video:

Yes … the post Fri 16, to be sure, was written as an older man who has seen what’s what. However, in the early 70s, I had not seen and it was all going down. I’ve mentioned a forest weekend away and some drug crazed guy putting an axe through his foot. The Laurel Canyoneers tend to put the demise down to the drugs, what they do to left lib brains.

You see, without the left libs, there’d have been no “creatives”, no scene … you’d not get a lot of creativity in music and film with us lot at unherdables at our age today (please dispute that) … we’d get a civil, safe society, good for families. In our 20s, some of us were in the process of riding the snake … yes, it had some excitement, I grew up a bit in my 30s … a bit.