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Shirley MacLaine to Torment the Dowager Countess on Downton

2 hours ago

January 30, 2012

there goes my unofficial Downton Abbey boycott (via lindsayb)

I’m a huge fan of the Yippies in general and Abbie Hoffman in particular, but you can’t ignore the fact that he made a name for himself by ripping off the Diggers and routinely dry snitching on the counterculture. Here’s Peter Coyote in Sleeping Where I Fall:

The deeper implications of anonymity were lost on Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, both of whom came to investigate our activities in 1966. Abbie returned to New York and published a book (for sale) called Free, which catalogued every free service in the city of New York that supported truly needy people; these services were immediately swamped by an influx of suburban kids into the Lower East Side. He plastered his own name and picture on the book, thus advertising himself as a “leader” of the free counterculture. While egocentricity may be as authentic as anything else, performing under its influence does not represent a new form of any kind, and we criticized Abbie for confusing the issue.

I always suspected Abbie Hoffman was this kind of asshole, but it’s nice to have a firsthand recollection as a citation.

6 hours ago

January 30, 2012

counterculture also fuck the 1960s

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andrewtsks:

standingbyyoursisterfair:

clintisiceman:

thedailywhat:

Photo of the Day: The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart (then Jon Leibowitz) as a young College of William & Mary student moshing at a Dead Kennedys show at Casablanca in Richmond, VA, c. 1982.

Photo by Irish Willis Peele.

[gawker.]

Yeah, basically my favorite photo.

brings a smile to my face.

Having done a LOT of research on this era of Richmond hardcore (here’s why) I can tell you that the person being identified as Jon Stewart here is almost certainly Alford Faulkner of Red Cross/The Prevaricators (thanks to a bunch of RVA punks who’ve been around longer than me for helping me figure this out). Of the three guys in front of him with their arms around each other’s shoulders, the one in the center is Cliff Farrar and the one on the right is Pen Rollings of Honor Role/Breadwinner/Butterglove.

For my Richmond peeps, Casablanca was at the corner of Broad and Laurel, and occupied the space now occupied by Empire and the empty storefront next to Empire.