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"Compare my long-ass post to the most recent ep of Skins I've seen, the second season "Chris" ep. It's frequently laugh-out-loud funny. And it has very serious issues. But it works, because it's based on real-world issues of relevance to the central…"
"I had the chance a couple of years ago to read a few issues of Go-Go, another late-60s attempt to market hip in comic-book form. It blends Mad, A Hard Day's Night, Bunny, and a period teen magazine. A lot of its material had potential....
But, like…"
But, like…"
"Fine choice. Refreshing. Crisp. Aromatic. "
"It's International Literacy Day and, coincidentally, this year, the day most Canadian kids return to school. This cover presents a common attitude the comics had towards the hippies:
If you dressed like them or identified with them, you were…"
If you dressed like them or identified with them, you were…"
"Maybe this helps explain my perspective. Maybe it doesn't. Skins.
I ignored the show (2007-2013) when it was popular, though I heard a lot about it from my students. I decided recently to watch the first series or, the first two seasons. They…"
I ignored the show (2007-2013) when it was popular, though I heard a lot about it from my students. I decided recently to watch the first series or, the first two seasons. They…"
"Also the beats listened to folk and jazz and wore dark clothing. The hippies listened to folk and psychedelic rock and wore bright colours. But even Kerouac (who soured on the hippies) considered one to be a development from the other."
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Light reading."
Light reading."
"The blank, eyeless stare is undercut by the fact that, historically, that's what happens to your eyes anyway when you put on a mask in a comic book."
" Traveling to recognizable places from the hippie counterculture is clearly this hitchhiker's bag, though he's crossed over with a different in-group on this particular day.
Also, it's Labour Day! This one is a novel and doesn't fit the theme, but…"
Also, it's Labour Day! This one is a novel and doesn't fit the theme, but…"
"I almost said that, but then I gave them the benefit of the doubt, and thought, maybe she's still getting on, especially as her ex can clearly hear her."
"Bikers! Though I hope your last spin of the summer is not as rough as this cover implies."
"Well, it's a fan trailer, but I'd watch that over the most recent incarnation of the show."
" Harvey did two issues of Pop Comics. The second, Rock Happening (1969), features their 60s gal Bunny Ball and her cast in an adventure with several fabricated but familiar pop bands: The Beagles, The Soular System, and the Marmalade Mirage. I read…"
"Barb Lein-Cooper discusses that in one of the info bits at the back of the collection."
Comments
Thanks for the info about Phantom of the Opera. I'll propose this to our music minister and see what he says!
Hi !!!!!!!!!!! :-)
Hello! I hadn't relaized that you were the same person who had done the other timeline. That's cool.
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