Category Archives: 60s

My First Film SHICHININ NO SAMURAI

June 23, 2020 – 2:46 pm

My grandmother lived in an old farmhouse in Westbrook Maine. She had served with the Royal Canadian Medical Expedition in the Great War. My grandfather had been a doctor for the allies in France. Mementoes of their meeting in 1916 were scattered throughout the house. Zeppelin debris was stashed in the desk drawers. Helmets, bayonets, […]

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AX IN HAND by Peter Nolan Smith

June 10, 2020 – 4:55 pm

My mother had spent her honeymoon on Bermuda. Every winter my parents had vacationed in the Caribbean and each July my father rented a Harwichport cottage for a week. My mother loved the ocean. On summer weekends they loaded his six children into the Ford Station wagon for a drive to the beach. Massachusetts had […]

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REVOLUTION versus CALIFORNIA UBER ALLES

June 2, 2020 – 10:24 am

REVOLUTION by the Beatles versus CALIFORNIA UBER ALLES by the dead kennedys No contest.

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GUNS GUNS GUNS by Peter Nolan Smith

February 15, 2020 – 2:30 pm

American boys loved guns in the 50s. Plastic weapons lay gift-wrapped under the Christmas tree. Our movie heroes slaughtered the country’s enemies on the silver screen and tough cops performed gun ballets on prime time TV. Guns were good for the country and America was good to guns. Armed with air rifles my older brother, […]

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Paul McCartney Is A Fly

February 12, 2020 – 10:29 pm

The Beatles released ABBEY ROAD on 26 September 1969. The pop quartet’s eleventh LP was their last and featured such McCartney disasters as “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” and “Oh! Darling”, but was saved by Lennon, Ringo, and George. According Wikipedia shortly after the album’s release, the cover became part of the “Paul is dead” theory that […]

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