Category Archives: 60s

Deaf Girl

My friend’s sister was deaf. I liked how Nancy danced funny to the beat that she could feel on her skin. One day she came back from deaf school taught by nuns. I asked her what was wrong. I couldn’t sign, but Nancy told me a horrible story. We went to the police. They said […]

Singapore Air NO NO

Back in the 1950s more adventurous western travelers to Singapore frequented Bugis Street to view the Pearl of the Orient’s notorious cavalcade of beautiful transvestites. The laissez-faire atmosphere of the sex entrepot was an affront to the city-state’s puritanical President and by the late 1980s Bugis Street had been sanitized of perversion and by the […]

ATLANTIS by Donovan

Atlantis has existed as a mythical lost continent long before the opening of the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. Plato wrote of an ancient sea kingdom dating back to 9500 BC doomed to sink under the ocean. Eurocentric historians have attempted to place the legendary island within the Mediterranean, however I favor the theory that […]

Texas We Love It

Janis Joplin came from Beaumont, Texas. She was an early bloomer and the U Texas campus newspaper wrote about her, “She goes barefooted when she feels like it, wears Levi’s to class because they’re more comfortable, and carries her Autoharp with her everywhere she goes so that in case she gets the urge to break […]

# 1 USA Song November 22, 1963

The # 1 song on the U.S. music charts Nov. 22, 1963 was Dominique by the Singing Nun. To hear this ancient religious hit, please go to the following URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHhyyRByuJ0