1968: Still Awful Forty Years Later
Every few years some prominent baby boomer cleans out their attic, finds some anti-war crap they didn’t know they still had and yearns for the better days. This time it was Tom Brokaw’s turn and his book ‘1968’ which also aired as a special on History Channel recently.
1968 was a time of free love, change, and great upheaval. Free love leads to free hair growth however and nothing is less attractive then women with armpit hair. But the worst is not trimming the hedges, as the kids like to say. The last thing I want to see is what looks like Chewbacca in a leg-lock below the waist. Call me old-fashioned but I am a firm believer in the wood floor or the landing strip thank you very little.
Times like these always bring back fun fashion icons like tie-dyed clothing. The tie dye shirt is a great symbol of how the Boomers screwed Generation X. But man, those seats I got for the Sound Tribe Sector Nine show are killer dude! I’m gonna sit in the parking lot and sell stir fry and beer to all my other deadhead jobless friends. It’s so gonna rock!
We are talking about clothing that has every conceivable color in nature, yet doesn’t go with anything. Look, I am not saying you need to be anal about your color matching, just that you don’t want to look like you got dressed in the dark or have an extra chromosome.
And the concerts, my God, play a song already. I’m tired of ten minutes of what amounts to the band warming up. Sure you can call it a ‘jam band’. I call it ‘let’s see how long I can string out this one because everyone is so fucked up on drugs they don’t even notice the same song has been playing for fourteen minutes’.
This is the contribution 1968 has given to the world: songs that never end, women that grow body hair like werewolves, and shitty fashion.
No thanks Tom, I like 2007 much better.
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