Showing posts with label CounterCulture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CounterCulture. Show all posts
Sunday, January 3, 2010
...And Now, For Something Completely Different (and 'Bluesical')
From Medicine Ball Caravan, 1971
Medicine Ball Caravan - A Rockumentary about a Warner Brothers band tour circa 1971/2 in a fleet of funky old buses with a bunch of funky ol' 'hippies'. B.B. King, Alice Cooper, Delaney, Bonnie, and Friends, David Peel & The Lower East Side, Stoneground, and others.
For a finale, at Antioch college Ohio, an altercation between the Vietnam war politicized students and the tour personnel breaks out while show preparations are underway leading to a quite serious and enlightening discussion of "Culture Vulture-ism" between the two factions.
It's very likely that anyone who has been raised on modern pop-culture-as-a-way-of-life, where the media conglomerates create the current cultural images and styles instead of lagging and playing catch up, as was the case in the 60s, will probably not understand what the brouhaha is all about, even after the heated discussions.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
DoD anti-terror training program question - "Which of the following is an example of low-level terrorist activity? Correct answer: " protests."
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Among the multiple-choice questions included in its Level 1 Antiterrorism Awareness training course — an annual training requirement for all DOD personnel that is fulfilled through Web-based instruction — the department asks the following: "Which of the following is an example of low-level terrorist activity?"To answer correctly, the examinee must select "protests." [In Full]
Peace Out, Luv Duv, and don't forget to take it easy...
Da' Buffalo Amongst Wolves, "low-level terrorist"
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