RIP Country Joe McDonald

[lauradi7dw]

Phooey to Parkinson's.

I didn't go to Woodstock but a classmate did (with his older brother). I saw the 1970 documentary from which this is taken in Paris, of all places. It's nice to be old(ish) but I'm not as old as those facts would imply. I had not remembered that CJ says close to Arlo Guthrie's exact line from Alice's Restaurant in this context (while admonishing more people to sing along).
The loathsome Karoline Leavitt said that the draft might come back. Which quagmire are we in?

Strong language warning, as NPR would say, although I used the F word in full in a recent subject line.

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[sovay]

Strong language warning, as NPR would say, although I used the F word in full in a recent subject line.

My mother has been playing this song.

[kshandra]

gridlore of all people was taken to Woodstock as a 2-year-old, by the theoretically straight-laced aunt and uncle who were watching him while his parents went somewhere (though where his older sibling was at the time I don't know - I should ask her). Said uncle had just left the Air Force and apparently needed to blow off steam in a big way...

[lauradi7dw]

Maybe a toddler was happy about being in a giant mud puddle. I wonder if they had the forethought to bring a pair of rubber boots so he could stomp around.

Arthur's parents in some confusion followed a van labelled "The Who" for a while on their way to visit the kids at a nearby Boy Scout camp. The overlap between very normal and whatever Woodstock was hasn't been lost on filmmakers. In the 1999 movie A Walk on the Moon, the Diane Ladd character walks over from the summer bungalow colony. The final scene has the reconciling couple listen to something on an oldies station and then switch the radio to Jimi Hendrix.