Jerry Springer

I don't have an answer to that. I'm sure Richard does, though! I just wanted to mention something else. Remember I told you all that my daughter's friend was in a coma from a car accident? Well, he's out of the coma, though it's still not clear what he remembers and what the damage is. He's still attached to tubes and can't move around. But the strange thing is he keeps kissing my daughter's hand and giving his mother the finger! His mother flew here from Israel to be with him and spends the whole day at the hospital. Luckily, she has a sense of humor.

Who would you say is the Walter Cronkite of our adulthood? Is there one?

Not any more, but you used to be. Things change

Hi, have been hearing about the temps in New England. We are getting snow today and it is currently 28 degrees here in Grand Rapids. I think the weather man said 4-6 inches expected. I am headed for my dad's 80th birthday party at my brother's in MA this weekend. I hope it warms up before then. I lived in the country Pat, and we had an antenna so we got three channels and they were all "WSNOW"! You mean I am not supposed to believe everything I hear????????

I don't remember how old we were, little though, in Spfld. my Gramdparents had purchased the first color TV in town. (how did we know this? Beats me but that's my memory) Every Sunday night we watched Bonanza and The Wonderful World of Disney. Percieved reality was live TV shows and the news, I guess. We were all told what to know about and what to know about it. When did "we" begin to question what we were being told? I'm glad "we" did whenever that was.

Clearly, "being there" meant "tune-in, turn-on, drop-out" which had a nasty effect on memory. The thing that struck me about the 60's, as described in the museum show, was how the meaning of "now" was narrowed by TV into meaning instantaneous perceived reality. I think that this has not been so kind for keeping memories alive.

Someone is crying lord . . . (and maybe they have been crying for a long time), but how can you know that if you don't remember. Kum Bah Ya!

In church Sunday morning my paster said "If you remember the 60's, you weren't really there." What do you suppose he meant by that. He was about to play a recording of Kum Bah Ya.

You're right, tie-dye never seems to die. Avi does it all the time on the shirts he makes in his business, and there always seems to be a demand for it.

I went to a 60's art and design show yesterday in Montreal. Talk about a flash back. There was one entire wall filled with album covers, Janis Joplin's psychodelic painted Porsche, a lexan box filled with some of Andy Warhol's garbage (clearly on too high a carb diet), lots of Kennedy stuff, space stuff, race issues . . . Wow!

The curators described the 60s as a pivotal point in time that launched life as we know it today. However, they also described the psychedelic design elements and commented that these have had little lasting impact on the evolution of art and design. Hey, come on! Tie-dye isn't dead, what are they talking about?