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Review: Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison, by Patricia Kennealy 
March 29, 2025April 1, 2025

Review: Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison, by Patricia Kennealy 

Dutton/Penguin Group; May, 1992 “Jim Morrison Goes to the Renfaire!”  Strange Days is a roman à clef recounting Patricia Kennealy’s brief affair with Jim Morrison, the […]

Category: Counterculture, Lint Trap, Pointless Reviews
John Lennon and “Run For Your Life”
February 26, 2024April 10, 2024

John Lennon and “Run For Your Life”

A kerfuffle arose on FB before Christmas on the MidCentury Fashions page. Some folks took umbrage over a post featuring John and Yoko’s “War is […]

Category: Counterculture, Ship of Fools
Ode to Angelique: Lamar Rickey Hawkins (aka Lara Parker) Dies Aged 84
October 25, 2023November 3, 2023

Ode to Angelique: Lamar Rickey Hawkins (aka Lara Parker) Dies Aged 84

It’s been two weeks. As most of us scurried through the second week of spooky season, none of us knew the woman who played witch […]

Category: Counterculture, TV Revolution
A “Truthy” Story: Communion Turns 37
April 30, 2023June 29, 2023

A “Truthy” Story:
Communion Turns 37

It came and went, and no one noticed – 25 February was the 37th anniversary of the publication of Whitley Strieber’s Communion in paperback.  Yes, it’s been thirty-seven years […]

Category: Counterculture, Lint Trap
That Time I Looked for UFOs: The UFO Flap of October 1973
February 26, 2023March 1, 2023

That Time I Looked for UFOs:
The UFO Flap of October 1973

October 1973.  US involvement in Viet Nam ended with the springtime Paris Accord, and the Nation was moving on. The meat shortages of summer were behind […]

Category: Counterculture, Lint Trap
A Bewitching Scent and a Spell:The Witchy World of Styx
March 16, 2022March 25, 2022

A Bewitching Scent and a Spell:
The Witchy World of Styx

There are those few times that social media serves a purpose other than pointless arguments. Midcentury Fashion is one of those rare groups where fights […]

Category: Counterculture, Fashionista, Lint Trap
The Sad Story of “Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March”
January 30, 2022January 31, 2022

The Sad Story of “Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March”

[Yes, I’ve been lazy. Here’s a new post! – Ed.] Nineteen-sixty-eight turned to 1969. The world, filled with an equal feeling of hope and dread, […]

Category: Counterculture, Lint Trap
Fifty Shades of Scrooge
December 24, 2021December 26, 2021

Fifty Shades of Scrooge

I had planned a whole bunch of cheerful mid-century themed posts for this Christmas season.  But, on the day after Thanksgiving, Omicron decided it was a […]

Category: Counterculture, Lint Trap
“Farewell, People of the Page.” Author Anne Rice Has Died
December 12, 2021December 12, 2021

“Farewell, People of the Page.” Author Anne Rice Has Died

Another bit of sad news.  Author Anne Rice has passed away at age 80.  A prolific writer, she produced over 30 books from 1976 to 2018.  Her son, […]

Category: Counterculture, Lint Trap
The Nez Has Left the Building: Michael Nesmith of The Monkees Dies at Age 78
December 10, 2021December 10, 2021

The Nez Has Left the Building: Michael Nesmith of The Monkees Dies at Age 78

I spent a good portion of this blog reminiscing about Monkeemania this summer.  Rightfully, I’m stunned to learn the mercurial Michael Nesmith died this morning in […]

Category: Counterculture, TV Revolution

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