He had a good idea back in the day,
Who will lower your taxes?: NOBODY!
Who will lower gas prices?: NOBODY!
and on and on.
Posted on 01/24/2013 2:50:42 PM PST by nickcarraway
Wavy Gravy doesn't remember much about his walk around the block with Albert Einstein. Small wonder. He was only a 5-year-old named Hugh Romney at the time. But he says he can remember "a shock of white hair" and "twinkling eyes." And Einstein's particular smell.
"I haven't smelled anything like that ever since," Gravy told the audience at the Marsh Berkeley at the opening of his new show last Friday.
Then, his eyes twinkling within his own unruly shock of white hair and whiskers, he added that, 71 years later, he's still waiting for the moment a stray familiar whiff will make him blurt out to some startled stranger, "You smell just like Albert Einstein."
The great physicist is only the first of many celebrated names casually dropped or comically evoked in the course of Gravy's self-descriptively titled "Hippy Icon, Flower Geezer & Temple of Accumulated Error."
Dylan, Dietrich
Bob Dylan, Lenny Bruce, Bill Graham, Marlene Dietrich, Alice Cooper and Paul Krassner crop up, among others, sometimes in odd combinations - as in a memory of Tiny Tim and beatnik icon Neal Cassady crooning a Bing Crosby tune together.
Not that any of those people, or the anecdotes that touched on everything from Woodstock to San Francisco's seminal 1960s improv group the Committee, will necessarily grace future performances. "Hippy Icon," like "the activist clown and former frozen dessert" (a reference to his onetime celebrity as a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor) himself, is far from set in its ways. As Marsh founder Stephanie Weisman explained, Gravy had such a good time performing a spur-of-the-moment holiday show, "Wavy Gravy and His Guided Mistletoes," at the Berkeley venue that he decided to return for several weeks of unstructured, seat-of-the pants reminiscences drawn from his eventful, wide-ranging life. Surprise guests may drop
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Not that I have anything against this guy personally - he's just so symbolic of how the hippies trivialized & generally lowered standards for everything.
I thought this hippie died already.
This was “The Situation” of the hippie era. A useless no talent
He had a good idea back in the day,
Who will lower your taxes?: NOBODY!
Who will lower gas prices?: NOBODY!
and on and on.
In the Sixties, frauds learned that you could become a star based on nothing but chutzpah. And they’ve been doing it ever since.
An interesting story that I’m not all that proud of, especially here on FR...
I went to DC from UW Madistan back in ‘71 (or ‘72) to witness a large anti-war demonstration...this was the week after Kerrey didn’t throw his medals away. Anyway, riot cops herded everyone in a two block radius into a circle in an intersection which included me. I was looking into the center of the rounded up group when I saw the eyes of a girl in front me get wide. She was apparently reacting to the billy club descending toward my skull. I woke up in a pool of blood and soon some cops threw me into a paddy wagon and hauled me off to a cell in a hospital where I was later stitched up. There were three others sharing my cell, one of which was a badly beaten Abby Hoffman. He was using the alias Peter Brown as he hadn’t been identified yet. I spent the night in RFK Stadium, with some 20,000 other lucky winners, enjoying my concussion. I still have the indentation in my skull which is becoming more visible every year. :{)
Sounds like a verse out of Root Boy Slim’s “Used to be a Radical” song. ahh never mind.
They say that reformed smokers are the worst...that goes for reformed liberals as well.
You live, you learn. But I don’t think those cops were helping anything by doing what they did.
F&&& him and his stinking Commie corpse.
I know Romney is a liberal, but he still eats hot dogs (meat!) and isn't as far left. Jack Kerouac supported the Vietnam War. Ken Kesey's second book (after Cuckoo's Nest) was about a man ("scab") who crossed a picket line and made him the hero.
Some may have been more libertarian in the end, or at least OLD Democrat in comparison to "progressive New Democrat revolutionaries".
But you were there, I wasn't, and only have their own writings and film clips to go by.
Jerry Rubin claimed to have gone from Yippie to Yuppie.
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