Comments on: Still Light Outside (1968)

By: cat rennolds

cat rennolds — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:16:53 +0000

So I was BORN in 1968….in San Francisco (well, Mountain View, but, you know). My dad was at Woodstock. And Vietnam. He used to play folk music at the Lion in Sausalito. We lived in a house way out in the middle of the onion fields…..So essentially I was born a flower child. I don’t remember it, but I don’t have to because I heard about it so much. I don’t think it ever wore off. Of course by the time I was eleven, my dad was offering me grass and I was all, “Dad, I don’t DO drugs…..”

Which doesn’t match the fact that he was ALSO Navy Intelligence and my mom worked making the very first computer chips……I’m still weird.

By: John Shore

John Shore — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:18:45 +0000

From … the memory stuff? Because you're too young to have ever worn Go-Go boots?

By: snowhite197

snowhite197 — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:56:31 +0000

I feel young now.

By: John Shore

John Shore — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:28:28 +0000

Nah–lots of kids have double-chins. My sister did. It made her look prettier than ever.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:33:26 +0000

Nah…. It was more like I could cheer from the sidelines and do yells, but I was too fat to do all of the gymnastics and all the other tricks the others could do… I was the only 10 year old kid I knew that had a double chin!!! LOL

By: John Shore

John Shore — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:21:22 +0000

"Too fat too cheer." That's just … the saddest thing. Like you're all, "Go, team! Gooo….oh, screw it. I'm too fat."

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:16:16 +0000

John –

This walk down memory lane makes me giggle…. I was six in 68, so there's not much I remember about the late sixties, except for Nixon running for President and (like somebody else said earlier) maybe grape Koolaid.

But I did, like your sister, have the white go-go boots… They were part of my cheerleading uniform for a junior pro team… I was really too fat to cheer, but dang I looked cool in my boots! LOL (I even had a pair of black ones, too!)

By: John Shore

John Shore — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:36:11 +0000

Ah, reflecting upon the past. It certainly does make one feel … old. (Which, actually, I like. I think people are like wine: Better drunk. Wait–that's not what I meant to say….)

By: nisperos

nisperos — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:41:08 +0000

Well, you “Ding-A-Ling”, time to get out of California for a Little “Rocky Mountain High”
as “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”…

But go on, make the children listen to a story “that was written long ago”…

In the days before Cat was Yusuf…
In the days of Watergate, and IRA bombings…
When the Vietnam war was ending, but just beginning for those with war memories…
In the days when Bill Gates was a busy unknown…

When you might have still been able to sing the Kool-Aid Kids song from childhood but were already hip (only from the book and your sib?) to the Merry Prankster’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (but like Kesey, you’d missed Woodstock), and Jonestown was just beginning, but it would be college before that community gave Kool-Aid a different association…