Good news baby boomers (and everyone else)!

[proud2BlibKansan]

SDS is BACK!!

Click here for membership info.

http://www.studentsforademocraticsociety.org/

[acmavm]

1. Good news? No, GREAT NEWS. This means that the young people,

those that have the most to lose are getting into the battle. This is the best news that I've seen all day. Maybe all week.

[Seedersandleechers]

2. What is SDS?

[MADem]

3. You are either very young, very old, or were stoned thru the 60s!!!

Holy mother of pearl, get out the sandals and tie-dye!!

[evlbstrd]

6. Please, no patchouli.

I can't stand the stuff. But I'm not a student, either.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Ah I loved patchouli

But it is kind of rank to my nostrils today. As I remember, didn't we use it to mask the smell of reefer on our clothes? That isn't a problem for me anymore. LOL

[evlbstrd]

17. My theory is that we couldn't smell it for the reefer.

Now we smell the error our ways.
That, and all the wannabe hippies born in the eighties that wear the stuff piss me off.
I'm kina cranky today.

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. I'm sorry

You need cheering up. Let's see. How about more memories? My buddy the custodian at school and I were telling one of the 20 somethings there about Volker Park in the 60s yesterday. He said he went there to pick up white girls. The 20 something looked at me and I said 'not me!'.

[evlbstrd]

27. Ah, yes. The Volker Park Market.

In the pine trees along Oak Street. You could get anything you wanted.
The Vanguard, Cowtown Ballroom. The Westport Trucker. Before Westport was yuppified.

[proud2BlibKansan]

30. Capers Corners

Temple Slug - I bought the first reefer I ever paid for there.

[evlbstrd]

31. Temple Slug lives on.

But I don't think they sell reefer anymore. I could go check.

[proud2BlibKansan]

32. It is too hippified for that

Hubby calls it terminal hipness. Man was I sorry to see that happen to such a neat store.

[evlbstrd]

34. It happened to all of Westport in the mid to late seventies.

That's when people smelled money and the trendoid restaurants and bars started opening. Up to then it was head shops, coffee houses and quirky little businesses.

[proud2BlibKansan]

37. I am still mourning the loss of Recycled Sounds

:cry:

[evlbstrd]

42. That saddens me, too.

[proud2BlibKansan]

44. Watch them turn that building into some kind of hippified store

:puke:

[evlbstrd]

56. Or some corporate concoction that doesn't fit.

It bugged me years ago when Pennylane Records was bhought by Streetside.

[proud2BlibKansan]

59. And now Streetside is the best record store in town

Who'd a thunk it?

[evlbstrd]

60. Ironic, ain't it?

After Caper's Corner closed, it was Pennylane or nothing for new releases. Of course, they still pressed vinyl, too. Remember LeRoi's(tm) Record Reviews in the Penny Pitch? It evolved into the KC Pitch we have today.

[Fovea]

sadly, that's about the time

I moved to Westport.

[evlbstrd]

45. And it just gets louder.

Some weekends in the summer, I can hear it from inside my house. And the traffic on my street gets heavier and faster. If they weere tokin' instead of drinkin', it'd be very different.

[Fovea]

36. One of the original owners was the fellow who started the water bed

craze. He saw a medical journal article on water mattresses for burns, and got kuss (a maker of vinyl car seats) to manufacture them.

[proud2BlibKansan]

39. You know I heard waterbeds were invented in KC

but I never really believed it. That's neat trivia. Thanks.

[evlbstrd]

47. I think the twist-tie was invented here, too.

The guy made stupid amounts of money from it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

52. A necessary commodity

Where would we be without twist ties? Think of all the trash blowing all over the world without them.

[evlbstrd]

57. We were too stoned to think of it.

But they're fun to play with.

[Fovea]

33. I used to work there.

Temple Slug, that is.

They didn't sell reefer there when I was there though... I am always late for the game...

[proud2BlibKansan]

35. It wasn't in their inventory

You used to be able to go upstairs and lay on waterbeds and smoke pot. First waterbed I was ever on was there in about 1970. Anyway, kids sold dope in that upstairs room too. I don't know if the management was aware of this or not.

[Fovea]

40. That's where I used to do the books...

Sigh. I think I really missed out.

[proud2BlibKansan]

43. If it is any consolation,

my memories are pretty foggy. My mind was definitely in a different place back then. LOL

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

46. lol! I still love patchouli! The real essential oil is wonderful & shoul

be used a tiny dab at a time.

[tenshi816]

65. I love using a few drops of patchouli essential oil

in the bath.

Usually I'm a shower kind of person (aren't we all, everybody's so busy), but I had a horseback riding accident early in the week and there are few places on my body that don't hurt badly. I had a long soak yesterday and added patchouli - not because it helped with the aches and pains on my body, but because of the effect it had on my mind. The smell just makes me happy. I love the stuff.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

67. Essential patchouli always puts a grin on my face too! Also,

for severe aches and pains and use in the bath... a few drops of rosemary, juniper and lavender works wonders!

[tenshi816]

68. That's a useful tip for me, thank you.

I had a pretty severe horseback riding accident on Wednesday last week. My mount spooked at something, did a complete 180 and took off at a gallop. It felt like he went 0-60 mph in about 3 seconds - I lost the reins at the suddenness of it all, came flying off and landed on some big rocks. I've got some spectacular bruising, cracked ribs and a hairline fracture of my pelvis. I'll have to try the oil combination you recommend, because there's not much on my body that doesn't hurt right now!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

12. I love patchouli!

Brings back fond memories of the sexual revolution for this old geezer.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Hey I think we used to party together!

[Blue_In_AK]

62. I still love patchouli, too...

Whenever I get a whiff of it when I'm out and about, all these wonderful memories flood into my brain. :hippie:

[leftchick]

13. I burn patchouli incense all of the time!

:smoke:

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. That makes you eligible for membership in SDS

LOL

[evlbstrd]

23. Then I'll sit on the porch, thanks.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. And better dope!

LOL

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Students for Democratic Society

One of the larger (if not the largest) student political groups from the 6os.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society
The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a student activist movement in the United States founded in 1959. As part of the New Left movement in the United States, the organization developed rapidly in the mid-1960's, before dissolving in 1969.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. I thought so too

I wonder if my old memebrship is still on their books. LOL

They had THE BEST anti-war marches in the 60s. SDS really rocks!!

[evlbstrd]

4. Will we then have a new Weather Underground?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. And The Black Panthers

you gots to wonder when Malcolm X's daughter was in the news this week.

Do you remember - were the Yippies SDS or was that a different group?

Oh I am feeling so nostalgic. Sitting her listening to that website you sent me - man, it is awesome! Elton John live is on now. We should share that link with other DUers.

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/Static.aspx?Type=Audio/Radio.htm&CategoryID=RA&LeftNav=Audio/RadioNav.html

[evlbstrd]

21. The Yippies were the creation of Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin.

Someone at work mentioned a new employee named Angela Davis. I asked if she was a Black Panter. Blank stares all around. I went back to my corner to continue aging.

Good idea about the music link. I'll post it in GD and the lounge.

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. Live Cream is playing now!!

I have heard more good classic rock on this station in two hours than I have heard in 20 years on FM radio. This is so awesome. I really owe you big time for this link. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

:yourock:

[evlbstrd]

29. Ain't it fantastic?

Hendrix, Zappa, Airplane. Everybody that mattered. All live.

[leftchick]

63. where is the link?

I am too stoned and can't find it! :smoke:

[leftchick]

10. Rebels With a Cause! Very Cool! And Groovy!

:)



for those not familiar you can order a DVD...

http://www.sdsrebels.com/

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. Wow that looks awesome!

[patdem]

11. It's been so long..I thought of STD's...and thought it was a parady

GLAD to see Students become active again!

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. We really need them today.

[cyberpj]

16. It isn't the rebels that cause the troubles of the world,

it's the troubles that cause the rebels. - Carl Oglesby, SDS



http://www.sdsrebels.com/

[proud2BlibKansan]

26. LOVE that quote!

[TahitiNut]

19. Gee... I wonder if my membership is still good.

:evilgrin:

[proud2BlibKansan]

28. I don't ever remembering paying for mine

well, not in cash anyway. LOL

[TahitiNut]

48. "paying"? Who said "Paying"? Heresy!

:silly: Besides, I went because of the cool chicks. :dunce:

[proud2BlibKansan]

51. Wow another DUer I used to party with!!

:hi:

[leftchick]

38. I don't think it ever expires

we are students for life aren't we? :hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

41. Well I am

Hey can I borrow some patchouli? I want to use it to annoy evlbstrd. :evilgrin:

:hi:

[evlbstrd]

49. You'll just force me to smoke more.

Damn you. And you think I'm evl.

[proud2BlibKansan]

53. ROFLMAO

I don't let many people talk to me like that.

[evlbstrd]

58. I suppose you just consider the source?

To quote Hitchikers' Guide: "Mostly harmless."

[leftchick]

50. hell yeah!

I guy it in bulk! I kid you not! :)

:smoke:

[proud2BlibKansan]

55. I am on my way over.

:smoke:

[TahitiNut]

54. I'll have to dig out my dashiki. I think I still have it.

It'd be far from free-flowing these days, though.

[Blue_In_AK]

61. This is great...

I was in SDS 1967-68.

[Hardrada]

64. Glad the organization is back. I was a member. Actually,

I never quit being a member. Joined in Spring 1968. I still have my SDS buttons too. I have been wearing one around lately. I will have to check on this site and see what's up!

Dare to struggle! Dare to win!

[OneBlueSky]

66. "It's deja vu all over again" . . . Yogi Berra . . . n/t

/

[Hardrada]

69. I just reactivated my membership

by subscribing. I think that will do it. Maybe I can be a senior sponsor of some kind!!