Happy Birthday to Ellias Lonsdale, and good luck with the Teleconference!

Ellias is beginning a new teleconference on the Age of Aquaria(us) today, as I understand it. I wish him all the best, and a happy birthday tomorrow.
He is the father of my daughter, Joya, a great and brilliant being, as we knew she would be.

May the long time sun shine upon you.
-- ISB

Famous BIrthdays-- Irving!

http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/irving-fiske.html


Info on Irving, his life, birth, and death. Interestingly Rex Harrison was born the same day and died the same year, though I'm not sure if it was on April 25-- the full moon day this year-- when he died, as it was with Irving.

Irving has become quite famous on the Internet. Good.

-- Ladybelle

So Mad Men tried... to show what the Sixties were REALLY like.

To make up for its foolish error about St. Marks PL by taking characters (and US) to the Electric Circus, which was a sort of dance and groove out joint on St Marks Pl (It had been a Polish hall for celebrations called the Dom and some other things).

They showed a light show that I assume may have been meant to be The Joshua Light Show... but I am not sure. I saw the light show at The Electric Circus once. Never had money to go to things that cost anything.
All around me was the Village, with all the culture and all the energy-- I never went to a single Rock concert, however-- No Fillmore East. I went twice, that's wrong. Went to see "The Enlightenment of the Buddha" by Timothy Leary (a light show of another kind) and to hear my beloved Incredible String Band play.
"All the world is but a play,
Be thou the joyful player!"

-- Ladybelle

Good Quote!

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes_of_the_day.html
Ken Kesey on Love

Mad Men and St. Marks' Place... and HIppiedom

Check out my letter to the NY Times (online) that was published the other day and received some attention....

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/the-east-village-of-mad-men-and-the-real-1960s-one/

Mad Men has no sense about the Sixties as it related to people who were -- either on purpose or because they had no choice-- living without money.

The Hip world is a mystery to them. The only part they have done well is the Hare Krishna episode, though I never saw anyone like "Mother Lakshmi" among them. I once had an argument with their leader, the Yogi on 2nd St and 2nd Ave. (I can't remember his name-- their main man?)

about Buddhism vs. HInduism....

Ladybelle

I was 15 at the time. Irving was there too and very proud of me. 

I realize now that I actually didn't have much reason to argue with the yogi, but I felt that chanting was a way of driving the person away from enlightenment. No peace and silence in which to reveal it.

This was when we had the Gallery Gwen on E. 4th and 2nd Ave...

"Off St. Marks Pl." as a friend of mine said today, is what? "On 2nd Ave?" That is what is "off St. Marks."