THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

RANDOM COMMENTS | 2006-07-18

Before I get back to the Joe/Bob Wars, I need to cover a couple of points.

I just had to mark THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY SPAMS out. I do not ask you to put NO SPAM on top, in caps and as a separate paragraph, as an execrcise. I get HYPNOTIZED running through all thisspam, and I can and will miss what you say if you don't put NOT SPAM at least once, preferably twice, in a separate paragraph at the top.

A second point relates to the comment below about Che Guevara stuff. Back inthe fifties when I was coming up we heard about the '20s. In the 1920s the Charleston was the dance craze and college students wore racoon coats and carried banjos. But when I was coming up, THIRTY YEARS LATER, the idea tha anybody would be walking around ina racoon coat and playing the banjo and conidering himself Modern Youth would have been beyond imagination. The 1960s are now FORTY YEARS AGO.

I hear sixty year old men who still consider themselves hippies, Modern Youth! Let me repeat, very slowly, so they can read my lips:

That was FORTY YEARS ago, you old fart! Take off your racoon coat, put down your friggin' banjo and get with the program!