Beltane

May the 1^st is an old pagan traditional holiday marking the beginning of summer and there are many festivals to promote fertility. This was for crops and people.

This if from the Fire festival;

Pix from Flick River.

I Am Pol Pot also available as E-book

This fictional biography of Pol Pot is now available for $8.99 as an E-book.  Just click on that price and get I Am Pol Pot for almost half the price of a regular book to down load where ever it’s convenient.

This book contains actual quotes from The Black Book, one of the few documents the Communist Party of Kampuchea ever released to the public. It also contains real slogans adopted by the CPK.

The 1970s brought us the turbulence of the Vietnam War and its protest by students and youth who where un-willing to fight for a cause that seemed un-winnable and useless. When President Richard Nixon spread the Vietnam War to Kampuchea, called Cambodia today, he not only caused outrage and protest at home, including the Kent State Ohio massacres, but he also threw Kampuchea into a state of civil war. His inept handling of the situation brought about one of the strangest social experiment of the 20th Century. Pol Pot ruled through a committee known for the first year only as the Ankar (organization). His name was not even spoken to the Kampuchean people for two years. His Communist Party of Kampuchea had amassed a powerful movement of disenfranchised peasants, who were loyal to him and his regime. The Residence of Phnom Penh, the city's capital, were not so lucky. They were treated with suspicion. And punishment for those deemed "un-redeemable" was harsh, usually death.

Summer reads-- Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie now available as an E-Book

If anyone was waiting for this 1970s fictional adventure book to come out as an E-book, now is the time. For the low cost of $9.99, this book can be downloaded in time for summer reading. 

Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie takes the reader through the life of a 1970s counter-culture character. Mark Spies goes from casual pot smoking to habitual use of pharmaceutical narcotics and cocaine. Due to the changing sexual attitudes, Spies has several unconventional sexual encounters. He also develops a class consciousness that leads him to study Marxism.

The 1970s brought us the "Woodstock generation." There was a sense of idealism that developed at the beginning and died at the end of that decade. Many counter-culture books focus on the 1960s, yet there are plenty of events in the 1970s that deserve attention. Nixon's war in Vietnam and Cambodia dominated the news and affected America's youth. Nixon's war on drugs impacted the counter-culture life style. Then there was punk rock, disco, casual cocaine use and revolutions braking out around the world by 1979. With politics in the background, this book gives the reader a look at drug use and the difficult business of drug dealing. The drugs, sexual attitudes, music and politics made the 1970s what they were. Taken as a whole, this book will give some insight into the people and events of the 1970s counter-culture.

Steve Otto is a free-lance writer, living in Maize, KS. He is the author of War on Drugs/ War on People, published by Ide House, 1995, an expose of government corruption connected with the "war on drugs." Otto has published numerous articles in magazines, journals and newspapers.

Yesterday was 420 Day

Yesterday at Kirbys, a popular Wichita night club, the band Widows Arm played, with a tribute to the 420 Holiday. That is a holiday for dope smokers around the US. That day and tradition may have come from the term began among a group of teenagers in San Rafael, California in 1971.

Anyway it has become a special holiday for marijuana smokers and those true to the stoner tradition always celebrate April 20 as 420 Day.

Arlo Guthrie - Coming Into Los Angeles (live 1969)

  

Levon Helm, Drummer and Rough-Throated Singer for the Band, Is Dead at 71

Levon Helm, who died this week, was best known for being in The Band. That Band originally played with Bob Dylan who wrote many of the early songs, such as “This Wheels on fire.” They went on to be a major band on their own throughout the 1970s. They are also known for “Up On Cripple Creek.”

The Band - Up On Cripple Creek (1969)

   

The Band(live) This Wheel's On Fire

Good by Earl

Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett"

Easter Bunny --Easter Eggs

How did Easter get its symbols. They are not Christian. As with most holidays they were taken from early European Pagan religions.

For example, consider this from Alternative Religions;

Have you ever wondered where the celebration of the Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Christ acquired its unusual name and odd symbols of colored eggs and rabbits?
The answer lies in the ingenious way that the Christian church absorbed Pagan practices. After discovering that people were more reluctant to give up their holidays and festivals than their gods, they simply incorporated Pagan practices into Christian festivals. As recounted by the Venerable Bede, an early Christian writer, clever clerics copied Pagan practices and by doing so, made Christianity more palatable to pagan folk reluctant to give up their festivals for somber Christian practices.

For the rest click here.

Katy Perry - Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)

April fools—Or April’s fools

It is the day to honor all the idiots that our people have voted into office. These are the stooges or front men for the Koch brothers, ALEC and all the other backroom-backstabbing power brokers who control our government.

Do you feel like a fool yet?