Tag: 1976

• Memoir: a stomach-churning event (1976)

  

  But kids who did “drugs”? I was not them. My preferred stupifiant was respectable. Wasn’t it advertised endlessly with catchy jingles? And didn’t the most popular shows drinking on TV?

  abendelow

  December 29, 2024

  memoir

  1976, austin, blotter acid, chicago, criminality, dragnet, drug education, drugs, entrepreneurship, ethanol, go as alice, LSD-25, marijuana, memoir, oak park, psychedelics, smiley face, stomach-churning, suburban trust and savings

• Memoir: the weaving of a dream 1976

  It’s a Friday night in March, and Phil, Glen, Billy and I, all sophisticated 8th graders, quietly climb a ladder into the cramped space under the rafters in Billy’s garage. We bring with us a 12 pack of beer and a transistor radio. The little attic is dark and smells of roof tar and sawdust.…

  abendelow

  February 9, 2023

  memoir

  1976, alcoholism, memoir, music, oak park