Category: Hippies

Wild Wild Country

The Netflix documentary series Wild Wild Country tells the story of Indian guru Baghwan Shree Rajneesh’s years in the US. In 1981 he and his followers moved to remote Antelope, Oregon, population 40. On a hundred mile square tract of wilderness they built Rajneeshpuram, a city that housed up to 7000, complete with a shopping…


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Marty Balin Live at the Throckmorton Theatre

I keep getting tangled up in strange loops of time. I’ve told the true fairy tale of how I came to Mill Valley in the summer of 1970, vowed to live there and then found myself doing just that, 44 years later. But that was last month. Whatever time-release spell enchanted me wore off, leaving…


Steve Jobs – Acid Visionary

Until he died this week, I never paid much attention to Steve Jobs. I was vaguely aware of the dramatic ups and down in his career, and that he was some intense guy with a vision. I was too busy working on and playing with the products he created to notice to the man behind…


What’s With All The Hippie Punching?

What’s With All the Hippie Punching? Posted by John Manchester on October 18, 2010 at 3:00pm View Blog OCTOBER 18, 2010 11:03AM RATE: 14 Flag  First of all, I’m an old Hippie, and proud of it. When I first heard the term “hippie-punching” over at Digby’s Hullabaloo I felt a jolt of fear. Back in the volatile summer of…


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