#[1967]-1972

[fuddlyduddly]

i am proud of my list

[jokeanddaggerdept]

[vintageslideshow]

How was your yesterday?

1967 and 1972 respectively.

[gay-edwardian]

(With the intention of telling you far to much about Frida Lyngstad's solo career) Hey.

[justyeghost]

Tonight's Feature Presentation

It's the launch day for the first ship to Venus, and the last day for the third rock from the sun.

Come and watch it over on my Twitch Channel if you love bad movies.

[thislovintime]

“Michael used to run a hootenanny at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, and so I met him there [before The Monkees audition]. But that’s all, just to say hi to, pretty much.” - Peter Tork, GOLD 104.5, 1999

“I have a great deal of respect for Mike as a musician and a songwriter. He’s very good. He could make it on his own easily. Also he’s one of the funniest people I’ve ever met.” - Peter Tork, Flip, August 1967

Q: “Being that your tastes were similar, and you both were the first to leave the group, why didn’t you form a group with Peter Tork?” Michael Nesmith: “I don’t like Peter Tork — never have liked him, I don’t like him as a man. I have to qualify that now: Me not liking somebody doesn’t mean that they’re bad people — he could do a lot of wonderful things for and to me. Not liking someone to me is a very gut reaction — a very visceral attitude. The first reaction to Peter was one of dislike. I don’t like him, I have never liked him, and I probably will never like him. I didn’t enjoy playing in a band with Peter, and I still don’t. Our tastes were much the same, our political beliefs were similar, our ideas of fun, pleasure, our intellectual capacity, our ability to talk to each other — we were very much alike. I have a great respect for Peter — his technical abilities on an instrument and the positions he took were well conceived ideas, always a posture with a motive, never emotional. I don’t like my mother. She happens to be a very nice lady — never done anything that would make me not like her — but I don’t. I like my wife.” - Hit Parader, February 1972 (x)

"I’d rather have him [Michael] in [The Monkees], all things considered. I think that it makes an event when he’s there that, that isn’t when he’s not. Um, Mike has ideas about himself, you know, that, that sometimes seem to… I don’t know, the last time we got together, we got together because he was just, just a couple of things came together, his… he caught the episode of Friends and he said, ‘Gee, that sounds like us playing the theme song there,’ and then his — he started to think about some old Monkees songs, and his girlfriend said, ‘Well, who’s playing bass on that cut there? He said, ‘Well, Peter.’ Did he write that part?’ Yeah.’ Well, so his girlfriend liked my work and he said, maybe we should… And at that time, he was developing a thing for ZZ Top and he wanted to play guitar like that, sound like that on guitar, and we were the vehicle for it, so we joined, got together and we made a record called Justus, which is not a bad record, I don’t think, and then we toured England, and then I think, you know, Mike changed his mind for reasons that I don’t quite understand, but what the heck." - Peter Tork, GOLD 104.5, 1999

"[Y]ou know, I have a lot of, I still have a lot of respect for Michael, I’m not, this is not to say that he’s proven to be useless as a human being or an artist, but… And I still have a lot of affection and respect for the other two guys as well, and if something came up, I’d be glad to be hanging out in their company. It’s a lot of fun touring with those guys, they’re funny, funny men, you know, the two of them, just hilarious." - Peter Tork, WDBB, February 12, 2006

“Mike joined us in the UK for our 30th anniversary tour in 1997. I enjoyed that tour very much; it was a good time. Nevertheless, Mike never said anything to me when he decided to leave the band after the ’97 European tour, and I still don’t know why he left.” - Peter Tork, Medium, 2017 (x)

“Mike and I have been back and forth with the emails […] I bore him no ill-will. I have a lot of respect and admiration and some affection for Mike. And I’m glad to be back in touch with him.” - Peter Tork, interview with Iain Lee, 2012

“I am told he slipped away peacefully. Yet, as I write this my tears are awash, and my heart is broken. Even though I am clinging to the idea that we all continue, the pain that attends these passings has no cure. It’s going to be a rough day. I share this with all Monkees fans this change, this ‘loss,’ even so. PT will be a part of me forever. I have said this before — and now it seems even more apt — the reason we called it a band is because it was where we all went to play. A band no more — and yet the music plays on — an anthem to all who made the Monkees and the TV show our private — dare I say 'secret' — playground. As for Pete, I can only pray that his songs reach the heights that can lift us and that our childhood lives forever — that special sparkle that was in the Monkees. I will miss him — a brother in arms. Take flight my Brother.” - Michael Nesmith, Facebook, February 2019 (x)

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE ART OF THE COVER PHOTO STILL @$!#*&% CONTINUES!! -- PART 2 OF 2.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the second handful of cover photos that I've used for my Tumblr blog over the past month, featuring such online finds as:

The late Sakevi Yokoyama (196?-2023), vocalist/lyricist/graphic artist for Japanese hardcore/heavy metal band G.I.S.M., performing in 1984.

The sensually-charged close-up photography of Harry Peccinotti.

The psychedelic sleeve art of British blues band CREAM, created by Martin Sharp for their second album "Disraeili Gears."

The dancing Tiger Woman from the British/Hammer horror film "Vampire Circus" (1972)

A tender photo taken at the former Southwestern High School, Detroit, Michigan, USA, during the class of 1987-'88, later borrowed by Swedish dream pop band, THE RADIO DEPT. 📸: Manny Crisostomo.

Movie poster design for the American sci-fi/horror/adventure film "The Mole People" (1956), distributed by Universal Pictures International.

A 2017 photograph titled "Circling the Small Ads (After Harland Miller)" by Miles Aldridge -- featuring fashion model Cleo Cliwek.

Film still from the American action/thriller film "The Warriors" (1979), directed by Walter Hill, and based on Sol Yurick's 1965 novel of the same name.

Sources: IMDb, Mutual Art, Heritage Auctions, YouTube, Pinterest, Picuki, The Black Box Club, Detroit Free Press, various, etc...

[browsethestacks]

Brave And The Bold: Metal Men (1967/1972)

Art by Ross Andru And Mike Esposito / Nick Cardy

[doctorwho2022]

Doctor Who episodes that aired on the 30th of December…

In 1967, The Enemy of the World Episode 2

In 1972, The Three Doctors Episode One

In 1978, The Power of Kroll Part Two

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #449:

Winner of the 1972 contest, Vicky Leandros, had taken part in Eurovision once before she took home the win. In 1967, she participated as "Vicky" and placed 4th.

[Sources]

Edinburgh 1972, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Vienna 1967: Vicky, Eurovision.tv.

[gaytobymeres]

Callan should have decked Bishop for this

[jhsharman]

big daddy, daddy's little girl

So. The year is 1967 or 1972. And Veronica wants to take her dad to the Daddy -- Daughter Dance. But Hiram Lodge is too busy, off on business. She can't not go this event, depending on which one just because she was bragging about winning all the contests or just because. What to do? Take Archie. Pretending to be Mr. Lodge.

Naturally going to win the contest of 1967 because -- old people can't do The Twist. As the last of the last of the pre-codified randomly rendered Betty's dad thinks it -- "A Twist Ugh".

As for 1972, a slow dance with changed partners (and Hal Cooper has blonde hair but is otherwise identifiable) almost gives things away.

Funny thing (well, besides the funny thing of -- uh?) on the public spanking which follows Mr. Lodge dropping in for Archie. Veronica thinks this is being done by Archie.

And things fall apart in both stories.

[taquela16]

Uninteresting Story

Daily writing promptScour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life. Write about that.View all responses

[disneybooklist]

Snowball Express (1972)

Chateau bon vivant by Frankie and John o'rear (1967)

[liberaljane]

Women's Not So Distant History

This #WomensHistoryMonth, let's not forget how many of our rights were only won in recent decades, and weren’t acquired by asking nicely and waiting. We need to fight for our rights. Here's are a few examples:

📍 Before 1974's Fair Credit Opportunity Act made it illegal for financial institutions to discriminate against applicants' gender, banks could refuse women a credit card. Women won the right to open a bank account in the 1960s, but many banks still refused without a husband’s signature. This allowed men to continue to have control over women’s bank accounts. Unmarried women were often refused service by financial institutions entirely.

📍 Before 1977, sexual harassment was not considered a legal offense. That changed when a woman brought her boss to court after she refused his sexual advances and was fired. The court stated that her termination violated the 1974 Civil Rights Act, which made employment discrimination illegal.⚖️

📍 In 1969, California became the first state to pass legislation to allow no-fault divorce. Before then, divorce could only be obtained if a woman could prove that her husband had committed serious faults such as adultery. 💍By 1977, nine states had adopted no-fault divorce laws, and by late 1983, every state had but two. The last, New York, adopted a law in 2010.

📍In 1967, Kathrine Switzer, entered the Boston Marathon under the name "K.V. Switzer." At the time, the Amateur Athletics Union didn't allow women. Once discovered, staff tried to remove Switzer from the race, but she finished. AAU did not formally accept women until fall 1971.

📍 In 1972, Lillian Garland, a receptionist at a California bank, went on unpaid leave to have a baby and when she returned, her position was filled. Her lawsuit led to 1978's Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which found that discriminating against pregnant people is unlawful

📍 It wasn’t until 2016 that gay marriage was legal in all 50 states. Previously, laws varied by state, and while many states allowed for civil unions for same-sex couples, it created a separate but equal standard. In 2008, California was the first state to achieve marriage equality, only to reverse that right following a ballot initiative later that year. 

📍In 2018, Utah and Idaho were the last two states that lacked clear legislation protecting chest or breast feeding parents from obscenity laws. At the time, an Idaho congressman complained women would, "whip it out and do it anywhere,"

📍 In 1973, the Supreme Court affirmed the right to safe legal abortion in Roe v. Wade. At the time of the decision, nearly all states outlawed abortion with few exceptions. In 1965, illegal abortions made up one-sixth of all pregnancy- and childbirth-related deaths. Unfortunately after years of abortion restrictions and bans, the Supreme Court overturned Roe in 2022. Since then, 14 states have fully banned care, and another 7 severely restrict it – leaving most of the south and midwest without access. 

📍 Before 1973, women were not able to serve on a jury in all 50 states. However, this varied by state: Utah was the first state to allow women to serve jury duty in 1898. Though, by 1927, only 19 states allowed women to serve jury duty. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 gave women the right to serve on federal juries, though it wasn't until 1973 that all 50 states passed similar legislation

📍 Before 1988, women were unable to get a business loan on their own. The Women's Business Ownership Act of 1988 allowed women to get loans without a male co-signer and removed other barriers to women in business. The number of women-owned businesses increased by 31 times in the last four decades. 

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📍 Before 1965, married women had no right to birth control. In Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), the Supreme Court ruled that banning the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy.

📍 Before 1967, interracial couples didn’t have the right to marry. In Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court found that anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional. In 2000, Alabama was the last State to remove its anti-miscegenation laws from the books.

📍 Before 1972, unmarried women didn’t have the right to birth control. While married couples gained the right in 1967, it wasn’t until Eisenstadt v. Baird seven years later, that the Supreme Court affirmed the right to contraception for unmarried people.

📍 In 1974, the last “Ugly Laws” were repealed in Chicago. “Ugly Laws” allowed the police to arrest and jail people with visible disabilities for being seen in public. People charged with ugly laws were either charged a fine or held in jail. ‘Ugly Laws’ were a part of the late 19th century Victorian Era poor laws. 

📍 In 1976, Hawaii was the last state to lift requirements that a woman take her husband’s last name.  If a woman didn’t take her husband’s last name, employers could refuse to issue her payroll and she could be barred from voting. 

📍 It wasn’t until 1993 that marital assault became a crime in all 50 states. Historically, intercourse within marriage was regarded as a “right” of spouses. Before 1974, in all fifty U.S. states, men had legal immunity for assaults their wives. Oklahoma and North Carolina were the last to change the law in 1993.

📍  In 1990, the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) – most comprehensive disability rights legislation in U.S. history – was passed. The ADA protected disabled people from employment discrimination. Previously, an employer could refuse to hire someone just because of their disability.

📍 Before 1993, women weren’t allowed to wear pants on the Senate floor. That changed when Sen. Moseley Braun (D-IL), & Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) wore trousers - shocking the male-dominated Senate. Their fashion statement ultimately led to the dress code being clarified to allow women to wear pants. 

📍 Emergency contraception (Plan B) wasn't approved by the FDA until 1998. While many can get emergency contraception at their local drugstore, back then it required a prescription. In 2013, the FDA removed age limits & allowed retailers to stock it directly on the shelf (although many don’t).

📍  In Lawrence v. Texas (2003), the Supreme Court ruled that anti-cohabitation laws were unconstitutional. Sometimes referred to as the ‘'Living in Sin' statute, anti-cohabitation laws criminalize living with a partner if the couple is unmarried. Today, Mississippi still has laws on its books against cohabitation. 

[bigarella]

De Gaulle divenne il modello di Sogno

Per capire meglio l’impostazione politico-operativa data a quest’altro tentativo [I Comitati di Resistenza Democratica di Edgardo Sogno] di raggruppare l’inafferrabile maggioranza silenziosa in funzione anticomunista, e contro o al di là del sistema politico italiano degli anni ’70, va ripercorsa in breve la biografia del personaggio che ne fu l’artefice. Edgardo Sogno Rata del Vallino, torinese…