wait, what did he do? sorry, im a Zoomer™

"82 year old dies" is in a sense hardly news at all. "singular genius who transformed popular culture dies" is news, but also not uncommon. but "one-time symbol of bravura youth culture, trapped for decades by the fallout of the sixties, who fought free and became a widely beloved elder, dies," phew

but they didn't go. they pulled through, and for both of them, in different ways, that very longevity, the ability to celebrate a new sense of freedom, of (fractured) wholeness, of outliving the demons was what they came to stand for, as much as the original peace love & joy of the transistor era

more equal societies are less free, from this perspective, because they lessen the specialness (& thus the freedom) of the rich individual. it's all about the potential freedom of the individual to rise above their peers, & never the society considered as a whole

Don't you just love that Hollywood magic

Thumbs 'n reference sheet--I started to give up on Porky by the end of the ref because looking at him too long was making me laugh at how dumb and frumpy he looks next to Petunia. Which is the entire point!

Instead of Heigh Ho, would the song be “Hoo Hoo”? 🤔 (That’s all folks)

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