tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post6205208993143079605..comments2024-03-26T11:27:35.814-07:00Comments on Tom Stephenson: Ho Ho Ho Chi Min...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-49580451855481606202016-07-12T09:48:30.104-07:002016-07-12T09:48:30.104-07:00I stuck some flowers in rifles in Washington, D.C....I stuck some flowers in rifles in Washington, D.C. -- it was when Martin Luther King died and there were riots going on...<br />The Broadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04976467218216864644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-76980004299610402402016-07-12T02:11:51.205-07:002016-07-12T02:11:51.205-07:00It was all the rage in those days.It was all the rage in those days.Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-73250167251778557322016-07-11T21:07:05.515-07:002016-07-11T21:07:05.515-07:00I remember some student falling out of a van on ou...I remember some student falling out of a van on our way back from an exhibition in an Officer's Mess in Aldershot. She was pissed too; we all were.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-84474407633993820912016-07-11T15:08:27.300-07:002016-07-11T15:08:27.300-07:00Can't remember the title.Can't remember the title.Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-42349496604472029792016-07-11T15:07:36.804-07:002016-07-11T15:07:36.804-07:00When you're 65.When you're 65.Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-24784984978722132032016-07-11T15:06:57.219-07:002016-07-11T15:06:57.219-07:00Oh - Kent State seems like that as well.Oh - Kent State seems like that as well.Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-62610688440181854252016-07-11T13:54:46.753-07:002016-07-11T13:54:46.753-07:00Was that the "You are here" exhibition? ...Was that the "You are here" exhibition? I visited it in 1968. The place was empty. I helped myself to a white badge from a jar by the door. It had " you are here" printed on it. I've still got it somewhere. There was a large white canvas with just these words on it. Not much else of any interest as I remember. I thought it very disappointing compared to the very exciting art that was emerging and available all.over London at the time. I was an impoverished student then but only five years later my clever young husband was scooping up pop art canvases at Sotheby's for peanuts. Been better than a pension fund.elegancemaisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10043236515999573762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-37907284377546781482016-07-11T13:34:07.361-07:002016-07-11T13:34:07.361-07:00But it's always the way. If you can't be a...But it's always the way. If you can't be a spoiled brat when you are 18 when can you be. Jenny Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16881781466502273314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-19377704299658991672016-07-11T12:42:50.716-07:002016-07-11T12:42:50.716-07:00That was DC, the iconic march on Washington. That was DC, the iconic march on Washington. Joanne Noragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16601010208310707750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-33660976019884095262016-07-11T11:34:15.742-07:002016-07-11T11:34:15.742-07:00They stuck flowers down the barrels of the Nationa...They stuck flowers down the barrels of the National Guard's rifles, I seem to remember.Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-65779049620345711992016-07-11T11:22:11.412-07:002016-07-11T11:22:11.412-07:00How different were our parents' lives. When fo...How different were our parents' lives. When four students were killed at Kent State in 1970, and more wounded my father (an Army man in the twenties and thirties) said, "They disobeyed orders!" I said "They did nothing they deserved to die for." We never exchanged another word on the topic. i will read some Roald Dahl.Joanne Noragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16601010208310707750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-52015853892581571352016-07-11T04:06:04.682-07:002016-07-11T04:06:04.682-07:00Oh and the girl who fell out of the taxi had to pr...Oh and the girl who fell out of the taxi had to promise the driver that she would not do it again before he let her back in!Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-64149282063546861802016-07-11T03:58:57.509-07:002016-07-11T03:58:57.509-07:00I felt the same way until i read these two books o...I felt the same way until i read these two books of his early life. If you ever see them i recommend reading them. He had a very unusual childhood.Rachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-18595673174047882012016-07-11T03:56:23.918-07:002016-07-11T03:56:23.918-07:00Hearing them has given me a better respect for him...Hearing them has given me a better respect for him. I always found him a bit of a pain before, for some reason. Not now. I saw him in Bath once - he was extremely unusual looking - 6' 7" and gangly.Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-81937642947319694132016-07-11T03:54:42.181-07:002016-07-11T03:54:42.181-07:00Oh she dealt with it ok. She is tough. She had to ...Oh she dealt with it ok. She is tough. She had to be, growing up in Japan in the aftermath of the war, eating nothing but rice in small quantities.Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-89291099964163078322016-07-11T03:44:34.175-07:002016-07-11T03:44:34.175-07:00Interesting. I am at work so only picking up on th...Interesting. I am at work so only picking up on the Roald Dahl bit. His war time memoires are a good read, as is his entire childhood before it, all written in two small volumes. They often, if not always, turn up in the Children's book section in charity shops but are anything but children's books. Excellent read they make in a refreshing way of looking at life in the 1920s and 30s and his wartime as a fighter pilot. Rachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-81073210952192923842016-07-11T03:37:58.857-07:002016-07-11T03:37:58.857-07:00Such a lucky girl Tom to only have bruises. I alwa...Such a lucky girl Tom to only have bruises. I always felt sorry for Yoko Ono...people were so cruel to her about her impact on the fab four, and true or false it must have been hard to deal with.libbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05552884005601003691noreply@blogger.com