The Hippie Bus Tour to Queens
September 22, 1968, New York, New York

Artist Joey Skaggs, having lived on the Lower East Side for a number of years, grew increasingly annoyed by the tourist buses that would cruise through St. Marks Place in the East Village gawking at the long haired hippies. Squares from suburbia, acting as if they were touring a zoo, snapped photos from the safety and comfort of their site-seeing buses.

In an ironic reversal -- a put-on of middle class values -- Ska... read more

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Hello glorious fall with your golden leaves, bonfires, cider, early evenings, pumpkins, ghosts, sweaters...Bring it on!

So I had a dream of wrestling a big black bear and being comforted by a white polar bear. I read that black bears can symbolize the dark time before a transformation or a new phase. I guess it's that time for me. What a year so far.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly...Richard Bach

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My Feeeelinz' sez your future looks brite!

Miss Fortune Cookie

Well I just escaped from the 'ice age' that hit Ohio this week. Beautiful snow and sunshine, but brutally cold. I definitely put in some good quality time with the fam. There wasn't much else we could do anyway. I did get to go sledding before it got too cold to even do that. All the schools had shut down and people were warned not to be outside for longer than 20 mins at a time.

Ahhhh it's good to be back!!