The Lizard King died fifty years ago today. [View all]

[PlanetBev]

Ironically, I was driving south on Laurel Canyon, just approaching the Canyon Country Store and the house the Jim Morrison had lived in, when the news came over the radio that he died in Paris. I had already seen The Doors twice in concert. I loved that group.

I’ve been thinking that the 60’s and the 70’s was a time of great forward motion in this country and now I’m seeing it all go into reverse. I’m so frightened by advancing Fascism and climate change that I wouldn’t want to be twenty-one again, like I was in 1971. I sure hope another generation can figure out a way out of the damage that’s being done.