2024-Nov-23, Saturday

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I don't know anything at all about Alice Brock, but I saw the news that she died yesterday at age 83, having health issues including COPD. She was the real-life inspiration for Arlo Guthrie's song.

Hence today's theme song:

Enjoy this almost-19-minutes-long blast from the past.

"Guthrie considered the song as relevant in 2015 as it was in 1965, particularly in that millennials and Generation Z were, much like the Baby Boomers of his era, beginning to coalesce as a bloc in opposition to the "very sophisticated manipulation" from major authority figures and institutions of the era, something that Guthrie believed Baby Boomers would find familiar."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Restaurant#Artist's_reflections

Still relevant.

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