http://happilyhippie.netfirms.com/TheHippieHammer Teaching Ethnic-Hippies Theory; Promoting Countercultural Pride Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:20:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   It was sometime in the eighties.  I was upset with myself: I have a need to be productive, and I wanted to get more done.  But it was a hot, wearing summer, and I had a tendency to be a sleepyhead.  I wanted some kind of help, a mild stimulant, ... http://happilyhippie.netfirms.com/TheHippieHammer/?p=54     People often speak of “ex-hippies.”  This is usually said in deference to an assumed truism: hippies were just a thing of the late sixties and early seventies and don’t exist anymore.  Of course, there probably are true “ex-hippies,” people for whom being hippie was a sort of phase, something that ... http://happilyhippie.netfirms.com/TheHippieHammer/?p=45   Five of us were sitting in the sauna.  Earlier, I had seen two of them outside--twenty-ish males, apparent hippie types. One had shoulder-length hair parted carelessly in the middle and a goatee; the other had his brown hair pulled back in a ponytail, a mustache and a small earring in ... http://happilyhippie.netfirms.com/TheHippieHammer/?p=20   It’s probably the most important thing in the world, and though it sits right in front of our eyes, we’re blind to it. And when it’s pointed out to us, we dismiss it out of hand, sniggering usually. It’s the social status of hippies. First, hippies didn’t end with the sixties. ... http://happilyhippie.netfirms.com/TheHippieHammer/?p=3