Posts Tagged ‘1970s’
There was a lot wrong with the 1970’s, but these two things might have made up for it.
The 1970′s may have been bathed in second hand smoke and disco, and the dominant political figure of the decade may have been Richard Nixon, but people didn’t speak about hummus like it was a religion, and travel soccer did not exist. So maybe not so bad after all.
Read MoreThe 1970s will never be fully understood.
More evidence that the 1970s were the strangest time in America: In 1970, Sesame Street’s Ernie’s signature song “Rubber Duckie” reached No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. It’s absolutely inexplicable.
Read MoreThe Nipple Bra is further proof that it wasn’t entirely my parents’ fault.
I once heard a Moth storyteller blame her parents’ failure to meet the minimum requirements of a mother and father on the 1970s. It was a different and inexplicable time in the history of the country, the storyteller explained. A strange and mysterious decade that no one today can quite understand. A time when the…
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