[higgmeister]

🎼Everywhere is freaks and hairies, dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity....?

Fifty year old tune....

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Arlo Guthrie was asked by a reporter, "what is a freak?"   He responded, "freaks is freaks, man."   Around 1972, I was a Freak, long hair and all, even though I voted for Richard M. Nixon.

Now, fifty years later, I have long hair hanging down below my collar, but a lot of it is gone on top and my wife told me a few hours ago to cut it because it looks terrible.   I reminded her the other day that my hair is as long now as it was in my unfinished self portrait from fifty years ago.

Freaks were just nonconformists.   There were Head Freaks, Jesus Freaks, Pill Freaks, Love Freaks and eventually all kinds of other freaks who joined in the movement, which ultimately wiped the whole concept out of existence.

[gundog]

Yeah, I was a long-hair in a logging town. There weren’t many of us. Wasn’t old enough to vote for Nixon. First voted in ‘80....after Carter conceded.