My tweets from yesterday for non-Twitterers:
- 12:16 *GRUMP* My health insurance premium is going up THIRTY PERCENT!!!!!! I’m going to have to scale down my coverage to a lower-benefit plan #
- 15:56 Most fascinating essay yet about Twilight phenom: compares it w/ huge popularity of 1740 novel *Pamela*: is.gd/50z9V #
- 16:34 @dakiwiboid hope noone asks me that! I’m buried in books researching 60s for next novel (also lived through them, FWIW 🙂 ) #
- 17:15 @majkia Anything that becomes this huge a cultural phenom is worth examining, just for that reason alone! I have keen interest in vamp mania #
- 18:10 @majkia @dakiwiboid: Yes, there were 3-4 strong cultural waves in the 60s that didn’t overlap a lot. I was doing the whole occult thing #
- 18:11 @majkia @dakiwiboid: then there was the counterculture/hippie movemt, & then the political/anti-war movemt, & they were really separate #
- 18:12 @majkia @dakiwiboid: plus the domestic activism, civil rights etc, was again another whole thing. I’m totally immersed in all this right now #
- 18:31 @dakiwiboid yes, the early 60s were very different than the end of the decade, & I think the Kennedy assassination was a big factor there #
- 18:32 @dakiwiboid but things didn’t just shift gears on 1/1/60, the folk music revival was linked to the beats & stuff in the late 50s, too #
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