Notes
74 Notes “Bastard’s Song” Some phrasing is inspired by or paraphrased from The Three Christs of Ypsilanti, by Milton Rokeach. “Shot Up in the Sexual Revolution” Suzy Creamcheese: fictional teenybopper from Salt Lake City, created by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. They portrayed her as sexually desirable but clueless and uptight. “Girls say yes to boys who say no”: war slogan, coined by Joan Baez. “Hippies treat their women like squaws”: Danny Rifkin’s mother. Danny Rifkin was the road manager for the Grateful Dead. Betty Friedan called the suburbs “comfortable concentration camps for women.” “The correct position for women in the movement is horizontal”: Stokely Carmichael. The Dalkon Shield was an intrauterine birth control device popular in the late 1960s and early ’70s. It caused severe cramping and bleeding and was recalled in the wake of a class action suit after it led to scarring and infertility in thousands of women. “Put your body on the line.”: Mario Salvo, Berkeley Free Speech Movement. “The movement hangs together on the head of a penis”: Interestingly, Todd Gitlin attributes this quote to Tom Hayden in his memoir, and Tom Hayden attributes it to Gitlin. When a reporter claimed that Janis Joplin was a lesbian, she said, “You go and tell that son of a bitch I’ve slept with thousands of men and a few hundred women.” “My thoughts light fires in your cities.”: quote from Charles Manson at his trial. “Some Testimony of Witnesses” Some references to UFO sightings and abductions are inspired by, and in some cases paraphrased from, accounts by witnesses recorded in Missing Time, by Budd Hopkins; Your Sixth Sense, by Belleruth Naparste; and Diary of an Abduction, by Angela Thompson. “These space guests are sometimes idealized figures along the lines of technological angels who are concerned for our welfare, sometimes dwarfs with enormous heads bursting with intelligence, sometimes lemur-like creatures covered with hair and equipped with claws, or dwarfish monsters clad in armour and looking like insects.” Flying Saucers, C. G. Jung. 75 “Characteristics of Jinns” has appeared in different versions on numerous websites. The original version is attributed to Gordon Creighton, in Flying Saucer Review.” “Events came to me. I didn’t seek them out”: Missing Time, Budd Hopkins. ...
OR
