Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Double Rainbow: Haight-Ashbury, Hippy-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy, Rainbow

How to find folks in the Haight who were here in the 1960s, might like to talk about it, and might also have media they'd like to share on a Wiki.


Scott:

Hey from the Haight :) Don't quite know how to begin my hippy-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ... How do I network into the community who was here in the 1960s, likes to talk about it, and might also have media?


Gen:

hello!
i'd check out tribe.net
san fran based hippie soc networking site


Scott:

What's new in your world?
Great suggestion ..


Gen:

trying to catch up after spending all of last week visiting UC!
are you on tribe?


Scott:

sounds fun, and warm ... are you going to Rainbow
yea, but don't visit very often at all


Gen:

when is it again?
summer plans are beginning to percolate...


Scott:

July 1-7 in NM



Gen:

es possible!
that's a long time


Scott:

it kind of starts 3 weeks before that, too, when folks party and set up, I guess
it was a lot! of fun last year - my first time :)
they're getting good at picking the site i think -
find a place to stay in SD when you move?


Scott:

http://invite.tribe.net

Gen:
⁃ ?
not yet, probably not til this summer will we start looking
are you inviting me to tribe?


Gen:
i've been on tribe fo years!
it was 1 of the fieldsites for the virtual campfire
find me - strawberrydelight
as always


Scott:

cool ... I'll start looking around a little :)


Gen:

i'm sure you will find the population you seek!
join tribes and cross-post once you have a bunch


Scott:

cool, ~ tribe
:)


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From the Haight to India {Kerala?}, ~ writing ethnography ...


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Folks, a couple, who look pretty hip walk into Cole Valley Cafe. He has long hair, and could sing in a rock band. Another couple walk in and, attractive with slightly froozled hair, look like they've enjoyed a lot of good intimacy together; they have a passion and a connectedness.


Three or four other people, who are close to living on the street, come in, for various reasons - colorful, interesting, - one looking to make eye contact again and again, slightly aggressively, but also who looks a little unpredictable. I avoid his gaze. Who are the folks here who have taken a lot of drugs in the course of their lives?

The music in this cafe is great rock and roll, and the cafe is close to Haight street itself.

Now who likes to talk about counterculture, and who has been here a long time.

The Grateful Dead are playing over the sound system now.


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Last night, in Fairfax, there were a fair number of hippies in Bookbeat, before the contact jam. It's pretty cool ...







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