From the organization website:
>Stories Through The Ages - Baby Boomers Plus 2021 is open to people born 1966 or earlier. There is no prompt for the contest. Authors may write about any topic. The entry fee is $25 ($20 if submitting more than one story). The word count for this contest is 900 - 4000 words. Cash prizes of $500, $200 and $100 will be awarded. There will be a minimum of 15 finalists whose story will appear in the book. See our FAQ for more information.
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>Find information about all of our contests here.
Contest details
- Sponsor: Living Springs Publishers
- Category: Short story
- Submission length: 900-4,000 words
- Entry fee: $25
- Awards: $500 and anthology publication
Guidelines and submission information
This contest has been vetted and approved by Winning Writers
"Well, my name is a number
A piece of plastic film
And I'm growin' funny flowers
In my little window sill
Dont you know I'm a 2000 man
And my kids, they just don't understand me at all"
Been listening to Their Satanic Majesties Request by The Rolling Stones in the week before Charlie Watts died and the week after, listening to it quite a bit as well. I avoided it for a very long time, despite enjoying psychedelia quite a bit, mostly because of the cover resembling Sgt. Pepper's and from what I've heard from reviewers, the music being similarly derivative. Listening to it, it's anything but a mere imitation of Sgt. Pepper's. While Sgt. Pepper's made each track a conscious effort to differentiate The Beatles from Rock n Roll, Their Majesties fuses psychedelia with pure Stones rock n roll. Very heavy riffs, better electric riffs than anything on Sgt. Pepper's, are found on 2000 Man, Citadel, and In Another Land, at least in my mind.
Sgt. Pepper's was not only a psychedelia based album, it also reinvented rock n roll as a style that could be adapted to all kinds of new sounds and musical styles- raga, show tunes, symphonies, avant garde. Their Majesties is moreso a fusion of rock n roll with psychedelia, and does so better than Sgt. Pepper's in my mind. It's still energetic and rhythmically intense like rock but filled with incredibly spacey lyrics, sound effects, and structures. In this way I don't see it as derivative from Sgt. Pepper, even if they were trying to make their 'Sgt. Pepper's' in their use of Indian sound effects, tape effects, and freak outs.
What's more, it was produced by the Stones themselves after their longtime engineer apparently gave up on them for their poor productivity. Couldn't be any different than the Beatles' George Martin really going all out to organize his psyched-out proteges into a much more complex, and arranged, and engineered album. Stones made a very psychedelic album in the absence of the professionalism and cutting edge technology that the Beatles had, and in that aspect I think it's quite a good album.
I compare it to Piper at the Gates of Dawn, The Doors (self titled), Anthem of the Sun, and of course Sgt. Peppers in terms of being an intensely psychedelic document of the mid-late 60s. I think it holds up very well and is a great example of what rock stars tend to do when you give them a lot of acid- make weird, heavy, and inscrutable music that can seem a little uninspired until you 'step into their shoe
... keep reading on reddit ➡Is it possible to get legal history (arrest records, domestic case records, criminal records) on someone that dates from the 1960's without knowing a specific city/county?
I'm trying to establish someone's history in Wisconsin in the 1960's and background searches of court judgments and legal actions only appear to go back into the 1990's. Not having background searches also means, among other things, that I also can't find the city or county in WI as residential records don't go back that far. I think that if I can find the city/county within the state, that I could go to the clerk of the local courts for the case files, but can't do much without the city/county information. So court records are out. Are there arrest records that are searchable at the state level that go back as far as the 1960's?
I don't believe Paul died in 1966 but yesterday those question came to mind.I feel this is a hole in the "Paul is dead" rumor. Why would George and Ringo Work with "William Campbell" after The Beatles Broke up in 1970.
By now, everyone knows the famous story of top NBA players threatening to boycott the 1964 All-Star Game unless owners recognized their union.
I had no idea, until this Twitter thread by Sam Quinn, that NBA players got their union recognized ahead of the MLB and the NFL, which had decades of headstart on the NBA.
For those unfamiliar with the story, Bill Simmons wrote about it in a 2008 piece on Elgin Baylor:
>Frustrated by low wages, excessive traveling and the lack of a pension plan, Elgin, Oscar, Russell and others decided to strike at the 1964 NBA All-Star Game in Boston. It was one of the ballsiest and shrewdest decisions in the history of professional sports that nobody ever mentions; every financial development with the NBA (the players' union, escalating salaries, you name it) basically started on this night. The players told commissioner Walter Kennedy two hours before the game that they weren't playing without a pension agreement in place. With ABC televising the game and threatening Kennedy that any potential TV contract would go up in smoke if the players left them hanging with dead air, Kennedy agreed 15 minutes before tipoff to facilitate a pension deal with the owners. This was the first instance in American history of professional athletes risking their careers and paychecks for a greater good. And ultimately, you had what turned out to be the first pension plan of the modern sports era, the first real victory for a players' union in sports history.
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>According to David Halberstam's "Breaks of the Game," the votes were split in the locker room. A few influential stars wanted to play and negotiate later, including Wilt, the league's biggest draw at the time Just when it seemed like the dissenting players might convince everyone else to play, Lakers owner Bob Short sent a message down to the locker room ordering Jerry West and Baylor to get dressed and get their butts out on the court, sending the entire locker room into "Eff these guys, we're not playing!" mode. And they didn't. The seeds for free agency and big-money contracts were planted on this night. Elgin never forgot the night his owner tried to order him around like a caddie.
So heartening to see tonight this latest generation of players continuing this proud activist spirit that the league's first stars started.
From the organization website:
>Stories Through The Ages - Baby Boomers Plus 2021 is open to people born 1966 or earlier. There is no prompt for the contest. Authors may write about any topic. The entry fee is $25 ($20 if submitting more than one story). The word count for this contest is 900 - 4000 words. Cash prizes of $500, $200 and $100 will be awarded. There will be a minimum of 15 finalists whose story will appear in the book. See our FAQ for more information.
>
>Find information about all of our contests here.
Contest details
- Sponsor: Living Springs Publishers
- Category: Short story
- Submission length: 900-4,000 words
- Entry fee: $25
- Awards: $500 and anthology publication
Guidelines and submission information
This contest has been vetted and approved by Winning Writers
