Regular 5FF readers know I commemorate it every year, but since we finally seem to be embracing Kate McMillan's dictum that "Not showing up to riot is a failed conservative policy," I figured it deserved a whole column (for the benefit of the uninitiated). There's still a lot more I want to tease … [Read more...]
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Johnny Ramone and the Hard Hat Riots
As told by Marky: Being in a van at all hours of the night gave me a chance to learn a lot more about John than when he dropped by the apartment in SoHo to pick up Roxy. His dad was a blue-collar guy. John’s … [Read more...]
ABC News doc includes Hard Hat Riot segment
Suzanne Fortin on Facebook writes: Kathy Shaidle has often blogged about the Hard Hat riot … [Read more...]
Happy ‘Hard Hat Riot’ Day! More or less…
I've been celebrating Hard Hat Riot Day on this blog for years, so I'm not going to "reinvent the riot" and write a brand new post. However,[Read more...]
Happy Hard Hat Riot Day!
"Uh-huh," indeed. The Clash at their blowhardiest -- who actually had a lot of … [Read more...]
Happy ‘Hard Hat Riot’ Day! Remembering the coolest 1970s protest you’ve never heard of
"On this date in 1970, Marxist led anti-war agitators set-up base camp at the George Washington statue on Wall Street, all the while waving Viet Cong and North Vietnamese battle flags while they burned and urinated on the American … [Read more...]
‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre can be seen as a horror film version of the Hard Hat Riots’
Er, nope. If that were true, I'd watch it all the time instead of hating it as a murky, unfunny, unscary mess.
"Hick's Revenge" horror isn't an early 1970s … [Read more...]
The Hard Hat Riot: 40 years later, new photographs emerge
Every year around May 8, I commemorate the [Read more...]
Happy Hard Hat Riot Day!
Every year, this blog celebrates the "anti-Kent State": the riot that ensued with construction workers at the World Trade Center site clashed with hippies on the streets of New York back in 1970. This year I've posted about it on [Read more...]
“Joe” (1970) “was a film that divided critics and audiences”
Cary Edwards at BrightLights: Some people came out of theatres loving a character who had voiced their concerns about society (loving it enough that an LP of … [Read more...]
‘I’m afraid the makeshift memorials of flags and other patriotic memorabilia that have sprung up on the edge of the police tape depress the hell out of me’
Mark Steyn writes: A no doubt sincere veneration for the military apparently can only express itself with a feeble passivity that is a large part of the problem. This isn't a time for the bumper-sticker … [Read more...]
‘Weird. Who’d have thought it’d be that difficult to find a Korean grocery store?’
Mark Steyn makes the big bucks because of multi-level one-liners like that particularly exquisite example. Because cough: More coughing, [Read more...]