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unusual facts about counter culture



Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him

The commune's spiritual leader, "Tiny Doctor Tim", who speaks as if he is very drunk, appears to be a parody of counter culture figure Timothy Leary.


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Banshee Chapter

Anne discovers that a mention of "Friends in Colorado" is related to the counter-culture writer Thomas Blackburn (Ted Levine), a Hunter S. Thompson-esque figure that is known for his drug usage and unpredictable behaviors.

Bill Narum

Bill Narum (January 11, 1947-November 18, 2009) was an artist, illustrator, and Texas counter-culture icon known for his work in popular entertainment, and for being one of the few non-natives to have lived with the Tarahumara tribe of northern Mexico in Copper Canyon.

English underground

The phrase was used, in a wider cultural sense, in Jonathon Green's book Days In The Life: Voices from the English Underground, 1961-1971, a collection of first-hand accounts of the 1960s counter-culture that often drew on carnivalesque and music hall traditions and styles.

Goatee

Similarly, the DC Comics comic book superhero, Green Arrow aka Oliver Queen, became a distinctive character in the late 1960s when he was visually redesigned with such a beard, which inspired writer Dennis O'Neil to reimagine him as a politically active counter culture hero.

Graphic Story Magazine

There were nine issues of Graphic Story Magazine with pages per issue varying from 32 pages to the 64-page Basil Wolverton issue #14 (Winter 1971-72) which featured Wolverton's Powerhouse Pepper, Shock Shannon, The Story of Man, The Counter Culture, Common Types of Barflize and Wolverton caricatures, plus an interview with Wolverton.

Grigore Cugler

While officially rejected, the writer was reportedly earning status in counter-culture and among dissidents: novelist and anti-communist activist Paul Goma recounted that deportees to the Bărăgan learned his texts by heart.

Joseph Heath

The central claim of The Rebel Sell is that counter-cultural movements have failed, and that they all share a common fatal error in the way they understand society; thus counter-culture is not a threat to "the system".

Michael Ventura

Michael Ventura commenced his career as a journalist at the Austin Sun, a counter-culture bi-weekly newspaper that published in the 1970s.

Narum

Bill Narum (1947-2009), American artist, illustrator, and Texas counter-culture icon

Saman Arbabi

For Weapons of Mouse Destruction he worked with counter-culture artist Shepard Fairey, invited Twitter co-founder Evan Williams to participate in the campaign.

The Making of a Counter Culture

The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition is a work of non-fiction by Theodore Roszak originally published in 1969.