BOOMER(S) GONE WILD!
A CHILD OF THE 1960s REVIEWS HIS MISSPENT YOUTH & SHARES UNEDUCATED VIEWS OF TODAY’S WORLD.
Many stories you’ll read combine fact, fiction, exaggeration, vodka, and a moment of silence for the vermouth. I can’t remember all the facts, as my memory is a concept more than anything else, so I had to make some stuff up. Since I’m the author, I can do this. The characters are based on the people I met along the way. If you happen to be one of the people I’ve written about, then be glad I’m not using your real name and that I changed many dates or time frames when we met. I’m doing you a favor. As it turns out, there is a fine line between sadistic slander and artistic expression. Please don’t take it personally. I needed to make you look bad so I could look better. Maybe you could pretend it’s not about you. Look, you’re going to need to do something. I can’t help you. I’ve got my own problems to deal with. You should stop trying to make it all about you.
Table of Contents:
1) Forward: My Slow Hideous Descent to Hell: Meeting a Publisher
2) Introduction: Things You Should Never Say to Your Psychiatrist While Sober
Travel Stories
3) Raeford, North Carolina 1976: A Stranger in a Strange Land
Meeting My Psychiatrist 41 Years Later: Running in the Shadows
4) Asheville, North Carolina 1977: The Kids Get Along Fine. It’s the Adults.
Meeting My Psychiatrist 40 Years Later: What did Saddam Hussein say to Bill Clinton?
5) Tennessee, Texas and New Mexico 1977: Peyote and Bourbon
Meeting My Psychiatrist 40 Years Later: Get Your Shovel Ready
6) Washington, DC 1978: Black Beauties, Punky Reggae and Things You Can Do in College but Really Shouldn’t
Meeting My Psychiatrist 39 Years Later: How Many Narcissists Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?
7) Amsterdam 1979
a) Chapter 1: The Window Women, Electric Body Paint and the Return of the Thin White Duke
b) Chapter 2: The Strange Case of the 7″ Stilettos and the Church Going Heathens
8) Mexico 1979
a) Chapter 1: The Chicken and the Glory
b) Chapter 2: The Chariots of Fire
c) Chapter 3: Remembrance of Sombreros Past
d) Chapter 4: The Scream of the Wild
e) Chapter 5: You Are So Mediocre to Me
f) Chapter 6: Your Secret Garden is Safe With Me
g) Chapter 7: Das Kapital-ist and the Communist Malaprop-o
h) Chapter 8: Don’t Drink the Water Bottle Caps
i) Chapter 9: The Night of the Long Drool
k) Chapter 10: That’s One Birth, One Breakup, and One Goddess to Go
9) West Point, New York 1980: The Spanking of the Lambs
10) Hong Kong 1982
a) Chapter 1: It’s a Concrete Jungle Out There
b) Chapter 2: Losing My Religion
11) Japan 1983
a) Chapter 1: My Watch Says 8:02, Well That’s Midnight to You
b) Chapter 2: Political Science, Toilet Monitors, and The Dinner Party from Hell
c) Chapter 3: Emi’s Brave New World
d) Chapter 4: You Gotta Walk and Don’t Look Back
e) Chapter 5: To a Home on God’s Celestial Shore, She Flew Away
Kyoto 41 Years Later: HighwayˈWən ō Wən Revisited
12) Nashville, Tennessee 1985: Keith Richards and Me
13) Sweden 1985
a) Chapter 1: Helmet-Head, Butt-Hair & the Book of Daniel
b) Chapter 2: Butterflies, Rainbows & a Kiss on the Lips
c) Chapter 3: This’ll be the Day Your Life Will Surely Change
d) Chapter 4: Beethoven’s Precious ****in’ Moments in D Minor
Meeting My Psychiatrist 32 Years Later: Have You Actually Ever Seen Anyone Paying Through the Nose?
14) On the Road to Nowhere (OTRTN), Traveling to Eritrea 1985
a) Chapter 1 (1st Stop – Hamburg, Germany): Welcome to the New World Order
b) Chapter 2 (2nd Stop – West Berlin, Germany): Even Walls Fall Down
c) Chapter 3 (3rd Stop – Tunis, Tunisia): We Got Couscous Up the Yin-Yang
d) Chapter 4 (4th Stop – Jizan, Saudi Arabia): The Police Got that Old Time Religion
15) Eritrea 1985/1986
a) Chapter 1: Off to Hell We Go, Laughing All the Way
b) Chapter 2: How to Crush a Vibe in Under Five Seconds
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