Why Can’t You Be More Like Jimi?
Because dying of a drug overdose before the age of 28 is a great life-goal to have:
There was a time when teachers would freak at the sound of Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” or “Stone Free.” Now the San Francisco school district wants them to get in the spirit.
“Remember the first time you heard Jimi Hendrix?” reads the cover of the district’s new 51-page education guide. “Our plan is as transformational now as his music was then!”
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The book also comes with a Hendrix poster and Hendrix-emblazoned canvas bag, which were handed out to a couple hundred administrators at Superintendent Carlos Garcia’s back-to-school confab in September.
Plus a four-pack of LSD tabs, a prescription for Vesperax, a bottle of red wine to wash it all down with—and a piece of fake vomit to relive the sordid death of the “transformational” artist.
What next, the James Dean School of Driving? Janis Joplin’s Dating Agency? I knew San Francisco was sick, but this sick?
Forget Malawi, Madonna: rescue a kid from Haight-Ashbury
Carol said,
March 30, 2009 @ 5:03 pm
But it was the 60s, man. Everyone knows the 60s were the pinnacle, the peak, the apex, the apogee, the culmination, the crown of human achievement.