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Knowledge is Power!
Schoolhouse Rock! used the power of music to teach Generation X

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

Americans now in their 50s grew up in a time of radical innovation at the intersection of public education and mass media. In the late 1960s, citizen groups such as …

Knowledge is Power!
Schoolhouse Rock! used the power of music to teach Generation X
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Music / Social Studies

Perfect Sound Forever
The compact disc at 40

October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

Looking back on the 1980s today, the first thing I remember is the gleam of it all — the sterile, sleek sheen of a bold new pink-and-turquoise-hued future, molded in …

Perfect Sound Forever
The compact disc at 40
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Social Studies

Prometheus of the Plains
The Kansas quack who created the modern age

September 16, 2022September 16, 2022 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

A media magnate blanketing the nation with wall-to-wall political propaganda and misleading advertising. A snake oil salesman running for high public office, using an ersatz mixture of populism and religious …

Prometheus of the Plains
The Kansas quack who created the modern age
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Cherokee Strip Club / Social Studies

Telethon Man
My inauspicious first brush with showbiz

September 3, 2022 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

I was sitting next to my mother in our ’60 Chevy one day as she drove down the main drag of our quiet little rural town. It was some time …

Telethon Man
My inauspicious first brush with showbiz
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Social Studies

Anybody Here Seen My Old Friend Jason?
The unnecessary death of the nicest guy in town

December 28, 2021December 28, 2021 - by Michael Carmody

It must have been 20 or more years ago when I first met Jason Fritts. I don’t know the year, exactly, but I recall the cirumstance. I was on my …

Anybody Here Seen My Old Friend Jason?
The unnecessary death of the nicest guy in town
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Social Studies

What’s Cooler than Being Kool?
The ice cold (and explicitly racist) history of menthol cigarettes

May 2, 2021May 2, 2021 - by Michael Carmody - Leave a Comment

As a child growing up in the 1970s I assumed it was a given that pretty much all grown-ups smoked cigarettes. Clouds of acrid smoke drifted wherever adults congregated; even …

What’s Cooler than Being Kool?
The ice cold (and explicitly racist) history of menthol cigarettes
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Hooray for Flowers!

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Where No Okie Has Gone Before

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Close Encounters

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Skidoo at 52

March 9, 2021December 13, 2021

Seen Magazine’s Lost Nineties Playlist

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Michael Carmody - Skidoo at 52

It's a wild ride, for sure!

Dee Poe - Skidoo at 52

I missed this particular article the first time around, read it this morning, and watched the movie after that. It…

Michael Carmody - Hooray for Flowers!

Oh, that's a great one. I first stumbled onto Simple Minds with "New Gold Dream." Somehow I came across a…

Krista Vollack - Hooray for Flowers!

"Promised You A Miracle" by Simple Minds always sounds like springtime to me.

Leslye Morita - Close Encounters

You should be a nationally published author. Start submitting now. Your writing is beautiful, descriptive and relevant. And heartbreaking. (Not…

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