Open Salon

  • Home
  • Blogs
  • Topics
  • Help
  • Sign in
 
  • Editor's Pick
  • Top Rated
  • Most Viewed
  • Most Commented
  • Most Recent
  • animals
  • belief/religion
  • books
  • business
  • comedy
  • design
  • economy
  • environment
  • family
  • fashion
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • food/drink
  • for sale
  • gay/lesbian
  • gossip
  • health
  • movies
  • music
  • news
  • open call
  • photography
  • poetry
  • politics
  • science
  • sports
  • technology
  • television
  • travel
  • video
Posted by
    • 3 Ratings
    • 375 Views
    • 5 Comments
    User picture.

    Don Cornelius: Peace, Love & Soul

    FEBRUARY 2, 2012 1:35AM

    By Junesteward


    Topics: don cornelius, seventies, soul train

    • 0 Ratings
    • 90 Views
    • 0 Comments
    User picture.

    Lightning Strikes

    JANUARY 17, 2012 11:06AM

    By mollie staffa


    Topics: life, sixties, seventies, jack jones, wives and lovers, coming of age, adolescence, sex, family, music

    • 3 Ratings
    • 234 Views
    • 3 Comments
    User picture.

    Old Maid

    SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 5:07PM

    By Mary Ann Cooper


    Topics: family, seventies, old maid, dating

    • 1 Ratings
    • 144 Views
    • 1 Comments
    User picture.

    Pause

    MAY 25, 2011 10:03AM

    By Spike The Chicken


    Topics: fomalhaut, pisces, inner life, aging, seventies, bob dylan

    • 1 Ratings
    • 170 Views
    • 0 Comments
    User picture.

    The 4H Club

    MAY 11, 2011 10:53AM

    By Ohell


    Topics: seventies, 4h club, sugar addict, girl scouts, family dysfunction, awkward youth, dance recital, performance anxiety, parents, overeaters

    • 3 Ratings
    • 242 Views
    • 4 Comments
    User picture.

    Saved by Pop Culture: Mad Girl Meets "Madman"

    APRIL 23, 2011 6:27PM

    By Margo Channing


    Topics: seventies, angry, teens, porn, drugs, family, divorce, music, open call, saved by pop culture

    • 2 Ratings
    • 241 Views
    • 7 Comments
    User picture.

    Toad Hall Part 5: Broke Down

    JANUARY 18, 2011 7:05PM

    By Ira White


    Topics: travel, environment, family, seventies, commune, hippy, hippie

    • 5 Ratings
    • 1233 Views
    • 7 Comments
    User picture.

    What Were They Thinking?: Drinking in the Days of Mad Men

    JANUARY 12, 2011 4:30PM

    By Elizabeth Warkentin


    Topics: seventies, sixties, parties, overly permissive, drinking and driving, alcohol, drinking, social mores, societal attitudes

    • 15 Ratings
    • 854 Views
    • 28 Comments
    User picture.

    From Stove Top with Love

    NOVEMBER 17, 2010 9:06PM

    By Laura Deurmyer


    Topics: food/drink, family, turkey, thanksgiving, seventies

    • Editor's Pick
    • 24 Ratings
    • 3034 Views
    • 30 Comments
    User picture.

    American Fool in the Khyber Pass

    JULY 14, 2010 5:09PM

    By Les Braunstein


    Topics: near death experience, seventies, sixties, hippies, horse, pakistan, khyber pass, afghanistan, travel, adventure, politics

    • 8 Ratings
    • 1277 Views
    • 7 Comments
    User picture.

    The T-Shirt Project Part I

    MAY 16, 2010 9:25PM

    By hatchetface


    Topics: t-shirts, high school, seventies

    • 1 Ratings
    • 714 Views
    • 4 Comments
    User picture.

    The Other Woman: (1) Jenny; (2) Ostensibly (2300 words)

    APRIL 2, 2010 6:22AM

    By Eric Compère


    Topics: bedside manner, doctors, medicine, bmw, seventies, motherhood, memory, cancer, family

    • 2 Ratings
    • 464 Views
    • 1 Comments
    User picture.

    Respect the vinyl but don't diss the discs!

    JANUARY 19, 2010 9:34PM

    By thefuddler


    Topics: faust, krautrock, music, vinyl, avant-garde, pop, popular music, gas lines, plastics, plastic, petroleum, energy crisis, emi, capitol records, reissue, seventies, 1973, electronica, progressive rock, vinyls, record collecting, records, music collecting, mp3, digital, cd, audio

    • 6 Ratings
    • 752 Views
    • 10 Comments
    User picture.

    it's not my fault...i blame the music

    AUGUST 17, 2009 6:43PM

    By mistercomedy


    Topics: comedy, seventies, music

    • 5 Ratings
    • 620 Views
    • 4 Comments
    User picture.

    Cinema Of The Infantile: Welcome To The New Millenium

    AUGUST 10, 2009 3:25AM

    By Hal_M


    Topics: mass infantilization, transformers, escapist, summer, the seventh seal, 8 1/2, casablanca, brokeback mountain, caution, lust, studios, a.o scott, seventies, film, new millenium, lou dobbs, commercial, eyes wide shut, jean-pierre jeunet, john woo, rush limbaugh, joe the plumber, america, mccain/palin, new york times, sarah palin, fox, obama, dick cheney, jorge saralegui, the plague, children, hollywood

    • 0 Ratings
    • 0 Views
    • 0 Comments
    User picture.

    Cinema Of The Infantile: Welcome To The New Millenium

    AUGUST 10, 2009 3:25AM

    By Hal_M


    Topics: mass infantilization, transformers, escapist, summer, the seventh seal, 8 1/2, casablanca, brokeback mountain, caution, lust, studios, a.o scott, open wide: spoon-fed cinema, seventies, film, new millenium, cinema of the infantile, lou dobbs, commercial, eyes wide shut, jean-pierre jeunet, john woo, rush limbaugh, joe the plumber, america, mccain/palin, new york times, sarah palin, fox, obama, dick cheney, jorge saralegui, the plague, children, hollywood

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 1145 Views
    • 5 Comments
    User picture.

    For Farrah.

    JUNE 25, 2009 5:54PM

    By songweasel


    Topics: farrah fawcett, charlies angels, feminism, seventies, eighties, blondes, teeth

    • 10 Ratings
    • 982 Views
    • 12 Comments
    User picture.

    My Ex-Husband Is Moving Away

    MAY 4, 2009 3:23PM

    By havlin


    Topics: loss, longing, regret without desire, lost love, exes, dates, seventies, movies, divorce

    • Editor's Pick
    • 29 Ratings
    • 2116 Views
    • 19 Comments
    User picture.

    My First Night With An Almost Man

    MARCH 9, 2009 3:40PM

    By Gail Walter


    Topics: love, first love, growing up, first night, marriage, relationship, seventies, husbands

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 2027 Views
    • 15 Comments
    User picture.

    She's Mean and Evil Through and Through

    FEBRUARY 19, 2009 1:19PM

    By overworkedtiredandnumb


    Topics: mothers, children, favorite movie, independent women, seventies, sixties

    • 1 2 Next → Last ⇒
  • Open Salon
  • About
  • Contact
  • Help
  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Advertising

Salon.com

© 2012 Salon Media Group, Inc.