Rocky road in the valley of the bomb pop

Rocky road in the valley of the bomb pop

By Eddie Dean

I was coughing up dust, and so was my truck as we climbed the long gravel driveway to the sturdy white frame house high on a hill in Greene County. We had traveled many miles to get here, and the people were expecting us.

My truck was actually a converted ‘71 GMC van weighed down by a trio of lead-lined coffin-sized freezers. Above the rearview mirror I’d stuck a photo of a stoned Sly Stone, patron saint of hot-fun-in-the-summertime. On the truck’s filthy battered exterior, a painted tin sign promised "Happy Time Ice Cream," but everyone knew it as the “Big Lik,” the words emblazoned on the license plate.

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Full Stories List for May 23rd, 2002 issue #0116

4Better Or Worse

• The week in review

Music Reviews

• Darrell Rose and the Afrikan Drum Festival

• Robert Jospe's Inner Rhythm at Rapture; William Walter & Tucker Rogers at Orbit

The Dish

• Whoa, Nellysford

Cultural preview

• The buzz about Buzby: Jam-band epics make fans happy

• Getting Bud buried

• Giving back

• Mixed bag

• Out, skank! Stream cleanup preserves oasis

• Slam! Local poets go to the mat

Cover Stories

• Rocky road in the valley of the bomb pop

Uncategorized

• Fixing things with Busted Stuff

News

• Public relations nightmare? Service district withdraws request

• Rugby bombing

• Spicer's island

Essays

• Kindred crazies

Facetime

• Avant gardener

Movie Reviews

• Wake-up call

Real Estate - On the Block

• California dreamin'

Strange But True

• Lit up

The Fearless Consumer

• Bitter pills

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• LETTER FROM EDITOR-- Hook on stage: Challenge parodied at No Shame

• MOVIE REVIEW-- Wake-up call: Insomnia keeps viewers wide awake

• MUSIC-- PROWL-- Beat feat: Darrell Rose

• MUSIC PROWL-- Robert Jospe's Inner Rhythm

• NEWS EXCLUSIVE-- Spicer's island: Tortola cools while Labrador sweats

• NEWS-- Public relations nightmare?: Service district withdraws request

• NEWS-- Rugby bombing: Copycats-- or just plain stupid?

• PEOPLE-- The avant gardener: Quarles gives as good as he got

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