NOW i get it!

i've been reading the book 'laurel canyon,' a history of the l.a. music scene in said canyon during the 60s & 70s, which takes me back to my college freshman days, days in which i was determined to keep the spirit of woodstock alive...in 1989! oh, those sandalwood-scented days of pot and top ramen. anyhoo....

...in the book, they talk about coke(aine) being so ubiquitous that it was built into recording studio budgets. in fact, it was so ubiquitous that one record label, in order to promote the single 'you're so vain,' distributed coke mirrors with carly simon's horse-like visage embossed on them. i was really shocked.

in a separate conversation over the last few days, phriedz and i were discussing state fairs and reminiscing about the prizes one could win if one were adept at the tossing of the rings, for instance. and then i realized: all of the little mirrors i collected as winnings at the state fair game booths---like the one with reo speedwagon's logo or the one with 'dirty deeds done dirty cheap' emblazoned on it--were actually coke mirrors! like, duh! of course, i also thought the roach clips one could win at the state fair were for wearing in one's hair (i blame my aunt for this, though i'm sure if i'd sidled up to her and sniffed the clip in her hair, it would've smelled distinctly of 'roach').

anyway, i just hate that it took me more than two decades to figure all this out. i wonder what i'll discover in another twenty years when my synapses wake from their near-eternal slumber and fire up again?