ManBabies and Taking it “Furthur”

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Thanks to Tom Wolfe’s THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST, when I was in high school I thought Ken Kesey and Merry Pranksters were pretty out there, man. I mean, “tootling the multitudes” in a psychedelic bus named Furthur? How did they come up with that stuff?

Today, if that iconic bus rolled through my neighborhood with its waving hippies and blaring tape loops, I doubt I would give it a second look. I’d think, “Yeah, that’s far out. But it’s no ManBabies.”

Perhaps I’m jaded and numb. Or maybe I live in a world of pastiche and collage and mashup, where every culture is a subculture, and where cognitive dissonance isn’t the problem, but what makes the game worth playing.

So if you’re working on something right now and you feel it’s middling, let ManBabies give you permission to blow it out.

And if you’re working on something right now that feels too weird, fleeting or inconsequential, relax. You’re in good company.