'Sundry rubber goods'

I've always kept myself on the outer edges of society, preferring to observe its actions and ideas with a soft contempt, always keeping my "ironic distance" from the point of my own contrived superiority. I think this trait began in the spring of 1965, when I was a senior in high school.

In those days, Lawrence Welk and Art Linkletter ruled the TV world. The supposed moral decay of the later 1960'...