Stan Estabrook:  

Howdy! To be honest, I'm not into this whole nostalgia trip; to me the 1970s are best left far behind. (The '80s too, though alot of the music from that decade was pretty good.) Frankly, my GHS experience was less a joy to be savored than an ordeal to be endured. I would not want to repeat that era if my life depended on it. The '90s and '00s, on the other hand, have been lots of fun, and I'm really not the miserable curmudgeon the above paragraph might suggest. Right now I'm living in Forks, WA (the home of all those ridiculous Twilight books and movies), and am the night manager at one of the nicest hotels west of Seattle. I'm also a former Seattle bookseller of many years' standing, and hope to get back in the biz one of these days. (The retail book industry is really struggling nowadays, as you've probably noticed, but I love it too much to give up on returning to it if the opportunity arises.) No wife or kids (or at least no kids I've been informed about), and that's fine with me, as I prefer to travel light through this life. Again, I'm not overly fond of sites like this one, or the mentality behind them. Why relive the pop-culture moments of a vacuous decade like the '70s? Too much interesting music has been made since then, too many good movies and books, to want to revisit the artistic mediocrity that characterized that decade. (Granted, TV isn't any better now than it was then, despite the hundreds of cha...Expand for more