The notorious School Kids issue of Oz magazine, published in 1970, reflected a form of personal rebellion that was widely accepted – indeed demanded – in some alternative circles.
The turquoise semitransparency of the water with its limpid scum of suntan oil and Noxzema; the creaky diving boards we dared each other to jump off; the tentative socialization with other kids issuing shyly out from other rooms.
These were the cultural schisms one looked forward to on the show, along with the shouts of encouragement the kids issued when rock and roll made an effort to get over its lazy impulse to segregate and showed up and was respectful of its different audience.
Your Kids Issue is a world closer to home but then I realized not so close.
Claudia Grassi's story about child slavery in Bucharest from our Kids Issue has been picked up by Europe's biggest tabloid Bild Zeitung.
Now their buddy Jimmi (whose spawn you met in the Kids Issue) has decided to start his own club in their hometown Uddevalla, Sweden, and Nifelheim are set to perform the opening night, on February 24.
As for the end of the East-West rivalry, he said, "That's an adult issue, not a kid issue.
The kid issue was prominent in the campaign of newly elected Democratic Party Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who promised to increase the current $100 a month subsidy per child to $280 and make public high school free.
For me, the kid/no kid issue has always been the most mulled.
