Print and Radio Journalism
sixties
Dion De Mucci
For a sixty-seven-year-old, Dion is evidently in robust health. He looks like Jack Nicholson might if he too had been sober for decades, with a micro-beard under his bottom lip, a black New York Yankees cap, and expensive shades. He is aware that “the junkie finding God is a cliché” but speaks the language of self-help regardless. “When is a train most free,” he asks, “on or off the tracks?”
Where did all the protest songs go?
One day Christina Aguilera will release a cover of Dylan’s Masters Of War, Justin Timberlake will perform I Ain’t Marching Anymore on primetime television and millions of average Americans will descend on the White House, demanding an end to the bloodshed.
© 2009 Andrew Purcell. 