Nowadays Olive Can't Even Write

 Hey, readers! After a good long while of figuring out where I want to take this blog, I am back with new details as we hit the final segment of this blog's hiatus!  I have spoken in my last announcement about some major updates to the page, which are mostly behind the scenes (they're mostly major because I'm rifling through the 70+ blog posts I've written, making sure everything is right with my site and updating them to fit stylistically). Unless you rifle through my page, you probably won't notice much of these "major updates." However, there will be a few things changing that you are sure to notice if you're a returning reader. These include: Scheduled posts highlighting countercultural history events, which will be posted every other week. Album of the week: a weekly blog post dedicated to an album of the week, chosen partially by album anniversaries. Weekly music news/anniversary highlights, which will look kind of like my news-in-brief posts, bu...

Hey there! I would like to start off with an apology for the recent inactivity. I know it has been almost an entire week since my last blog post, and I've been too busy to update until now. Thankfully, I have some news that hopefully makes it worthwhile: I'm looking to expand the amounts of content available to readers starting June 1st, when I start offering more posts dedicated to important events in countercultural history. My most recent post on the Kent State Massacre really got me thinking about how much more I could be covering, and I figured that it wouldn't be a bad idea. While I am unsure on how frequent these posts will be, I want them to operate on an actual schedule unlike my current music-related posts. I will be sure to send out another update when more of the details are worked out.  As the year goes on, I am also hoping to throw new content into the music side of this blog as well. It will hopefully be scheduled like the countercultural history posts, but d...

On May 4, 1970, 4 students were killed on the Kent State University campus during a peace rally against the Vietnam War's expansion into Cambodia, as well as the presence of the National Guard on-campus.  Credit: Stephen Kaledecker/Public Domain Pictures Two of those students, Allison Krause, 19, and Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20, were participating in the protest, which involved over 300 others when 28 troops began firing. They went through 67 rounds total in 13 seconds, killing not only them, but two other students. Nine students were also wounded, with one becoming permanently paralyzed.  The other two students, Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20, and William Knox Schroeder, 19, were not participating in the protest, and happened to be walking to their next classes over 300 feet (91 meters) away from the firing line. Scheuer died on campus, but Schroeder died almost an hour later at the Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna while undergoing surgery. He was shot in the chest near his seventh...

The final scene of his crime, via CentraCare Minnesota native Phillip Michael Schaeffer fooled the Dixie Regional Medical Center into thinking that he was Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson in order to avoid paying medical bills. He went in for treatment in December 2011, using Lifeson's identity in order to claim that he didn't have health insurance. He told staff that an agent, "Phil Michaels", would be covering his medical costs. That visit alone racked up $23,000 out of the $72,000 he owed in total, but where did the other $49,000 come from? He pulled a similar stunt at the same hospital in November 2012 and February 2013 where he claimed to be Pink Floyd's frontman, David Gilmour. He then took it to the St. Cloud hospital on April 20, where he was arrested four days later on charges for swindling and theft. Some of the doctors rightfully expressed their suspicions, causing an investigation to open, which involved going through his patient chart and camera footage. H...