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...

On March 20, 1991, Eric Clapton and his former wife, Lory Del Santo, suffered the greatest loss of their lives: their four year old son, Conor Clapton. Source: Richard Young/Rex/Shutterstock In the midst of a game of hide and seek with the nanny, Conor ran through a window that was slid open for cleaning at his mother's 53rd floor New York City apartment and fell. Clapton, who had no idea at the time, arrived five minutes later to pick his son up for a trip to the zoo, but was instead met by Del Santo screaming, "He's dead!"  Clapton hadn't spent much time with his son, and had finally agreed to shoulder his responsibilities as a parent the previous day when the trio had gone to see the Long Island Circus together following a several year long series of disappearances. He was known to avoid his family both during and post pregnancy, often leaving for long periods of time starting three months before Conor's birth on August 21, 1986.  This event inspired the so...