GASSED AND FLACCID KIDS

Guilty pleasure

Along Comes Mary—The Association

My music teacher in middle school— Ms Cutler?— was an unreconstructed hippie. She reveled in the opportunity to share with us kids the wondrous sounds of the 60s.

Unfortunately, the wondrous sounds of the 60s to her meant the likes of Simon and Garfunkel’s Richard Cory (social commentary!), CSN’s Marrakesh Express (drugs!), and Along Comes Mary (more drugs!).

We’ll-call-her-Ms-Cutler used to try to replicate the whole psychedelic experience by flipping the classroom light switch on and off maniacally while a crackly version of one of the above songs played on a portable record player.

Sigh. Fecking hippies.

Still, though, Along Comes Mary survives in my esteem...