The Bogus Buzz

<p>Flashback to the 1960's and 1970's and faster than you can say <b><i>'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida'</i></b> accompany Glen Keough as he is drilled by Dominican nuns enlightened by a hippie father and loved by a grandmother who easily forgave his sins.</p> <p>In this coming of age memoir Keough reminisces on a youth spent in Southern California with a band of boys who when freed from the constraints of Catholicism partook in the forbidden fruits of the era. A time to trade marbles for marijuana and Johnny Western for Led Zeppelin. Such transactions come with a price as his best friend went on an acid trip he never returned from mentally. The author broods on a lost of innocence and how a gracious God could take away a sister so young with cancer.</p> <p><b><i>The Bogus Buzz</i></b> shares a sensitive maturation process similar to the 1986 movie <b><i>Stand By Me</i></b>. It reflects on the coping mechanisms constructed to weather divorce insecurity and the come hither look of the fish netted blonde two desks down.</p>