Well, ok...guess I'm just in a good mood this evening. To begin with, I think there's been major advancement in the availability of all sorts of good music; stuff that you sure couldn't find in 1970 without a major search, if you could find it at all. And there are a lot of people making some nice guitars today, not just guitars available from factories. And the people to play them! In art, there's the influence of the Pilchuck and Camp Colton schools (yeah, I work with glass) and the oil paintings of Wison Hurley. In architecture, there's almost too much to list: everything from Earthship houses to that way cool museum in Spain. I can't remember if John Crowley was writing in 1970, but if he was I hadn't yet found his books. Aegypt, for example. But I do miss Pogo...