The Bogus Buzz

Flashback to the 1960s and 1970s and faster than you can say "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," 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.

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.

The Bogus Buzz shares a sensitive maturation process similar to the 1986 movie Stand By Me. It reflects on the coping mechanisms constructed to weather divorce, insecurity, and the come hither look of the fish-netted blonde two desks down.