Song 810: This week the playlist comes around to White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane, written by Grace Slick, and you can find a cool YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. Whenever I hear this song, I always automatically picture the outside area just behind my parents’ house, so I probably heard it out there on a transistor radio in a prominent moment of some kind while it rode the charts. Grace and her flying friends had given me a lift in the spring of 1967 with their previous chart-topper about having a romantic partner (Song 267) and a few months later they expanded the rock fan attraction to them by handing us a moving description of a bright vegetarian mammal. During those teenage years, I felt that I was too small, so I would have liked taking a pill that makes you larger but would not have wanted one that makes you small. Back then, I shared a lot of time with friends on the chessboard, but I don't remember ever having some kind of mushroom.
