| Kathy | Al(bert)/Ossian | Phil | Jeff | Eve | Craig | Moonbeam | Lily | Brian | |
| based on: | Kathy Bolles; Chris Jacoby; Chris Zubach | Kathy's Frank | David Komito; Chris Zubach's guy | Chuck Henderson (a little); Crumb cartoon; Randy | Annie (a little); Star | Craig | me; Alston's girl | Linda Mandel | Jeb; Well guy Alston |
| physical appearance: | blonde, straight hair; svelt & worries about it | thin, wiry; long mustard brown hair in pony tail, blue eyes that smile; later-starts to grow beard |
dark hair, dark eyes, dark beard, sharply chiseled features; later - no beard |
wild & woolly dirty brown curls; fuzzy sideburns, chunky, big bear |
brown hair, straight, cut in pageboy, chunky, not pretty, comfortable |
big, muscular, long blonde ponytail (surfer) |
slim, long arms & legs, brown braids wound around her head | big boobs, tomboy, spit curls; thick black hair | George Harrison |
| perceive the world as: | big & unknowable; feels lost (magic) | a shadow of what it could be (magic) | conspiracies | painful (jokes to forget) | people, kids, home, family | party-time | sparkly; always wants more & more extremes | small & crushing; feels trapped | quiet earthy sense of humor; midwesterners downhome view |
| wants: |
to grow up & not grow up (=find herself); to fall in love; live fully (unlike her parents) |
to find himself WITHOUT growing up | to help the world (intellectual; political activist); be a hero | to joke his way through life (trust account) | to be an earth-mother: have everybody love each other | to hang out, be cool, do his own thing, not work hard (surfer) |
to be herself (kookie) (rich parents) |
to be popular | to serve his parents & country, be a good person |
| exaggerate to: | to make things change; create community | appears to be a joker, no respect for parents, authority | cynicism, negativity, chip on shoulder | living in fantasy | has affairs | to be a star | self-destructive | dreams of stardom | keeps getting into trouble; drugs |
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what's keeping him/her from doing it: |
lack of self-knowledge (uncertainty of how to be) | social expectations | lack of power | he does it; but loses his love life & kids | reality of marriage | he does it; but he gets obnoxious | social expectations | naivete; getting busted | |
| how they appear to others (what they try to hide): | always doubting herself | shy | heartless; unable to realte to people | never serious; tendency to alcoholism | calm, together, mature, self-assured | surfer | funny | clown, immature, loser | straight, blind, naive |
| experience 60s: | as art | as religion & psychology | as politics | as theater | as love | as time to party | as time to play | as media | as the war & drugs |
| what they discover good about themself: | curious about people; talented, can-do under right circumstances | really together hippy | leadership abilities | family man | unable to pick a good man | can be musician without the road | creative | own inner strength | not so stupid after all; country boy, practical, technical |
| passionate about: | being an artist | truth; being childlike | politics | street theater; clowning | loving home, children, animals | music; Moonbeam | creativity | music heros; movie heros; magazine stars | serving |
| the right goal: | do her own thing first | going into the career area he really wanted (working with kids) | to appreciate/value people above politics | family comes first | accept reality | to be close to his friends | to be creative in ways that serve | I'm ok, I can do it | be part of community |
| the first of them to accept & later the first to doubt the 60s | outgoing: closet bi; best friends often men | actually outgoing | actually outgoing | ||||||
| differences / compliments: | basically serious | basically fun loving | has to go off and be lonely in order to get it together | basically unable to change | basically able to change | basically needy | basically able to be on her own | basically fun loving | basically serious, level headed |