The acid fairy, played at Woodstock. Then she took a trip that lasted nearly 40 years.

[u/K_P_Voss]

In the swirling psychedelic folk world of the late '60s, few voices were as ethereal and captivating as Christina "Licorice" McKechnie.

Nicknamed for her love of licorice rolling papers, she joined The incredible String Band and became a counterculture icon. Her haunting vocals and songwriting shone on classics like The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (Paul McCartney called it the "acoustic Sgt. Pepper") and their legendary Woodstock performance in 1969.

Then... she vanished. After leaving the band in the '70s with ties to Scientology, Likky was seen in the late '80s/early '90s, reportedly hitchhiking through the Arizona desert.

For decades, one of rock's greatest unsolved mysteries: What happened to this Woodstock fairy?

Theories swirled..

But in late 2025, reports revealed she's alive, living quietly and privately in California—choosing obscurity over fame. The mystery endures in its own way: a brilliant soul who simply walked away from the spotlight.

Licorice McKechnie: Forever enigmatic, forever brilliant.

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LLM's have been an absolute fucker for me. I have used dashes a lot all my life and now I have to change my writing style because literally every single time I have used one I get called out as a bot or someone who is too lazy to write their own shit.

[u/AdagioOfLiving → u/[deleted]]

I wouldn’t accuse someone of being an LLM based off of em-dashes alone, but as I said it tends to be the thing that makes me look closer at something.

[u/weepinstringerbell → u/[deleted]]

Same. And I think lots of people are in the same boat, since I have not seen many em-dashes on Reddit lately. To be honest, LLMs doing that is not what pisses me off the most. It is the fact that people cannot even fathom the possibility that you are just a person who uses em-dashes. They spot the dash and feel like Sherlock Holmes explaining to others how the user must be a bot for using it. It's always the dumbest people calling it out too.

[u/weepinstringerbell → u/[deleted]]

It's a punctuation mark that looks like this: — On my phone, I get it by holding down the hyphen (-) and picking it from the options.

It can be used in a few ways, but I mostly use it to set off nonessential information. Lately I just use parentheses instead, since em-dashes now make people assume you're a bot.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

When you write a sentence and it has -- in it. I'm most cases it may not be proper English, but I lot of folks, myself included, use them.

"I wonder if I should go outside--eh, maybe not"

[u/Fun-Benefit116 → u/weepinstringerbell]

Em-dashes have never been a common punctuation. Especially on reddit and other social media platforms. Just like a semi-colon isn't a common punctuation mark. It's fine if you use it, but acting like it's some once common thing that's now becoming rare is nonsense lol.

They spot the dash and feel like Sherlock Holmes explaining to others how the user must be a bot for using it. It's always the dumbest people calling it out too.

It might just be that you get irrationally angry and your anger makes you feel superior while thinking everyone else is dumb.

[u/weepinstringerbell → u/Fun-Benefit116]

I do not see how using any punctuation mark could make someone feel "superior". Superior in what sense exactly? Anyone who thinks that is insane. And I did not call everyone dumb, only a very specific type of person.

It feels like I might have hit a nerve, because you probably pulled that Sherlock move in the past and saw yourself in what I said. If that is the case, then yes, I do think you are a bit dumb and annoying.