When Conflict Television Was Born or . . . “I’ll sock you in your goddamn face.” . . 1968 — The year so much changed . . . Martin and Bobby . . . North Vietnam’s Tet Offensive galvanizing Americans’ opposition to the war . . . The Beatles open their Apple Core . . […]
Entries from August 2015
Best of Enemies film review
August 30th, 2015 · 6 Comments · Movies, Politics
Tags: Allen Ginsberg·Democratic Convention 1968·Gore Vidal·Jack Kerouac·Philip Glass·The Subterraneans·William F. Buckley
Beat Shindig San Francisco June 2015
August 16th, 2015 · 18 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
. Shindig Sutra . aahhh — San Francisco — home of everything holy. Home of the Beats, home of The Dead, home of the wild. The United States of San Francisco. The city that makes its own rules . . . and that’s that. Of course we’re coming home. To the Museum that Jerry built. […]
Tags: Al Hinkle·Grateful Dead·Jack Kerouac·Neal Cassady·North Beach·San Francisco·The Beat Museum