An excerpt from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac” The Adventure of the Boulder ’82 On The Road Conference — Finding Kerouac, Kesey and The Grateful Dead Alive & Rockin’ in the Rockies I guess I haven’t mentioned who all was here yet . . . This was the biggest gathering of Beats […]
Who-all was there — Boulder ’82
June 18th, 2013 · 19 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
Tags: Abbie Hoffman·Allen Ginsberg·beat gatherings·Boulder Kerouac Conference 1982·Carolyn Cassady·Edie Kerouac·Gary Snyder·Gregory Corso·Hassett's Boulder book·Herbert Huncke·Jack Kerouac·Jan Kerouac·John Clellon Holmes·Ken Babbs·Ken Kesey·Michael McClure·Naropa Kerouac Conference·On The Road Conference 1982·Paul Gleason·Paul Krassner·Robert Frank·The Beat Generation
The Long Island Mansions Adventure
May 11th, 2013 · 14 Comments · Music, New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales
Soooo, this happened . . . We were out there at Sands Point, Long Island, shooting a Steve Winwood video in one of those Great Gatsby mansions, hanging at this round banquet table with just Steve and the prop guy and a couple others, and he was talking in his gentle British accent which […]
Tags: Bob Dylan·Brian Hassett's adventures·Grateful Dead·Great Gatsby mansions·Long Island mansions·My Father's Place·Neal Cassady·rock n roll parties·Sheryl Crow·Steve Winwood·Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon
Meeting Your Heroes 101
April 27th, 2013 · 32 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
chapter 4 — Meeting Your Heroes 101 An excerpt from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac” The Adventure of the Boulder ’82 On The Road Conference — Finding Kerouac, Kesey and The Grateful Dead Alive & Rockin’ in the Rockies . One of the first and forever impressions I had was — being on […]
Tags: Allen Ginsberg·Bob Dylan·Gregory Corso·Hassett's Boulder book·Herbert Huncke·Jack Kerouac·John Clellon Holmes·Naropa·On The Road Kerouac Conference Boulder 1982·The Beat Generation·William Burroughs
The Day I Heard The Tambourine Man
March 28th, 2013 · 18 Comments · Music, New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
The Day I Heard The Tambourine Man I, like others, was whisked away by the Gallatin genie just as I was about to drown in the requirements of my previous school. If NYU hadn’t had a school-without-walls, I wouldn’t have graduated, if you want a soundbite about it. The trade-off they offered was that […]
Tags: Bob Dylan·discovering Dylan·Gallatin Division·Hassett and Raubicheck·Jack Kerouac·Mr. Tambourine Man·the Kettle of Fish·Tracy Chapman·Walt Whitman·Walter Raubicheck·Washington Square Park·William Blake·Woody Guthrie
The Boys Who Grew From Northern Lands
February 5th, 2013 · 9 Comments · Poetry, Weird Things About Me
. The Boys Who Grew From Northern Lands for my dad — Vern Victor Hassett From playing hockey with homegrown pucks, To riding in the back of pick-up trucks, Under cloudless, beating prairie skies, Chasing the girls with the prettiest eyes, Riding the roads from farm to boomtown, Working the land from Rose to […]
Tags: being a good father·Canadian parents·Dominion City Vern Hassett·father and son poem·fatherhood·Hassett poetry·Manitoba·prairie fathers·Vern Hassett
Wailin’ at The Whitney
January 26th, 2013 · 12 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, New York City
Wailin’ at The Whitney (a feature story from 1995 on the historic Whitney Museum show) Communities of creative minds exchanging ideas has been a dream of artists from the moment they first walked away from the other apes and got back to the land to set their soul free. The Lost Generation café klatch […]
Tags: Allen Ginsberg·Beat Culture at the Whitney·Beat Whitney Show·Dennis Hopper·Gregory Corso·Jack Kerouac·Jackson Pollock·James Dean·Michael McClure and Ray Manzarek·Neal Cassady·On The Road scroll·Pull My Daisy·Rebel Without A Cause·The Beat Generation·The Living Theater
Beat Movie Guide
January 9th, 2013 · 30 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies
Beat Movie Guide (dramatizations — not documentaries) Last Updated: Feb 19th, 2023 With not one, not two, but three movies based on Jack Kerouac books coming out this year (2013) it makes sense to make sense of the world of cinematic dramatizations based on Beat works. Since real people are given different fictional names in […]
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“On The Road” Comes Home — The New York Premiere
December 24th, 2012 · 19 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies, New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales
“On The Road” Comes Home — The New York Premiere The day of the “On The Road” premiere in New York (Dec. 13th, 2012) I was up at the NYPL trying to get through the doors of the hermetically sealed vault of the Berg Collection, home to a gazillion literary papers from Emerson to Shelley […]
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Some Favorite Moments of the 2012 Campaign
November 3rd, 2012 · 11 Comments · Politics
Some Favorite Moments, Classic Quotes and Lasting Images of the 2012 Campaign, roughly in the order they happened … — The ever-increasing availability we all have to unlimited polling data, particularly at RCP and 538. — The sharing of funny images and insightful articles on Facebook — like having your own customized clipping service […]
Tags: Barack Obama·Binders full of women·Democrats Abroad·Hassett's campaign review·Michele Bachmann·New Orleans Musicians for Obama·Nostrahassett·Paul Ryan·Republican debates·Rick Santorum's mistakes·Romnesia·Todd Akin·We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business
The “On The Road” Scroll Auction
October 14th, 2012 · 22 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales
Part I, The Author’s Song The passing of the scroll … It’s gone to a good place … . . . with an iconoclastic, white-tie wearin’ John Lennon lovin’ “huge Bob Dylan fan,” spirit of the 60s, buddy of Brinkley’s, crony of Thompson’s, and owner of the Indianapolis Colts (my new and forever favorite […]
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