It was a grey newspaper day during “papers” week at Camp Cleanup — digging through layers of mounds of newsprint and letters and notes like an archeological dig, uncovering the strata of history in this ancient city of my life. Overnight, the cat tipped over an old Safeways bag full of newspapers from a closet […]
Entries Tagged as 'Real-life Adventure Tales'
The Flippinest Page Flip
November 28th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Real-life Adventure Tales
Tags: Aldous Huxley·early LSD tests·Frank Murdoch LSD drawing·Joe Hyams LSD article·LA acid tests·LSD·LSD article 1959·LSD benefits·LSD experiments 1950s·LSD news·medical benefits of LSD
Woodstock and Obama’s Inauguration
July 30th, 2011 · 12 Comments · Music, Politics, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
Obama’s election night in New York City may have been my favorite single night / moment in 25+ years of living in Manhattan. (You can read about it here: https://brianhassett.com//2008/11/election-night-2008/ ) That feeling was extended to a week-long celebration in my second favorite city, Washington, D.C. — a home-game in the History League — And lo, […]
Tags: Barack Obama·Holly George-Warren·Jimi Hendrix·Michael Lang·Michael Lang Woodstock book·Obama Inauguration 2009·Obama's inauguration·The Road To Woodstock Michael Lang·Washington·Woodstock
50th Birthday — A half-century of peaking and playing
May 31st, 2011 · 27 Comments · Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
The Half-Centennial Celebrations Saturday June 18th on the Caddy patty-o (also Sir Paul McCartney’s birthday! 😉 6:00 dinner — the food’s tasty and diverse with a great new chef doin’ mmm duck quesadilla … southern pulled-pork … New York Strip … ginger salmon . . . here’s the menu — http://www.cadillaclounge.com/the_menu.html All-night come-as-you-may hang […]
Tags: Brian Hassett's 50th birthday·Cadillac Lounge Toronto·Gimli in Toronto
John Lennon — In the Night, and in the Light
December 7th, 2010 · 58 Comments · Music, New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
. NYC, Dec. 8th, 1980 . . . the 3rd month and 3rd day in New York City, America, for this 19 year old kid. My first week in town I went to the free Elton John concert in Central Park. He played Imagine, and introduced it with, “He can probably hear us right now,” referring […]
Tags: Brian Hassett's Lennon story·Dec 8th 1980·Elizabeth Edwards quote·John Lennon·John Lennon in New York City·John Lennon's murder·outside the Dakota·Strawberry Fields in Central Park·The Dakota·the night John Lennon was shot·WNEW-FM
The Boys at the Garden
November 21st, 2010 · 7 Comments · Grateful Dead, Music, New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales
I’m just stunned. Speechless. Maybe it was the set-up, cuz i was thinkin early on … this ain’t happening, this is sad, capitalizing on their name and what they’d done. . . . and then . . . . . . . :-0 they were playing Dylan’s “Infidels” as the warm-up music!!!! The whole album, […]
Tags: Bill Walton and the Dead·Furthur 11/20/10·Furthur 11/21/10·Furthur at Madison Square Garden·Furthur at MSG·Furthur concert review MSG·Furthur in New York·Furthur plays Live Dead·Phil Lesh and Bob Weir·The Mountain Song
Be The Invincible Spirit You Are (Levi’s Jeans ads)
July 15th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, New York City, Poetry, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
. {the piece painted onto the wall of the Artomatic+ Art Gallery in London} . Lights dimmed, room hushed, MC in silhouette at center stage blessing the packed room of book-reading edge-cutting hipsters from all over the world thanks to email and web sites and a collective unconscious that keeps them striving for the new, […]
Tags: Beats and Chelsea Hotel·Bitter End Beat show·Hassett's Levi's Jeans ads·jazz and poetry in Greenwich Village·John Cassady·LitKicks Poetry Happening·Mighty Manatees in New York·poetry and music in New York City·stoke the improbable
Some famous people who didn’t have kids . . .
June 2nd, 2010 · 66 Comments · Poetry, Politics, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
Sans Sons — a Song in Names Only . . . This the most complete, up-to-date and diligently researched list of childless people anywhere on the internet or in print. Just for fun — if you speak each name aloud or to yourself (rather than just scan) it takes you on much more of a […]
Tags: celebrities who don't have children·childless celebrities·famous people who didn't have children·famous people who don't have children·famous people with no children·historical figures with no children
Henri Cru — The Legend Turns 70
May 5th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales
Henri Cru (1921-1992) was Jack Kerouac’s friend for more consecutive years than anybody else. His childhood friends he later reconnected with had about a 20 year gap in their relationship. In Jack’s adult life, good ol’ Henri pre-dated and outlasted everyone. They met when they were students at Horace Mann prep school in New […]
Tags: Eleanor Roosevelt quotes·Greenwich Village legends·Hassett and Henri Cru·Henri Cru·Henri Cru and Edie Kerouac·Henri Cru's birthday·Jack Kerouac's friend Henri Cru·Jack Kerouac's friends in New York·Maynard Ferguson at the Blue Note·the real Remi Boncoeur
Winifred Mitty
March 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Real-life Adventure Tales
The Secret Life of Winifred Mitty . With an affectionate nod to neologist and word-sculpting dreamer James Thurber. Flashbulbs were popping all around her. Photographers called her name from every direction so she’d turn and look them in their camera eye. “Winnie, over here!” “Hey Winnie, loved you in Dark Gables!” “Winnie, you still […]
Tags: James Thurber·James Thurber today·literary parody·literary satire·modern James Thurbers·Walter Mitty as a woman·Walter Mitty parody·Walter Mitty satire·Walter Mitty today·Walter Mitty tribute
Torch Song
December 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Real-life Adventure Tales
Torch Song The Olympic Torch was passin through Oakville yesterday, had to go. It was down at the huge “creek” that created the center of town at the mouth of the massive Lake Ontario. There’s one main bridge, and at end of it is the town’s central library and performance center. Some guy from Oakville […]
Tags: Adam van Koeverden Olympian·Burloak Canoe Club·Canadian Olympic torch run 2010·John Wood Canadian Olympian·Oakville Olympians·Olympic torch run·Olympic torch run through Canada·Rhona Wurtele-Gillis Olympian·torching off in a torch run