. Beat & Prankster fans rejoice! A new firsthand memoir has just been released of life with one of the Mount Rushmores of both the Beat Generation & the Merry Pranksters. That doesn’t happen very often, and there aren’t many options left. Anne Murphy (who later reverted back to her birth name Anne Marie Maxwell) […]
Anne Murphy’s “Tripping With A Viper” about Neal Cassady
May 4th, 2024 · 15 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters
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Going Furthur film review
June 3rd, 2016 · 6 Comments · Grateful Dead, Merry Pranksters, Movies
. On The Bus and On The Road . . “Put your good where it will do the most,” …….. as Ken Kesey said, and Wavy Gravy recounted in the luminous new documentary, Going Furthur. This movie is really funny — and not in a you-had-to-be-there way. A huge part of the Merry Band of […]
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Merry Prankster Reunion
May 15th, 2016 · 23 Comments · Merry Pranksters, Real-life Adventure Tales
A Secret Space of Dreams . . Somewhere in the Universe, Pranksters are gathering. It’s fireworks, calliopes and clowns, And everybody’s dancin’ . . . On fifty acres through country woods, with ponds and trails and fields and split-rail fences and immaculate stables and barns in fresh but classic rusty red . . . Now […]