21st Century Beatniks versus Hieroglyphic Caricatures . There’s long been a debate about the word “beatnik” — originally coined by a sensationalist San Francisco gossip columnist in 1958, playing on the Yiddish suffix “nik” and the first Russian satellite launched in September ’57, colloquially known as “Sputnik.” Jack and Allen & company hated the word […]
Beat Versus Beatnik
March 3rd, 2021 · 29 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats
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Al Hinkle Hero of The Humble
January 31st, 2019 · 9 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Poetry, Weird Things About Me
Al Hinkle — Hero of The Humble . Gracious Giant, Gentle Giant. A Literary Giant’s Character for Eternity — Still alive in every copy of On The Road in every country In The World, The lovable affable portable — Big Ed Dunkel, The Everyman in the car, man. Not a Cassady — Not a Kerouac, […]
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RIP – Big Al Hinkle – 1926 – 2018
December 27th, 2018 · 29 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
“The Last Man Standing” is no longer standing . Update — A memorial tribute will be held to Al at the Cafe Stritch (374 S. 1st St.) in San Jose, CA — on Sunday, January 27th, starting at 5PM. All are welcome. . Here’s a riff with visuals . . . . . The last […]
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People Who Knew Jack Kerouac and Are Still Alive
March 13th, 2018 · 4 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters
. Just as when Gifford & Lee created Jack’s Book in the ’70s, and Allen Ginsberg did the Jack Summit in 1982 and all those documentaries were made — it was all because there were people alive who knew Jack well. Now there are very few. Here’s a list of Living People who either met Jack […]
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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. […]
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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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On The Road to On The Road in London — Sex, Drugs & Jazz
August 17th, 2012 · 22 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies, Real-life Adventure Tales
On The Road to On The Road Sex, Drugs & Jazz A very abnormal thing happens — it’s post-movies Wednesday night (August 15th) when Carolyn & I normally part ways for our own offices and computers, but by fortune we met up in the kitchen and started talkin about the movie premiere tomorrow night, and […]
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