. Originally published in Interchange Magazine, and TransForum Magazine, Jan. and Feb. 1993. . “We march to the music of our time.” ……………………………………….Bill Clinton at his Inauguration . Little Dorothy Washington slowly snuck up to the Iron Curtain of Oz, and peaked behind the screen. Her eyes popped when she discovered only a hungry old […]
Bill Clinton’s First Inauguration 1993
January 20th, 2016 · 12 Comments · Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy, Politics
Tags: Aretha Franklin·Bill Clinton·Bob Dylan·C-SPAN·CNN·Deadheads·Gettysburg Address·Inauguration·Jack Kerouac·Jack Nicholson·Lincoln Memorial·Michael Jackson·Paul Tsongas·Walt Whitman·Washington·We Are The World·Wizard of Oz·Woodstock
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 […]
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Dylan at Kool Haus in Toronto, March 21, 2004
February 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · Music
Long slow line winding around industrial waterfront of Toronto, on Lake Ontario, minus about 20 with the wind-chill, waiting to go into big square industrial box to absorb some very organic music. Beers, you could smoke, and it wasn’t over packed. He comes on about 8:35 wearing big white cowboy hat, and black western show […]
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