. Satori in Lowell — The Intentional Nothingness of Everything . Every year the Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Festival is five blissfully crazy days of non-stop events from early morning to late night — from David Amram performances and other concerts to movie screenings and art shows to walking and bus tours to guest speakers and […]
Jack Kerouac Gravesite Adventure Edson Cemetary, Lowell
October 16th, 2016 · 9 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
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Makin’ Movies — Carolyn Cassady, On The Road, and the Pranksters at Woodstock
September 21st, 2014 · 23 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters, Movies, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
. Here’s some early songs in sound and light . . . My tribute to the late great Carolyn Cassady on the one year anniversary of her passing … . Or “The Pranksters Invade the Woodstock Museum” . . . . Or here’s opening the Marry Prankster Reunion weekend in 2016 . . . . […]
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Shakespeare’s Globe Adventure
March 29th, 2014 · 17 Comments · Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
“The Taming of The Shoobeedoobie” . . “Next stop, Shakespeare’s Globe,” says the driver downstairs on the red double-decker bus winding its way through the narrow South Bank streets of London. I went early so I could do the official tour of the theater, and of course the guide was extremely well-versed, among other things […]
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Haiku for Carolyn Cassady
November 28th, 2013 · 12 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Poetry
I just came across this in the files. Glad I did. Kinda cool. They’re not really traditional 5–7–5 haiku — they’re what Kerouac called Western Haiku — “simple 3-line poems that make a little picture” — written while I was living with and inspired by Carolyn. There certainly was something about that woman that inspired. She […]
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Carolyn and John Cassady
September 27th, 2013 · 12 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats
The White Knight and The Queen Ya know how our favorite Beats were not exactly role-model parents? How there aren’t a lot of heart-warming parent-child stories in Beatlandia? Well, … there is one. Carolyn Cassady and her son John were sumpthin else. Honestly I’m tearing up just now picturing them together. It […]
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Carolyn Cassady tribute 1923 – 2013
September 20th, 2013 · 146 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
Another giant has fallen — another angel taken flight. Carolyn Cassady has just left us to join Neal and Jack on that great road trip in the sky. Her son John, the light of her life, was there by her side till the end. After a year’s refusal of entry into the U.K., just 3 […]
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The Northport Report
August 30th, 2013 · 15 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
The Northport Report Whale, we had another Jackfest — dancing with Big Sur by the Sea, My Brothers! — this time in Jack’s wave-lapping hometown of Northport, the idyllic little living Rockwell harbortown where he went to dock near the darkness of the city but still remain a slip away. I’m just back […]
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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
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 […]
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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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Making better time On The Road
September 8th, 2012 · 37 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies, Real-life Adventure Tales
Making better time On The Road So, I get to the Ryerson Theatre in Toronto at 7PM for a 9:00 show (on Sept. 6th) and there’s already a whole scene. It’s the World Premiere of the new and forever “On The Road” — the first-ever screening of the director’s revised and final cut. There’s a […]
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