. Here’s the chapter on the now late great Paul Krassner from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac about the time I met him and a buncha his croanies at the big Kerouac summit in 1982. I sent him this chapter when I was finishing up the book and he gave it his thumbs-up. . ch. 23 […]
Paul Krassner 1932 – 2019
July 22nd, 2019 · 9 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Merry Pranksters, Real-life Adventure Tales
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Brian Hassett Set Lists
May 31st, 2019 · 12 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters, Weird Things About Me, Woodstock
Midwest Tour — May 2019 . Thomas O’Shea House Party — Berea, outside Cleveland Ohio – Friday, May 10th, 2019 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac – the Marin Epiphany – from ch 26 – The Airplane Hanger in Marin The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac – ch. 3 – Dancin’ to The Boulder Boogie […]
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Bill Cannastra & Joan Haverty’s Loft
April 21st, 2019 · 37 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, New York City
The Home of The Scroll & The Girl Newly uncovered photos and corrections to history. “Bill felt completely at home on the rooftops of Manhattan.”Joan Haverty-Kerouac on Bill Cannastra I knew I loved this guy! 🙂 . To all in Beatlandia — Pretty much nobody’s ever seen these buried Beat family photos in a hundred […]
Tags: Al Aronowitz·Allen Ginsberg·Beat Generation·Bill Cannastra·Dylan Thomas·Jack Kerouac·Jan Kerouac·Joan Anderson·Joan Haverty·John Clellon Holmes·Lucien Carr·Neal Cassady·On The Road
Andy Clausen, Bob Rosenthal Beat Book Reviews
February 3rd, 2019 · 7 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats
Storming the Bastilles with Lungs Full of Nectar . Pamela Twining, Andy Clausen, & Brian Hassett — photo by Shiv Mirabito, at the Woodstock Shivastan Poetry Ashram, 2016 Two new books in poignant prose by poets of the streets just came out from insiders looking at the life and times of the Beat Generation — […]
Tags: Allen Ginsberg·Andy Clausen·Bob Rosenthal·Jack Kerouac·Neal Cassady
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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John Cassady & Brian Hassett Present Cassady & Kerouac Live
November 28th, 2018 · 7 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
You Tell Me . . We were talkin’ about gettin’ together, ol’ John Cassady and me. Seen each other off and on, and he even stepped up to the mic at one of the George Walker & Brian shows last year, but we hadn’t really shared any serious duetting theatrics in some 17 years. (There’s […]
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Brian Hassett Fall Shows 2018
September 22nd, 2018 · 4 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Weird Things About Me
. Fall Shows 2018 . In celebration of the new On The Road with Cassadys, & Furthur Visions and the just-completed Beat Trilogy. Friday Sept. 28th 8PM “The Hammer & The Hassett” with Robin “The Hammer” Ludwig the mighty blues master who I’ve done shows with for 20 years from Amsterdam to CBGBs to On The Road‘s birth […]
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The Birth of a Trilogy
August 31st, 2018 · 11 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
THE BIRTH OF A TRILOGY . I never expected any of it. A few years ago, a few people asked me on a Facebook group to tell them about a Kerouac gathering I was at back in 1982, and my response to the question became a book . . . in eleven days, it took. […]
Tags: George Walker·How The Beats Begat The Pranksters·Jack Kerouac·John Cassady·Merry Pranksters·On The Road with Cassadys·The Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac
Tom Wolfe Made Me Cry
June 17th, 2018 · 9 Comments · Merry Pranksters, Weird Things About Me
Tom Wolfe Made Me Cry . We’ve had a flood of famous & important people dying the last few years. 2016 was the recent one most think of as the mass kill-off year that had us all praying for it to end — which it did, sadly, in November, with democracy and decency being cremated […]
Tags: Dr. Seuss·Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test·Jack Kerouac·Jackson Pollock·Neal Cassady·Philip Seymour Hoffman·Shakespeare·Tom Wolfe