Finding Kesey . Following the November 2016 election I knew it was time to get my own house in order. A year had been lost to a losing campaign, added to five years of On The Road domino-tumbling madness that had passed since my mother had passed in 2011, and there was a lot of […]
Finding Kesey
January 29th, 2017 · 13 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters, Weird Things About Me
Tags: Grateful Dead·Jack Kerouac·Ken Kesey·Naropa·New York·The Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac·Winnipeg
Hillary Clinton Javits Center 2016
November 13th, 2016 · 18 Comments · New York City, Politics, Real-life Adventure Tales
Election Night 2016 in New York City . . It was such a beautiful fall Tuesday in New York. We were all in such a good mood. But in retrospect there were some early warning signs I’d rationalized and dismissed: The tollbooth clerk I had a happy election exchange with but when asked who she […]
Tags: Abbie Hoffman·Al Franken·Bob Dylan·Hillary Clinton·John Lennon·Ken Kesey·New York·Vincent Van Gogh·Woodstock
Jack Kerouac’s novella “Pic” Reconsidered
September 25th, 2016 · 13 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats
. I Pick Pic . Thirty years ago I remember saying to my Beat brothers at the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village that I thought Vanity of Duluoz was right up there with Jack’s greatest works. And they all looked at me like I was crazy and said, “Yeah, but nobody else thinks that.” 🙂 […]
Tags: Big Sur·Catcher In The Rye·Dharma Bums·Duluoz Legend·Huckleberry Finn·Jack Kerouac·John Lennon·New York·On The Road scroll·storytelling·Vanity of Duluoz
Alice Cooper, Dr. John & Tom Waits Rock n Roll HoF Inductions — What They Play & What They Say
March 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Music
Got live if you want it . . . The last great Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. There’ll never be another with as many key, great musical artists in one year. The following is a customized composite of tweets, blogs n news reports on the untelevised Induction ceremony, including sequence and set-lists, […]
Tags: 2011·Alice Cooper·Bette Midler·Dr. John·Hall of Fame·induction ceremony·Leon Russell·Neil Diamond·Neil Young·New York·Rock n Roll·Tom Waits·Waldorf Astoria