Fireworks in Oakville or The Day Florida Moved to Canada . . . What a riot we had last weekend in Oakville! A buncha teenagers came to my little harbourfront neighbourhood cuz it has a corner Variety store that’ll sell anything to anybody including fireworks to kids. We had a little to-do here a couple […]
Fireworks in Oakville
May 31st, 2023 · 8 Comments · Real-life Adventure Tales
Tags: Jack Kerouac·On The Road
The Making of “Jack on Film”
August 28th, 2022 · 13 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies
The Making of “Jack on Film” . . Believe it or not this whole thing started when I got a call on January 12th, 2021 — six days after the Capitol insurrection (!) and still deep in the pandemic lockdown daze. A musician friend I’ve known since 1976, Will Hodgson, was home with his kids […]
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Brian Hassett – Adventures in Print
January 26th, 2020 · 21 Comments · Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy, Kerouac and The Beats, Politics, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
40 YEARS IN PRINT . A CHRONOLOGY OF THE PUBLISHED REAL-LIFE ADVENTURE TALES . . 1977 – May — writing a song with Guess Who founder Chad Allen – not in print as of yet, but it is on my website here. 1980 – April — John Anderson in San Diego – Blissfully Ravaged in […]
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Kerouac in Provincetown
December 4th, 2019 · 37 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats
How History Could Have Been Different Kerouac’s and Otherwise . It was a quiet day in Facelandia when my Beat / Deadhead friend Steve Silberman posted: “Social media is amazing sometimes. In response to my posting a Cape Cod Times article about Kerouac’s time there, a woman posted a previously unseen photo of […]
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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 […]
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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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The “On The Road” Scroll’s 50th Birthday in L.A.
May 31st, 2018 · 5 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
An excerpt from my upcoming book (Sept. 2018) — On The Road With Cassadys & Furthur Visions — This bit is about 2001’s 50th anniversary of Kerouac writing his On The Road scroll — and a show we put on for the occasion in L.A. on the day he finished it, April 22nd, after one held […]
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The Grateful Dead: Jack Kerouac Manifested As Music
April 28th, 2018 · 10 Comments · Grateful Dead, Kerouac and The Beats
. The Grateful Dead were Jack manifested as music. Their essence was born of the road and adventures. They worked in improvisational music like spontaneous prose. They broke every rule of showbiz … then broke every concert record there is — just as Kerouac broke every rule of grammar — then had over 50 books […]
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