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Howl (2010): A Review In Like Form
My Whitman-inspired, Ginsberg-encouraged review of the 2010 film “Howl” centered around Allen Ginsberg’s poem by the same name. Read the poem by clicking here. I I saw a copy of the best of someone else’s generation on a Screen intent on spelling out facts, facts, facts, that insisted on telling us what it wanted to […]
Happy Birthday, Jerry
August 1, 2010
Sixty-eight years ago today, Jerome John Garcia was born in San Francisco, California to parents Joe and Ruth Marie “Bobbie” Garcia. About 23 years later, Jerome would be known as Jerry Garcia of the newly formed Grateful Dead, formerly the Warlocks. Just 30 years after that, Jerry would pass away inside a rehab facility, leaving […]
Where the Deed Was Done
May 24, 2010
We all know San Francisco to be the birthplace of 1960′s hippie culture and psychedelic music. But, have you ever stopped to ask yourself, where did the mothers and fathers of this movement get it on 9 months earlier? Probably not. Because that would be weird. The question certainly never crossed my mind until I […]
The Day They Busted the Grateful Dead
April 8, 2010
Tonight I just want to share something I had never heard about before and thought was an interesting new perspective on the Grateful Dead and the infamous drug bust at 710 Ashbury. Share and discuss… The Day They Busted the Grateful Dead by Richard Brautigan The day they busted the Grateful Dead rain stormed against […]
September 7, 2011
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