Posted on 07/20/2015 6:12:06 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
I was just in Asheville as I am monthly
Looney tunes abounds
Grove Park Inn is very cool though
It’s OK, trees can’t get herpes.
The Beats
Think Kerouac and Ginsberg and Cassidy and Burroughs and Bukowski all preceded the free speech crap which kinda preceded the Hippies a bit even
Cassidy due to Kesey and the Dead was the bridge between the Beats and the Hippies
I find it a fascinating read albeit an indulgence of decadence
Especially the Beats and Free Speech which had big faggotry overtones
And last but not least
81
The Hells Angels had their role
Berkeleys first radicalism really was pre WWI where they worked for Indian independence movement and later 1930s when Debs types infiltrated
One of my family’s favorites!
“Get off my branches, you disgusting pigs!”
Some body get the Malathion out quick, them lovely trees are infested with sh*t roaches!
I’m willing to stick my neck out to say they look and smell like Øbama voters.
You are correct. And you write like a Beat poet. Smooth.
Ginsberg (1926-97) was the gay Marxist who, sadly, gets the media attention.
William Burroughs (1914-97) is a much better writer than Ginsberg.
I shall take your word for it: Cassidy was the bridge between Beats and Hippies.
Ralph Sonny Barger (1938-) started the evil Hells Angels in his garage in San Leandro. Barger still gives talks in Northridge near Los Angeles these days.
I shall take your word for it: Berkeley radicals started with the Indian independence movement.
William Everson and Kenneth Rexroth moved from Fresno to Eugene, Oregon during WWII (objectors) and then to San Francisco where the installed a printing press at City Light store on Columbus Avenue in SF.
William Everson is probably the best poet of the whole Beat generation. He called himself, “Pre-Beat.”
I hope you get to Tommy’s Joynt on Van Ness to get a nice lunch.
just creepy
Oh dear me... Nutbags galore... These vacant people are looking for something to fill their souls. (I bet they came from Asheville, or maybe Durham or Chapel Hill. As a resident of NC I can say that’s where they’d be from.)
You’re getting too good at these histories. Starting to get like Roger McGrath.
My beauty queen southern belle mom was kinda beat
She’d wear capris and Dior flats and dark turtlenecks and looked like Laura Petrie
She read Rand and Kerouac and Alan Watts and tried Burroughs and was a fixture at New Stage and Little Theater
And took me to coffee houses where the Beats morphed into folk.....she loved Leonard Cohen and Tom what’s his name...Paxton and Melanie who oddly enough I knew much later
And they read poetry at coffee houses
Dad was a Goldwater conservative and mom was a bit more moderate but still to the right
A fighter pilot she was always the only girl for him so he indulged her
It broadened my young experiences
She always thought Cassady handsome never knowing he was really I think a repressed gay man possibly
When I told her the Dead wrote a tribute song to him her fondness for him faded
She did not like a Hippies....found them dirty and unimaginative and preachy
I write like I do from too much HST as a kid....I confess
You and I remember when the establishment meant something totally different from today and folks pushed back a bit
The establishment obviously better than the mayhem and self loathing of today
Could be stifling
Besides you know that I had to rebel against all that....didn’t we all some
Thank you. I admire your father’s flying and support of Goldwater. I hope your mother appreciated the lively culture of San Francisco and Berkeley.
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