Posted on 09/02/2002 7:29:14 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Okay, I tried to track down some of the Merry Pranksters mentioned in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test so that they might participate in our discussion on this book on September 9. However, I have been unable to contact any of them so in the spirit of the Merry Pranksters, who in 1965 hung a banner in front of Ken Keseys La Honda home that said THE MERRY PRANKSTERS WELCOME THE BEATLES, I am now hanging this virtual banner in Cyberspace---THE FREE REPUBLIC WELCOMES THE MERRY PRANKSTERS.
Hopefully this message will carry across the Cyberspace ether and reach Mountain Girl, Ken Babbs, Gretchen Fetchen, Owsley, The Hermit, George Walker, Hugh Romney, Norman Hartweg, Hagen, Doris Delay, Zonker, Black Maria, etc..
I will also be sending this thread to Tom Wolfes publishers. They told me that he usually doesnt do such events but, hey, theres an EXCEPTION to every rule.
If any of you happen to know the Merry Pranksters or know someone who knows the Merry Pranksters, please pass this thread along to them. Hopefully on September 9 (or soon afterwards) we can WELCOME THE MERRY PRANKSTERS!!!
Oh, and on October 14 our next book assignment is due. It will be a big change of pace---Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell.
Coming soon to your local movie theater---HIPPIE MADNESS.
One drop of acid and it could afflict you, or You, or... YOU!!!
I would love to see videos of the double-takes of the Rednecks of 1964 reacting to the first Hippies on the Planet Earth as the Bus drove thru the Deep South.
My favorite Hippie Art is the Robert Crumb artwork. I still love that famous "Keep On Truckin'" cartoon.
The funny thing is that when I recommended "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" as an assignment I thought I had read it previously. Actually what I read before was "The Pump House Gang" which in my memory/flashback came out as "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" because it had a big promo on the copy of the book I had years ago. I quickly realized when "re-reading" "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" that I had never actually read it before. Fortunately it turned out to be a terrific book.
A little Tom Wolfe trivia here---Wolfe was the one who coined the term "Good Ol' Boy" when writing a magazine article about Junior Johnson, a Stock Car Racer/Moonshiner.
Naw! Lets keep it on this thread. I already sent THIS THREAD out into the Cyberspace ether and if the Merry Pranksters and/or Tom Wolfe join the party, THIS is the thread they will go to.
Any significance behind the September 9th date?
Yeah, on that day Mars and Venus are in perfect astral alignment with Uranus.
HOLD IT! I'm having a flashback to a scene from Animal House.
That's because you're not on the Bus.
Taos or Santa Fe?
That is correct.
Ask Hillary if Gennifer quoted Bill accurately, "Honey, she's [Hillary] probably eaten more [cheese-moose] than I have."
Passion & Betrayal, Gennifer Flowers, Emery Dalton Books, 1995, page 41.
* Bill was turned at Oxford and given his control (Hillary) at Yale Law.
Leary suggested set and setting as determiners. Set being mental set; setting being surroundings, ambiance.
For Sydney Gottlieb and CIA's MK-ULTRA, the stealth administration of LSD led to some notorious depression-suicides, e.g., leaping from windows.
Aldous Huxley remarked, "If the doors of perception were cleansed, we would see things as they are, infinite."
Lysergic Acid Diethylalamide is one more case of Blind Men and the Elephant.
I was at Ken's home in Pleasant Hill the past two New Year days. I know the Prankster set, and they are a big part of the Eugene, Oregon cultural scene.
Here is Eugene.com if you are looking for a general Eugene, Oregon link as a place to start searching for anyone else who might be able to help you in your quest.
Ethan Hawke in any interview with an "indie"-flavored 'zine . . .
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