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 Kesey’s 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 Wolfe’s publishers. They told me that he usually doesn’t do such events but, hey, there’s 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.
Anyway, my favorite part of the book was when Kesey was invited to speak at the anti-war demonstration at Berkeley and sucked the air right out of it with his harmonica and monotone singing of "Home On The Range."
There is lots more I have to say about the book but I'll wait until the discussion gets going (and see if it doesn't end up on a new thread). I like the writing style of Tom Wolfe though it took me a while to get that 60s jargon down (I was only a toddler and young child during the 60s).
Selected Letters volume two has references to Kerouac using LSD in the late 60's.
Hi I just thought you might like knowing that the original Doris Delay is alive and well in Cottage Grove Oregon. She travelled with the merry pranksters and Ken Keasy. I have been married to her for 30 years. If you would like to know anything more let me know. :P
The house on Cathedral Drive would have been the one that belonged to Bevirt’s family as I understood it at the time. It had a window seat where Cassady could hold forth as he was inclined to do and a tube arrangement in the fireplace where the tube ran back and forth across the back of the firebox, the idea seemed to be that you could heat water that way for free, sort of, I mean if you were going to have a fire anyway.
The house which was more like a summer cabin was perched on the bank on the side of the road, the side away from the creek—you had to sort of climb up to it, steep steps.
Me- Hell , I would ve given my right eye to be in the Haight at this time.- - Which I did > near the Cambodian border in a drag olive green jeep not a tie dyed bus outside of Dak-To (near the Cambodian border)
But that was a lifetime ago- -
Got me out after 8 months and have looked at the whole time since Ive been home thru a kaleidoscope eye- -wink wink
peace.love.and granola.
duck
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