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THE FREE REPUBLIC WELCOMES THE MERRY PRANKSTERS!!! (9-09 Book Discussion Thread)
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| September 2, 2002
| PJ-Comix
Posted on 09/02/2002 7:29:14 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix
Should we start a new thread for this?
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).
To: SamAdams76
Post the book discussion on this
THREAD.
To: PJ-Comix
I'm having flashbacks just reading through this thread.
Nice to know other FReepers from that era, I hope those that were there can give us some inside scoop :-)
and yes, I will get hold of the book and re-read it.
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09/10/2002 3:21:36 AM PDT
by
fnord
To: weegee
saw Liddy/Leary in their lecture series in about 1982/83 or so. Very interesting and fun. I was the only Liddy fan in the auditorium, lol.
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posted on
09/10/2002 4:41:19 AM PDT
by
fnord
To: weegee; maxwell
I have to second weegee here in recommending Thompson's "Hell's Angels". Along with TEKAT, it is a seminal work articulating the feel of the period. Excellent, excellent book.
To: PJ-Comix
You are either on the bus or off the bus: THIMMESCH
To: Nick Thimmesch
Right now I'm about to fall asleep on the bus.
To: sushiman
There is no mention of drug taking by Jack after 1962 ( Leary's mushrooms ) . In his last years ( 1964-1969 ) I don't believe he did anything other than booze . If you can find contradictory info in Charters' or Nicosia's books please let me know . My best to you ... Selected Letters volume two has references to Kerouac using LSD in the late 60's.
To: tallhappy
" Selected Letters volume two has references to Kerouac using LSD in the late 60's. "
I have VOL. 1 , but was unaware that 2 had come out . I'll have to get it . I have a few Jack bios here , inc. Nocosia's " Memory Babe " , and there is no mention of Jack doing LSD in the LATE 60's as by that time he was a full time alkie and semi-red neck . I am going to have to research this claim by Charters . Thanks for the info , even if it turns out to be erroneous .
To: sushiman
Simon Babbs here son of the Intrepid Traveller. The Intrepid Traveller has a website at
http://www.skypilotclub.com/. We will be doing an episode 3 of the Merry Pranksters Search for a Kool Place video. Might take a while to get it done. Zane will have it on his website at www.key-z.com.
Simon
To: Simon Babbs
After all these years, one is either on the bus or off the bus....
To: PJ-Comix
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
To: RightWhale
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.
To: dixie sass
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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08/03/2009 12:27:47 AM PDT
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123Duck
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