Latest video
CloseVideo from
pontificating over piShake your hips
Tag Archives: Neal Cassady
segregated bus
Convoke the Committee for Un-American Activities. Revoke the Civil Rights Act. Was Obama’s crime to be on a white’s only bus? Or, you would think he was reveling with Neal Cassady and Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on their … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Ben Bernanke, ben bernanke treason, Ben Kingsley Fagin, gig veres, Gov. Rick Perry, greg lynn shark fountain, greg lynn toy story, hemphill brothers coach company nashville, Karl Rove, Ken Kesey, kinky friedman, merry pranksters, Neal Cassady, nelson george new york times, obama canadian bus, prevost bus, rupert cornwell, Stephen Harper, the help movie
Leave a comment
merry pranksters: Joke on who?
The hippie culture will never die. It seems like we have to keep immortalizing it, reinventing it in some way in order to make a buck off it. Whatever its almost Durkheim inspired alturistic origins and optimism for a kinder, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alex Gibney, David Brooks, Dennis Hopper, gregory bateson, Irving Penn, Ken Kesey, Max Horkheimer, Neal Cassady, Noam Chomsky, pierre bourdieu, Richard Alpert, Richard Nixon, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe, Walter Benjamin
Leave a comment
d.i.y. pranksters: staying on the bus
“Do your own thing.” Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” -The Diggers. Eventually, hippies were being attacked and vilified both in the media and physically by punks, skinheads and right-wing reactionaries and other youth sub-cultures. … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alex Gibney, alison ellwood, charles a. laughlin II, david axelrod, harry gibson, hippie movement, hippie punching, Irving Penn, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, michael fallon, Neal Cassady, Owsley Stanley, red dog saloon, robert bootzin, susan madrak, the Diggers
Leave a comment
flight from reason: a merry prank on a dark star?
It was the end of the world as they knew it. It was the Age of Unreason. Works of pop art like the Campbell’s soup can by Andy Warhol, the Impossible Art of Ralph Ortiz killing chickens,and Dennis Oppenheims, “Cyclonic … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Alvin Toffler, Andy Warhol, Bruce Eisner, Dennis Oppenheim, Don Mclean, George Bernard Shaw, Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Konrad Lorenz, Neal Cassady, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, Phil Lesh, Ram Dass, Rich Griffin, Steely Dan, Stewart Brand, The Grateful Dead, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe
Leave a comment
LISTENING TO THE BACK BEAT
” …and, escorted by two police cars, the group drove to a ball park on the corner of Army Street and Portero Avenue, where they played a game against the Bank of California ‘Nuggets’, to prove to the squares that … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged A.D. Winans, Alfred Jarry, Allan Johnston, Allen Ginsberg, Andre Breton, Arthur Miller, Arthur Rimbaud, Bill Whipp, Bob Kaufman, Bob Margolis, Bob Weir, Charles Baudelaire, David Apfelbaum, Dostoyevsky, Elia Kazan, Eric Big daddy Nord, Ernst Gombrich, gary Snyder, Gerald Nicosia, Gregory Corso, Henry Miller, Herbert Gold, Herbert Huncke, Herman Melville, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, John Clellan Holmes, John Clellon Holmes, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Levi Asher, Lew Welch, Lyle Tollefson, Maggie Reiff, marty matz, Michael McClure, Neal Cassady, Philip Whalen, Podhoretz, Scott Macfarlane, Sigmund Freud, Timothy Leary, Tom Christopher, William Blake
Leave a comment