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Beat authors, Burroughs, Kerouac, etc.
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Blues & Pops / Kerouac
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Okay, I was closer to Kerouac's "Blues" than "Pops" in the goblledeegook rhyme poems discussed on Horatio's "Just as Well" thread, as the Pops are basically American Haiku:
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"...Jack Kerouac called them "pops," Western haikus. He didn't always stick to the correct 17 syllable count but many of his images did "pop" from his... more »
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Biography of Bodhidharma
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New book tells of the monk traveling in fifth century Mexico, becoming the Quetzalcoatl and ending human sacrifice. Based on Chinese dynastic histories, new archaeological studies and Bodhidharmas sermons, Quetzalcoatl Rising is as subversive as it is illuminating.
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P2P Share files by email on Thu 04/25/2013
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Do you think that Peer-to-Peer, FTP
IRC technologies etc...are too much complicated !? There is a simpler technology to use, Autosend. This software allows file-sharing by only using your e-mail account. Autosend allows sharing files on your computer through regular email. It is an automatic file mailer... more »
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City Lights Bookstore is turning 60!
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City Lights Bookstore is turning 60!
Join us at the bookstore & online as we celebrate all year long.
Founded in 1953 in a small shop at the corner of Columbus Avenue and Broadway in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, City Lights Bookstore is celebrating its 60th anniversary. Still in its original location, the... more »
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Jack Kerouac in the movies
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The Subterraneans (Film version)
The Subterraneans: George Peppard as Jack Kerouac.
On the Road is finally a movie, haven't seen it yet but remember well the many tries Hollywood has made at catching the Kerouac magic on film... like... more »
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Jack Kerouac's poem for J. Edgar Hoover?
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"...According to this book "Bobby And J. Edgar", J. Edgar Hoover had a carefully typed poem by Jack Kerouac scotch taped to 'the slide-out board next to the kneeehole in Hoover's battered interior desk.' Like a secret little poem between him and Jack.
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Allen Ginsberg at Albert Hall
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Allen Ginsberg at Albert Hall
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"...In 1965, the Albert Hall was like a maypole. There were people in T-shirts and tailcoats, suede shoes and flowering ties, girls in string vests, gym shoes, flowered dresses; boys in spotted shorts, punjabi jackets,... more »
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Discovering hippies and teen rebellion when 'Searching for Sugar Man'
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Discovering hippies and teen rebellion when 'Searching for Sugar Man'
08 Feb 2013 00:00 - Rian Malan Mail & Guardian
‘You know then,” said Stephen Segerman.
It was last Sunday morning and I’d spent the weekend googling recent
developments in the story of Rodriguez, the construction worker who woke up... more »
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Miracles by Walt Whitman
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Why, who makes much of a miracle?
As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of
the water,
Or stand under trees in the woods,... more »
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