A well-thought, clear-minded retort to the perpetuation of Rimbaud’s Myth

Newly-discovered Burroughs’ and Ginsberg and Kerouac edits from the text of the SEMINAL work NAKED LUNCH

Should these writers be in rehab? Their favorite drinks and recipes follow! 1. Jack Kerouac -Famous for: American writer; ‘King of the Beats’; On the Road. -Favorite Drink: Margarita -Recipe: Ice cubes, crushed ice, margarita salt, lime juice, lime wedge, 1.0 tbsp powdered sugar, 1.5 oz tequila, .5 oz triple sec -Quote: “I’m Catholic and [...]

[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8994248541021504750&hl=en#] If you haven’t heard of it, check out Pull My Daisy. In this 26:13 minute film, Kerouac and Ginsberg show a typified depiction of the Beat generation. The film tells a story of a railway brakeman whose wife invites a bishop over for supper. However, the brakeman’s Beat-like friends crash the party, with comic [...]

Another list. Hopefully a helpful one. A lot of writing and literature is mimetic.We are taught in schools and workshops that reading is an essential part of being a writer. Because of this, we absorb and imitate what we read. As Anne Lamott noted in Bird by Bird, if her students read Hemmingway they wrote [...]

“My witness is the open sky.” -Jack Kerouac This is one of my favorite quotes from the man himself. That’s all I gotta say.

It has been a while, hasn’t it? Well the good news is this site will have an integrated twitter, triond, and php account. This will allow me to personalize it to a great level, and really, comfortably manipulate it the way I like. So the break in posts hasn’t been in vain. I’m starting a [...]