Sort-ganzing Global Postcards into Folios
Ya like postcards? Oh good! Handwritten Letters abound (with related anecdotes and digressions) Delightfully and gratefully, so many postcards and […]
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(Brief) Intro to The Beat Generation #video
A rollicking rapid-fire, mixed-media introduction to The Beat Generation – made especially for youth (specifically, a 11th grade lit class
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“Meet the Beats“ ~ From 6 Poets San Fran 1955 to *everywhere*
A rapid-fire introduction to the “Beat Generation” focused on the story of “6 Poets at Gallery 6” reading Oct, 1955
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Poets, Passports, Postcards in the Cascadia Consulate
Burning sage, sharing global postal arrivals, variety of historic & alt passports, dropping needle on Ginsberg’s Howl, digressions on reconciliation,
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Writing Life
Art Makes the Future / 6 Poets at 6 Gallery
{Of course, much has been written and documented this, however I’ll be uncharacteristically brief}, ergo: How to change the world
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Helpful Quests, Libraries / Museums / Archives
Support: The Beat Museum
+ Beat Support + Many of you likely noticed the campaign to help the venerable San Francisco institution City Lights
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Libraries / Museums / Archives, Typewriters, Writing Life
Typewriters: Noble and Legendary machines, as seen at The Beat Museum, SF, 2018
Noble and Legendary Typewriters, as evidenced at The Beat Museum, North Beach, San Francisco, Republic of California.
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Writing Life
A Lunch with the Future, Contextualized
Marshall McLuhan in San Francisco 1965 Re: academic soothsayer Marshall McLuhan… in this case, a lunch in San Francisco 1965,
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Personal Musings
X (40th anniversary) + Mike Watt and The Secondmen / San Francisco
Sometimes, a plan comes together just right, and then sometimes there’s the opposite…. This night of X (Dec. 9, 2016)
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Music / Rock
Jerry Day: About Jerry Day
Jerry Day :: About Jerry Day On August 2nd, 2009, the Excelsior Cultural Group and the San Francisco Parks Trust
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Writing Life
Ferlighetti: I never wrote Beat poetry (etc) via SF Gate (for LF’s 90th birthday)
Ferlinghetti: I never wrote Beat poetry. Wide-open poetry (is) what Neruda told me in Cuba “I love your wide-open poetry’
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Libraries / Museums / Archives
The Merry Prankster Offspring Take A Trip On The Bus “Further”via Laughing Squid
The Merry Prankster Offspring Take A Trip On The Bus “Further” After that first long, strange trip, the Pranksters moved
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Hitch a Thousand Miles to See a Friend – Postcard #56
From Halfmoon Bay on Vancouver Island, Dave gives it up for zen poet hero Gary Snyder and recounts beat history from The Old Ways and logging culture from Myths and Texts plus poems about hitchhiking, girls, baths, clearcuts and the Buddha plus original freeverse poetry.
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
San Francisco Mission Stroll with Jack – Postcard #37
Continuing on with Kerouac’s San Francisco Blues, DaveO strolls down The Mission reading Jack’s choruses written on the same street
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