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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Helpful Quests, Libraries / Museums / Archives
Shoebox
Numbers Station Sending Alert for Action
From Prague to Irkutsk to Montevideo, shortwave radios broadcast voices, numbers and patterns. Origins (generally) unknown beyond speculators and bureaucratic
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Elsewhere Scenes
Window and Batako (Nusa Ceningan) / acrylic with oil pastel
Whereas both are essentially rectangular holes in otherwise solid walls, doors provide mystery and erstwhile safety, while windows reveal clarity,
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Elsewhere Scenes
Blue Door (Nusa Ceningan) / acrylic with oil pastel
“Do you ever try to open these doors that you see?“ she asked. “Only the ones that are locked,“ I
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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
“You’re a Genius All the Time” ~ Still-life w/ Kerouac + hat, pipe, sunglasses
You’re a Genius All the Time #dealwithit Book of Jack Kerouac musings about story making, assembled and published by Chronicle Books
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Notes to Future Self
Remembering it’s (still) a Wonderful World
Believing(ish) it’s still a wonderful world out there – right? Grateful for still chooglin along. PS was at this JGB
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Japan Life/Travel, Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
A Return to Nippon – Postcard #70
Returning to Japan for the first time since working as a mushroom farmer in the Tottori-ken mountains decades previous, Dave
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Dad’s Malibu Super Sport – Postcard #65
When I was growing up, Dad often spoke of his Chevy Malibu SS – his favourite car. So, while on
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Post'd (cards + letters)
Post’d: Artifacts from likely forgotten places
Artifacts from likely forgotten places. Resurrected with fresh stories augmented with inky pens, broken typewriters, scissors and glue. Possibly sent
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Thor Aronson
Quarry Sighted: Continued exploits and dispatches from one Thor Aronson
++ Continued Exploits and Dispatches from one Thor Aronson ++ Over a week now in Istanbul, just waiting for evidence
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Personal Musings, Records
“I Saved Latin” meets Mike Watt and The Secondmen at Winter’s Tavern, Pacifica
As a fan of Wes Anderson movies, indie rock and vinyl, this rare unique gem from American Laundromat Records was
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Spoken + Song
Humble Boys Club of Westmoreland – spoken song
From a cabin in Jamaica comes a spoken word song made from loops, samples and layers of spoken and sorta-sung
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Short Fiction
Satan Lives in Moab
Note: Thanks to the long defunct Provo band, “Trees” for the title and the also defunct newspaper “the Stinking Desert
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Personal Musings
Busted down in Maple Ridge – Waiting for a ‘hound
“Busted down in Maple Ridge – Waiting for a ‘hound.” My journey from Chilliwack started with an attempt on the
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