I miss them every day.
If we ever get divorced, maybe I'll get to see them in court.
Today is Jack Kerouac’s 101st birthday.
Below is a video I made several years ago. Audio is Kerouac reading the final paragraph of his book On the Road on the Steve Allen Show, with Allen on piano. Video is out the window of my old VW Vanagon and a dreamy PNW sunset.
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12 March 2023
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Today would have been your hundred and first birthday.
I wonder, sometimes, what we missed, whether you would have grown calmer and duller with age, or whether you would have grown wilder and weirder as society grew ever more permissive...
Your work is not always easy to read - but it is magical to do so on a dull wet afternoon, feeling the rhythms increasing, and picking up the hidden, which is ever there - to twist the words until their secrets suddenly come
The state of Georgia believes it is a felony to say that Jonathan Salcedo murdered a protestor at Cop City. So do not, under any circumstances, say that Jonathan Salcedo is a murderer who murdered a protestor at Cop City.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/13/cop-city-activists-arrests-georgia-law