Television host Steve Allen plays the piano on this and it forms a moment of unusual beauty. Here’s Jack Kerouac, our latter day Whitman, singing the body electric in old school San Francisco. He uses the word “fellaheen” a half century before middle eastern class and sectarian struggles would dominate the headlines. Something in this …
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Facebook… Years ago I argued with a friend over the Nick Drake “Pink Moon” VW commercial. While I don’t like hearing my favorite artists used like that, I did feel that Drake had such a small following before the commercial that anything to bring him …
It’s taken several decades, but maybe, someone has finally made Jack Kerouac‘s 1957 novel On The Road into a credible Hollywood film. This LA Times article tells the story of all the ups and downs along the way…. – Pat Thomas is the author of the recently released work, Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds …
The Dick Van Dyke Show Episodes That Should Have Been These are Dick Van Dyke Show episodes as they should have been, balls out comedy written by Dr. Seuss, Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, James Michener, John Cheever, Jack Kerouac, Franz Kafka, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, J.D. Salinger, David Mamet and …