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Posted over 5 years ago
Inspired by the Music Signposts header (see above), I ordered a couple of books this morning from Amazon, - "Desolate Angel" by Dennis McNally because in addition to looking like a good read "On the Road" is to going to be reprinted soon in it's unedited entirety, and I just wanted more....
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  1. david hyman
    david hyman says jerry! just love seeing his face here.
    Permalink posted 09/14/2006
  2. B42
    B42 says You up early or staying up late ?
    Permalink posted 09/14/2006
  3. david hyman
    david hyman says up early. too early.
    Permalink posted 09/14/2006
  4. B42
    B42 says No rest for the wicked ?
    Permalink posted 09/14/2006
  5. extraordinarypoems
    extraordinarypoems says I would buy this book just to have the photograph. It makes me smile. I'm a big Kerouac fan, too. Do you have Kerouac: Pomes All Sizes, with the introduction by Allen Ginsberg? from the back of the book: "The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac's death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his Mexico City Blues, here are poems about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid-fifties road poems, hymns and songs of God, drug poems, wine poems, dharma poems and Buddhist meditations. Poems to Beat friends, goofball poems, quirky haiku, and a fine, long elegy in 'Canuckian Child Patoi Probably Medieval ... an English blues.' But more than a quarter of a century after it was written, Pomes All Sizes today would seem to be more than the sum of its parts, revealing a questing Kerouac grown beyond the popular image of himself as a Beat on the Road." And now, a sample "pome": Mexican Loneliness And I am an unhappy stranger grooking in the streets of Mexico --- My friends have died on me, my lovers disappeared, my whores banned, my bed rocked and heaved by earthquake --- and no holy weed to get high by candlelight and dream --- only fumes of buses, dust storms, and maids peeking at me thru a hole in the door secretly drilled to watch masturbators fuck pillows ---- I am the Gargoyle of Our Lady dreaming in space gray mist dreams --- My face is pointed towards Napoleon ---- I have no form ---- My address book is full of RIP's I have no value in the void, at home without honor, --- My only friend is an old fag without a typewriter Who, if he's my friend, I'll be buggered. I have some mayonnaise left, a whole unwanted bottle of oil, peasants washing my sky light, a nut clearing his throat in the bathroom next to mine a hundred times a day sharing my common ceiling --- If I get drunk I get thirsty ---if I walk my foot breaks down ---if I smile my mask's a face ---if I cry I'm just a child --- ---if I remember I'm a liar ---If I write the writing's done --- ---if I die the dying's over --- ---if I live the dying's just begun --- ---if I wait the waiting's longer ---if I go the going's gone --- if I sleep the bliss is heavy --- ---if I go the cheap movies the bedbugs get me --- Expensive movies I can't afford ---if I do nothing nothing does Hope you enjoyed a little Kerouac on a Thursday morning.
    Permalink posted 09/14/2006
  6. kaluss
    kaluss says 'on the road' is a great book...as is the biography of bill graham...if you haven't already read it..thanks for posting the cool picture.
    Permalink posted 09/14/2006
  7. digworm
    digworm says my buddy gave me a the 'straight arrow' 1st edition of 'signposts' for my b-day - thnx heliotrope
    Permalink posted 09/14/2006
  8. bobglaza
    bobglaza says so here we are - 70 days later and I'm catching up (yet another great MOG feature) - I lost my copy years ago - can you say Christmas present?!?!
    Permalink posted 11/22/2006
  9. B42
    B42 says Make a list bo, you do believe in Santa don't you?
    Permalink posted 11/22/2006
  10. bobglaza
    bobglaza says me and Santa go way back :) - and this is extra double top secret, B (looking over my shoulder right now)...cupping hands to your ear - whispering & winking - I don the red suit for kids in a local "hospital":http://www.shmcchildren.org/ (wife is a peds nurse). The one's too sick to go home. It's a kick! Fact is - I don't even get in the mood for the holiday until I spend about 3 hours watching the little rascals clamber all over the fat guys lap at the mall :) Humbug!
    Permalink posted 11/22/2006
  11. B42
    B42 says Figures you are one of those do-gooders, always able to brighten up someone else's life; God Bless you bo, there's a place beyond this world for people like you, and you don't need no mog-o-matic to see that truth.
    Permalink posted 11/22/2006
  12. bobglaza
    bobglaza says Love & peace backatcha, Bruce...You know that truth, too - You're one of them do-gooders. But ain't this Mog-o-Cool! Happy Thanksgiving!
    Permalink posted 11/22/2006
  13. B42
    B42 says Mogtastic, Grateful Moggers Unite!
    Permalink posted 11/22/2006

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