Monthly Archives: July 2012
George Jefferson: Acid King
Hey y’all, I was sad to hear about the passing of Sherman Hemsley earlier this week. The Jeffersons was a progressive, challenging show and Hemsley’s George Jefferson came off as a kind of black Archie Bunker, always at odds with his circumstances, never knowing when to keep his mouth shut. I preferred Good Times to [...]
So Long, Harry Crews
A few weeks back I was flipping through a Southern culture magazine at a drug store when I found out that Harry Crews had died at the end of March. The novelist, short story writer and memoirist was one of my literary heroes and -since we’re not doing a Coincidence Control Network podcast this afternoon [...]
Satty's Bohemian Palace
Readers who are familiar with the artist Satty may have discovered his work the way I did – leafing through the pages of Terence McKenna’s The Archaic Revival, delighting in the mystery and psychedelic weirdness of Satty’s collages which illustrate that volume. A talented and troubled artist who became a fixture in the underground poster [...]
Bus Poem #3
Little Queenie On the bus there’s no rush in the waiting or the riding. We have this bus just to us and the cool of the day is at our backs. All the lights go green on a grey Wednesday and Route 23 always cuts the corners. We pass the polar bears on 12th Avenue, [...]
Umberto Eco VS The Blackshirts
We decided not to record another episode of CCN today as a few of the regulars were feeling under the weather and the rest of us are really good at giving up easily. With that in mind I felt the least I could do was post another blog missive that’s generally related to some of [...]
Russ Kick Unloads Graphic Canon
Russ Kick and I go way back. But, then again, we don’t. Our paths originally crossed during our efforts for Disinformation, the counter cultural website and publisher. Kick was the well known editor of a number of volumes for Disinfo and I did my regular “Insomnia” segments on the Disinformation World News podcast. I don’t [...]
