The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
A radical US advocate for psychiatric patients' rights brings to the UK his first-hand message that a diagnosis of mental illness is not a life sentence Daniel Fisher was a young, idealistic man in his mid-20s, enjoying life in a hippy commune, when he was hospitalised for four months in 1970 and diagnosed with schizophrenia. During that stay in hospital – his second of three on psychiatric...
Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Stewart Brand's latest book, " Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto ," contains a dagger in its subtitle. To write a manifesto on behalf of "ecopragmatism" is to imply that the current environmental movement has become dangerously impractical. In his Big Think interview today, Brand--one of the intellectual godfathers of the modern green movement--confirmed that the...
Mike Lynch Cartoons (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
A couple of different clips (from the 1980s? Not sure.) are compiled in this 5 minute video of Paul Krassner interviews. From the Film Archive description, a bio of Mr. Krassner: Paul Krassner (born April 9, 1932) is an author, journalist, stand-up comedian, and the founder, editor and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine The Realist, first published in 1958. The Realist, edited and published...
deadheaduk (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Ten famous people I have met who are no longer with us Ken Kesey Phil Lynott Muddy Waters Frankie Howerd Nico Rory Gallagher Russell Harty Harry Chapin Pope John Paul II Alan Hull
Scotto's Wall Scrawls (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Mostly just working today - looking for a paying gig, reformatting Chris's computer, a last ditch effort to reconstruct it. BHK is working on her projects upstairs, too. I have the added benefit of listening to the Craig Ferguson Audiobook - his voice is strangely calm, and I get a vibe of Shrek doing the reading, rather than that puppet guy on the tube. Tonight, we're doing quiche and asaragus -...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Even some lefties are finding environmentalists hard to take... "If Greens don't embrace science and technology and jump ahead to a leading role in both, they may follow the Reds into oblivion." That's strong, hard-hitting stuff. However, the author who derides environmentalists as anti-intellectual Luddites and compares them to communists isn't Michelle Malkin or Glenn Beck. It's Stewart...
Scholars and Rogues (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Here’s what Ken Kesey had to say about Wendell Berry: “Wendell Berry is the Sargeant York charging unnatural odds across our no-man’s-land of ecology. Conveying the same limber innocence of young Gary Cooper, Wendell advances on the current crop of Krauts armed with naught but his pen and his mythic ridgerunner righteousness. One after the other he picks them off, from the flying...
Cinema Treasures (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
OLYMPIA, WA -- The 26th Olympia Film Festival at the historic 772-seat single-screen Capitol Theater begins Friday Nov. 6 with the unreleased-on-video 35mm feature "Nothing Lasts Forever", starring Zach Galligan and Bill Murray. Other 35mm prints of unreleased-on-video films include Ken Russell's "The Devils" in a rarely screened LPP print, Paul Newman's adaptation of Ken Kesey's...
Professor VJ (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Now that the comprehensive exhibition in Athens is well underway, it's time for some serious name-dropping in another direction: What do John Ashberry, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, William Burroughs, Truman Capote, Robert Creeley. my old undergrad teacher Harry Crews, Louise Erdich, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Norman Mailer, Ted Mooney, my old undergrad teacher Alain Robbe-Grillet, Salman Rushdie,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A new book prize turns a welcome spotlight on a rich and varied tradition of writing about health and medicine Last night I attended the prize ceremony for the inaugural Wellcome Trust book prize , awarded to "outstanding works of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health, illness or medicine". I was attracted by its slightly barmy mixing of literary disciplines. And I was impressed...
St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The 18th annual St. Louis International Film Festival , which begins Thursday, November 12 and continues through Sunday, November 22, once again will feature the St. Louis premieres of several recent music-related movies, including two that should be of particular interest to jazz fans. The first of those two films is Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense , which is based on the Documentary Channel's...
Simon King's written outpourings (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
I have a lot going on this year....... Here's a list of the stuff I'm doing, both in terms of college work and leisure: English literature coursework (I've got to read Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest which, although being an excellent book, is interfering with what I read for leisure. I've had to put my Latin-American novel Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto aside because of it. English Language...
Flavorpill San Francisco Events (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Oct 30 – Nov 5 Daily @ Roxie Theater ANDY BICHLBAUM IN PERSON OPENING WEEKEND! Protest Chevron with Andy on Sunday, November 1st, after the 5pm screening!! Rated : NR Runtime : 87 mins. The Yes Men are anti-corporate pranksters who create phony Web sites to get themselves invited to high-level corporate conferences and media events - where they give hilarious, Swiftian analyses that unmask global...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Each month, HT Contributor Ben Wiser will take a closer look at notable performances of Dark Star. If you have any favorite Stars you would like him to cover, send the date over to darkstarstories@yahoo.com Last month I touched on the great Halloween night Dark Star from the Oakland Coliseum Arena back in 1991. That was the night Ken Kesey showed up and delivered his eulogy to Bill Graham. He recited...
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
here is the man, ken kesey, author of 'one flew over the cuckoo's nest.' nice face.
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