Timothy Leary: Outside Looking In: Appreciations, Castigations, and Reminiscences by Ram Dass, Andrew Weil, Allen Ginsberg, Winona Ryder, William Burroughs, ... Huston Smith, Hunter S. Thompson, and Others
My[confined]Space (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
On August 2nd, 1993, Kurt Cobain wrote the following letter to Beat legend William Burroughs. Cobain had been a fan of the author’s work for many years and even collaborated with Burroughs on The “Priest” They Called Him in 1992, but to Cobain’s dismay they still hadn’t met. In preparation for the video to Heart-Shaped [...]
TED BURKE, like it or not (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
The alternative view of the holiday should be represented, and there's not a better voice for the embittered, the disenfranchised, the decrepit, the perverse, the sardonic, the brilliant, and the ecstatically marginalized than William Burroughs. While the rest of America, we assume, gives thanks for what they have in a world that demonstrably is availing them of doing less and winnowing...
Blood & Treasure (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
I saw William Burroughs giving a reading in the old Heaven nightclub in London back in 1982, hanging over the balcony as the disco boys gyrated on the dancefloor below. Good times, man, good times: and best wishes only a...
3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986 Thanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison — thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger — thanks for vast herds of bison to kill [...]
PsychFolk (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
I've made six icons of Jack Kerouac, just incase anyone's interested? One is with Neal Cassady and one is with William Burroughs. All are in black and white. Find them under the cut. Feel free to use, but please credit caitcupcake
Squandermania and other foibles (Free subscription) | yesterday
... time quite well. Or all sorts of variations. Really it's not an either/or proposition." -- William Burroughs, ca. 1972 (Both in interviews with Robert Palmer, Blues & Chaos )
When You Stop Believing in It, It Doesn't Go Away (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Here's William Burroughs, filmed by Gus Van Sant, offering a prayer about Thanksgiving...
Webtorque (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
It’s now clear that the government wants to control people’s use of the Internet, ostensibly on behalf of the media industry, but more likely in the longer term because (to paraphrase William Burroughs) control always needs more control. For a while now I’ve been thinking whether it might be time to tunnel my Internet traffic over [...]
