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@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-11-28 02:45:01

60 years ago tonight, the merry pranksters' first informal acid test, held at ken babbs's place outside santa cruz, where the grateful dead did not play (& all purported flyers are almost certainly fake). below text from dennis mcnally's bio & i wrote about it for the 50th.

the larger world. The first of those special parties was at Ken Babbs’s place in Soquel, near Santa Cruz, on the coast south of Palo Alto, on November 27, 1965. Such public notice as there was of the event came through a posting at Lee Quarn- strom and Peter Dema’s Hip Pocket Bookstore in Soquel. The Pranksters were joined by Allen Ginsberg and his lover, Peter Orlovsky, and Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Sue Swanson, and Connie Bonner among others, and the night basically involved hang- ing out and tripp…
Kesey didn’t want to give it up, but Phil was not dissuaded, and learned one of his early lessons in the subtleties of trip- ping. He proceeded to gluehiseyesonKesey, and in a while Ken got up and shoved the guitar at him. “Here.” Weir, on the other hand, had another sort of adventure. Although he had read “Howl,” he did not recognize Allen Ginsberg, and saw only that he “was pretty damned amazing, the stuff he would say and do. So I figure, okay, I'm gonna sit next to this guy. Which was okay …
@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-10-25 14:37:59

fun beat forensics in this attempt to figure out what sections/draft of "howl" allen ginsberg actually read at the 6 gallery debut, 70 years ago this month, by @….

The 6 Gallery Reading: What Did Ginsberg Read?
What exactly did Allen Ginsberg read at the 6 Gallery reading?

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-11-09 01:58:19

the new creepy world of (probably) AI-abetted allen ginsberg/bruce conner forgeries. #poetry

Newly Discovered Ginsberg Poem… Or Another Beat Fake?
A recent video claims to present a lost Allen Ginsberg poem.

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-10-22 00:06:42

wonderful & useful scholarly chapter on the 1967 levitation & exorcism of the pentagon by the fugs, allen ginsberg, abbie hoffman, kenneth anger, & co., very coincidentally 58 years ago today, taking it seriously historically/ritualistically/poetically. gwern.net/doc/history/2011-lay

Demonstrate! Oct 21 to End the War in Vietnam
Ed Sanders at microphone
@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-12-12 15:40:24

60 years ago tonight, bob dylan & the hawks in san jose, taped by allen ginsberg (on a uher bought for him by dylan). a messy tape, a bobologist recently used source-separation software to boost dylan's voice on a few selected tunes.
"long distance operator": youtu.be/QBjiHRFEdz4

poster for Bob Dylan in bay area