Year: 2022
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Three Books That Changed My Life Part 1: Sometimes A Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Way back when, I went through a phase of reading a lot of ‘beat’ literature. I read Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Robert M Pirsig’s Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and then moved on to Ken Kesey. This wasn’t really ‘beat’, but Kesey was one of The Merry Pranksters, and he wrote One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, which I read (before seeing the movie) and loved. The second book I picked up of his was Sometimes A Great Notion, and this was really not what I expected. But it changed me… Read more
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25 Things (Slight Return)
(Just found this in my drafts; it was written a few years back (2018?), in response to something else from even further back. I never posted it at either of those times, probably due to a fear of oversharing, but I’ve stopped caring what other people think of me, so here you go.) In the post-Election/post-Brexit world, there’s been a few (much needed) ‘let’s make Facebook fun again’ things going round, where you are supposed to give 10 fun facts, or post the 3rd photo on your camera roll, or whatever. That reminded me of a similar thing way back… Read more