Posts Tagged ‘Jack Kerouac’
At Kerouac’s grave
10Jan12
“He honored life…” But have the living given proper honor to Jack Kerouac, America’s one true spokesman, who plumbed the deepest depths of sorrow and climbed to the highest ledge of beauty and joy? His grave at Edson Cemetery in Lowell, Massachusetts, is marked with a simple slab with the above inscription, the names of [...]
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Tags: Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac, Kerouac's grave, Lowell MA., writers' graves
Pale horse, pale rider, Palin
05Oct08
The end is near. It’s got to be. If it isn’t, then why is the Pope on television kicking off a weeklong, worldwide marathon reading of the Bible? And why is Sarah Palin actually being taken seriously as a vice presidential candidate? I say expect the pale rider on the pale horse any minute now. Am [...]
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Tags: "Drill, "On the Road", "Ulysses", anti-Christ, Apocalypse, baby, Bible, Bloomsday, creationism, Jack Kerouac, James Joyce, John McCain, Pope, Pope Benedict XVI, Rapture, Sarah Palin, seventh seal, whore of Babylon
