“I hate your father.”
—Dr. Jerry Graham (upon meeting George Gulas, son of wrestling promoter Nick Gulas)
Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack,
a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.
—Leonard Cohen
“I am NOT a bum. I am a naturalist!”
—Hermester Barrington
I have just received an exquisite piece of art by Marcella of Malibu Lake that best expresses society’s fury and fighting response over the fascist squeeze utility companies hold over humankind. I am proud to say that I was used as the model of society’s rage: the illustration is an elated Vandál Drummónd answering a [...]
The only things mythical about The Astral Plane is (a) its supposed singular structure or (b) the pretense that various Astral Planes claim any hierarchal order. Never “The Astral Plane,” always “The Astral Planes,” a collection of soaring spiritual surfers swinging spaced-out through starry black skies. These Astral Planes are living beings bearing Go-Go energy. [...]
Sylvia Miles and Joe Dallesandro
“People would adore Mick Jagger -both male and female- for a look or an attitude, and that’s what I liked about the period I grew up in: that a man could say he liked both, that he appreciated both the look of a man and the look of a woman without [...]
“You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.” —Joan Baez
Whole Lotta Stuff: Media Perusings, Titanes En El Ring, Mondo Hollywood, Tea, My Goddess Bena, Lucha Libre, Zombies, Johnny Legend, Annie Sprinkle, Surf Guitar, Señor William Boo, Zen, and so much more to come!