Ahhhh. 2278! That was part of the license tag number on that psychodelic bus Kesey and the Merry Pranksters ran around in for the Electric Koolaid Acid Test.

I'd go to sleep again and try to follow what happens next. Once we're out of the 2000s the 2010s are going to make the '60s look like the 80s. You wanna be on that bus.

J

Okay Jack, I'll go sleep again. Catch ya later.

GA.   cash 4 midday today 2827. Wish I had read this earlier.

Well c*aramel, I'm told one has to play the numbers 8 times. Good Luck.

Jack,

Didn't know Kesey and the Merry Pranksters so I looked them up. Interesting what I read. Apparently, they were in the psychedelic era. Along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. I know something about Kerouac and Ginsberg 'cause I have some of their books, but not Kesey. Did you meet any of these writers?

csfb:

I was a big fan of Kesey when he wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Great book, though I haven't read it in a good many years. And Sometimes a Great Notion, I thought in those days, was good, but less so than Cuckoo's Nest. Electric Kookaid Acid Test I never, I confess, succeeded in finishing. I might try it again sometime, though I'd be more likely just to re-read one of the other two.

Ginsberg, I met once at a poetry reading in NYC.   Just one of a multitude shaking his hand and congratulating him. Never met Kesey, though I felt close enough to him because of his books to feel I knew him well.

Came within a city block of meeting Kerouac once, but to be honest I was never much impressed with him. He did what everyone I knew, including me, were doing at the time, and he wrote about it.

Kesey, I'd like to have read a lot more from before life, acid, the '60s, something, brought his decline. He could have been a contender. (On the Waterfront, Marlon Brando)

Jack

Actually, now I think about it, I guess Electric Koolaid Acid Test was written maybe by wossname, the guy who got dead a few years back and had his ashes shot up into the sky in fireworks. Guy who wrote Hell's Angels and invented Gonzo Journalism. But I might be wrong. Might have been Kesey. For some reason it's in my mind Kesey wrote something after Sometimes a Great Notion, and it might have been Electric etc.

But he was definitely a Merry Prankster.

J

didn't ginsberg end up trying to follow bob dylan around once he saw how huge bob was getting in regards to the.........

I asked an older guy here in the office if he knew anything about Ginsberg and Bob Dylan, and Kerouac and Kesey - all he knows is Ginsberg and Kerouac were in the beat generation, Kesey was a hippie who died some 2 or 3 years ago; and Bob Dylan, he is still going strong.

Your older guy made a good summation. I think LottoMike might have been obliquely referring to one of the facets of Ginsberg's character involving sexual preference.   Dylan was a bit young to get followed around by Ginsberg, however. Joanie Baez had to follow him around, instead, because of the age thing and the fact she was a Joan instead of a John.   

Some of Ginsberg's poetry is up on webpages if you're interested. Sort of typical beat generation stuff, not anything great but some of it qualifies as good.

J

i think ginsberg was in dylans rolling thunder revue back in '75.joan beaz was too.just got through reading a dylan biography.pretty good.....