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If instead of going On The Road, famed Beat writer Jack Kerouac spent the early 1950s working as an independent contractor

Kerouac:  “You don’t seem to get it, man.  That so-called ‘hole’ in your roof is supposed to be there.  I designed it that way—so that you could see the stars and feel the rain and touch the world.  Christ, don’t be such a bourgeois control freak…”

8 Replies to “If instead of going On The Road, famed Beat writer Jack Kerouac spent the early 1950s working as an independent contractor”

  1. Sean M. says:

    Kerouac: “Hmm, looks like you might have a termite problem.  I know a guy who can help you out with that.”

  2. Jeff Goldstein says:

    I’m beginning to think I should have used Burroughs in this schtick.  wink

  3. JWebb says:

    Or the famous literary giant Gene Tague. . .

  4. Alpha Baboon says:

    Hank Bukowski: No man.. YOU aint gettin it.. I didnt want a house at all.. all I was looking for was a freakin’ cardboard box to sleep off my 5 day booze binge in… and I wake up with some prissy ass beat boy constructing this thing around me… what the fuck were thinkin? What did you think I could pay you with? The $25 bucks I made on ‘Bestial wall’ ?  The $30.75 and a bottle of Port that I got for ‘Longshot Poems’.. Shit man …. I cant even afford smokes.. you got some Prince Albert on ya I could bum ? or a quarter or something?

  5. Jon says:

    turing word says ‘now’ so I think that means I have to comment…

    without allah’s reference to a roman clef a while back, I wouldn’t have any idea what these threads are about.  (I hang my non-literary head in shame)

  6. Drumwaster says:

    Turing word: “work”.

    As in what general contractor’s promise but never quite deliver…

    {pokes Kerouac in the eye}

  7. CraigC says:

    Kerouac: Did I mention I’m also selling plastic dropcloths?

  8. Jack M. says:

    And here, all this time, I thought it was Paul McCartney who fixed a hole for the rain to get in to stop his mind from wandering.

    You learn something new from PW every day.

    Turing word: Foreign. As in, “Logic and Sense are foreign to Oliver Willis.”

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