Wednesday, October 5
Howl at 50
Allen Ginsberg hurled his shattering poem at a San Francisco audience 50 years ago on Friday, and it proved to be the kickstart for the Beat movement. SF Chronicle has the memories. Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/04/DDGKPF12031.DTL
Go, go, go: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night ..."
