Saturday, January 13, 2007
In honor of William Blake's 250th birthday this year, the British Library has an interactive online exhibit of his incomparable art & poem notebooks.
Speaking of William Blake, tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of the first "Human Be-In." Held at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, it initiated the brief Hippie Era. At the time, it didn't seem like a big deal, strange things were happening out there. In retrospect, the event forever ended my dream of becoming a beat poet, as the effusive, colorful, psychedelicized flower people swept away the remaining remnants of the cool, bop-speaking, monochrome hipsters.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Speaking of William Blake, tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of the first "Human Be-In." Held at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, it initiated the brief Hippie Era. At the time, it didn't seem like a big deal, strange things were happening out there. In retrospect, the event forever ended my dream of becoming a beat poet, as the effusive, colorful, psychedelicized flower people swept away the remaining remnants of the cool, bop-speaking, monochrome hipsters.
