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NonilexThat 1967 deployment was perhaps the most extraordinary. In a surreal prelude to the confrontation, as the rock band the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Fugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fugs</a> played, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbbieHoffman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AbbieHoffman</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AllenGinsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllenGinsberg</a> chanted to levitate the building, turn it orange, & exorcise its demons—a ritual humorously sanctioned in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#protest</a> permit.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Title10" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Title10</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PosseComitatusAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PosseComitatusAct</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#military</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalGuard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NationalGuard</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Marines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Marines</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LosAngeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LosAngeles</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#autocracy</a>

Tom Roberts'Ballad Of The Skeletons', with words and vocals by Allen Ginsberg, and song co-written by Paul McCartney and Phillip Glass, is IMO pretty great.By its nature, its commentary is direct and simplistic. I still think it builds a really great vibe over the song.<a href="https://theblower.au/tags/AllenGinsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllenGinsberg</a> #1996

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(((Cindy Weinstein)))"America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel." Allen Ginsberg, "America" Berkeley, 1956<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AllenGinsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllenGinsberg</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Pride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pride</a>

(((Cindy Weinstein)))"America this is quite serious." -- Allen Ginsberg, "America," 1956<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49305/america-56d22b41f119f" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49305/america-56d22b41f119f</a><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AllenGinsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllenGinsberg</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History April 13, 1953: CIA Director Allen Dulles launched the MKUltra mind control program. The program ran from 1953 to 1973. It involved giving human subjects LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge. Then, researchers would try to “weaken” their minds and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Over 7,000 U.S. war veterans were unwitting test subjects, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians. The program was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA, recruited many of these Nazi torturers in the wake of World War II to exploit their knowledge and research. MKUltra was headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who later devised plans to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar, and saturating his shoes with radioactive thallium to make his beard fall out. He also tried to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, with poison. Several well-known liberals and radicals knowingly participated in MKUltra and its OSS predecessors, either as test subjects (e.g., Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hunter), or as researchers (e.g., anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson). Others who have been alleged to have been victims or volunteers include Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kaczyinski, Charles Manson, and Whitey Bulger. For a really fascinating look at Margaret Mead's and Gregory Bateson’s exploration with hallucinogens and their connection to MKUltra, check out the recent book, Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen. And for a truly amazing documentary on the 1961 CIA-supported coup in Congo, check out the 2024 documentary, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” But the film is really about so much more than the coup. It covers Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations in the early 1960s; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cia</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mindcontrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mindcontrol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#torture</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lsd</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mkultra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mkultra</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/castro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#castro</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nazis</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oss</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/allenginsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#allenginsberg</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lumumba</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/malcolmx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#malcolmx</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coltrane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coltrane</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jazz</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#imperialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/kenkesey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kenkesey</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/margaretmead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#margaretmead</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/charlesmanson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#charlesmanson</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mescaline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mescaline</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/castro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#castro</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#soviet</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coldwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coldwar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ussr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ussr</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#communism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#film</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#documentary</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstadon</a>

Tom RobertsNow playing...'The Ballad Of the Skeletons' by Allen Ginsberg, collaborating with Philip Glass, Paul McCartney and others.<a href="https://www.openculture.com/2012/04/the_ballad_of_the_skeletons_allen_ginsbergs_1996_collaboration_with_philip_glass_and_paul_mccartney.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.openculture.com/2012/04/the_ballad_of_the_skeletons_allen_ginsbergs_1996_collaboration_with_philip_glass_and_paul_mccartney.html</a><a href="https://theblower.au/tags/AllenGinsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllenGinsberg</a>

7:4Howlangelheaded hipster<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AllenGinsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllenGinsberg</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Beats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Beats</a>

Larry-bobI checked out Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AllenGinsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllenGinsberg</a> from the SF Public <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Library</a> (from the Park Branch in the Haight.) it is a selection of items from the Ginsberg papers at Stanford University. It is arranged chronologically and is a collection of photos, ephemera, letters, flyers. There are also some short essays such as a chapter titled 1965 about Ginsberg, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Dylan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dylan</a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/JerryRubin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JerryRubin</a> and the Hells Angels. There is also a four-page essay on the Chicago 1968 events with quotes from Jerry Rubin, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/JimFouratt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JimFouratt</a>, and Ginsburg’s 1969 Playboy interview. Editor Pat Thomas is particularly interested in Ginsberg’s musical recordings (and has been involved in reissues of some of them) and closes the book with a chapter titled Music Recordings.I like this sort of annotated ephemera book (see also <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NewDirections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NewDirections</a> publisher <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/JamesLaughlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JamesLaughlin</a>’s “The Way It Wasn’t: From the Files of James Laughlin.”)By the way, copies of my zine are in Ginsberg’s papers at Stanford but they didn’t make it into this book.

(((Cindy Weinstein)))"I don't feel good don't bother me." Allen Ginsberg's "America" (Berkeley, 1956).<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49305/america-56d22b41f119f" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49305/america-56d22b41f119f</a><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AllenGinsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllenGinsberg</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poetry</a>

(((Cindy Weinstein)))"I don't feel good don't bother me." Allen Ginsberg's "America" (Berkeley, 1956).<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49305/america-56d22b41f119f" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49305/america-56d22b41f119f</a><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AllenGinsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllenGinsberg</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poetry</a>

John AutryOctober 6, 1955 - Poet Allen Ginsberg read his poem "Howl" for the first time at Six Gallery in San Francisco. The poem was an immediate success that rocked the Beat literary world and set the tone for confessional poetry of the 1960s and later.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AllenGinsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllenGinsberg</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Howl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Howl</a>1/2

Sequin WorldRed Door in Leeds<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/RedDoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RedDoor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AdoorableThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AdoorableThursday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Leeds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Leeds</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AllenGinsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllenGinsberg</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Red" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Red</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Door" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Door</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Graffiti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Graffiti</a>

buffy leigh (she/they)Follow up to the last toot: Catherine Graindorge has a new album out this year, largely inspired by Allen Ginsberg's poem "A Dream Record" about Joan Vollmer, who was killed by her husband William Burroughs. This is absolute AOTY material, it's positively stunning.FFO: GY!BE, Nick Cave<a href="https://catherinegraindorge.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-the-dead" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://catherinegraindorge.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-the-dead</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/CatherineGraindorge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CatherineGraindorge</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/violin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#violin</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/postrock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#postrock</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/experimental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#experimental</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AllenGinsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllenGinsberg</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/JoanVollmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JoanVollmer</a>

kaggsy59“…throwaway insightful, incisive phrasings.” <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/allenginsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#allenginsberg</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/beatgeneration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#beatgeneration</a>As I mentioned in my end of August post, I have been reconnecting recently with many of the Beat Generation authors I read widely in my younger years. This started with going back to Jack Kerouac; but having read his "Desolation Peak" and "Good Blonde", I was reminded that I had on Mount TBR a book which I picked up in Foyles earlier in the year on a trip to London.<a href="https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2024/09/20/throwaway-insightful-incisive-phrasings-allenginsberg-beatgeneration/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2024/09/20/throwaway-insightful-incisive-phrasings-allenginsberg-beatgeneration/</a>

Kyle Meredith"I wrote a lot of this record while making Wildcat in Louisville"Maya Hawke joins Kyle Meredith to talk about conversing with witches, quoting Allen Ginsberg, & the end of Stranger Things<a href="https://www.lpm.org/music/2024-06-29/maya-hawke-i-wrote-a-lot-of-this-record-while-making-wildcat-in-louisville" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.lpm.org/music/2024-06-29/maya-hawke-i-wrote-a-lot-of-this-record-while-making-wildcat-in-louisville</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MayaHawke" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MayaHawke</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ChaosAngel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ChaosAngel</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StrangerThings" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#StrangerThings</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Wildcat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Wildcat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FlanneryOConnor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FlanneryOConnor</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Witches" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Witches</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Insomnia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Insomnia</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AllenGinsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AllenGinsberg</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tv" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Movies</a>

GwyllmMy Latest Substack: "Tim & Allen/Meetings with Remarkable Men" <a href="https://gwyllmllwydd.substack.com/p/tim-and-allen-113" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gwyllmllwydd.substack.com/p/tim-and-allen-113</a><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/timothyleary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#timothyleary</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AllenGinsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllenGinsberg</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/psychedelics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#psychedelics</a>

(((Cindy Weinstein)))"O beautiful Garbo of my Karma." Happy birthday <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AllenGinsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllenGinsberg</a>, and thank you for writing what I think is one one of the most beautiful poetic phrases.Now, after having read "Kaddish," I am onto (literally and reading-wise) a Supermarket in California.

(((Cindy Weinstein)))Happy Birthday <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AllenGinsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllenGinsberg</a>. I will go to a Supermarket in California (L.A., though, not Berkeley) and also say/read Kaddish. Thank you for these two (and more) magnificent poems.<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47660/a-supermarket-in-california" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47660/a-supermarket-in-california</a><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49313/kaddish" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49313/kaddish</a>

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