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Where Are the Liverpool Invasion Three?

Sorry I haven’t been around today. I’ve been out shopping. Up and down Main Street with my shopping bag looking for a skull. I needed one so I can go up in my pear tree and meditate on … more →

the pondering pig

Where Are the Liverpool Invasion Three? — 1 comment

ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: Sorry I haven’t been around today. I’ve been out shopping. Up and down Main Street wit … more →

Tags: Just for grins..., San Mateo, Rock music, Sixt

Baby Beatniks Go To College — 1 comment

ponderpig wrote 2 years ago: In September 1959 it was still hot in San Jose, like it is everywhere across California that time of … more →

Tags: 1959-1964. Freaks and Baby Beatniks, baby beatniks, Gidget, San Jose State, San Mateo

The Bus Ride Home — 1 comment

ponderpig wrote 2 years ago: In September 1959, seventeen years old, I said goodbye to Ma and my beatnik friends back home and … more →

Tags: 1959-1964. Freaks and Baby Beatniks, baby beatniks, San Jose State, San Mateo, writing

James Dean's Jeans

ponderpig wrote 2 years ago: Oh no - not this again! Yes, friends, Jimmy’s trousers sold so well that now someone is puttin … more →

Tags: Movies, james dean, Rebel Without a Cause

How I Rode Away — 1 comment

ponderpig wrote 2 years ago: When I was fifteen lying in bed in horrible death San Mateo California with its muddy raw streets an … more →

Tags: Sorrow of Life, High School, San Mateo, gogi grant, wayward wind

Baby Beatniks in North Beach (where there isn't any water and Big Daddy ain't your fadder) — 5 comments

ponderpig wrote 2 years ago: So, anyway, one Sunday afternoon in the Summer of 1959 the Baby Beatniks are heading for The City, … more →

Tags: baby beatniks, cafe trieste, city lights books, Jack Kerouac, North Beach, pony poindexter, San Mateo

Terrible Truth About Beatniks — 3 comments

ponderpig wrote 2 years ago: While the Baby Beatniks are heading up the Bayshore Freeway towards the City of Gold, the fabulous D … more →

Tags: 1959-1964. Freaks and Baby Beatniks, baby beatniks, Dizzy Gillespie, Jack Kerouac, Leslie Caron, North Beach, real beatniks, San Mateo, The Subterraneans

Howl of the Baby Beatniks

ponderpig wrote 2 years ago: One summer afternoon in 1959, the Baby Beatniks were heading for the City in Ricky Shapero’s … more →

Tags: 1959-1964. Freaks and Baby Beatniks, meaning of things, Movies, Poetry, Allen Ginsberg, baby beatniks, High School, Rebel Without a Cause, Sal Mineo

Baby Beatniks On Dead Man's Curve — 2 comments

ponderpig wrote 2 years ago: One night in June of 1959 Eddie Tanaka asks me if I want to go to a beach party after graduation pra … more →

Tags: Sorrow of Life, San Mateo, Jan and Dean

Rage of the Baby Beatnik — 3 comments

ponderpig wrote 2 years ago: It’s the winter of 1958 and here I am in the bathroom locking my D.A. into place with large qu … more →

Tags: Jack Kerouac, High School, baby beatniks, San Mateo, Religion

Baby Beatniks — 2 comments

ponderpig wrote 2 years ago: I guess it was December 1958 when I first read Dharma Bums, standing in the aisle of the Hillsdale B … more →

Tags: Jack Kerouac, High School, baby beatniks, San Mateo


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