Jack Kerouac, March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969

Sometimes I miss my old blog…and my dead computer, where I had stashed my old blog archives. I could never recreate my lust-filled, totally sexually deviant and beautiful  ode to Jack Kerouac.  On his birthday would be a great time for a repost of something like that. Dammit.

I hate that You Tube will have to do.

the hip flask slinging madman, steaming cafe flirts

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In literal and geographical terms, this Blogging Dumbsaint hails from the frigid,arctic tundra of NY. In literary terms, it’s listed in Kerouac’s “Essentials for Writing Spontaneous Prose”.

6. “Be a crazy dumbsaint of the mind”

What does it mean? Hell if I know. Who am I to tell anyone what being the own crazy dumbsaint of your own mind is? The dumbsaint of my crazy might not be the same dumbsaint of your personal journey with crazy. Some people are mean drunks, some are happy drunks. Same with the crazy dumbsainthood.

Maybe a dumbsaint is just a glorified dumbshit who decorates him or herself  eloquently with the pungency of raw words. The crazy of it comes from the response and outward reception. Some people drink the unfiltered words in like they’re watermelon mojitos and then there’s the others who stand back with offense, shake their head and go, ‘Man, that’s just crazy talk’.

A dumbsaint just is what is it. That’s about all I can tell ya.

30 Essentials from Kerouac

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Don’t think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You’re a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

[title from "Hey, Jack Kerouac" by 10,000 Maniacs]

Jupiter is, like ,Pamela Anderson’s Evil Twin

“I’m reading On the Road by Jack Kerouac.I love him- I can’t get enough.And Edith Wharton. I carry her with me to read her short stories on the plane.I’m reading all the time,which is great because my kids are 10 and 12, and they’re big readers too. I think it’s through example.” – from People magazine Books section,” Pamela Anderson’s Summer Reading”…the issue with the Jolie-Pitt Spawnlings on the cover

It dawns on her and she’s a little taken aback at the realization – she and Pamela Anderson have a lot in common. She’s like a smaller,punkier (and maybe chunkier) and quietly evil version of Pamela Anderson. Jack Kerouac/Edith Wharton aficionado? check. Bibliophile? check. Belief that reading is fundamental for kids? check. Homebirthing Mama?check. Breastfeeding advocate?check.” Questionable” relationship choices and affinity for the “wrong kind of man”? Oh,good lord yes. A fan of making very special home movies? yuppers. Blonde and definitely not dumb? Rightarooneypositooney