Thirty years ago, proud to be a hippie and wearing my new yellow leather fringe jacket for the first time, I was on my way…
Posts published by “Paul Krassner”
The apparent demise of the Twinkie brings back memories for me. A dozen police cars had been set on fire, which in turn set off…
November 18th marked the 33rd anniversary of the Jonestown massacre. Jim Jones, founder of the 8,000-member People’s Temple in San Francisco, once asked Margo St.…
In 1967, there was a concert in Pittsburgh, with the Grateful Dead, the Velvet Underground, the Fugs and me, playing the part of a stand-up…
I had no friends in high school and college, and now I have 5000+ Facebook friends. Maybe 25 of them are actual friends, so I…
Dear President Obama, It seems that the theme emanating from the White House is “Eat, Pray, Be Disappointed.” And yet, whenever I do feel disappointed,…
Tuli Kupferberg is better off dead. My friend and countercultural icon had been suffering from a couple of strokes, hospitals, breathing tubes, feeding tubes, anemia,…
Along with 499,999 others on a countercultural pilgrimage 40 years ago, I was heading for the Woodstock Festival of Music & Love. I was wearing…
Oh, please, take pity on us poor satirists, for reality keeps nipping at our heels and increasingly overtaking us. There was a recent report that…