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, infections, blindness, catheter, hearing aids, wheelchairs, psychosis, memory loss, diapers,…
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“Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.” — Christopher Lasch A few weeks before my second novel was to be published in 1980, I…
It was an unusually hot July day in San Francisco. There was a parade on that day in 1916 — a “Preparedness Day” parade organized by local Republican businessmen. It was intended to drum up…
A San Francisco Chronicle reporter named Kevin Fagan called on Monday, July 12, to get some quotes. He explained his angle: NIDA and the prohibitionists cite studies showing that marijuana is harmful, while “the pot…
So on the way home from picking my boy up from hanging out with his dad this evening, we're driving through Fort Bragg. The car is packed because we're leaving on a climbing trip to…
Celebrating his first anniversary in Boonville, this reporter strolled the 14th Annual Boonville Art Walk last Saturday, July 10th. The day was sunny and hot with about six knots of welcome cool winds gusting intermittently…
No, no. It's not what you may think. This is a story told by my father about an experience he had while he was in college at UC Davis. It was 1928 and my grandfather,…
The news took less time to filter through the crowd of over 500 than the spark from a spliff filled with Bell Springs Blue Dream picked up by the cool afternoon breezes that meander through…