Happy 82nd b'day to artist Jim Franklin, shown here on the cover of Austin's underground paper the Rag in 1972 wearing the armadillo headgear he'd don as a music MC. See replies below for Franklin's armadillo artwork & documentary on Austin's poster art scene... 📷Alan Pogue

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Sly and the Family Stone at the "Fabulous Forum" on December 28, 1970...

Happy 82nd b'day to artist Jim Franklin, shown here on the cover of Austin's underground paper the Rag in 1972 wearing the armadillo headgear he'd don as a music MC. See replies below for Franklin's armadillo artwork & documentary on Austin's poster art scene... 📷Alan Pogue

Howie Klein RIP. Rock Writ podcast with Klein: "Former music exec and lifer Howie Klein shares stories from his enchanted life! Sandy Pearlman, Richard Meltzer, doing time with the Fugs, partying with Hendrix, ticking off Tom Verlaine, and more." rockwrit.podbean.com/e/howie-klei...

1970 rollin' *outta* (not *in*) sight...Ad for the Stooges' album Fun House in Atlanta's underground newspaper Great Speckled Bird (December 21, 1970), more than five months after it was first released:

Lenny Kaye is 79 today--and here he is in 1979!

Gratifying to hear Yo La Tengo included a Michael Hurley tribute! Hog of the Forsaken (Michael Hurley) (with Peter Stampfel & Stephanie Coleman on fiddles) Polynesia #1 (Michael Hurley) (with PS & SC)

A William Burroughs methadone bottle, once owned by underground cartoonist S. Clay Wilson: "At [Burroughs' gravesite], I placed inside the methadone bottle some dirt and a few small stones from the grave and added a shell fired from Burrough's shotgun." pbagalleries.com/lot-details/...

nope, same intermedia! the studio was run by gunther weil, also connected to the harvard psychedelic project. see @gregoryego.bsky.social's interview. doubleblindmag.com/psychedelic-...

"The 'authentic masculinity' our current simulacrum supposedly bastardizes—the stoic frontiersman, the noble warrior, the iron-willed industrialist—was never a biological truth or a historical constant. It was a story built to serve an economic purpose."

An amusing take on the supposed effects of quinine-containing bark!

Where’s the hardware? Any big thing in space in 2035 will have components under construction right now, today. Show us the factories. And why “highly paid”? Most astronauts are government bureaucrats, and the private ones are paid like pilots, not CEOs. What will change that? 1/

It’s time to find what kind of life remains at all possible

Playing the ponies with Charles Bukowski... Signed/illustrated racing program (1988) brings in at auction $437.50 (in 2013 dollars): pbagalleries.com/lot-details/...

I've spent this afternoon listening to Finnish heavy psych so you don't have to. I hope you fucking people appreciate me.

Dec 26, 1968: 57 gutteromantic yrs ago, photographer Weegee passed away in glorious black & white. He signed this book & gave it to my ultra-cool, daddio-in-law for being the front desk manager/hustler at The Hotel Paramount during the '50s & '60s and having his "special" room available at all hrs!

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1974: The Ann Arbor Sun recognizes the December 26th birthday of a popular national leader in its calendar section...

An accidental bullet fired into his own head ended the life of Johnny Ace on Christmas Day 1954... "I looked at the face of the clock on the wall / And it doesn't tell me nothing at all..." youtu.be/N5rvJKviwaE?...

What every young man wants for Christmas, oui? I mean, who wouldn't want to read Abbie Hoffman's take on the Loch Ness monster, right? Ad from 1976:

Merry Christmas from Peter Stampfel and the whole Broadside folk crew, 1964...

Memento mori Miró. From the artist who died on Christmas (1983)... Joan Miró. Christmas Card, 1966.

Xmas Day in Vietnam 1969: Old Ski Nose tees up some jokes for the 101st Airborne Division as part of Bob Hope's Christmas Show. Charlie Don't Golf...

Hark the herald! Snake was born in Alabama on Christmas Day...Remembering one of the most exciting quarterbacks I've ever witnessed (on TV, that is): Ken Stabler of the Oakland Raiders... 📷 @gregoryego.bsky.social

Have a Merry Zenta Christmas with the MC5 in 1968! (How come an animated TV series featuring the MC5 never got off the ground like one did for the Jackson 5? See reply for additional image...)

Truman and Andy wish you High Times for Christmas! 📷Mick Rock

I'm dreaming of a White Pink Flamingos Christmas... 📷 @gregoryego.bsky.social

The third song from “Merry Crisis” is “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” - Originally performed by Gayla Peevey in 1953. Our cow punk version is the inspiration for the cover art which is a hippo skull in the Welsh Mari Lwyd tradition. Also, Moo Deng forever! youtu.be/8vuARBKLzQE

Merry Christmas from...Johnny and Shuggie Otis...Harry Shearer...Miss Outrageous Nevada...and Neon Park. Neon Park artwork for KPPC. From the Los Angeles Free Press, December 25, 1970...

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This cassette imagery looks familiar, wouldn't you say @wittybanterism.bsky.social?

Just the folks you want to call if you're having a bum trip? Ads from the Argus, December 1970, for the organization Drug Help in Ann Arbor, Michigan...

In this ad from December 1977, Mr. Froggy implies the Berkeley Barb would make a great Christmas gift for yourself. Or you could just put the money towards a lid of pot...

L.A.-based publication The Lesbian Tide reports on the San Diego Women's Festival in its November-December '75 issue. The band featured in thie photo? BeBe K'Roche. "They are an exciting group of individually superb musicians who play dancing jazz-rock." tiik.com/bebekroche.h...

Artwork by Yossarian in the East Village Other, December 1970...

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Tamra Lucid's Celebration of Life at PRS more info here. #liberation open.substack.com/pub/ronniepo...

Denver (76°) was warmer today than: 🌴 New Orleans, LA (75°) 🌴 Jacksonville, FL (70°) 🌴 Las Vegas, NV (66°) 🌴 San Diego, CA (64°) #COwx

Composed & produced by #Soul #Funk legends #EarthWindAndFire, #Chicago #GirlGroup #TheEmotions 1977 single “Best Of My Love” was called by critic #EdLowe “a radiant Disco-Pop masterpiece”- it reached #1 in the USA (UK #4) & was a Starck #Flashback fave #1970s #70sRetro #70s youtu.be/P5oGXDpEVCg

L.A.-based publication The Lesbian Tide reports on the San Diego Women's Festival in its November-December '75 issue. The band featured in thie photo? BeBe K'Roche. "They are an exciting group of individually superb musicians who play dancing jazz-rock." tiik.com/bebekroche.h...

Spot on cannabis.net/blog/opinion...

CAN YOU PASS THE ACID TEST? Holy shit! Just got my coolest Christmas gift, which arrived today from my friend J. Niimi: a membership card printed by Ken Kesey’s Intrepid Trips, Inc., 1965. J. has even gone to the trouble of writing out the full provenance. A relic. @gregoryego.bsky.social

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Cover of Big Rama Rag, the women's journal from Denver, Colorado, December 1975. Cover by Susan Binder...

This ain't Boone & Jocko: It's Michael Hurley 'n' Me, September 29, 2023. Remembering Snock on his birthday... 📷 @gregoryego.bsky.social

BO DIDDLEY....SAN FRANCISCO....1967 www.tumblr.com/bestfrozentr...

It's been an unusual week, we just recovered from our second power outage 🥳 Geese at Stenger Pond yesterday

This ain't Boone & Jocko: It's Michael Hurley 'n' Me, September 29, 2023. Remembering Snock on his birthday... 📷 @gregoryego.bsky.social