"Birdbrain runs the world!" I checked out fellow birdbrains Duane Davis, of the Wax Trax record store in Denver, with Allen Ginsberg ( #BOTD 100 years ago) and Peter Orlovsky in Boulder in 1982 (my poster on the right). The store released the 45 on the left, a fave: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtlV...

Poet Allen Ginsberg, born 100 years ago today. Here's my photo of Ginsberg reading at Naropa in Boulder, circa early '90s... 📷 @gregoryego.bsky.social

"Birdbrain runs the world!" I checked out fellow birdbrains Duane Davis, of the Wax Trax record store in Denver, with Allen Ginsberg ( #BOTD 100 years ago) and Peter Orlovsky in Boulder in 1982 (my poster on the right). The store released the 45 on the left, a fave: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtlV...

For your reference: My Allen Ginsberg interview for High Times (which also ran one of my photos of him in its table of contents) is reprinted within the book The Beats: A Literary Reference -- which is a repackaged version of this volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography:

Poet Allen Ginsberg, born 100 years ago today. Here's my photo of Ginsberg reading at Naropa in Boulder, circa early '90s... 📷 @gregoryego.bsky.social

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untitled (A.T.) ttexedwardsart.tumblr.com/post/1853235... acrylic on black canvas 12X12″ (2019) #TTexEdwardsArt

Yes, the interview with Commander Cody is enjoyable. (Pull quote: "...the truck drivers love us. 'Mama Hated Diesels' is on every jukebox from here to California on Route 70.") But, what a newspaper layout! "Home Town Boy Makes Good." Ann Arbor Sun, June 1971...

At 23:10 within the episode reposted below of Art Fein's Poker Party, Richard Meltzer mentions his weeklong job pasting printed sheets onto album covers for this Nils Lofgren 1975 promotional "bootleg." Meltzer says A&M Records paid him $150 for pasting on 1500 sheets...

#HBD Lydia Lunch...

It's not opening a Pandora's box, it's unrolling a Pandora organic poster... Madison Kaleidoscope, June 1970...

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Shisha hose foreplay... Overthrow, June 1979. Ken Landgraf art:

Psychedelic Blues vimeo.com/127295085 'In this animated documentary, Peter Stampfel tells the story of how the freak folk band, Holy Modal Rounders first got together.'

Rattlesnake at North Table Mountain Golden, CO June 2015

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"TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: "I, Roger (Ro ky) Erickson, do hereby declare that I am not a member of the human race (not an earthling) and in fact am an alien from a planet other than earth..."

"Dharma" by Gwyllm Llwydd @gwyllm.bsky.social. See repost below...

Polaroid Warhol at Denver Art Museum...

Juxtapoz #1 (1994) premiere issue. What went down at places like Zero One, Zero Zero? Richard Duardo, El Duce, Raymond Pettibon, Kalyn Campbell, et al. [For sale below. Inquire about Venmo discount...] www.ebay.com/itm/29736478...

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I see what you're doing there! Detail from Carlo Crivelli's painting of a saint circa 1489: 📷 @gregoryego.bsky.social

Sun Ra departed the planet earth on May 30 1993. He travels the spaceways from planet to planet. Space is the place.

Fifty-five years ago, it's Sun Ra @sunrauniverse.bsky.social at Native Son. From the Berkeley Tribe, May 28-June 4, 1971...

It's "Chicago's Greatest Band." Sun Ra Arkestra at 5th Jack Show Lounge. From the Chicago Defender, May 27, 1961...

"A Liberating Experience." Madison Kaleidoscope, May 1970...

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It's "Chicago's Greatest Band." Sun Ra Arkestra at 5th Jack Show Lounge. From the Chicago Defender, May 27, 1961...

This Up Against the Wall MFer died in Colorado... "An abstract painter who wanted to creatively destroy the gap between art and revolution, he loosely led a band of radicals with a profane name." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

"A Liberating Experience." Madison Kaleidoscope, May 1970...

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Malevich. 'Triumph of heaven'. 1907.

Moebius, Larry and Curly...

'Blotter Barbie', Mark McCloud, 1995

This half-formed place will slowly feel familiar

Oregon panorama (expand to see full image)... 📷 @gregoryego.bsky.social

This Up Against the Wall MFer died in Colorado... "An abstract painter who wanted to creatively destroy the gap between art and revolution, he loosely led a band of radicals with a profane name." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

"tb poem" by d.a. levy, which was published in October 1968 by Quixote, "an unofficial publication at the University of Wisconsin."

"Please Use Other Door." Enjoyed being able to look at a date on newsprint ("Sunday May 2") and pin down the year by doing online search: "Okay, yeah, that was definitely 1999..." 📷 @gregoryego.bsky.social

I only read Playboy for Robert Blake flipping me off... Ad from May 1977:

"John Gilmore (ts), Chick Corea (p), Walter Booker (b), Pete LaRoca Sims (d) recorded at Impact Sound Studios, NYC, May 25, 1967..." youtu.be/XpKG6zzHH_Q?...

Ready or not, here comes Good Taste Is Timeless by The Holy Modal Rounders. Ad from the Seed (Chicago), May 1971... [Expand image on right to see full-sized ad:]

Look down and to the left! There's Humble Pie sharing the bill with Mott the Hoople and headliner Johnny Winter on May 22nd at the defunct International Amphitheatre in Chicago. Ad within the underground paper the Seed, May 1971...

Sure, if you're going to hold a "Free Love-In" in Seattle or a "Hike In" in a more remote spot, you're going to want to include an image of William S. Burroughs in the ad to promote the events. From Seattle's underground paper Helix, May 1967...

Born Fi' Dead book rec... www.amazon.com/Born-Fi-Dead...

Born Fi' Dead book rec... www.amazon.com/Born-Fi-Dead...

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