Associated Press in New York At least 60 journalists around the world were killed in 2014 while on the job or because of their work, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. An “unusually high proportion” – about a quarter – of those killed were international journalists, though the overwhelming number […]
By: Kidman J. Williams It was around 1PM when Woody and I woke up in a post-drunken haze on my couch. I was awakened by the sadistic ramblings of Rachael Ray blaring through the speakers of my 55 inch plasma screen. Woody had been stirring for a minute or two […]
By: Maven Cade Leary “Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” – Hunter S. Thompson Whenever I decide to move, I tend to do so suddenly and with great force. Such […]
By Ron Whitehead on Friday, July 12, 1996 from litkicks.com William S. Burroughs is one of the greatest writers of our times. His talent has brought him fame, and along with it, many burdens. Daily, Burroughs is swamped with fan mail, unexpected visitors and interview requests…Burroughs, who rarely grants interviews, […]
By Peter Schjeldahl from the New Yorker Feb. 3, 2014 “I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves.” So starts “Naked Lunch,” the touchstone novel by William S. Burroughs. That hardboiled riff, spoken by a junkie on the run, introduces a mélange of “episodes, […]
By: Davis Ripley Keller I was drinking with the Devil and the Devil got drunk Passed out cold so I put him in the trunk Drove downtown to the county jail Said “book this crook don’t set no bail” Police said, “what did he do?” I said, “what did he […]
December 21, 2012 By: Clayton L. Luce It’s only a few days before Christmas and many of us are out running around like fiends trying to get last minute Christmas shopping done, or trying not to be killed on the way to the grocery store by the Christmas shoppers who […]
by Tom Shroder – from reset.me Dec. 2, 2014 Though I began researching Acid Test, a book about the revival of research into the use of psychedelic drugs for healing, in 2007, my interest in the subject really began 30 years earlier, when I was a college student at the […]
from RT.COM Dec. 20, 2014 More than 30 cities in Spain have expressed their anger over the so-called ‘gag’ legislation that criminalizes social protest and, demonstrators say, curbs the freedom of expression. The slogan of the movement is “Gag Law, why do they want to shut us up?” and unites […]
By LARRY ROHTER DEC. 19, 2014, N.Y. Times After disembarking from a Los Angeles to London flight in February 1969, the recording engineer and producer Glyn Johns went straight to a studio to work with the Beatles on the album that became “Abbey Road.” That was followed by an all-night […]
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