Travelblog (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
I got my Japanese visa So I'm pretty much all set to go. I'm going to miss California a lot but I know I will be back. Here are some of the places I love most
KR Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Perched for the next year at the edge of a tiny Devon village, between a field of lazy cows and an estuary full of sailboats and gliding swans, I’m finding it hard to turn my mind from the pleasures of the moment back to the novelist’s stone-pile, where the shape I’d been slowly chipping away [...]
The Obvious? (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Following on from my previous post about the power of the social web being partly the collective process of finding and pointing to good stuff David Smith has linked to this wonderful collection from The Observer of The 50 greatest...
High Country News -- Latest Issue (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Andrew McNair, who works weekends at a computer in Olympia, Wash., is not your typical Western firefighter.
Open Culture (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
One of our British readers turned us on to this post by the Guardian, noting that they took a page from our general playbook. The post features 50 of the best YouTube clips from across the arts, some of which we’ve featured here before. Here you’ll find vintage performances by John Coltrane and Billie Holiday, [...] ShareThis
This Is This (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Weird stuff happening, because on Friday, the Something I’d Probably Do post should have gone live, but I noticed at the weekend I published it as Private, which means that only I could see it. And if I just wanted to read my stuff without anyone else, then I’d go back to filling notepads like [...]
IndianPad - Popular Stories (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Our pals at GOOD created a fascinating interactive infographic documenting “history’s greatest journeys,” including trips from travelers like Amelia Earhart, Ken Kesey, Columbus, and Jack Kerouac
Pushing Rope (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Meanwhile, in the radiation filled fields of Rocky Flats Arsenal, just outside of Denver, Colorado, The Ghost of Herman Melville is paying a visit to Billy "Bud" Wilson, an unemployed insurance adjuster... Ah, Billy, I remember hitchhiking up Highway 287 with Jack Kerouac and a bottle of Bushmills whiskey. Stole pies off of windowsills in Lafayette...and that coal miner's daughter, Have Mercy Miss...
The Aristocrats (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Meanwhile, in the radiation filled fields of Rocky Flats Arsenal, just outside of Denver, Colorado, The Ghost of Herman Melville is paying a visit to Billy "Bud" Wilson, an unemployed insurance adjuster... Ah, Billy, I remember hitchhiking up Highway 287 with Jack Kerouac and a bottle of Bushmills whiskey. Stole pies off of windowsills in Lafayette...and that coal miner's daughter, Have Mercy Miss...
KnowHR Blog (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Jack Kerouac went on the road and wrote down what he saw. On The Road wouldn’t have been the literary sensation it was if Kerouac just sat in a room and imagined the characters he wrote about. He lived it. And that’s our HR Lesson for the Day: Live it, don’t imagine it. Don’t hang out [...]
Legal Writing Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
The scholarship dude is a bit behind in his reading so please excuse the delay in bringing you this column from the July 27 edition of the Education Life Supplement to the New York Times. It's the story of the...
Syntax of Things (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
I'm sure you all know that Denver has a rich Beat legacy. After all, there is a condominium complex in the city named after Jack Kerouac. Now comes word that this legacy will extend to the Democratic National Convention next...
World Hum (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Years ago I picked up a CD of Jack Kerouac reading passages from On the Road . Sometimes, during late-night drives on I-5 between Los Angeles and San Francisco, I’d pop it in for for an hour or so. As the miles breezed by, my eyes focused on the highway, I’d find myself enjoying not only Kerouac’s musical prose, which I expected, but also the timbre of his voice and the way he emphasized certain words...
bnox (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Wanderlust: GOOD traces the most famous trips in history : "Although we now know that Jack Kerouac indeed spent a great deal of time editing the paragraphs of On the Road, the spontaneity of his language lent his characters a fresh vitality. A simultaneous romancing and rejection of the American Dream, On the Road speaks to all that is contemplative and nomadic in us. His characters hitched, train-hopped,...
Gridskipper (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac's classic book On the Road -- a milestone accompanied by a resurgence of interest in the writers and poets of the so-called Beat generation. While the Beats were...
