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Brain Damage Control: The Yippie Scourge
Mon Feb 22, 2010
Recently, the Associated Press published a profile of me by cultural correspondent John Rogers. This is what he wrote:
“The movement [Krassner] helped launch is not remembered fondly by everyone. David Horowitz, the former 1960s radical turned conservative commentator, said that although he likes Krassner personally, he believes he and other Yippies must shoulder much of the blame for crises such as AIDS and drug addiction. ‘It was one long incitement against America, against all the guidelines, the morals and mores that helped people make it through life,’ [Horowitz] said of the Yippie movement. ‘I think Yippies in the end were a terribly destructive force.’”
So I contacted some original Yippies and Yippie …READ MORE
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Brain Damage Control: Tom Waits Meets Super-Joel
Mon Jan 11, 2010
In my 1993 autobiography, Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture, I described Joel Tornabene as “an unheralded Yippie organizer known as Super-Joel. His grandfather was Mafia boss Sam Giancana.” But Super-Joel had dropped out of the family business; instead, he let his hair grow long and distributed LSD.
The intelligence division of the Chicago Police Department warned Giancana that Super-Joel shouldn’t hang around with me. The cops were telling the Mafia that I was a bad influence. It could’ve been worse: The FBI had planned to “neutralize” comedian/activist Dick Gregory by alerting the Mafia to his verbal attacks on the crime syndicate.
Super-Joel once told me: “If it wasn’t for acid, I with my Sicilian ancestry and you with your Jewish ancestry, we would never have …READ MORE
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Brain Damage Control: An Interview With Tom Ammiano
Thu Dec 10, 2009
California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has introduced a bill not only to address the state’s economic crisis, but also to begin a discussion on how best to regulate its largest cash crop, marijuana, which brings in an estimated $14 billion a year.
Q. Barack Obama has said, “I don’t think that [legalizing and taxing marijuana] is a good strategy to grow our economy.” How would you respond to him?
A. “I don’t know what you’re smoking, Obama, but what the hell are you talking about, man? You were telegraphing this through your campaign, and [Attorney General] Eric Holder made a really good move about no more raids of medical-marijuana dispensaries.” So Obama may have had a brain fart, but he really needs to understand what we are talking about and what his message is gonna be. Just like with the gay-rights thing, where …READ MORE
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Brain Damage Control: Tom Forçade: Prisoner of Romance
Thu Oct 1, 2009
According to the evidence, HIGH TIMES was actually supposed to be a joke.
By Paul KrassnerThe first thing you have to know about Tom Forçade is that he wasn’t only a liberating force – he was also a prisoner of romance.
At the Revolutionary Media Conference in Ann Arbor, MI, in 1969, Forçade predicted that there would be “a daily underground paper in every city, and a weekly in every town.” But when he became the director of the Underground Press Syndicate (UPS), he starting issuing “repression reports,” highlighting information like the fact that 60 percent of the papers loosely grouped as “underground” were experiencing major repression, and many failed to survive. Also, UPS reported that the percentage of underground-press staffers involved in drug arrests was 100 times that of the general …READ MORE
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Brain Damage Control: Phil Spector, Valerie Solanas and Me
Thu Sep 10, 2009
When Phil Spector was sentenced—19 to life in prison—for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, I had a flashback to 1971, at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. I was a guest of John Lennon and Yoko Ono for the celebration of Yoko’s show, This Is Not Here. The Videofreex, a countercultural video commune, was there to shoot a documentary titled You’re Not Here, Yoko.
Nancy Cain recalls: “We were all going up for the opening, which would be jammed because John Lennon and Ringo Starr were going to be there, too. And it was true—in the crush of people, there went Ringo; he was being swept past us into the main gallery. There he goes. ‘Hi, Ringo!’ He was gone, but we could play our video as much as we wanted to. There he goes. ‘Hi, Ringo!’ There he goes again. ‘Hi …READ MORE
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Brain Damage Control: Memories of Manson’s Mass Murder
Wed Aug 12, 2009
By Paul Krassner
August marks the 40th anniversary of the Tate-LaBianca murders, the massacre orchestrated by Charles Manson. In the course of my research into these events, I actually received a letter from him—a few pages of gibberish about Christ and the Devil—but right in the middle, he wrote in tiny letters, “Call Squeaky,” along with a phone number. That would be Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, who is currently serving a life sentence for the attempted assassination of Gerald Ford, but back then was acting as Manson’s spokesperson. So I called, and we arranged to meet at her apartment in Los Angeles.
Squeaky and her roommates, Manson Family members Sandra Good and Nancy Pitman (a.k.a. Brenda McCann), each had the scar of an “X” that they’d gouged and burned into their forehead as a visual reminder of their commitment to …READ MORE
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Brain Damage Control: Woodstock Flashback
Mon Aug 3, 2009
By Paul KrassnerAugust marks the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival. Along with 400,000 others, I was on a countercultural pilgrimage that weekend. I was wearing my yellow leather fringe jacket for the first time; in one of the pockets, there was a nice little stash of LSD. If you happen to be brand-name conscious, then you’ll want to know that it was Owsley White Lightning. Each tablet contained exactly 300 micrograms of excellent acid.
The soundtrack was live and the Hog Farm commune provided meals, servicing the largest bed-and-breakfast in recorded history. Actually, they’d been hired to provide security, but to Hog Farm leader Hugh Romney, “security” meant cream pies and seltzer bottles. He planned to wear a Smokey the Bear costume to warn people about putting out their fires. This …READ MORE
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Brain Damage Control: Harry Shearer Hears Voices
Tue Jun 2, 2009
Harry Shearer became an actor at the age of seven, at the urging of his piano teacher. As a kid on the Jack Benny Show, he once told me, when the cast was doing a read-through, there was a line in the script where “I just got it in my mind to do it with a slight Brooklyn accent—and when I did that, Benny just started howling, banging the table and laughing.” That was an auspicious omen for Shearer’s future career.
Foremost among his many talents is the uncanny ability to mimic with satirical precision the voices, mannerisms and points-of-view of countless public figures—entertainers, politicians, news anchors—on his radio program, Le Show, which recently completed its 25th year. Le Show is broadcast every Sunday morning on KCRW in Santa Monica (“From the edge of America, from …READ MORE
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Brain Damage Control: Psychedelic Evolution
Wed Mar 18, 2009
There I stood, a few years ago in San Francisco, with my feet spread apart and my arms outstretched against the side of a car. As I was being frisked by a police officer, I realized that he was facing the back of my Mad magazine jacket, the face of Alfred E. Neuman smiling at him and saying, “What, me worry?” And, indeed, this cop was worried. He asked if I had anything sharp in my pockets.
“Because,” he explained, “I’m gonna get very mad if I get stuck,” obviously referring to a hypodermic needle.
“No,” I said, “there’s only a pen in this pocket”—gesturing toward the left with my head—“and keys in that one.”
When he saw the contents of the baggie that I also had in my pocket, he asked a rhetorical question—“So you like mushrooms, huh?”—with such hostility that it kept reverberating …READ MORE
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Brain Damage Control: Forty Years After
Thu Jun 21, 2007
By Paul Krassner
Actually, 1967’s Summer of Love was born on Oct. 6, 1966, the day that LSD became illegal. In San Francisco, at precisely 2 o’clock in the afternoon, a cross-fertilization of mass protest and tribal celebration took place, as several hundred individuals simultaneously swallowed tabs of acid while possession of it was still not against the law. The CIA had originally envisioned using LSD as a means of control, but millions of young people used it to explore their own inner spaces. Acid was serving as a vehicle to help youth deprogram themselves from a civilization of insane priorities. The nuclear family was exploding. Extended families were developing into an alternative society.
America has always had a spirit of counterculture, taking different forms along the way. Just as the Beats had evolved from the bohemians, the hippies evolved from the Beats. No longer did you have to feel like the only Martian on your …READ MOREtags: 11 « add a comment
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Fri Oct 20, 2006
By Paul Krassner
“There is one thing people should know about Tim Leary,” says British writer John Higgs. “He was fucking funny!” Shortly before his death, Leary was asked about Richard Nixon calling him “the most dangerous man in America.” “It’s true,” Leary replied. “I have America surrounded.” Which is why Higgs titled his biography I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary. I asked him a couple of questions via e-mail.
Q. How do you view the negative media depictions of Leary this year?
A. I find them very revealing. Not in what they're saying, of course, but in what they are ignoring. Most of the mud that has been sluaccurate and wildly misleading at the same time. For instance, if someone asked me to describe Winston Churchill, I could say he was a mentally ill drunk who lost the 1945 UK General Election. And I'd be factually …READ MOREtags: 1 « add a comment
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THE NATURE OF PROTEST, THEN AND NOW
Fri Jul 2, 2004
Story by Paul Krassner
The 1960’s in America were permeated by a severe case of anti-Communist hysteria. Alvin Dark, manager of the New York Giants baseball team, announced that “Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.” Not to be outdone, singer Pat Boone declared at the Greater New York Anti-Communism Rally in Madison Square Garden, “I would rather see my four daughters shot before my eyes than have them grow up in a Communist United States. I would rather see those kids blown into Heaven than taught into Hell by the Communists.”
In 1964, I asked my friend John Francis Putnam, who was art director at Mad Magazine, to design a patriotic poster proudly proclaiming in red, white and blue, “FUCK COMMUNISM!” I published and distributed it through my underground magazine The Realist, fully prepared to accuse the United States Postal Service of being soft on …READ MOREtags: 2 « add a comment
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LENNY AND THE LAW, TOGETHER AGAIN
Thu Jun 10, 2004
Story by Paul Krassner
When I met Lenny Bruce in 1959 at the Hotel America near Times Square, he was still using euphemisms like “frig” onstage. I gave him an advance copy of an interview with psychologist Albert Ellis in my countercultural magazine, The Realist. At one point, Dr. Ellis talked about “the campaign which I have been waging, with remarkable lack of success, for many years, in favor of the proper usage of the word fuck. My premise is that sexual intercourse, copulation, fucking or whatever you wish to call it, is normally, under almost all circumstances, a damned good thing. Therefore, we should rarely use it in a negative, condemnatory manner. . . . It should be: Unfuck you!”
I didn’t want to insult the readers’ intelligence by resorting to asterisks or dashes, as other magazines did at the time, but my printer wouldn’t even set that portion of the interview in type until I brought a note …READ MOREtags: 0 « add a comment
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Wed May 19, 2004
Story by Paul Krassner
"What part of recovery don't you fucking understand?"
That’s the rhetorical question Steve Earle asked freelance journalist Mitch Myers, who was assigned by High Times to write a piece on him. Earle had been a junkie for nearly a quarter-century, half of his life. Booze, coke, heroin, methadone, methamphetamine, crack, cough syrup—you name it, he drank, smoked, snorted or mainlined it. In the process, he temporarily destroyed his career as a groundbreaking singer-songwriter, not to mention his function as a dedicated political activist.
Earle also ruined friendships and marriages alike. He was a fool for lust in the guise of love, and has been married six times (twice to the same woman). Hard drugs so severely affected his health that his life almost became six weddings and a funeral. So, although Myers went into great detail about the expanded direction of High Times, it’s …READ MOREtags: 0 « add a comment
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Fri Feb 13, 2004
Story by Paul Krassner
The first thing you notice about Vivian McPeak is that he’s a man. He has long dark hair, a matching beard and a healthy attitude. He was once the lead singer for a band named Vivian, and people started calling him Vivian. Prisoners assumed he was a babe and wrote him sexy letters. Eventually the band broke up, but the name stuck.
In 1997, five Seattle police officers swooped down on McPeak from three directions, catching him in the act of taping a paper flyer (promoting a speaking gig by me) to a metal light pole. The cops took his flyers and gave him a $250 fine.
A couple of years previously, a citywide poster ban had been imposed, and McPeak immediately opposed it. "The law was specifically targeted," he realized, "to suppress the proliferation of the grunge culture that had claimed dominion over the choicest wooden and metal poles of the city." Now he saw his citation as a chance to challenge the …READ MOREtags: 0 « add a comment
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