Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
Re Beverly Hills Library gig tonight: 444 N. Rexford Dr.; for info
call (310) 471-3979.
  

    
re Shmo...I wasn't even thinking of his KPFK connection, just that
he's a teacher who respects his students and learns from them.
  

    
Oh, yeah, the then-13-year-old kid guru, known as the Perfect
Master...folks somehow got angry when I referred to him as the Perfect
Masturbator...Rennie Davis last was peddling a kind of bottled water
that defies gravity or something like that.
  

    
Man, he got it backwards. Gravity defies bottled water!
  

    


Depends on what you had with the previous bottle of water. 
  

    
     So how was the Beverly Hills Library gig?  Any old friends, new
friends, UFO landings? 
  

    
How's the weather?
  

    
Here's an interesting testimonial on Lenny 
- from the North Coast Xpress archives

www.sonic.net/~doretk/ArchiveARCHIVE/1%27s%20of%20a%20Kind/Lenny.html

(...thought you'd like it, & in case you haven't seen it)

i can only imagine what he'd have to say about our present SCOTUS
  

    
the beverly hills gig was fun.  I reminded the audience that Trent
Lott was not  only a racist, but also homophobic.  remember, he was the
one who compared gays with kleptomaniacs.  I wondered aloud whether
kleptomania was a choice or in the genes.  I was proud of myself for
not mentioning Winona Ryder.
  

    
I checked the Lenny Bruce site, thanks.. It was Phll  Spector who said
he died from an overdose of cops.  What's SCOTUS?
  

    
Supreme Court of the US.
  

    
      Concerning the Trent Lott controversy, one word comes to mind:
Schaudenfraude (sp?).  
       At the same time, it's a depressing reminder that it is not
hyperbole to say that this country is run by racists, homophobes, and
liars.  
  

    
Paul,

By any chance did you do some acting in the late '60's early 70's.

I just picked up a copy of Murder at the Conspiracy Convention and
can't wait to read it.

I can't believe you knew all the heroes of my youth.  I was a bit
young to move around the country (precocious as I was), but I read
everything I could get my hands on by Kesey, Ginsberg, et al and had
Bruce's records and later read biographies of him.  I am trying to
introduce my son to Bruce, but he's having none of it yet.  I will keep
trying.

Thanks for hanging around and answering our questions.
  

    
sarabrice: I've never acted in anything, but back then I was doing
standup comedy occasionally.  Lenny Bruce may not be as relevant to
your son as contemporary comedians; who does he like?
  

    
I might tend to disagree with you there somewhat, Paul.

Some Bruce routines are for the ages.  I have a son, 24.  When he was 16 we
did a little roadtrip and I put a bootleg Lenny Bruce tape in dashboard
deck.  He didn't get the Lone Ranger; born in 1978, he'd heard of him but
never heard a radio show or seen a TV show.  The Lone Routine(s) always
cracked me up.

But when we got to the routine on the origin of police ("HEY! WHO JUST
CRAPPED ON ME?") my kid laughed as hard as I did.  Some of Lenny Bruce's
shit will be just as funny in 2102 as it was in 1965, just like a lot of
Samuel Clemons/Mark Twain's riffs are still funny today.

I can see some ghetto kid cracking up at the origin-of-cops riff, if you
could get him to listen.
  

    
Jack--I agree with you about Lenny & today's young  people; I was just
saying to sarabrice that HER son might not find him relevant.
  

    

Well, we can always hope.
  

    
the birth of cops bit is on the Berkeley Concert which is now out on CD.
  

    
Paul, do you recall doing an evening of standup at a small
experimental college in Florida in the late 60s? You gave such a good
show, and the vibe was so special, I haven't forgotten it in all these
years.
  

    
klopfens--yes, I do remember = the audience was so friendly.
  

    
That evening got me started as a fan. Somewhere, among my prized
possessions, are copies of the Last Supplement and the Plaster Caster
Realist issue.
  

    
Paul,

He is more into music now, but I try to teach him about how Lenny
Bruce was such a pacesetter for today's comedians and how relevant he
was to the times.  Bruce's works were so far ahead of his time and he
had the convictions to stand up to anyone who was trying to censure
him.  I come from Philadelphia, where, if I am not incorrect was the
first place or at least of one of the first places Lenny Bruce was
arrested.  It is a good question concerning who he likes.  I could name
a hundred bands, but right now can't name one comedian.
  

    
Paul,

what  were you thinking about when you published the issue of the
realist that had LBJ fucking the entry wound in JFK's skull.?
  

    

Please! Try to show some modicum of decency and fairness.

It was the *exit* wound in JFK's *throat*!
  

    
almanac inadvertently answers stet's question about The Parts Left Out
of the Kennedy Book.  LBJ was fucking JFK's entry wound from the
grassy knoll in order to make it look like an exit wound from the Texas
Book Depository and fool the Warren Commission.  so, it was (1) a
literary challenge to nurture the incredible in a credible context;
after it was published, I was told that this was a form known as
apocrypha; (2) it was a comment on the conspiracy behind the
assassination; (3) in the total context, it was an analogy for the
Vietnam war; and (4) it was a prank that served as a wake-up call,
forcing readers who, if only for a moment, believed it to be literally
true (rather than a metaphorical truth), reminding them that the leader
of the western world was a raving, unconfined nut (an epithet that the
FBI used to describe me in a poison-pen letter to Life magazine).