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One drizzly afternoon I had a hankering for one of those cheese-and-lettuce sandwiches. I went through our belongings and found exactly fifty-five cents, slipped on my gray trench coat and Mayakovsky cap, and headed to the Automat.

I got my tray and slipped in my coins but the window wouldn’t open. I tried again without luck and then I noticed the price had gone up to sixty-five cents. I was disappointed, to say the least, when I heard a voice say, “Can I help?”

I turned around and it was Allen Ginsberg. We had never met but there was no mistaking the face of one of our great poets and activists. I looked into those intense dark eyes punctuated by his dark curly beard and just nodded. Allen added the extra dime and also stood me to a cup of coffee. I wordlessly followed him to his table, and then plowed into the sandwich.

Allen introduced himself. He was talking about Walt Whitman and I mentioned I was raised near Camden, where Whitman was buried, when he leaned forward and looked at me intently. “Are you a girl?” he asked.

“Yeah,” I said. “Is that a problem?”

He just laughed. “I’m sorry. I took you for a very pretty boy.”

I got the picture immediately. “Well, does this mean I return the sandwich?”

“No, enjoy it. It was my mistake.” He told me he was writing a long elegy for Jack Kerouac, who had recently passed away. “Three days after Rimbaud’s birthday,” I said. I shook his hand and we parted company.

Sometime later Allen became my good friend and teacher. We often reminisced about our first encounter and he once asked how I would describe how we met. “I would say you fed me when I was hungry,” I told him. And he did.

In her fantastic memoir, Just Kids, Patti Smith – who famously spent her youth as a starving artist not in the fashionable political-statement sense but in the physical severe-caloric-deficiency sense – recounts the infinitely delightful anecdote of her encounter with Allen Ginsberg, was born on June 3, 1926. (via explore-blog)
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tonyopp:

Great concert tonight at Solebury School!
Bess Rogers, Hannah Winkler, Chris Kuffner & Elliot Jacobson are shown playing their final number of the night. Kevin May also did a great set, but wasn’t on stage at this point.

This was a really fun night. Thanks to everyone at Solebury School for having us. I feel very lucky to get to make music with these people! 
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tonyopp:

Great concert tonight at Solebury School!

Bess Rogers, Hannah Winkler, Chris Kuffner & Elliot Jacobson are shown playing their final number of the night. Kevin May also did a great set, but wasn’t on stage at this point.

This was a really fun night. Thanks to everyone at Solebury School for having us. I feel very lucky to get to make music with these people! 

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“Violence is never, EVER a choice that the man should make.”

Patrick Stewart’s infinitely moving account of how his childhood experience shaped his work on ending domestic violence against women, articulately arguing that this is not a “women’s problem” but, rather, its eradication is up to men. Amidst the epidemic of sexual assault on women in the military, Stewart points out the life-warping manifestations of PTSD across the spectrum of violence.

Please consider supporting Refuge, Stewart’s UK charity against domestic violence, and Joyful Heart Foundation, who do remarkable work to end sexual and domestic violence in the U.S.

(The Dish)

This is so inspiring. What an amazing human being. 

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“Dick Whitman sends his regards…”

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“Dick Whitman sends his regards…”

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@chriskuffner and I had a photo shoot yesterday with the beautiful and talented @dlopezstudio. This makes me really happy.
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Gymnosomata, commonly known as Sea Angels. An apt name- the sea angels are the ethereal, translucent, fluttering angels of the sea. 

In hard scientific terms, they’re small swimming sea slugs, but we’ll pass over that for now and just admire how delicately beautiful these wonderful creatures are.

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jennyowenyoungs:

In my younger and more vulnerable years, there was a band called The Robot Explosion. We played a lot of beeps and boops. There were three (3!) lineups. Who even has the time to change lineups these days?!

Cc: @bessrogers @andrewfutral.
Photos by Catherine Orchard.

I had no idea what to do with my hair back then. I still don’t actually.

memories…

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A new favorite misspelling of my name. Although its still second best to Seff.
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A new favorite misspelling of my name. Although its still second best to Seff.

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This kid's story will make you never post on Facebook again.

This is so scary. Our right to free speech needs to be protected!  

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