THE DAILY BEAT: Jack Kerouac - safe in heaven dead and free of this slaving meat wheel

Sunday, October 21, 2018

Jack Kerouac - safe in heaven dead and free of this slaving meat wheel

My first visit to Jack's grave in 2005 (December, I think)

Jack Kerouac died on this date in 1969 at age 47. Were he alive today he would be 96 and still writing life like no other author past, present, or future.

Click here for a link to last year's blog on this date -- it includes links to all my past blogs on this occasion.

Here's to you, Mr. Kerouac. Thanks for all the joyous reading and other good stuff your existence has manifested in my life.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Rest in peace JK, you changed the world. And thank you for a lifetime of reading. RM; October 22, 2018 at 9:45 AM

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Reviews of The Beat Handbook

Gerald Nicosia, author of the acclaimed Kerouac biography Memory Babe, said The Beat Handbook is "full of Jack's heart."

Jared Randall, author of the excellent book of poetry, Apocryphal Road Code, said this about The Beat Handbook: "Sometimes a book comes along at just the right time. In my wandering pack of experiences, I find they often do. Enter The Beat Handbook by Rick Dale."

Kenneth Morris, Kerouacian extraordinaire, said this:
"I just finished reading Rick Dale's beautiful utterance and call to action of Kerouac mind-set and zen sensibilities. It made me laugh and reflect on my own life and road I have naturally grooved into after absorbing the Kerouac canon. The road less traveled always had my name on it. And that has made all the difference. The Beat Handbook 100 Days of Kerouactions reaffirms the attitudes and ideology that made the Beats and Kerouac the important men of ideas that America (and the world) thirsted for, needed, and swallowed whole. Beautiful, absorbing, Top Ten whipsmart from my articulate, tender-hearted friend and fellow traveler. Highly recommended."