Visiting Enid with my girlfriend Swarloka in the Summer of 1975 we saw that Jefferson Starship was playing in Tulsa. I borrowed my dad’s pickup and we loaded the goat…
How I Kissed Grace Slick
The Wizard of Golden
In the late 1970’s i participated in the Rainbow Family Tribal Gatherings. After the 1978 gathering in Oregon a few of us on the council decided to try and keep…
Campbell, Texas Ranger
[Ed. Most of the accounts of these events and persons were taken from the book “Tumbleweed Treck” by Stella Campbell Rockwell. Her accounts in turn were based largely on tax…
Interview With Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey / Tim Leary “debate”
The following was transcribed from a tape of an interview I conducted with Dr. Timothy Leary upon his arrival in Eugene, Oregon to debate his close friend Ken Kesey at…
The Spirit World
Medicine Story walked on The Path That Stands on Two Legs. His Uncle, the Sun, was coming up over the Pueblos before him. His Mother, the Moon, was going down…
The Hippie T.A. and The Nuclear Mathematician
In 1974 I was a graduate student in mathematics at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. I was working as a teaching assistant and the first semester of the…
How to Build a Chickee and Talk to Cockroaches
Characters in and around the swamps and rivers of north central Florida were as plentiful as paw-paws in a paw-paw patch. On Sundays I would often ride my bicycle out…
The Greatest Poetry Reading of All Time
On Saturday evening of April 19, 1975 three of the greatest Beat poets – Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, and Michael McClure came to the campus of the University of Florida…
Mandelbox Trip – 3D Mandelbrot Fly Through
Key-frame animation test in Mandelbulber. Animation was rendered using Mandelbulber 0.80 https://sourceforge.net/projects/mandelbulber/h Mandelbox Trip video © Copyright by Krzysztof Marczak
Orwell or Huxley ?
This insightful, funny, and kinda creepy comic delves into the question of which author more accurately predicted the distopian future – Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four or Huxley’s Brave New World. Text…