June 4

Philip Lamantia (October 23, 1927 – March 7, 2005) was an American poet and lecturer.
His poems were often visionary, ecstatic, terror-filled, and erotic, exploring the subconscious world of dreams and linking it to daily experiences, while sometimes incorporating typographical arrangements a la concrete poetry.
He has posthumously been regarded as "the most visionary poet of the American postwar generation".

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Commentary
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Today I’ll allow that I’m a bit pissed.
At myself.
For a rookie mistake.

I’ve posted more than 420 times and each time I sat to write my commentary I’ve been mellow.
Writing this is a respite.

Today, not so.
I was to meet to represent a friend presenting a punch list to a contractor.
9.00am.
A mite of experience is enough to forewarn us to bring a book or some work just in case.
I didn’t and frittered away half an hour.

Are you kidding?
Throwing off a half hour?
Gaining nothing?
What a mook!

Imagine going to a doctor’s office without a book.
The built-in waste of time just sitting there.
The inevitability of it.

Here I am, seething.
Calm, doofus.

Do you know what staying fermented long after the causal event is called?
A rookie mistake.

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Announcements
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
I will continue to run the solicitation for participation in the blog.
So far we’ve harvested two new volunteers, they working from home.
But the blog is daily and we have on average nine segments a day, or 7x9 pieces a week.
We’ll put other volunteers to work as well.

The blog is growing fast enough to warrant this request for volunteer help.
From writing to mailing list enrichment to research, something fun for someone looking for a hobby related to the written word.
If interested, contact Dom: domcapossela@hotmail.com

We are in a surge of nice weather.
For the next week.
Spring at last.

Let’s make sure we enjoy each day coming.
The hours are ticking away and if we don’t make the most of our time another day will soon click past.
Unnoticed.
Unappreciated.

Tick Tock.
In clock language:

Enjoy today.
Enjoy the week.

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Postings Count, Weather Brief, and Dinner
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Our 424th consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 424 posts we’re at the 8.48 percentile of our commitment, the commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.

Time is 4.01am.
On Tuesday, Boston’s temperature will reach a high of 64* with a feels-like of 63* under mainly sunny skies.
 
Dinner Monday afternoon was leftover Lobster Fra Diavolo with al dentissimo spaghetti.
Alone.

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Question of the Day:
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
What was the Beat Generation?

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Chuckle of the Day:
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

I married Mr. Right.
Only afterwards I discovered, his first name was Always.

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Answer to the Question of the Day:
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era.
The bulk of their work was published and popularized throughout the 1950s.
The central elements of Beat culture are the rejection of standard narrative values, making a spiritual quest, the exploration of American and Eastern religions, the rejection of materialism, explicit portrayals of the human condition, experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and sexual liberation and exploration.

Allen Ginsberg
Dijk, Hans van / Anefo - [1] Dutch National Archives, The Hague, Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet, philosopher and writer.
He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed.
He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions.
He was one of many influential American writers of his time who were associated with the Beat Generation, including Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs.

Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959) and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) are among the best known examples of Beat literature.
Both Howl and Naked Lunch were the focus of obscenity trials that ultimately helped to liberalize publishing in the United States.
The members of the Beat Generation developed a reputation as new bohemian hedonists, who celebrated non-conformity and spontaneous creativity.

The core group of Beat Generation authors – Herbert Huncke, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Lucien Carr, and Kerouac – met in 1944 in and around the Columbia University campus in New York City. Later, in the mid-1950s, the central figures (with the exception of Burroughs and Carr) ended up together in San Francisco where they met and became friends of figures associated with the San Francisco Renaissance.

In the 1960s, elements of the expanding Beat movement were incorporated into the hippie and larger counterculture movements. Neal Cassady, as the driver for Ken Kesey's bus Further, was the primary bridge between these two generations. Ginsberg's work also became an integral element of early 1960s hippie culture.

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) is an American poet, painter, socialist activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.
He is the author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration. Ferlinghetti is best known for his first collection of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), which has been translated into nine languages, with sales of more than one million copies. Ferlinghetti turned 100 in March 2019, leading the city of San Francisco to proclaim his birthday, March 24, "Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day".

I keep a list of the rookie mistakes I make.
I keep them on a single quarter-page slip of paper.
It’s as clean as the day I first thought to carry it.

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Good Morning on this Tuesday, the fourth day of June, 2019

We posted a photo of Philip Lamantia and a thumbnail of who he was.
Our commentary dealt with rookie mistakes.
We added the Boston weather report and the ticking calendar, and tracked the number of our postings.
We pause our new delivery system until our Wednesday meet with a techie.
We advance our profile on Linked In.
And we ask for volunteer help with working on the blog.

We posted another chuckle.
And we learned something about the Beat Generation.

And now? Gotta go.

Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.