Philomene Long’s The Beats – An Exisitential Comedy
November 18, 2017
We continue our spotlighting of video now available via the digitalization of Allen’s Stanford University archives. Today – Philomene Long & (Jay D Kugelman)’s LA-based documentary from 1980,  The Beats: An Existential Comedy The video is available – here [Stuart Z Perkoff appearing on Groucho Marx’s tv show, You Bet Your Life[…]
April 1st – April Fool – Holy Goof
April 1, 2017
“Then there’s something I like to call Crazy Seriousness. Kerouac used the word “goof” a lot in a very positive way, as when he was describing the Three Stooges in Visions of Cody. He was talking about Neal Cassady, actually, saying how the free imagination he[…]
Lord Buckley
November 12, 2015
                    Richard Buckley – Lord Buckley (1906-1960) – Photograph by Charles Campbell M’lords, m’ladies of the Royal Court” – Fifty-five years since the passing of the great Lord Buckley.  Just re-released by City Lights this year – what Buckley scholar, Oliver Trager has[…]