Mimi Farina, modeling ski fashions

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

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> --- On Sun=2C 10/18/09=2C Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:
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>> From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen=20
>> Subject: Mimi Farina=2C modeling ski fashions
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Date: Sunday=2C October 18=2C 2009=2C 8:02 AM
>>
>> ... The Diggers had announced a Halloween event of their
>> own=2C so there
>> were three places to go that Monday night=2C October 31. At
>> California Hall
>> there was the Calliope dance with the Dead=2C Quicksilver=2C
>> Mimi Farina and
>> 'six authentic witches.' It was agreeably spooky. The
>> balconies of the
>> hall were hung with nets holding plastic baby dolls. A
>> Headless Horseman
>> with a flashlight shining out of his decapitated neck
>> stalked the hall.
>> At midnight a Giant Pumpkin wheeled Death=2C wearing a red
>> brocade Louis
>> XIV jacket=2C around the hall in a wheelchair while
>> Quicksilver played
>> 'Bo Diddley.'/ For a faithful few there was the chastened
>> Acid Test
>> Graduation. Pranksters were joined by reporters=2C including
>> television
>> crews and representatives of VOGUE and WOMEN's WEAR DAILY=2C
>> a total
>> of perhaps 200 people under an orange-and-white parachute
>> hanging
>> from the ceiling. In the absence of the Dead=2C music was
>> provided
>> by the Anonymous Artists of America=2C friends from La Honda
>> days
>> who had inherited the Buchla sound synthesizer and other
>> Acid
>> Test electronic equipment upon dropping out of Stanford
>> University
>> and deciding to learn how to play music. (...) Kesey
>> delivered a
>> commencement address with the same message he had been
>> delivering=3B
>> it was time to 'move on=3B this doesn't mean to stop taking
>> acid' --
>> surprise for the authorities=2C who were expecting a
>> denunciation of
>> drugs -- but to do something besides get stoned and go to
>> rock
>> and roll dances. (...) Kesey later revealed that he had
>> consulted
>> the I CHING and the verdict of the coin toss was the
>> hexagram Fu:
>> the Turning Point. (...) The last week in October a ski
>> shop opened
>> in North Beach with the Grateful Dead and a light show.
>> According
>> to the society page story=2C it was attended by Hell's Angels
>> as well
>> as post-debs=3B Joan Baez was there and so was her sister
>> Mimi Farina=2C
>> modeling ski fashions. A few blocks away on another social
>> level=2C
>> a North Beach topless bar was advertising a show called
>> 'The LSD Trip':
>> twelve minutes of flashing images from three film
>> projectors with a
>> soundtrack of rock and roll and heavy breathing=2C after
>> which the
>> topless girls came back for another set of dancing ...
>>
>> (from Charles Perry's "The Haight-Ashbury. A History"
>> [1984]=2C NY 1985:
>> Vintage Books=2C pp. 102-3=2C 106)
>>
>> Water or Snow?
>> KFL
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D9b-aVDy6JfQ
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