The Pynchon I Knew?

Andrew phoenixx360 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 9 19:02:04 CST 2010


Oh, I wouldn't be surprised, he might just be drugged out enough to not know
that the border is a full 3.5 hours by car south of his house.

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you think he hangs out with Senor Jules in Mexico?
>
> AsB4,
>
> Henry Mu
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Andrew <phoenixx360 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > To my very limited knowledge, it seems accurate. The commune he mentions
> in
> > New Mexico seems to existed, but through some very half-assed googlng, I
> > can't find his name mentioned as having helped found it. Pearlman also
> turns
> > up in the google search living in Placitas, which, rightly or wrongly,
> often
> > gets mentioned in connection with old hippies.
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Robin Landseadel
> > <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Here's the whole article, without the brickwall:
> >>
> >>         . . .  His diet consisted primarily of pot, coffee and Kools . .
> .
> >>
> >> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n24/bill-pearlman/short-cuts
> >>
> >> On Jan 9, 2010, at 4:34 AM, Henry M wrote:
> >>
> >>> Anderson Valley Advertiser
> >>> http://theava.com/archives/3108
> >>>
> >>> The Pynchon I Knew.
> >>> by Bill Pearlman on Jan 7th, 2010.
> >>>
> >>> Manhattan Beach in Los Angeles County is part of the so-called South
> >>> Bay, south of Santa Monica. It was mostly populated by middle-class
> >>> white people when I grew up there in the 1950s, and was a good place
> >>> in many ways. I played volleyball on the beach, and once a year we had
> >>> surfing, paddleboard and volleyball championships next to the
> >>> Manhattan Pier. I graduated from the local high school, Mira Costa, in
> >>> 1961.
> >>>
> >>> In the first months of the summer of 1970, I was on the Oregon Coast
> >>> with some friends. We rented a house and dug a garden, fished for
> >>> trout and crabbed at the nearby dock in Waldport. My friend Charlie
> >>> Vermont, a poet, introduced me to David Shetzline and his wife, M.F.
> >>> Beal, both writers, who lived up the road from us in a place called
> >>> Beavercreek. We got into some swinging scenes, did some major acid,
> >>> talked about the world.
> >>>
> >>> Is this guy genuine?
> >>> Henry Mu
> >>
> >
> >
>
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