Weird Scenes Inside Cambridge, Harmonica History, Shadow Figures, & Folk Genealogies

[Mark Kohut]

This must be him then....I guess we can all judge the picture vs
pictures....guy was quite handsome as TRP was never said to be..but with
the teeth and the side shot,
......???

http://owendelong.info

On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, unknown commentators on XTwitter are a dozen for a dime and tens of
> millions for nothing....
>
> Here is this, FWIW,,,,,
>
> I am sorry but I am going to believe it is Pynchon....not least because of
> who he is standing with.....is this other guy
> EVER seen with Mimi and Dick and ....
>
> I think the 'guy in the picture' who confirmed this is either incorrect or
> keeping the mystery of TRP pics alive willfully....I vote for this answer...
>
> And this is what the guy who said, quoting that other guy, alse wrote.....
>
> The craziest bit: TRP in 65 has a lookalike liaison with the Kennedys??!!!
>   That is a very stupidly cute conspiracy theory
> right out of Lot 49, which had not yet been published.....,Give me an
> intelligence break...[O, this guy just did]
>
>
> Lengthy contribution to Mel Lyman / Thomas Pynchon studies which
> nonetheless fails to explain why Mel had a TRP lookalike acting as his
> liaison to the Kennedys: #mellyman
> <https://x.com/hashtag/mellyman?src=hashtag_click> #thomaspynchon
> <https://x.com/hashtag/thomaspynchon?src=hashtag_click> #richardfarina
> <https://x.com/hashtag/richardfarina?src=hashtag_click> #jimkweskin
> <https://x.com/hashtag/jimkweskin?src=hashtag_click> https://
> lenaajit.substack.com/p/the-mirror-at-the-end-of-the-road
> <https://t.co/QJ6vyd0io5>
> 3:54 PM · Nov 30, 2025 <https://x.com/robtned/status/1995235038393504164>
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> On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM Hübschräuber via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the memories and the recommendations.
>>
>> I was not familiar with Mel Lyman and checked out his Wiki entry. It
>> seems that he became a cult leader. Jim Kweskin stayed by his side.
>>
>> In reply to the article, a commenter on X cryptically states that Lyman
>> "had a TRP lookalike acting as his liaison to the Kennedys". He claims that
>> the man we took for Pynchon on the photographs from Newport was someone
>> called Owen de Long.
>>
>> https://x.com/robtned/status/1995235038393504164
>>
>> FWIW
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>> Gesendet mit Proton Mail: Ein sicherer E-Mail-Dienst.
>>
>> Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> schrieb am Montag, 1. Dezember 2025
>> um 02:32:
>>
>> > That's some article!
>> >
>> > In 1971, working as barman in the student bar at Exeter Uni I spotted
>> > an ad for albums for sale by the Jim Kweskin Jug Band. I'd had the Big
>> > Brother/Jim Kweskin Mouse/Kelley poster on my wall for a couple of
>> > years, so my curiosity was sparked.
>> >
>> https://collections.artsmia.org/art/132153/the-woman-with-green-hair-alton-kelley
>> >
>> > So I bought them, first three jug band albums and Jim's solo albums
>> > Relax Your Mind and Jump for Joy. Relax Your Mind remains one of my all
>> > time favourites and Mel Lyman's harp playing is a lot of the reason. And
>> > that purchase was the start of a musical exploration that still goes on
>> > 50 + years later, taking me back into the 20s and 30s with Skip James,
>> > Charlie Poole and Pink Anderson, and in the then present via the Geoff
>> > and Maria albums taking me to to the likes of Wendy Waldman, the
>> > McGarrigles, Allan Toussaint and Bobby Charles. Years later hunting the
>> > web for more Bobby Charles I found the wrong Bobby Charles but his
>> > guitarist was Danny Gatton, rated by many of us up there with Django
>> > Reinhart and Lenny Breau as top of the greats. If you don't know him
>> > there's plenty of live gigs on Youtube.
>> >
>> > The poster's still on my wall, and Relax Your Mind still gets played a
>> > few times a year.
>> >
>> >
>> > On 30/11/2025 20:10, Hübschräuber via Pynchon-l wrote:
>> >
>> > > Plus Pynchon and Fariña. Name of the Substack: Latitudes and
>> Departures.
>> > >
>> > > https://lenaajit.substack.com/p/the-mirror-at-the-end-of-the-road
>> > > --
>> > > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>> --
>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>
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