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

[Mike Weaver]

The pic of Owen diving with the rose in his  mouth is from a couple of 
months before the Newport pic. No way are they of the same person. 
Different haircut, different ears. Pynchon was skinnier as well.

On 02/12/2025 20:17, Mark Kohut 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
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