Monday, August 2
Who Dat?
Q: Who is that, in the picture, in “Marketing”?
A: That’s Frank Walsh, looking like the Mad Hatter.
Next to him is Carl Wenclas.
They are in front
of the auditorium at
I flew up for the protest and wrote a flier I handed out to people going into the theater.
Actually, this is the only street theater I ever did.
I’m not in the picture because I took the picture.
I’m my own paparazzi.
Q: No fake Howl.
A: Yes.
I felt like the people inside celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of “Howl” were the very people who opposed the publication of “Howl,” 50 years previously, and said it wasn’t poetry, or wasn’t a poem.
Think of Norman Podhoretz in “The Know-Nothing Bohemians,” saying beat writing caused juvenile delinquency.
Q: I know it’s back there in the book somewhere, but refresh my memory. Reprint the “Howl Protest Talking Points.”
A: Certainly.