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                                             August 12, 2025

  One of the best minds
  of my generation.           Or the cohort of one
                              of them: Tuli Kupferberg.


                                                        (For some version of
                                                        "my generation".
                                                        It's never been
                                                        clear to me which
                                                        one to pledge
                                                        allegiance to.)



    "The Fugs"

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    _Tales of Beatnik Glory_


    _Fame and Love in New York_


    _Investigative Poetry_

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    In the wikipedia page for "The Beat Generation" I wrote:

    "During the 1960s, aspects of the Beat movement metamorphosed
    into the counterculture of the 1960s, accompanied by a
    shift in terminology from 'beatnik' to 'hippie'."

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    And there, I referenced Ed Sanders:

        "Ed Sanders said in an interview in the film
        ''The Source'' (1999) (@ 1hr 17secs) that he
        observed the change immediately after the
        1967 Human Be-In event:"

       "'And after the Be-In all of a sudden you
        were no longer a beatnik, you were a hippie.'"


                  There's a remark in "Tales of Beatnik Glory"
                  about how they were going to miss the term
                  "beatnik", which they pretended to hate, but
                  secretly loved.


    From the Ed Sanders book "Fug You", p. 275-6,

    "An Informal History of Peaceye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press,
    the Fugs and Counterculture in the Lower East Side"


    "In my archive is a typed page listing 'possible titles for
     Fugs movie' as follows:

        The Golden Door,
        Eagle Shit,
        Eagle,
        Aluminum Sphinx,
        Electric Forest,
        Arbitrary Madness,
        Oxen of the Sun,
        America Bongo,
        Unh! Unh! *Ahh!*
        Vampire Ass,
        Grail Gobble,
        Winnow'd in Fate's Tray,
        No Reality,
        Bend Over, Earthling!
        All is Skush,
        Blob Tissue,
        Mystery at Cabin Island,
        Onward, Forward March!
        Hemorrhaging Frog,
        Gobble Gobble,
        Primal SUbstance,
        Moon Brain,
        It's Eating Me!
        Useless Passion,
        and Hemisphere Gimme.

     "All wonderful movie titles from the fall of 1967 ..."


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