Chet Helms died late yesterday, a couple days after he had a stroke. Helms, who was 62, had a hand in shaping the San Francisco music of the 1960s that still informs much of what I am, musically and otherwise. Helms was the “leader,” if there really was one, of the Family Dog, a group… Read More a swell dance concert.
Res ipsa loquitur. That’s latin, with a literal translation of “the thing speaks for itself.” It’s used as a legal term, meaning roughly that negligence is proven by the act itself. It’s also one of the taglines Hunter S. Thompson frequently used to wrap up one of his observations, i.e. “The presidency of George W.… Read More requiescat in pace.
And then we saw this, from AP, just as we were finishing the paper tonight: ASPEN, Colo. (AP) _ Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” fatally shot himself Sunday night at his home, his son said. He… Read More when the going gets weird…
Uncle Crappy 