If they believe that turnabout is fair play shouldn't UCLA students get a chance to study for a semester (our winter their summer) in
Personal note: If things go as planned we intend on doing our Christmas shopping in Paris (France not Texas) and perhaps attending Christmas Eve midnight Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral (has this year's Mass been sold out already?). If that doesn't happen, then we will change to Plan B and opt for celebrating Christmas in the traditional Australian way; i.e. on the beach (Bondi or Cottesloe?) in a bathing suit.
Speaking of "On the Road Again," on Friday April 20, 2012, on CBS radio's World News Roundup, they mentioned that a statue of Willie Nelson would be unveiled in
Tom Wolfe wrote an article for the Sunday magazine section for the New York Herald Tribune and got enough material for a book by joining a busload of hippies (with Kerouac's buddy Neal Cassady doing the majority of the driving) going from San Francisco to the New York World's Fair. A documentary film about that expedition was released last summer. Many folks have written about their attempts to imitate the Kerouac "On the Road" exploration of
Now (thanks to a news tip in the form of a comment posted about Kerouac for a recent column) we have learned that a modern attempt to chronicle a similar adventure for something called the "magic love bus" will be posted online as that story unfolds. (Google tip: "magic love bus.")
Who hasn't wanted to write their own version of "a savage journey to the Heart of the American dream"?
Early in the Online era two fellows traveled about in a mobile home and produced the magazine "Monk" on a computer from their mobile office. Don't they still maintain an online web site?
The history of cars and California are intertwined and mystery writer Charles Willeford may have produced a minor classic novel on the topic of used car salesmen with "The High Priest of California."
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