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Paul Krassner : My Encounter with Owsley
Owsley ‘Bear’ Stanley, left, with the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia in 1969. Photo by Ho / Reuters. “Investigative satirist” and former Realist editor Paul Krassner will join Thorne Dreyer on Friday, April 1, for a Rag Radio April Fool’s Special. … Continue reading
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Tagged Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, LSD, Owsley Stanley, Paul Krassner, Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelics, Sixties, Summer of Love
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Ray Reece : The Hard Landing of a Radical in Austin, 1967
Image from McMaster University Digital Collection.Desecration of the Violet Crown:The hard landing of a radical in Austin, 1967 By Ray Reece / The Rag Blog / January 4, 2011 A few months ago, editor Thorne Dreyer invited us Rag Blogsters … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin History, Fort Hood, LBJ, Michael Eakin, Native Americans, Peace Movement, Ray Reece, Sixties, Summer of Love
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If We Can’t Have a Good Laugh, What Do We Have?
Source / Cracked.com Thanks to Leslie Sklar / The Rag Blog
ART : Infinity Goes Up On Trial: The Questioning of Psychedelic Art
Janis Joplin and Tina Turner singing together at Madison Square Garden on November 27, 1969. Photo by ©Amalie R. Rothschild.Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era By Michael J. Kramer Michael J. Kramer is a lecturer in History and … Continue reading
















