The title of this morning’s blog was going to be ‘Taking Back the Franchise’. Instead, I decided to found The Rose of he World Movie Company.
What I had come to realize is that there was a East Coast invasion of the West Coast Bohemian Scene by the Cornell Crew. This invasion was led by Thomas Pynchon who went to Cornell where he became good friends of Richard Farina, who married into the Baez family, a established California family from where two famous singers emerged, Joan and Mimi Baez. Then came Mary Ann Tharaldsen who was married to Tom and lived with him in Mexico and Manhatten Beach. From Mexico crept Pynchonianism, a fake hippyism that would challenge and undermine the work of author Ken Kesey by establishing Fake Tripping for Squares, Eggheads, and East Coast Elitist Authors, such as Boris Kachka. Then we have the book ‘Lineland’ by Jules…
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