Work in progress
Jack Kerouac in Mexico City
In November

#art #artwork #artist #drawing #antiaesthetic #painting #larsbeelzebub #illustration #fineart #contemporaryart #arte #undergroundart #modernart #ink #neoexpressionism #lowbrow #kunst #kerouac #beatnik

Greetings from Lowell, MA. Solid turnout in 35degs. US Rep Lori Trahan, MA Sen Vanna Howard, LtCol Dan Ward (USAF ret), State Rep Tara Hong, MVP Exec Dir Julio Mejia, UMass Lowell Dems Deyah Gutierrez. Emcee'd by our son. #proudDad #NoKings #Kerouac

night bookstore dive, with companion spirits #WalterBenjamin, #Kerouac (on E. 7th St NYC near my old apt), and #WilliamBurroughs:
#IainSinclair; #SimoneWeil; #EdwardSoja; #Seneca; #ChantalMouffe; #Horace #Lenin #WhatIsToBeDone; #EdmondJabès #HannahArendt; #Adorno #MinimaMoralia.
#booksky #Shelfie

Dean and I were yelling about a big night in New Orleans and wanted Bull to show us around. He threw a damper on this. "New Orleans is a very dull town. It's against the law to go to the colored section. The bars are insufferably dreary"

~ #Kerouac
From ON THE ROAD (1957)

Zach Bryan Purchases Jack Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’ and ‘The Dharma Bums’ Scrolls for Kerouac Center Last May, Zach Bryan purchased Lowell, Mass.’s former Saint Jean Baptiste Church for the site of the upcoming Jack Kerouac Center, revealing himself to be

#ZachBryan, #Kerouac fanatic:
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Zach Bryan Buys Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' Scroll for $12.1 Million — Rolling Stone Manuscript was part of Christie’s massive Jim Irsay auction

Some cultural artifacts should belong to the world.

I hope #ZackBryan and the #Kerouac estate follow through. That a #billionaire #NFL "owner" had it to himself for so long is a travesty.

#OnTheRoad

Oddly, Cowley would also manage to get his hands on the original scroll. His son, Rob, remembers being home in Sherman from Harvard during the Christmas break of 1953 when his father walked into the house with the scroll in his briefcase. Cowley took out the scroll, said to his son, "Watch this," and rolled it out like a bowling ball onto the living room rug.

...and about that 12-million-dollar On the Road scroll:

I love this passage from "The Insider" by @ghoward1950.bsky.social

(I, always frivolous, immediately thought of Kay Thompson & the fabric bolt in "Think Pink" from Funny Face.)

#Kerouac #MalcolmCowley #OnTheRoad 📜

Photo of a man standing in a garden, wearing a cap and holding a cat. Written at the bottom: "Jack Kerouac with Wm Burroughs' garden cat, Villa Mouneria, Tanger (sic) 1957. He stayed several months typing Naked Lunch for Bill. Allen Ginsberg"

#Kerouac by #Ginsberg in Tangier, 1957
#Caturday

#Celtic Clan #Kerouac Brittany French one of the few surviving Celtic Clans in France

#Europe #USA #furryartist #UK

The "Blanding" acrylic painting by Katie Jurkiewicz shows an overhead scene with a road winding through the mountainside. There's a lot of big color with shades of browns and reds on the f ground and blues in the sunlit sky.

"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry."
—Jack Kerouac
#BOTD

Blanding
by Katie Jurkiewicz
Acrylic on canvas
#quote #art #painting #fineart #contemporaryart #kerouac

The "Jack Kerouac" painting is an Acrylic painting by Clinton Inman which shows Kerouac standing, leaning against a post looking over at the buildings next to him in the city.

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved."
—Jack Kerouac
#BOTD

Jack Kerouac
by Clinton Inman (USA)
Acrylic on canvas
#quote #art #painting #fineart #contemporaryart #kerouac

“E' un privilegio esercitare la generosità nei confronti degli altri.”

Jack Kerouac

#JackKerouac
#kerouac
#12marzo1922
#21ottobre1969

“On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that -" 'Big Sur' (1962)
Jack Kerouac was born OTD 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts
#kerouac #literature #beats #writer #otd #ontheroad

Quote of the Day “It always makes me proud to love the world somehow — hate's so easy compared.” — Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow — hate's so easy compared.” — Jack Kerouac, Big Sur
#BOTD #Kerouac #QOTD #Quotation #Quote #Compassion

Jack Kerouac never chewed away the January Blues by Melanie Browne - The Literary Underground Jack Kerouac never chewed away the January Blues Eating grape flavored pez candy a few days after Christmas my daughters cat is sleeping on the puzzle table Have some pez I say to my husband no thanks...

happy humpday! "Jack Kerouac never chewed away the January Blues" by Melanie Browne! check it out theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2026/03... #poetry #kerouac

"In some cases,
the moon is you.
In any case,
the moon."
- Jack Kerouac

(Image courtesy of my son. 🌛😊🌜)
#Poetry #Moon #Kerouac

SCAT: THE BOOTLEG JACK KEROUAC I’ve been into literary bootlegs recordings for ages.

These recordings are largely bootlegs in the classic sense – recordings which have made the rounds among afficionados for years, decades, without ever reaching the wider public.
#kerouac #beats #literature #counterculture #bootlegs #recordings #review #essay #alcoholism #culture #media #performance

The End Of The Road With Jack #Kerouac #poetry #spokenword #illness #cancer

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#Kerouac #OntheRoad Neal Cassady was born 100 years ago yesterday, February 8, 1926. Kerouac’s muse.

Jack Kerouac and Peter Orlovsky in Tangier, Morocco, which was once a gay mecca. #kerouac #orlovsky #thebeatgeneration #booksky Credit: Tumblr

#jackkerouac #kerouac

Jack Kerouac’s 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned The draft – one of the Beat Generation’s defining artefacts – will be part of a wider sale of pieces from the Jim Irsay Collection at Christie’s in March

"Jack loved public libraries… If they auction it, anybody rich could buy it and keep it out of sight"

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/30/jack-k...

#Culture #Books #Kerouac

..the ones who never yawn..but burn.. like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ✨❤️‍🔥

#literature #booksky #kerouac

That’s awesome . I would give my eye teeth to see there in person . I first read about the area in #dharmabums by #kerouac . In the 1980s. Then later in life watching hiker videos on YouTube & now bike videos . So so beautiful . 🚲♥️

I'm enjoying it so far. I never heard of the author until a few months ago. Born in Jamaica, he was associated with Harlem Renaissance artists. Oddly, some passages remind me of #Kerouac although the book was written in 1927, when the Beat novelist was just 5, and IDK if he ever read McKay...

19th century brick factory building in Lowell, Mass.
#brick #factory #windows #architecture #Lowell #Massachusetts #Kerouac #workplace #industrial #historic #perspective #photog #colorphoto #Americana #history
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1959 reading of "October in the Railroad Earth" by Jack Kerouac, with Steve Allen accompanying on piano. From the album Poetry for the Beat Generation. #Kerouac #BeatGeneration m.youtube.com/watch?v=oS4x...

#jackkerouac #kerouac

The "On The Road" scroll 📜

Saw it once as part of a traveling exhibit

Loved that book when I read it in my early 20s

#Kerouac