Sunday, April 4, 2010

The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

Over Spring Break I read Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. It made me want to stock up on Day Glow, buy and refurbish some type of large retro vehicle, and hit the road.  Minus the the whole LSD- turning-the-brain-into-mush thing,  it sounds like it was a wonderfully colorful scene that included people ranging from the literati of Stanford University to Hell's Angels. 


Grateful Dead
You're either on the bus or off the bus...
One of my favorite components of the book is how it tracks the birth of the whole LSD/ psychedelic era