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Happy Birthday, Jack Kerouac

Sax

07:36 / 12.03.04

He would have been 82 today, you know, had his liver not exploded in 1969.

Baz Auckland

08:05 / 12.03.04

...liver aside, he probably would be too bitter and mean to live by this point anyway... but here's to America's greatest
French-Canadian/wierdo/footballer/drunken writer and of course, traveller!

Sax

08:13 / 12.03.04

I went to his grave, once.

Alex's Grandma

09:07 / 12.03.04

Yeah, happy birthday Jack, hope you're still out there somewhere...

I guess I'm going to the pub this lunch in the great man's honour - perhaps everyone should do the same, so even in the depths of the corporate machine, there'd be a series of small flames burning today

Jack Vincennes

10:19 / 12.03.04

Such a joy to check Barbelith this morning and find not only a picture of Jack Kerouac, but a picture of Jack Kerouac with a cat. Happy birthday indeed.

Sax, where is his grave?

8===>Q: alyn

12:58 / 12.03.04

Did you know that Jack Kerouac was once sidekick to the 60s pulp hero The Beatnaut? They foiled the evil Dr. Sax.

Baz Auckland

15:56 / 12.03.04

He's in Lowell, Mass. My family was driving through the first time I finished On the Road...

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