This week we continue our Winter of Wayback season by reading a dispatch about the 1968 Democratic National Convention written for Esquire by William S. Burroughs. The convention itself was famously contentious, and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley was criticized for allegedly allowing the cops to run roughshod over protesters outside the convention hall. Burroughs, meanwhile, brings to the party a politics we’d describe as “confusing.”
Also this week: The poetry of 1968 presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy. And the return of Raccoon News!
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March 8, 2021 at 10:47 am
The group Mike is thinking of is The Capitol Steps, right? And I didn’t realize that Tom had a “raccoon news” alert because he’s afraid of them! Another puzzle piece falls into place.
March 8, 2021 at 6:48 pm
Listen to The Beachboys’ “I Get Around” where Brian Wilson sings about his protagonist as being “a real cool head makin’ real good bread.”