beatnik cliches
 

In my classroom last week the other aide was reading a story to the children. And after she read the story she jokingly told the kids to snap their fingers to show applause. I never really thought about how common and engrained some of these beatnik stereotypes still are.

did she used to suck alan ginsbergs dick

*snap* *snap*

i often get called a beatnik based upon my appearance. i never quite understand why. i look like a poor middle aged man stuck in the 90's. i guess i resemble alan ginsberg in some regards but still. it's annoying.

i snapped the other day at a performance. omg.

i dont know how to snap or whistle.

fixed

I went on an awful date with this girl who wouldn't stop talking about how her mom was friends with Ferlinghetti as though that made her somehow less insufferable. Anyway, that's the closest I got to authentic beat culture.

could you provide us with further examples from the text, CW?

yeah what other unfair stereotypes are there of beatnicks, aside from this snap clapping that you found so offensive!

did you know that michael savage an allen ginsburg used to suck each other's dicks on the reg?

a friend of mine's dad met jack kerouac while he was vomiting in the bathroom at some bar.

the conversation when something like:

him: are you jack kerouac?
jk: yeah. fuck off. *barf*

fuck i hate kerouac. talk about low hanging fruit.

"He typed it out just as it came to him, isn't that amazing?"
"No, it sounds like he's an asshole and should have had an editor."

but he typed on the road on a single scroll of paper. and he sent it to the publisher like that! what a hoot.

i have no room to criticize because i've never read his works.

i haven't either but on the road is the favorite book of every drunk psuedo-intellectual i've ever known

will i ever be less angry

i read on the road when i was 12 and again for high school english. i did like it enough, but all those "drunk psuedo-intellectuals" really stole its luster as the years went on. i'm over it.

subterranean blues is so much better anyway.

I've had people tell me I look like I'm stuck in 90s too.

I read 'On the Road' years back and it was alright but I wanted to like it more, as I'd heard so much about it. Didn't really have an effect on me. Didn't Kerouac later move back in with his mom and vote Republican? I'm sure I recall Hunter S. Thompson saying that somewhere.