Beat generation tattoo

Jack

Jazz Alley // from R&B Magazine 1954

Please Note that the content of this poem is VERY GRAPHIC. There is offensive language, sexual language, and descriptions of lifestyles some will not approve. This is an important work in American Literature. While it describes an era in our history, much of the message of this poem is Timeless. I believe there is much a Christian can gain from this "secular" poem. While it is not Scripture, it can teach us, none the less. If you are offended by offensive and crude language, please do not…

Howl

This is an orphan post, what I refer to as a photo with no real story attached to it, as the individual who let me take the photo, never e-mailed me with any further details. I shot the picture at the end of the Brooklyn Cyclones-Staten Island Yankees game at MCU Park in Coney Island. The crowd was filing out, so a protracted conversation was not an option. The woman who belongs to this tattoo, however, did allow me to take the photo and said it was a quote from Jack Kerouac's On the Road…

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness::Allen Ginsberg