Sunday, October 30, 2016

Beatnik Halloween V (continued)



Another Day in the East Bay






 

 Across the street
from my tombe vivant


 

 Heading out again
to Berkeley


 

 Eyeball billboard



 To Rockridge




 Dark architectonic
 entity




Wetback




 Firefly ashtrays, goodbye



Skeletal posture




The Devil
reigns in Hell






 Coming to get ya



 A Tale of the Yak












A candy casket
for your
candy skull






 Bringing it all back home







October Sundown







29 October 2016


Saturday, October 29, 2016

Beatnik Hallowe'en V: Extravagant Weekend









The Flaneur can't get enough
of that spooky beatnik stuff








 

Call the exterminator
William S. Burroughs




 The dead end of town




 

 








 Thrift Shop costumery



Get your attention





Black cat vase



Old LP
the great great Hank Williams



 











Bet a guy 
ends up
wearing this



Grotesque witch
figurine



Ties that bind



See you later


 




 

Look familiar?




 The Haunted Rectory



The minister lived here 
with his wife,
fire and brimstone




The legend goes
the wife took on
a young lover




Vengeance
is mine
sayeth the lord





 

The old ones say
he walled-up his rival,
 up in here

 

The wife disappeared as well
they say he cooked and...
well just an old wives tale
I'm sure




 Ah Sunflower
weary of time



 Guerilla art
with a gentle nature



 

A wish fulfilled



 

 What are you banging for?
Can't you see it's closed?




On a magic carpet ride





 Tattoo Parlor




 I'm going to
 go to heaven
in my own skin



 Lydia O Lydia
the tattooed lady
used to know Groucho




 Belly dancer
I hear she's dating 
the snake-charmer



 Fan dancer
Sally Randy




 The redeemer
of a parallel
 dimension





Tantric tattoos
 Bye-bye




Metaphysical vapor 
emporium




Berkeley may
 appear to be
rather extravagant




 But we watch the World Series
one ghostly game at a time
just like the rest of the Nation




 I bought myself a flask
it reads:
"Tetch of the Crate-chur"




 There's no denying
we are a party town
replete with menacing clowns




 
 

 Shop selling love potions, 
hexes, Spanish fly,
and Mickey Finns



 A touch of decadence
of unbridled sensuality




 

 Where does it all lead?
To perdition and remorse?





27-29 October 2016