The Beat Generation

Strange Cargo approached me with a proposition: promote their t-shirts on this blog. They said that they’d mention this website on their Twitter, and that’s enough compensation as far as I’m concerned.

Strange Cargo offers several Beat and Beat-inspired logos on about seven colors of shirt. Included are Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson and Charles Bukowski. The designs chosen are iconic representations of each figure, but am I the only one who thinks the Burroughs needs to be scaled up a bit?

As an added bonus, the entrepreneurs at Strange Cargo have been nice enough to create a unique coupon code for readers of this blog. From now until February 21, 2010 you can save 20% when you enter the code “beatgen0809″ at checkout.

Thanks for reading.

The musician Chris Hickey has a forthcoming album named “RAZZMATAZZ” that features this song, “Kerouac”.

Chris Hickey wrote and recorded a song, each day, for about three weeks. The result is “Razzmatazz” – 16 songs, just vocal & guitar, recorded in my bedroom on a hand-held voice recorder.

Chris Hickey – Kerouac (click for the download, here’s another link, here’s his site)

(Thanks, Chris!)