The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe · 1 Jan 1968 · 224pp · 91,918 words
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Chapter I Black Shiny FBI Shoes THAT'S GOOD THINKING THERE, COOL BREEZE, COOL BREEZE is a kid with three or four days' beard sitting
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Boise's truck and they head off south for San Diego, the Mexican border, Tijuana and the land of all competent Outlaws. chapter XX The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PRANKSTERS AFTER KESEY'S flight to Mexico was so much like what happened to the League after Leo fled in Hermann
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, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kesey. About the Author TOM WOLFE is the author of a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and A Man in Full. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington
Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
by Alex Wright · 6 Jun 2014
, Engelbart’s demo included applications for word processing, sending messages between users, and even building links from one document to another. Stewart Brand (of the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Whole Earth Catalog fame) manned a video camera trained on Engelbart’s on-stage keyboard, while Engelbart proceeded to show a working prototype of
Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
by John Markoff · 22 Mar 2022 · 573pp · 142,376 words
target for criticism from the right, and sometimes from the left. Brand first made a cameo in the opening pages of Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Since then almost two dozen books have sought to document Brand’s contribution to politics and culture. In each instance some aspect of his life
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fact, it was like some kind of 1960s bookmobile. Kesey’s band of Merry Pranksters, which would later be immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, was just starting to form. An eclectic mix of outsiders, poets, journalists, and camp followers would come out to see Kesey in the redwoods to
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, had persuaded her to attend during her summer vacation. Short and bespectacled, she had raven hair and what Tom Wolfe would later describe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test as a radiant smile. Jennings was in many ways the perfect “Indian maiden,” as Brand would later describe her. She was also a genuine “hidden
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by Realist editor Paul Krassner and deflated the audience by arguing that the demonstrators were wasting their time. Tom Wolfe captured his address in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test: “They’ve been having wars for ten thousand years and you’re not gonna stop it this way. . . . Ten thousand years, and this is the
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launched into the sky. Two years later, in 1968, Brand and Jennings would achieve international celebrity when they appeared in the opening pages of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe’s adrenaline-fueled re-creation of Kesey’s and the Pranksters’ exploits. Wolfe described a mythic figure, the “half-Ottawa Indian” with her
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toy that would attain national notoriety that year when it appeared in Lois Jennings’s hand in the first chapter of Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which described the couple driving to meet Ken Kesey, who was getting out of jail: “And, oh yeah, there’s a long-barreled Colt .45
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tribe from the small spring conclave of outlaw ecological designers who had gathered at the Alloy Conference. Kesey, who had achieved global fame from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, was there with Further, his 1939 International Harvester bus, driven by the Pranksters while Kesey himself arrived in a white Cadillac convertible stocked with his
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LSD era he had helped create. The events leading up to the “graduation” in October 1966 were described in detail by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. The last of a set of wild LSD-drenched rock concerts that sparked the counterculture was a turning point for Brand as well. At the
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NOTE REFERENCE 2 Alfred Frankenstein, “Surrealist Film Show on Indians,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 23, 1965, 44. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 3 Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968), 222. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 4 http://rockprosopography101.blogspot.com/2009/08/december-18-1965-big-beat-palo
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1969, 19. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 14 Joe Kane, “This Year’s Brand,” Esquire, July 1983, 69. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 15 Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968), 2. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 16 Steven Levy, Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer
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, 360–61, 364 SB as influenced by, 28, 45, 47, 187, 188, 206, 222–23 EIES (Electronic Information Exchange System), 240, 251–52, 264, 266 Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The (Wolfe), 5, 88, 111, 121, 125, 170, 181 “Electric Kool-Aid Management Consultant, The” (Fortune profile of SB), 297 Electronic Frontier Foundation, 325 endangered
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
by Fred Turner · 31 Aug 2006 · 339pp · 57,031 words
up an old school bus and drove east on [ 62 ] Chapter 2 the first leg of the legendary tour chronicled in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Brand did not go with them. As Wolfe put it, Brand represented “the restrained, reflective wing of the Merry Pranksters.”40 Even so, to Brand
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of key EFF people. At each stage, he carefully emphasized their extraordinary mobility, their access to people in power, and their material success. In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe took readers inside the garage where the Merry Pranksters painted their psychedelic bus. Quittner here took readers inside San Francisco’s Bistro Rôti
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, Acid Dreams. 37. Lee and Shlain, Acid Dreams, 200. 38. Ken Kesey, “A Successful Dope Fiend,” 4. 39. Brand, “Notebooks,” December 18, 1962. 40. Wolfe, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, 13. 41. Lardas, Bop Apocalypse, 4. 42. Ginsberg quoted in Lardas, Bop Apocalypse, 10, 92 –93; Ginsberg, “New Consciousness.” 43. In this regard, as Daniel
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an aesthetic of “spontaneity” across the American art world. See Belgrad, Culture of Spontaneity, 196 –221. 44. Stewart Brand, interview, July 17, 2001. 45. Wolfe, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, 195. 46. Ibid., 222. 47. Ibid., 138, quotations on 127. 48. Ibid., 230 – 49. 49. America Needs Indians was one of several multimedia pieces Brand
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Catalog,” 438. 47. Brand, quoted in McClanahan and Norman, “Whole Earth Catalog,” 118. 48. Smith and Hershey, Whole Earth Catalog One Dollar, 32. 49. Wolfe, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, 232; Rybczynski, Paper Heroes, 90. 50. Alan and Heath [no surnames listed], “Centering,” 46. 51. Brand et al., Difficult but Possible Supplement (March), 18. 52
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High Technology, edited by Langdon Winner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Wolf, Gary. Wired: A Romance. New York: Random House, 2003. Wolfe, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1968. ———. “The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce.” Esquire, December 1983. Wolff, Michael. Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush
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Earth network, the computer industry, and the Republican right, 223; and Whole Earth world, 212 –22 Wired Women, 152 Wolfe, Tom, 63, 65, 66; The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, 62, 220 Wolff, Michael, 211 Women on the WELL, 152 –53 Women’s Liberation Movement, 98 Woodhead, Robert, 136 World Economic Forum, 7, 13 WorldView
The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution
by Marc Weingarten · 12 Dec 2006 · 363pp · 123,076 words
of the books and articles discussed in this book were all written within seven years of each other. Not just any stories, either, but The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Dispatches—some of the greatest journalism of the twentieth century, stories that changed the way their
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Acrilan—and somehow this represented the people of America, in their democratic glory.” Fortunately for Wolfe, such specious insights didn’t make it into The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. The reviews of the book, which was published in August 1968 on the same day as his second collection of articles, The Pump House Gang
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, were far more enthusiastic than the notices for The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is an astonishing book,” wrote C. D. B. Bryan in the New York Times Book Review. “Wolfe is precisely the right author to chronicle the
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. What Didion witnessed was a far cry from the pie-eyed exuberance of the Merry Pranksters that Tom Wolfe had chronicled so gleefully in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Instead, these were runaways living on handouts and day labor, organizing their lives around acid trips, selling the acid they didn’t ingest, scurrying around
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all, who had been present during the Hell’s Angels gang rape at La Honda, providing Wolfe with audiotapes that captured the scene for The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. No story was worthy for Thompson unless he could immerse himself, body and soul, and come out on the other side with a piece of
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the cops were keeping on the gang. In Hell’s Angels, Thompson claims to have introduced the Angels to the Pranksters; Tom Wolfe, in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, relates the same story. But a handful of the Angels had in fact known Kesey since the late 1950s, when he lived on Perry Lane
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Family, Moneyball, American Ground—riveting stories buttressed by meticulous reporting, full-bodied character development, and flat-out great writing-are the children of Dispatches, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and Armies of the Night. The director of New York University’s magazine journalism program, Robert S. Boynton, interviewed the authors of these and other
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ACID “he appeared in a white-on-white”: Elaine Dundy, “Tom Wolfe … But Exactly, Yes!”Vogue, April 15, 1966. “wild and ironic”: Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968), 4. “Once an athlete so valued”: Ibid., 5. “thick wrists and forearms”: Ibid., 7 “Despite the skepticism I
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eating”: Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (New York: Modern Library, 1999), 220. Certain vibrations of the bus: Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, 110. A very Christmas card: Ibid., 55. Miles, Miles, Miles: Ibid., 47. [S]ome blonde from out of town: Ibid., 176. “Certain passages—such as
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Hell’s Angels gangbang”: From an interview sent to the author from Paul Krassner, used with Krassner’s permission. “The ceiling is moving”: Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, 40. Wolfe would revert to a“controlled trance”;“I felt like my heart”: Toby Thompson, “The Evolution of Dandy Tom,”Vanity Fair, October 1987 5
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Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 1965). _____. The Pump House Gang (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 1965). _____. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 1968). _____. Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (Bantam Books, New York 1977). _____. Hooking Up (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
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by Walter Isaacson · 6 Oct 2014 · 720pp · 197,129 words
members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang. The writer Tom Wolfe tried to recapture the technodelic essence in his seminal work of New Journalism, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test: Lights and movies sweeping around the hall; five movie projectors going and God knows how many light machines, interferrometrics, the intergalactic science-fiction seas all
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to Brand’s instincts as an impresario, the demo, which later became known as the Mother of All Demos, became a multimedia extravaganza, like an Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test on silicon. The event turned out to be the ultimate melding of hippie and hacker culture, and it has remained unchallenged, even by Apple product
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counterculture and cyberculture, Brand brought Ken Kesey to Engelbart’s lab to experience the oNLine System. Kesey, by then famous from Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, got a full tour of how the system could cut, paste, retrieve, and collaboratively create books and other documents. He was impressed. “It’s the
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). 6. Posters and programs for the acid tests, in Phil Lesh, “The Acid Test Chronicles,” http://www.postertrip.com/public/5586.cfm; Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987), 251 and passim. 7. Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture, 29, from Lewis Mumford, Myth of the Machine (Harcourt, Brace, 1967
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pioneered immersive first-person New Journalism with fellow ’60s California chroniclers Hunter S Thompson (Hells Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga) and Tom Wolfe (The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test). In the 1970s, Charles Bukowski’s semiautobiographical novel Post Office captured down-and-out Downtown LA, while Richard Vasquez’ Chicano took a dramatic look at
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