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After dinner, Andy and I stopped by a bookstore that was next to St. Mark’s Comedy Club. Unorganized, lots of underground poetry, ended up getting “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and a preface to Plato. I asked the guy if they had any Ed Sanders (his Tales of Beatnick Glory shaped my sense of history of this neighborhood). They had that same book, signed,
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“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of cont
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This San Francisco Library Collects Print Materials You Were Never Meant to See
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Megan Prelinger (left) shows a small selection of 'The Hacker Quarterly' while her husband, Rick (right), scans the stacks at the Prelinger Library in San Francisco on Mar. 13, 2024. (Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)
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Megan Prelinger (left) shows a small selection of 'The Hacker Quarterly' while her husband, Rick (right), scans the stacks at the Prelinger Library in San Francisco on Mar. 13, 2024. (Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)
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Where good taste is demure, bad taste is bawdy. Where good taste is minimalist, bad taste is maximalist. Where good taste whispers, bad taste screams: “Look! React! Feel!”