Tag: Ken Kesey

Dec 06 2010

How To Spot Warriors

As part of the University of Virginia’s online exhibit, “The Psychedelic ’60s: Literary Traditions and Social Change”, April 26, 1998, Ken Kesey of Merry Pranksters fame and author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, spoke at the university for about half an hour.

This is Kesey about 3/12 years before he passed away in November 2001, and is one of the most delightful and intelligent little videos I’ve ever posted here.

Enjoy! There are warriors, and then there are warriors. Remember Ken, and keep fighting the good fight…



NOTE: It’s tricky embedding these things here and I hope it works for you – and if you aren’t using a Windows machine with Windows Media Player you may see a blank white area above – I hope not – but if so there is nothing I can do about it

Oct 18 2009

Ken Kesey quotes plus music!

Just for a bit of early morning uplift:

I’d rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that’s in your audience’s eye.

Loved. You can’t use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by

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Blogging the past, with thanks to brainyquote.com.

Now, some music.