Feb 26
Jean Harlow as Helen in Hell's Angels (1930)
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Jean Harlow as Helen in Hell's Angels (1930)
Jean Harlow in Hell's Angels (1930)
Jean Harlow poses in her suite at the Savoy-Plaza in Manhattan while in New York promoting HELL’S ANGELS | Photo taken on September 9, 1930.
Technique: Charlie & Lucifer
Lucifer: (muffled and strained) Ho-kkkay, scho, you schart dike dis.
Charlie: (also muffled and very garbled) 'Kay....dike....dat?
Lucifer: (gives a thumbs up) Perfec! Wow! Ho-chkay! Dow you dus do dis-
Vaggie: What are you two goobers doing?
Charlie: (holds up a finger and finishes the last bit of instruction before squealing and pulling a tied off cherry stem from her lips) Look what I did, Vaggie!!!
Vaggie: (blinks as a few feathers threaten to escape from her back) That's... uh... very good, hun. But, why?
Lucifer: (proudly while holding his tied cherry stem between his teeth like a cigarette) Charlie was looking for a few good pointers on how to (eyebrow wiggle) please a lady. So! I figured the good ol' tie a knot in a cherry stem would be ample practice for proper technique.
Vaggie: (wings pop out in a feathery boner)
Charlie: (mortified) DAD!!!!
Lucifer: (holds hands up in a weird shrug) What?! You've already gone down half a long stem length. A couple more of these, and you should be able to maneuver a normal stem. And THEN!!! (pulls a long, red stem out of a jar on the coffee table) You can go Advanced Mode!!! (puts stem in his mouth, and his cheeks squirm as he teases the stem before opening his mouth and revealing a Celtic knot balanced on his tongue) TA-DAAAA!!!
Charlie: (jaw drop) How the fuck????
Vaggie: Can I see one of those?
Lucifer: (still balancing his tied knot) Schure!
Vaggie: Thanks. (Pulls a long cherry stem and pops it in her mouth)
Charlie: (watches intently at the subdued bulges in Vaggie's cheeks as she works the stem)
Lucifer: (teasing) Charlie, don't forget to breathe.
Charlie: (gasps in a breath)
Vaggie: (finishes her work and pulls the tied stem from her lips, revealing a perfect, double figure eight heart knot. She kisses Charlie's cheek and places the tied stem in her hands) Love you, hun.
Charlie: (flushed bright red with a tail and horns boner as she silent screams)
Lucifer: Ha-HA!!! THAT'S MY FUTURE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW!!!!!
(photo: Ken Kesey, New York City, November 1985, by Allen Ginsberg)
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The late great Merry Prankster Ken Kesey was born on this day 1935 in La Junta Colorado. Probably best known for is novel “One Flew over The Cuckoo’s Nest,” it was his legendary Acid Test parties down the SF peninsula in La Honda with the house band The Warlocks which he and fellow pranksters hosted after their return from the cross country trip on their dayglo painted school bus called “Furthur” (popularized in Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test), that solidly launched the psychedelic 60s. The Warlocks in short order would change their name to the Grateful Dead...
Ken Kesey on Allen Ginsberg:
“Back in (19)66 or (19)67, we took the bus up to Berkeley for Vietnam Day. The day before the big rally, the Hell’s Angels said they were going to protest Vietnam Day by pounding the shit out of the protestors, and they were serious. Since we kind of knew the Angels, we went over to Oakland, to Sonny Barger‘s house. Ginsberg went with us, right into the lion’s mouth with his little cymbals. Ching, ching ching. And he just kept talking and being his usual absorbing self. Finally they said, “OK, OK, We’re not going to beat up the protesters’. When he left, one of the Angels, Terry the Tramp, says, “That queer little kike ought to ride a bike. From then on, he had a pass around the Angels. They had let all the other Angels know. “He’s a dude worth helping out”. They were absolutely impressed by him and his courage.”
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Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter S. Thompson
Artwork:"Hell's Angels Little Friends". Artist: Hal Rozema (CI)
Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of DefenseSeries: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files