2016-03-19 18:53
Trailer for the Benny Pristine mystery, American Eyeball. The notorious North Beach detective reappears after a twenty year disappearance to find his best friend murdered, a psychic spy stil… Read More
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A new Benny Pristine Metaphysical Mystery, in which our hero is hired to find the meaning of life.
2016-03-19 18:53
...by clicking on "Open Publication", below...then...after enjoying the whole thing, proceed on into the site...Open publication - Free publishing - More tango Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Another document found by Crysta Bella in Benny's apartment after his "disappearance":The following ideas are paraphrased from: FINITE AND INFINITE GAMES - A Vision of Life as Play and Possi… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Visit the BLACK VELVET HOODOO gallery for the totally unique and enlightening products of the fake Tijuana black velvet mojo man Read More
2006-11-15 15:19
Chuang Tzu dreamt he was a butterfly; he didn't know he was Chuang Tzu. He awoke and he was Chuang Tzu. However, he didn't know if he was ChuangTzu who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a b… Read More
2006-11-15 15:19
SATORITANGOHere's an excerpt from the last chapter of SATORI TANGO...Benny's suite in the Palazzo Tower of the Rio has been decorated for a grand occasion. Musicians have been flown in from… Read More
2006-11-15 15:19
Here's a little background on Benny Pristine from the novella..."In the early sixties a very young Benny went to Vegas and created a lounge act...stand-up and some singing, met Sinatra and t… Read More
2006-11-15 15:19
On Halloween this year, as every year, Benny Pristine is staging a preposterous costume party which will include the usual suspects from the novella…Crysta Bella, Moondog, Quantum Coy… Read More
2006-11-15 15:19
During the days of Punk in North Beach in the late 70s and early 80s Leon Shakes and an artist/musician known as Sir Real were partners in high weirdness, music promotion and various other f… Read More
2006-11-15 15:18
I got this e-mail earlier today."I found a copy of your book, SATORI TANGO, on a bench in Washington Square Park. It was kind of soggy. I guess somebody forgot it the night before.I was able… Read More
2006-11-15 15:18
The Detective With No Name had this strange quality about him. It was like you could never see all of him at once. Parts of him, which seemed to flicker and change as he moved, were lost in… Read More
2006-11-15 15:18
The Li Po bar on Grant Ave., Chinatown, San Francisco still has the atmosphere of strangeness and intrigue associated with that quarter of the city at certain times in its history. I once we… Read More
2006-11-15 15:18
This blog talks about some strange cats...among other things Read More
2006-11-15 15:18
Back in the day Leon Shakes used to dress as a pirate and haunt the bars of North Beach at all hours of the day and night. He claimed that his alter ego, Alfred Jarry, was with him on these… Read More
2006-11-15 15:18
If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.- Charlie ParkerYou're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.- Timothy LearyDon't play what's there, play what's not there… Read More
2006-11-15 15:18
Another mystifying book and author. Fernando Pessoa had all of the personas he inhabited write their own poetry and prose "in character". The works are all very different from each other. So… Read More
2006-11-15 15:18
For your amusement and, hopefully edification and enlightenment, I present to you the character of Napoleon Shakespeare, known to his close friends and confidants as, simply, Leon Shakes. Le… Read More
2006-11-15 15:18
One of the documents turned up in Benny Pristine's apartment following his "disappearance" was entitled Cinemorphics which has to do with the apparent (sometimes) meshing of fiction and "rea… Read More
2006-11-15 15:18
Dona Juanita Medusa, one of the characters in SATORI TANGO, came up with the idea of composing what she calls "Tabloid Haiku" - haiku in traditional form inspired by tabloid headlines - as a… Read More
2006-11-15 15:18
Hieronymous P. Moondog, good friend and adivsor to Benny Pristine, and a character who figures prominently in SATORI TANGO, often refers to himself as a "Fortean Pataphysicist", having made… Read More
2006-11-15 15:18
From: The New York Times, Sunday, October 9, 2005"Shakespeare's Haunted Pier"(Oct. 29 through 31 at Pier 25, off Moore Street)The Gimmick: With the help of Chashama and Manhattan Youth, the… Read More
2006-11-15 15:18
A small number of copies of the first limited edition of SATORI TANGO are now available for purchase. These copies are numbered (this edition is limited to 100), signed by the author and aut… Read More
2006-11-15 15:18
I think that it has been established that both "Jed McKenna" and "Don Juan Mateus" are fictitious characters, or fictive characters (Daniel Noel's term for Don Juan). This condition in no wa… Read More
2006-11-15 15:18
This blog contains thoughts on and in some ways is a continuation of the illustrated novella "Satori Tango, A Benny Pristine Mystery" which was published in a limited signed and numbered edi… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
During the days of Punk in North Beach in the late 70s and early 80s Leon Shakes and an artist/musician known as Sir Real were partners in high weirdness, music promotion and various other f… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
One of the documents found in Benny Pristine's apartment by Crysta Bella after he disappeared.Fragments from THE TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE (TAZ)By Hakim Bey...this time however I come as the… Read More
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