The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.

Kerouac was a breeze, some kind of incredible super-American, mythos personality blasting through the highways of 1947 America.

Things come up from the outside, the outside world says, okay, you have do this, you have to go here and here and here, and these are your options. You can be here or you can be here. You can do this, or you can do this. You can go here, or you can go there. So each one of those things becomes a place of decision, and the way we make decisions is that we all get together and if somebody doesn't feel right about it or it doesn't seem to sit right, usually we'll go with the no vote. If somebody's not comfortable with it, we'll figure it's not going to be worth doing.

Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.

American society has gone completely into denial.

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!