I make my home in La Honda, California. My friend, the poet
Terry Adams,
also makes his home in La Honda. Terry's home is the cabin where Ken
Kesey hung out with the Merry Pranksters and the Hells Angels, where
Kesey conceived of the Acid Tests, and from which Kesey launched the bus
"Further." Terry bought the cabin directly from Kesey after the place
had been neglected, abandoned, vandalized, and—the final insult—flooded
by the rampaging La Honda Creek, which knocked the cabin off its
foundation and filled it with mud.
With a respect
bordering on reverence, Terry rebuilt the cabin, maintaining as much of
the original structure (and psychedelic interior paint) as possible.
Some
of the original boards had lost their structural integrity and couldn't
be re-used in the cabin. Sliced, though, they make a great bookmark.
With the help of
James Adams (no relation to Terry), here are some samples.
I've
got lumber from Ken Kesey's original floor and from his old water
tank. Who knows what kinds of Kool-Aid splashed onto the floorboards to
be absorbed into the wood fibers? And as for what was in that water
tank, I can only speculate.
Warning:
if you receive one of these bookmarks, DO NOT CUT IT INTO TABS AND
INGEST. I am not responsible if you feel a sudden urge to rip off your
clothes and paint your body with paisley designs.
The tabs—er, bookmarks—will be offered as incentive rewards in my upcoming
99 Jobs Kickstarter campaign.
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