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Not All Who Wander Are Lost
An excerpt from Tony Vigorito’s third novel, “Love and Other Pranks,” described by bestselling novelist and countercultural icon Tom Robbins as “the single wildest novel I’ve ever read.”
An excerpt from Tony Vigorito’s third novel, “Love and Other Pranks,” described by bestselling novelist and countercultural icon Tom Robbins as “the single wildest novel I’ve ever read.”
An excerpt from Tony Vigorito’s third novel, “Love and Other Pranks,” which famed countercultural novelist Tom Robbins characterized as “the single wildest novel I’ve ever read.”
Last weekend, a gentleman on Valencia blockaded my path, demanding, “Have you heard the philosophy?” Though I resumed upon my way, I couldn’t help wondering what timeless wisdom I’d hurriedly declined. When I ran into him again three days later, this is what he told me.
Most apocalyptic noise appears to be wishful thinking on the part of people who find life too messy for comfort, let alone for serenity and mirth. The truth, from my perspective, is that the world, indeed, is ending — and is also being reborn.
Tom Robbins is one of our unruly pioneers, and his frequently bestselling novels – including Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Skinny Legs and All – are so saturated in an uncontainable joie de vivre that they have remained virtually required reading throughout the years and decades since their initial publication.
Consumerism robs us of our ability to define our own
experience. There is a malevolent force afoot in this
world, an historical movement to transform humanity's wild-begotten beauty into
a panopticon so ubiquitous that the very concept of escape becomes an archaic
curiosity.
Now that Burning Man's ill-conceived ticket
lottery has ended and the dust storms of indignation have settled, I would like
to offer my observations on how this ticketing system was doomed
from its very inception, and suggest how it might be improved in the
future.
From
the oil shocks of the 1970s to the savings & loan crisis of the 1980s,
the dotcom bubble of the 1990s, and today's mortgage meltdown,
systemic crises are larger, more devastating, longer lasting, and closer
together, and our so-called leaders are in denial.
What would happen if we could arrange a hundred million people, at
thousands of parties across the planet, dancing at the same time, to the same
rhythms? Might this trigger
transcendental chaos, the unified heartbeat of the human spirit?
What if Mayan calendars and galactic cycles, aliens and dimethyltryptamine, and the presumptive science of
rapture don't herald mass enlightennment? What if that beautiful giant cloud over Burning Man is really just a cloud? Have we hyped ourselves for a letdown?
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