“Michael McClure, one of the famed Beat poets of  San Francisco  whose career as a poet eclipsed many others in popular culture, has died. He was 87. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that McClure died Tuesday in Oakland,  California , after suffering a stroke last year. On 7 October 1955, a then 22-year-old McClure helped organize the famous Six Gallery beat poetry reading and later read at the Human Be-In at Golden Gate Park that launched the Summer of Love in 1967 and at The Band’s “Last Waltz” concert at Winterland in 1976. “Without the roar of McClure, there would have been no 60s,” actor Dennis Hopper once said. In McClure’s 1982 nonfiction account of the Six Gallery reading, Scratching the Beat Surface, he set the stage for the revolution that was to follow in the mid-1950s: “The world that we tremblingly stepped out into in that decade was a bitter, gray one,” he wrote. “We saw that the art of poetry was essentially dead – killed by war, by academies, ...

There is a cabal of Readers of this Blog who are redundant in their annoyance; they have annoyingly lobbied for the MAXEY CHRONICLES to read and review the book HARD CHOICES by Hillary Clinton. To that end, they even sent this  Blogger a copy of said book.  This Blogger attempted to read HARD CHOICES but failed to finish HARD CHOICES. HARD CHOICES commits the sin of being self serving, sobeit, a lot of biographies are self serving. What is worse, HARD CHOICES makes the mistake of being BORING. How boring is it? MOBY DICK is livelier; in truth reading everything you never wanted to know about whales in MOBY DICK is livelier than reading HARD CHOICES. When this Blogger conveyed his failure to finish the book to his annoying Readers, they asked for a compensatory Blog, a prognostication on the viability of Madame Clinton’s preordained Presidency. The odds of Madame Clinton winning the Democratic Party’s nomination for President are 90% to 10%. The odds of M...