Ron Whitehead

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

if you're interested in Ron Whitehead, and/or his new band, Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead & his Viking Hillbilly God's Open Nerve Storm Generation Allstar Band, appearing/performing/reading/giving talks/presentations at your college/university/school/museum/festival/club, anywhere round the world, contact Shawn Pierson, Studio 502, 502.230.1772, bookings@louisvillestudio502.com

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010

OFF THE RECORD w/Ron & WFPK DJ Marion Dries + all info on 2 release shows

WFPK 91.9fm www.wfpk.org Radio Louisville DJ Marion Dries will air Ron Whitehead's OFF THE RECORD @ approx 1pm EDT tomorrow monday 8/16/10 + portions of same will run thruout the week played my Marion & other WFPK DJs + plus announcements bout both 19th Green Building & 27th Rudyard Kipling Ron book/cd/dvd/videos releases listing performers will be made all week (Thanks Marion & WFPK & PRP & Gill Scott Holland & Stephanie Brothers & Amber & Patrick & everyone @ The Green Building & everyone who had anything to do with production of new book (20th)/cd (30th)/ dvd (1st) including Sarah Elizabeth & Jeff Carpenter & Stephen Kurtis (& Crew) & Pipp Pullen & Lisa K & Olafur Gunnarsson & Andy Cook & Shawn Pierson & Hunter S. Thompson & thanks to all musicians poets dancers burlesque artists & all other artists & performers participating in 19th & 27th shows & Special Thanks to Ken & Sheila @ The Rudyard Kipling, Louisville's Ryman, but even more living room hoedown getdown music poetry friendly. see you all there(s)!

order new book/cd/dvd via www.hollandbrownbooks.com or from Ron @ the shows. book him for world tour shows which he'll be doing for next year culminating next June in Morocco & Iceland. thanks!

Frank Messina (NYC/Jersey City/NY Mets Poet Laureate): "Ron, congratulations on what I believe is your most courageous and beautiful work, THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems. The poems are old age wisdom poems of reflection. I read the entire book in an hour. Afterwards felt a profound sense of sadness. Beautiful work, deeply touching, poignant sad, sometimes hilarious yet always brilliant.

I know how deeply effected you were by your daddy's death. I am glad you delved into this often avoided topic of the life cycle. You leaned in and wrestled with the beasts...and triumphed. This is perhaps your best work ever.

The DVD is excellently produced. Classic Ron Whitehead. Keeping the conversations with the studio engineer was a briliant idea. Hilarious moments, brilliant moments. One day beyond your time, young people will put on the DVD and see 'that Kentucky madman outlaw poet' in all his mighty glory.

You said you expect this to be your final work. While I hope that isn't true, it'll be a perfect conclusion to a profound and magically prolific life.

Congratulations and Big Hugs from your Sicilian brother in Jersey City."

Frank Messina

St. Louis is taking its hottest burlesque show on the road. The Show-Me Burlesque tour, curated by Lola van Ella, mixes the obligatory sexy striptease with aerial acrobatics, daring pyrotechnics, theatrical vignettes and choreographed group routines. These girls even travel with their own Chaplinesque rounder, Sammich the Tramp!

(as sneak private gift Ron will join The Show-Me Burlesque Troupe to read his Dangerous Places To Have Sex in Kentucky, for which he's received standing Os from New Orleans to Chicago to NYC to Amsterdam & beyond, while Burlesque Troupe dances in ecstatic divine bliss)

program for Ron's 2nd book (his 20th)/cd (his 30th)/dvd (his 1st)/plus 4 new videos (all info on 1st August 19th Green Building Event listed below):

THE STORM GENERATION and on parting, the wilderness poems book/cd/dvd/videos: A Gill Scott Holland & The Green Building & Holland Brown Books in conjunction with Published in Heaven & The Global Literary Renaissance & The Moving Mystery Theatre with The Rudyard Kipling

present

An Evening of Burlesque Music Spoken Word World Dance & Much More Creative Lightninged Wildness friday August 27th 2010 10pm to 1:45am @ The Rudyard Kipling, Oak Street (tween 4th & 6th Streets downtown Louisville Kentucky USA, google The Rudyard Kipling &/or Ron Whitehead &/or The Show-Me Burlesque Troupe/St.Louis for more info),

21 & over,

$10 cover plus Ron will be signing new book/cd/dvd plus other cds & books by Ron &/plus work by The Show-Me Burlesque Troupe & all other Special Guest Performers

will be available throughout the evening for sale plus bar and restaurant will be open all evening:

Sex & Spirit Life is A Tangent All is One

An Evening of Tantric Burlesque Spoken Word Dance Music

featuring:

10-10:45pm = Ron's daughter Rani read poem dedicated to her Dad then Ron welcome/intro then Ron & Gnuma middle eastern groove band featuring Andy Cook percussion & didgeridoo & James Vaughn cello & Ray Wegimont guitar with Special Guests Frank Messina (NY Mets Poet Laureate) & Scott Moore violin/fiddle & Scott Mertz guitar/vocal & Russel Hulsey poem & Sylvia Walters one song & Justin Lewis one song & Dean McClain one poem & WFPK 91.9 www.wfpk.org Radio Louisville DJ Marion Dries doing 2 songs with Gnuma (plus week before she'll be playing Ron's Off The Record all week starting monday 8/16 @ 1pm EDT) plus world dancers Rebekah Trigg & Angela Wood accompanying throughout then

10:45 -1:45 = The Show-Me Burlesque Troupe/St. Louis (you ain't seen nuthin like this before. and secret is that Ron will join the dancers to read Dangerous Places To Have Sex in Kentucky)

Artists exhibiting work for show: Russel Hulsey, Scott Shuffitt, Andy Cook, Shawna Khalily, Howard Wilson, Jeremy Dixon, Emil Walton

Special Thanks to Ken & Sheila & everybody at The Rudyard Kipling, Gill Scott Holland & Stephanie Brothers & Patrick & Amanda & everybody at The Green Building & Holland Brown Books & to Stephen Kertis & Crew & Jeff Carpenter & Al Fresco Studios & Pip Pullen & Sarah Elizabeth Burkey & Lisa K Worley & Andy Cook and Hunter S. Thompson & Michael Pollock & Shawn Pierson & Daddy & Mama & everyone who finds the courage to be their dream.

Official photographers = Brook & Ulysses Sandidge

Official filmmakers = Amanda Arnold & Scott Shuffitt

Olafur Gunnarsson (Iceland): Ron Whitehead's newest book/cd/dvd, THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, is by far his finest work...and anyone who contradicts that is a damn fool...if such a fool exists. The Storm Generation has truly been born!

Michael Dean Odin Pollock (Iceland/Utangardsmenn/Outsiders/voted Iceland's Beswt Rock Group 20th Century): Listening to Ron Whitehead's new CD, THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems (Book/CD/DVD) reminds me of the Magick & Significance of the Oral Tradition that is Ancient VERY prominent in Icelandic texts & Sufi Joujouka Music and Ron's mam o man i gotta say that his new DVD really hit me in that deep deep place...all ego and Self conciousness laid aside it remimded me that Ron & the forces he is channneling which incude his army of guardian angels equals makes Ron one of the Greatest Poets of he 20th Century...i know its the 21st Century now but i don't run on linear time i got one foot in this world & one in the next i am out on the bridge & Brother Ron thanx for reminding me concerning death & loss as i watched my ma & pa & several close freinds go in the last coupla teared years...i dont have too much earthly ambition left but my conviction is reafirmed by watchin this STORM GENERATION DVD that when i die i wanna die ALIVE :-))))))"

Gill Scott Holland, The Green Building, and Holland Brown Books www.hollandbrownbooks.com (to order copies or purchase them @ Ron's shows), in conjunction with Published in Heaven, The Global Literary Renaissance, and The Moving Mystery Theatre,

is proud to present the 1st of 2 Louisville Kentucky releases of

Ron Whitehead's new book (his 20th)/cd (his 30th/dvd (his 1st)/

plus 4 new videos.

THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems

the 1st official release will take place thorsday August 19th 2010 from 5:50-8:30pm at The Green Building, 732 East Market Street, Louisville Kentucky (2nd release will be held on August 27th @ The Rudyard Kipling. that Press Release will be sent out within 24 hours). seating capacity @ The Green Building is only 75 so please arrive a few minutes early. the event is free and open to the public. a brief Q&A then hors d'oeuvre/red wine reception & book signing will follow.

list of the following live performances plus art work:

5:50-6:10pm = Karen Brumley will play bagpipes during arrival of guests.

6:10pm = brief welcome from Gill Scott Holland and Ron Whitehead

6:12-6:20 = Tyrone Cotton, 2 songs

6:20-6:30 = Paul K, 2 songs

6:30-6:35 = Russel Hulsey, 2 poems

6:35-6:45 = Scott Mertz, 2 songs

6:45-6:55 = Hannah Daugherty & Sarah Ward = 2 accapella mountain songs

6:55-7 = Rani Whitehead Newman, poem intro for her Dad

7-7:30 = Ron reads from new book accompanied by Middle Eastern groove band GNUMA featuring Andy Cook (percussion & didgeridoo), James Vaughn (cello), Ray Wegimont (guitar) with special guests Scott Moore (violin/fiddle), Karen Brumley (bagpipes), and world dancers Rebekah Trigg & Angela Wood.

7:30-7:45 = brief Q&A with author Ron Whitehead

7:45-8:30 = food/wine/book signing hangoutology

Artwork by Scott Shuffitt, Russel Hulsey, Howard Wilson, Emil Walton, Shawna Khalily, Andy Cook, Jen Burks, Jeremy Dixon.

Official photographers = Jen Burks & Brook & Ulysses Sandidge

Official filmmakers = Amanda Arnold & Scott Shuffitt

Special Thanks to WFPK 91.9 www.wfpk.org Radio Louisville DJ for playing Ron's Off The Record entire week starting 8/16/10 plus Marion will be performing 2 songs @ 2nd book/cd/dvd release August 27th @ The Rudyard Kipling.

Special Thanks to Mary Popham for wonderful Courier-Journal review of Ron's new book/cd/dvd. Rave reviews are coming in from round the planet.

More, by John Rocco/NYC & others round world, on the way.

After these 2 Official Releases, with the help of Ron's new booking agent/manager, Shawn Pierson, and with the help of everyone at Holland Brown Books Ron will be doing a local regional national international yearlong tour, performing with musicians and bands wherever he travels, culminating June 2011 in Morocco (with The Joujouka Musicians in The Rif Mountains) & Iceland (where he'll co-produce the 1st ever Storm Generation Festival with Olafur Gunnarsson, Iceland's leading novelist, and other Icelandic friends who are some of Iceland's, and the world's, leading poets writers musicians filmmakers photographers). After the festival Ron will climb The Viking Mountain again.

Special Thanks to Gill Scott Holland for inviting Ron to do this project, and to Stephanie Brothers, editor, to Patrick Bourland, assistant editor, to Amanda and everyone at The Green Building & at Holland Brown Books & to everyone involved in the production of this creative project, which is unlike anything Ron has ever done, and they are Stephen Kurtis & Crew for recording, editing, and mastering the DVD and the 4 new Ron videos, to Jeff Carpenter @ Al Fresco Studio for recording, mixing, & mastering the CD, to Sarah Elizabeth Burkey for graphic design and layout, to Pip Pullen for graphic art on the book, cd, and dvd, and to Ron's new booking agent/manager Shawn Pierson. Special thanks to Andy Cook for Ron photo Edinburgh Scotland War Poets Tour & to Lisa K Worley for photo of Olafur Gunnarsson and Ron at foot of Viking Mountain and Special Thanks to my friend Hunter S. Thompson for words on back cover of book: "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folks wisdom & pure mathematics." Special Thanks also to Olafur Gunnarsson, Michael Pollock, & Gregrory Chaney for inspiration, and to Daddy, now residing on the other side, yet everpresent, and to Mama, the two best parents anyone could ever hope to have.

Be Your Dream!!!!

Life is a Brief and Precious Gift. No Complaints, only Thanks!

I Thank All of You with All My Heart!!!!!

Ron Whitehead

8/10/10

see you on the 19th.

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet and damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron's new book reviewed in todays 7/31/10 Courier-Journal, Kentucky's main newspaper.

The Courier-Journal

Saturday July 31, 2010 (Daddy would have been 82 today. he crossed over a year ago. what a precious gift to receive this review on his birthday!)

(front section of Courier, inside back cover, book review page)

Keith Runyon, editor

(photo of front cover of Ron's new book)

Ky. poet's

collection

filled with

longing

By Mary Popham

Special to The Courier-Journal

BOOK REVIEW

The Storm

Generation

Manifesto

By Ron Whitehead

Holland Brown

First edition in-

cludes audio

recording and film

of the recording

and interviews

58 pp. $25.00

to order go to

1st book release at

The Green Building

E. Market Street Louisville

August 19th 6 to 8pm.

2nd book release at

The Rudyard Kipling

Oak Street Louisville

August 27th 10pm to 1:30am

The voice of the narrator in

"The Storm Generation

Manifesto; and On Part-

ing, The Wilderness

Poems," by Kentucky poet Ron

Whitehead, is of loneliness and

longing. Sometimes his words

are like memory seizures, burst

from a light strobe. One such

poem that I find particularly

intriguing is an alphabetical

listing in "woodsmoke." With

no punctuation, the word choice

is not for the images alone but

also for the sounds of the syllables.

A flash, a signal, and then the word

is overtaken by another - like

woodsmoke itself:

"amethyst asphodel azure bronze

copper

diamond dust ebony emerald

gold indigo
jade jasper lavender opal pearl

pine resin

sapphire silver turquoise water

wine woods woodsmoke"

Whitehead's poetry often re-

peats thoughts of Daddy, Mama,

dreams, home at last, home to

home, going for home - sur-

rounded by other wistful, nostal-

gic images: a coal-train whistle, a

farmhouse, railroad tracks and

rusted bridge, a bobwhite, songs

filled with love, a bamboo pole

and catfish.

This poet has traveled all

across America from the foun-

tain in St. James Court, Louisville

to far countries, giving more than

6,000 readings. In Russia, Ice-

land, England, Ireland, Scotland

and Nicaragua he searches for

spiritual brothers, "cosmic

grace." He met His Holiness The

Dalai Lama and co-wrote "Never

Give Up":

"...Too much energy in the

world

Is spent developing the mind

Instead of the heart

Develop the heart..."

Whitehead co-wrote this col-

lection's title poem, "The Storm

Generation Manifesto," with Ice-

landic novelist and friend Olafur

Gunnarsson, during a climb to

the top of The Viking Mountain

in Iceland. It speaks to the gentler

side of "the honest, fierce, brutal"

poets to expose the "non-violent

spiritual warriors." Excerpts

from this long poem:

"...we are creative expression

we blow away lies and injustice

...we are kind

we have soft hearts...we are

God's open nerve..."

One of my favorite poems, ti-

tled "go down," may have come

from this trip to Iceland. Like

many other poems in the book, it

is very small with a huge mes-

sage: "sometimes necessary/ to

go down/ when climbing/

mountain."

But the book ends with a very

long poem, "The Revolutionary

Theatre of the Divine Imagina-

tion." It is a longing, a prayer, a

dedication for "all who find the

courage to be their dream." For

the full impact of the poet's per-

formance skills, the first edition

includes a CD and DVD.

Mary Popham is a writer and critic

who lives in Louisville.

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010

one of the last great truthtellers

for paul k, the godfather of rock

if you whoever you are come

to the rock n roll round table

if you whoever you are come

with even an ounce a glimmered

trail of lingerin whippin post fear

loathing well rock n roll now grown

mannish boy son of black delta and

white hillbilly blues hellyes they had

a wildass night in memphis and birthed

an even wilderassed baby they christened

rock n fuckin roll beethoven roll over and

dig this shit yes this mannish boy changed

everything for everybody even those weaklings

like you who resisted outta fear couldn't go

go go with the flow of rock n fuckin roll the

real deal the language of angels a gift to us

humans wailin moanin ecstatically joyfully

here in these human forms but always listenin

listenin with every atom of our beings listenin

crankin it up all the way till we blow our eardrums

and the windows all the way all the way breakin

on through to all the other sides well hellyes all

you status quo suburban fearfilled weaklings

rock n fuckin roll ain't no polite pc tea party parlour

tricks dog n pony phariseed phoneyass show no

go go go pull your pants down and let the lice out

no oh hellno don't cause i'm sure the fresh air would

kill you just fuckin go get your weak lame ass outta

here cause rock n roll be bout lettin go goin with the

flow the river's flow the flow of life of the universe of

truth rock n roll be holy dark light taoed paradoxed

truth bout lettin go all that is false all the lies the

brainwashed bullshit bout settin ourselves free to be

our dreams regardless of the fucking consequences

give me honesty freedom liberty & rock no roll or

give me death let it all hang out question everydamnthang

truth really is a pathless land find out for yourself what

that means don't follow anybody but the music the

rock n roll channeling from angel realms through your

heart crank it up all the way beyond listening to feeling

to breaking glass to vibrating walls cells beings to

intergalactic interdimensional travel music takes us

there go go go coast to coast ghost to ghost go go

be like paul k like me be one of the last truthtellers

we all be dirty potatoes floating in the same tub of

water and the more we bang into each other by

openly honestly sharing the poems stories events

songs of our lives the more we come clean the

more we respect and honor our beautiful differences

while simultaneously realizing recognizing that we

have much more in common than we have different

music the wildness the terribly beautiful crazy wisdom

of music reminds us of who we are the truth of our

inner most interconnected beings we are so much

more than our physical bodies so much more than

the physical world that's why we turn to music to

rock n roll no matter what emotional state we find

ourselves in from despair to ecstasy and everything

in between we always turn to music sweet song

we sing with angels we sing and remember as

paul k does in his poemed songs that the poet

the poemed singer songwriter must be enemy of

the state reminding forever reminding the greed

powermongers that be that power corrupts that

we are all in this together all one no servants no

leaders all one eye to eye shoulder to shoulder

so keep singing prophetic poemed anti-government

love songs rockin in the free world celebratin

truthtellin no matter the consequences get ready

for the bullet it's already on the way to dance in

your skull so forever have the fearless rock n roll

courage yes i'm talkin to you you young punk you

ancient young poet singin prophet always rantin

n ravin tellin it like it is keep on singin keep on

rock n rollin in the free world cause it never ends

we always gotta fight not only for the right to party

we gotta perpetually even after we're livin bein our

dream we gotta still every damn moment fight for

the right to be ourselves to be freebirds lonely

tightrope walkin wires of desperation in a doomed

gloomed land only salvation music rock n roll saves

us from ourselves from death in life and remember

paul k remember one of the last great truthtellers

standing there all alone on that hill determined

to keep singin whether anyone listens whether

anyone gets it whether anyone cares anymore

there he is standing alone lonely forlorn poet singer

prophet shaman crucibled fire breathin dragon

truthteller tellin it like it is regardless of anything

regardless of the bullet on the way from round the

corner soon plantin itself rollin round n round

inside his gone baby gone skull but for now fearless

alone he stands on the mountaintop so young ones

remember truthtellin wasn't born in a day it took

lifetimed years of pain sufferin drinkin druggin

usually with gun at temple or in mouth tween shots

of tequila and snorts of cocaine and everything else

imaginable to ease the pain of life of livin but somehow

always findin always findin a way determinedly refusin

to bow down never givin up always keepin on so now

i see you paul k one of the last truthtellers far away on

that mountain you've pulled yourself yet again outta the

muddy ditch wiped the pig shit from your eyes you reach

down pick up your guitar and slowly stand stand straight

tall and step step step back up onto the road slide into

your rusted turquoise '46 dodge pickup with the hole next

to the gearshift which you drop your cans and bottles

through as you head always headin cross one country

or another usually westward headin to the next gig into

the sunset sunset sunset you paul k one of the last

truthtellers tall lean sometimes mean meaner than any

rattlesnake sometimes killing them the rattlesnakes

drinkin their blood chasing always chasin it with

shot of lightnin or whatever other electric drink you

can find and there you are now in that old pullin

hard to the left turquoise '46 dodge pickup truck

headed west into the sunset one more time singin

poems the godfather of rock detroit new york city kentucky

the netherlands preachin singin like nobody preaches

like nobody sings dangerous lethal poems so my old

outlaw friend keep on keepin on rockin truthtellin in the

fadin fadin fadin dusky old nearly gone freeworld

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death

8/18/10

aha

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010

wednesday august 25th
holler poets series 28
featuring
emma bolden
outlaw poet ron whitehead with

musical accompaniment by cynthia norton
also music by holler
limited open mic starts show

8pm
Al's Bar
6th and Limestone
Lexington Kentucky

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

www.therudyardkipling.com

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010

for Immediate Release:

An Evening of Tantric Burlesque Music Dance Art Photography Spoken Word

celebrating the release of Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead's

THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems

Ron's 20th book, 30th cd, 1st DVD, plus 4 new videos

Friday, August 27, 2010
The Rudyard Kipling

422 W. Oak Street

Louisville, Kentucky

502 636 1311

www.themotherlodge.com

$10 cover

10pm-1:45am

featuring NYC Mets Poet Laureate Frank Messina, Tyrone Cotton, The Show-Me Burlesque Troupe, Marion Dries, Justin Lewis, Dean McClain, Gnuma (middle eastern groove band with Andy Cook percussion & didgeridoo & James Vaughn cello & Ray Wegimont guitar), Russel Hulsey, Rebekah Trigg & Angela Wood (& her snake), Rani Newman Whitehead, Scott Moore,

& Cynthia Norton with Ron Whitehead

plus

art & photography by Russel Hulsey, Emil Walton, Scott Shuffitt, Frank Messina, Howard Wilson, Cynthia Norton, Andy Cook, Jeremy Dixon, & more.

film & photography by Amanda Arnold & Scott Shuffitt

Special Thanks to Ken & Sheila & everybody at The Rudyard Kipling, Louisville's Ryman Auditorium (only better). Special Thanks to Gill Scott Holland for bringing out my new book/cd/dvd/videos. I'm deeply honored humbled and appreciative of/by the beautifully produced work which is unlike anything i've done before. Special Thanks to Gill & Augusta & Holland Brown Books & everybody at The Green Building & everyone involved in the production distribution & sales of my newest work (& upcoming world tour) including Stephanie Brothers (editor), Patrick Bourland (assistant editor), Amber, Stephen Kertis & Kertis Creative Crew for DVD & 4 new videos, to Jeff Carpenter & Al Fresco Studios for recording mixing mastering new CD, to Sarah Elizabeth for layout & graphic design, to Pip Pullen for front & back book cover & CD & DVD graphic art, to Lisa K Worley for photo of Olafur Gunnarsson & me at foot of The Viking Mountain in Iceland, to Andy Cook for photo of me in Edinburgh Scotland (with McBeth's castle behind me, while on War Poets Tour in Europe with Frank Messina & Sarah Elizabeth & Andy Cook), to Hunter S. Thompson for his generous words bout me & my work (on back cover of book), to my new booking agent/manager Shawn Pierson, to David Amram & Frank Messina & Gregory Chaney & Olafur Gunnarsson & Michael Dean Odin Pollock & Scott Mertz for inspiration, and, finally, Special Thanks to Daddy (crossed over a year ago) & Mama, to my brother Brad and sisters Paddy & Edie & Robin & Velvet (& their/our families), to my children Nathanial & Rani & Dylan & grandchildren Roz & Max (& to their our families including Nancye & all her our family), to all my family and friends allies guides angels round the world (& in all realms of being, seen & unseen) for the gift of love and inspiration. I'm deeply honored by all of life, every person being event moment, past present future, seen & unseen. I have no complaints, only thanks.

Thank You. All of You. See you at the show(s)(this side & the other(s)!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

www.therudyardkipling.com

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010

An Evening of Tantric Crazy Wisdom Wildness Burlesque Music Dance Art Spoken Word (God bless anybody who misses this show)

celebrating the release of Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead's

THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems

Ron's 20th book, 30th cd, 1st DVD, plus 4 new videos

tonight August 27, 2010
The Rudyard Kipling

422 W. Oak Street

Louisville, Kentucky

502 636 1311

www.themotherlodge.com

$10 cover

10pm-1:45am

featuring NYC Mets Poet Frank Messina, Tyrone Cotton, Scott Mertz, Cynthia Nelson, Dean McClain, Russel Hulsey, Sylvia Walters, Rani Newman, Rebekah Trigg, Angela Brown (& her snake), Danielle Vertrees, Samantha The Hawk Hawkinson, The Show-Me Burlesque Troupe, Justin Lewis, Gnuma (middle eastern groove band with Andy Cook percussion & didgeridoo & James Vaughn cello & Ray Wegimont guitar), Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead & more

plus

art by Russel Hulsey, Emil Walton, Scott Shuffitt, Frank Messina, Howard Wilson, Cynthia Norton, Andy Cook, Jeremy Dixon, & more.

film & photography by Amanda Arnold

Special Thanks to Ken & Sheila & everybody at The Rudyard Kipling, Louisville's Ryman Auditorium (only better). Special Thanks to Gill Scott Holland for bringing out my new book/cd/dvd/videos. I'm deeply honored humbled and appreciative of/by the beautifully produced work which is unlike anything i've done before. Special Thanks to Gill & Augusta & Holland Brown Books & everybody at The Green Building & everyone involved in the production distribution & sales of my newest work (& upcoming world tour) including Stephanie Brothers (editor), Patrick Bourland (assistant editor), Amber, Stephen Kertis & Kertis Creative Crew for DVD & 4 new videos, to Jeff Carpenter & Al Fresco Studios for recording mixing mastering new CD, to Sarah Elizabeth for layout & graphic design, to Pip Pullen for front & back book cover & CD & DVD graphic art, to Lisa K Worley for photo of Olafur Gunnarsson & me at foot of The Viking Mountain in Iceland, to Andy Cook for photo of me in Edinburgh Scotland (with McBeth's castle behind me, while on War Poets Tour in Europe with Frank Messina & Sarah Elizabeth & Andy Cook), to J. B. Wilson for front cover photo of Ron performing with his last band SOUTHSIDE @ ear@-tacy records & to my friend Hunter S. Thompson for his generous words bout me & my work (on back cover of book), to my new booking agent/manager Shawn Pierson, to David Amram & Frank Messina & Gregory Chaney & Olafur Gunnarsson & Michael Dean Odin Pollock & Scott Mertz for inspiration, and, finally, Special Thanks to Daddy (crossed over a year ago) & Mama, to my brother Brad and sisters Paddy & Edie & Robin & Velvet (& their/our families), to my children Nathanial & Rani & Dylan & grandchildren Roz & Max (& to their our families including Nancye & all her our family), to all my family and friends allies guides angels round the world (& in all realms of being, seen & unseen) for the gift of love and inspiration. I'm deeply honored by all of life, every person being event moment, past present future, seen & unseen. I have no complaints, only thanks.

Thank You. All of You. See you at the show(s)(this side & the other(s)!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010

for Immediate Release:

An Evening of Outrageous Music & Spoken Word & Who Knows What Else

with Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead & his Viking Hillbilly God's Open Nerve

Storm Generation Apocalypse Rattlesnake Blood Drinking chasing it

with Shots of Lightning Allstar Bands

celebrating the release of Ron's new book (his 20th)/cd (his 30th)/dvd (his 1st)

THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems

published by Gill Scott Holland & Holland Brown Books

Special Thanks to Gill Scott Holland & Stephanie Brothers (editor) & Patrick Bourland (assistant editor) & Stephen Kertis (dvd & 4 new videos) & Jeff Carpenter/Al Fresco Studio (cd) & Sarah Elizabeth (layout & graphic design) & Pip Pullen (graphic art) & Lisa K Worley (for photo of Olafur Gunnarsson, Iceland's leading novelist, & Ron @ foot of The Viking Mountain in Iceland) & Andy Cook (for photo of Ron in Edinburgh Scotland w/McBeth's castle in background, on War Poets Tour) & J.B. Wilson (for photo of Ron performing w/SOUTHSIDE @ earX-tacy records) & to Hunter S. Thompson for words bout Ron & his work on back cover of book & to Matthew Dace Landen/Derby City Espresso & to all the bands & poets & musicians performers for kickingass blowing roof off the joint making it real. if it ain't real it ain't no fucking deal. see you all @ the show.

Derby City Espresso

East Market Street

Louisville Kentucky

1st Friday Gallery Hop

8pm-2am

September 3, 2010

no cover

8-8:10pm: Ron welcome
8:10-8:25: Rani Newman

8:25-9:10: Ron Whitehead w/Cynthia Nelson

9:10-9:55: Justin Lewis

9:55-10: Samantha The Hawk Hawkinson

10-10:45: Lonely Mountain

10:45-11: Russel Hulsey

11-11:45: Cynthia Nelson

11:45-12:30: Onward Pilgrim

12:30-1:30: Lotus Blake

books cds dvds sex by all (well nearly all) performers will be available for purchase

for more info contact Ron Whitehead

email ron@tappingmyownphone.com

cell 502 475 7772

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010

hello my dear family & friends. within the hour i'll be moving to new address:

Ron Whitehead

919 Cherokee Road

Louisville, Kentucky 40204

cell (same) 502 475 7772

email (same) ron@tappingmyownphone.com

website www.tappingmyownphone.com (need new webmaster)

plus facebook & facebook fan club

publisher (& friend) of my new book (20th) cd (30th) dvd (1st) & 4 new videos

Gill Scott Holland, The Green Building, and Holland Brown Books

is giving me poet apartment bachelor hangoutology pad on East Market Street (across from Mayan Gypsy Cafe. the place doesn't have an address). this will be interim apartment for six weeks. then.

Howard & Nancy Wilson (above address) are building me Ron Poet bachelor hangoutology pad on side of their beautiful big home lower Cherokee Road, 5 houses from Cave Hill Cemetary, where i can stay rest of my life if i want. i'll have my own private entrance. they've already bought me new bicycle and color tv plus fixing it up beautifully. i told Gill & Howard & Nancy that i ain't no freeloader and so we've already worked out or are working out barter deals. having grown up on farm barter is only economy i choose to live by. so. within hour i'll be moved to East Market. excited. bout time. thankful for everything. no complaints. only thanks. hope to practice some hangoutology with all of you soon. and hope to see all of you friday night 1st friday gallery hop @ Derby City Espresso where i'm doing show 8pm to 2am totally diverse all kinds bands musicians poets artist wildness mayhem breaking shit birthing dying. real life. real art. no phoneyass academic shit. see you there.

love

Ron, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

Ron Whitehead, cell 502 475 7772 or email ron@tappingmyownphone.com

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

Ron Whitehead, cell 502 475 7772 or email ron@tappingmyownphone.com

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Date: Sat, 11 Sep

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Announcing the 1^st ever annual GONZO Festival paying tribute to and honoring the life, work and legacy of one of the greatest most fearless writers of all time, Louisville’s own native son Hunter S. Thompson.

Saturday October 16, 2010 from Noon till 2AM at The Monkey Wrench.

1025 Barrett Avenue Louisville KY 40204 Phone (502) 582-2433

Tickets for the Rain or Shine event are $12.00 in advance for General Admission or $15.00 day of the event for the entire show. VIP ALL Access $75.00 includes complimentary Food and Beverage for entire Fest. Tickets available @ earX-tacy records, The Monkey Wrench and online @ www.eTix.com

This will be an international event / happening / celebration featuring Hunter's widow Anita Thompson and some of the best local bands, musicians, singers, spoken word poets, authors, visual artists, dancers, speakers, sculptors, photographers, filmmakers, and DJs. The final mind-blowing lineup (which includes Scott Carney of Wax Fang, The Fervor, The Workers & many many others) will be announced within 72 hours plus there will also be special unannounced surprise guests.

Hunter S. Thompson films and documentaries will be shown non-stop throughout the festival. A Mural of Hunter S. Thompson, created by Louisville’s Andy Cook, will be revealed during the festival. Gonzo works, Resistance Art and Hunter memorabilia will also be on display paying honor to our Local Legend.

GONZOFEST is brought to you by producers Dennie Humphrey, owner of The Monkey Wrench, Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead, and with Associate Producers Tisha Dean of Beerhouse Distributors and Flying Dog Ales, Scott Shuffitt, & others to be announced.

Kyle Meredith, WFPK Radio Louisville Program Manager and Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead will MC the event. Ron will also perform with his new band Onward Pilgrim.

Executive Producer Holland Brown Books.

Festival Filmmakers and Photographers: Amanda Arnold, Ryan Armbrust, & others to be announced.

Sponsored by: Beerhouse Distributors & Flying Dog Ales (all Flying Do Beers including event exclusives will be on tap), The Monkey Wrench, Holland Brown Books, Published in Heaven, The Global Literary Renaissance, The Moving Mystery Theatre, DiY Productions, Club 502, earX-tacy records, Monkey Drive, & more to be announced.

July 2, 1960, From Bermuda 23 Years old:

“If I could think of a way to do it right now, I’d head back to Louisville sit on the porch drinking beer, drive around Cherokee Park for a few nights, and try to sink back as far as I could into the world that did its best to make me. It’s not hard to get tired of interminable palms and Poinciana and I could do at the moment with a single elm tree on a midnight street in the Highlands.” Hunter S. Thompson

“I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is as crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics.” Hunter S. Thompson

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." Hunter S. Thompson

"An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, not necessarily against it. By the time I wrote HELL'S ANGELS I was riding with them and it was clear that it was no longer possible for me to go back and live within the law. There were a lot more outlaws than me. I was just a writer. I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer, I never heard of the term, somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law, Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsber, Kesey, me. I didn't have to gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized my allies, my people." Hunter S. Thompson

"Who the fuck do you think wrote THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS, a bunch of stone sober clerics?" Hunter S. Thompson

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

Ron Whitehead, cell 502 475 7772 or email ron@tappingmyownphone.com

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

Ron Whitehead, cell 502 475 7772 or email ron@tappingmyownphone.com

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010

Ron on the Big Fucking Cross

Art consists in going the full length.
If you start with the drums you
have to end with dynamite, or TNT.
--Henry Miller

Failure has been my greatest success.
--Ron Whitehead

This book is small but mighty, short but gargantuan. It’s Ron’s Bomb. It’s the TNT Miller spoke of and it’s Ron Whitehead’s greatest success. The Storm Generation Manifesto, and On Parting, the Wilderness Poems is a condensation, distillation, diamond heart explosion of all of Ron Whitehead’s words. Ron Whitehead is one of those writers whose books are all connected, like Joyce or Kerouac, whose books formed legends, Dedalus and Duluoz: legends based on the lives of their authors. All of Ron Whitehead’s writing is about his life, his fight, his fierce defiant loving struggling spirit. The Storm Generation almost begins with his death after he climbs the Viking Mountain in Iceland:

At the top, three times I was nearly blown off
to my death. I crawled behind the giant boulder
at the top of the mountain and for fifteen minutes
I had a non-stop series of epiphanies. Then I stood
up, faced the howling screaming wind, uncorked my
1.5 liter bottle red wine (which is all I had in my
backpack), drained half of it, thanked the fierce
Norse Gods for finally accepting and embracing me.
Then I made my descent.

His descent is this book: violent, swirling manifestos calling for the death of the dead and the life of THE STORM:

we are more than the eye of the storm
we are THE STORM
we refuse
we will not bow down
we will never give up
we are God’s open nerve
we are God’s open nerve
we are The Storm Generation
we are The Storm
The Storm

It is a STORM filled with the explosive poetic energy that has always filled his work from the experimental Bildungsroman and pulsating rock ‘n’ roll confession Beaver Dam Rocking Chair Marathon to his live performances and recordings. It is God’s open nerve slashed wide open with love, compassion, refusal, acceptance, red wine, and Kentucky.
Then there are the fragile little poems that almost fall apart in your fingers, poems about loss, about the death of his father, about love in the empty face of nothing.  My favorite is one rooted in Kentucky, the land that gave birth to Ron and the land that gave life and loss and poetry to Whitehead:

learning to talk with crows

a long time ago in a land far away
in the wooded wilderness of my pioneer Kentucky boyhood
Daddy taught me how to talk with crows
His foot on the one he shot a murder of them circling above

Talking to crows is what Ron does throughout his poetry, throughout his performances, throughout his books from Beaver Dam through THE STORM.  The good Doctor was right, of course, when he described Ron’s poetry as a “dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics.” With this book and with all the books and poems behind it, Ron joins Thompson and Kerouac on the road, in what Lawrence Ferlinghetti once described as a “continuing tradition in American writing, going back to Walt Whitman and Poe and Jack London, beyond the Beats, who were only one phase of this literature, continuing today in new outsiders.” THE STORM!
Ron Whitehead is Huck Finn all growed up and Ishmael back from the boat. He is Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier of Poetry, singing and dying a glorious death every time he writes a line.  And every time he reads a line. Of all our great poets, Ron is the one you really need to hear read his own work—his voice is rough music from a tender heart. That’s why the DVD/CD that accompanies THE STORM is much more than a supplement to the book: it is its voice and face. THE STORM!
My favorite Ron Whitehead story has to do with Jesus.  Ron once took a job playing Christ in a local church. It was for money, of course, and Ron fit the part. They tied him to a cross and he hung there as the suffering Christ.   As THE STORM of suffering rock ‘n’ roll crow talking, Ron fit the part. But later, after they let him down from the cross, Ron got in trouble with the church because of the red wine he had with him. I think he got fired because of it. He got fired for the wine he took to the top of Tha Viking Mountain and shared with the Norse Gods. He was fired as Christ but he is always on the BIG CROSS called Poetry Kentucky America THE STORM.
I once nominated Ron for the Nobel Prize in Literature. I hereby nominate him for the BIG FUCKING CROSS we all carry but only he can climb.
THE STORM!

John Rocco
    --Queens, NYC
      September 4, 2010

Dr. John Rocco
Associate Professor of Humanities
SUNY (State University of New York Maritime)
James Joyce scholar John Rocco is the author of The Nirvana Companion, The Beastie Boys Companion, The Doors Companion, The Grateful Dead Companion, and other Schirmer Books. He is completing a volume on James Joyce. His novel Fur was released in 2005. He is a critic for American Book Review and numerous other literary and music publications

1st ever International GONZO FESTIVAL celebrating the life & work of

Louisville Kentucky's native son Dr. Hunter Stockton Shaman Thompson

saturday october 16, 2010 noon to 2 or 3 or 4am @

the new International GONZO Hangoutology Headquarters

The Monkey Wrench, 1025 Barrett Avenue, Louisville Kentucky 40204 usa

phone 502 583 2473, www.monkeywrench.net

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

if you're interested in Ron Whitehead, and/or his new band, Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead & Onward Pilgrim, appearing/performing/reading/giving talks/presentations at your college/university/school/museum/festival/club, anywhere round the world, contact

Ron Whitehead, cell 502 475 7772 or email ron@tappingmyownphone.com

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) GONZO!!!!!!!!!

1st ever International GONZO FESTIVAL celebrating the life & work of

Louisville Kentucky's native son Dr. Hunter Stockton Shaman Thompson

saturday october 16, 2010 noon to 2 or 3 or 4am @

the new International GONZO Hangoutology Headquarters

The Monkey Wrench, 1025 Barrett Avenue, Louisville Kentucky 40204 usa

phone 502 583 2473, www.monkeywrench.net

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

Ron Whitehead, cell 502 475 7772 or email ron@tappingmyownphone.com

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) GONZO!!!!!!!!!

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Announcing the 1^st ever International Annual GONZO FESTIVAL paying tribute to and honoring the life, work and legacy of one of the greatest most fearless writers of all time, Louisville’s own native son Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.

Saturday October 16, 2010 from Noon till 2 or 3 or 4AM at Dennie Humphrey's The Monkey Wrench.

this first ever, then annual, GONZO FESTIVAL launches Dennie Humphrey's The Monkey Wrench as International Gonzo Hangoutology Headquarters. giant Hunter mural (by Carol McLeod, Andy Cook, Evan Leibowitz, & Alexander King) will be unveiled as part of the Festival, which will birth International Gonzo Hangoutology Headquarters Monkey Wrench Park. next year life size bronze statue of Hunter will be unveiled plus billboard with KEEP THE HIGHLANDS GONZO emblazoned on it.

The Monkey Wrench, 1025 Barrett Avenue, Louisville KY 40204 Phone (502) 582-2433. www.monkeywrench.net

Tickets for the Rain or Shine event are $12.00 in advance for General Admission or $15.00 day of the event for the entire show. VIP ALL Access $75.00 includes complimentary Food and Beverage for entire Fest. Tickets available @ earX-tacy records, The Monkey Wrench and online @ www.eTix.com

This will be an international event / happening / celebration featuring Hunter's widow Anita Thompson and some of the best bands, musicians, singers, spoken word poets, authors, visual artists, dancers, speakers, sculptors, photographers, filmmakers, and DJs including Scott Carney of Wax Fang, The Galoots, John Yarmuth, The Fervor, The Workers, Gatewood Galbreith, Tyrone Cotton, Nerves Jr., The Commonwealth, Ultra Pulverize, Bad Reeds, The Deloreans, Russel Hulsey, Your News Vehicle, Gnuma, Lotus Blake, Brigid Kaelin, Brett Eugene Ralph with Jacklyn Mareau, Paul K with Jon Ashley, W. Loran Smith, Susi Wood, Ed McClanahan, John Gage, John Paul Wright, Kent Fielding, Ninnie, Eric Sutherland (Holler Poets), Marion Dries, Laura Shine, Woodrow on The Radio & Matt Anthony, Six White Horses, Glasspack, Ray Rizzo & Traci Timmons, The Java Men, King Kong, 23 String Band, Jak Son Renfro & Serpent Wisdom, Rani Bri Newman, Dean McClain, Rob Zoschke, Charlie Newman, Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead & Onward Pilgrim, Kelly Render Wilkinson, J.B. Miller, Johnny Sands, Sarah Elizabeth Burkey, Justin Lewis, Angela Wood (& snake), The Ghost of Rebekah Trigg, Danny O'Bryan, High Water Mark, William Sovern, Rob Z, James Davis, Joe Manning, Thomas A. Minor & The Picket Line, Dylan Browning Whitehead, Gui Stuart, Nancy Wilson, Soul River Brown, Shelley Vaughn Hora, Matter of Chance, Bradford Nathanial Whitehead, Dave Nichols, Divinity Rose, John Hagan, Samantha The Hawk Hawkinson, Matthew Landen,

plus The Everything GONZO Art Show (curated by Andy Cook) with works by Russel Hulsey, Howard Wilson, Christopher Felver, Scott Shuffitt, Emil Walton, Jeremy Dixon, Shelly Vaughn Hora, Paul Paletti, Erin Fitzgerald, Jamie Lynn Smith, Elizabeth Windisch, Rebekah Trigg, Angela Wood, George Scott, Ragen Daly, William Brandum, Wilfred Sieg III, & Scott McCrory.

many other participants to be announced plus there will also be special unannounced surprise guests.

Hunter S. Thompson films and documentaries will be shown non-stop throughout the festival.

GONZOFEST produced by Dennie Humphrey, owner of The Monkey Wrench & Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead with Associate Producers Tisha Dean (Beerhouse Distributors and Flying Dog Ales), Scott Shuffitt (The Lebowski Festival), Joe Wembling, & others to be announced.

Kyle Meredith, 91.9fm www.wfpk.org WFPK Radio Louisville Music Director and Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead will Host the event. Ron will also perform with his new band Onward Pilgrim.

Executive Producer Holland Brown Books, www.hollandbrownbooks.com (publisher of Ron's newest THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems book(20th), cd(30th), dvd(1st, plus 4 new videos), @ The Green Building.

Festival Filmmakers and Photographers: George Parker Jr. & KyGREENtv www.kygreen.tv & The Louisville Film Society, Christian Hansen, Amanda Arnold, Ryan Armbrust, Shelley Vaughn Hora, James O'Hayer & others to be announced.

plus. announcements regarding other GONZO FESTIVAL related happenings to be announced.

Sponsored by: Dennie Humphrey's The Monkey Wrench, Beerhouse Distributors & Flying Dog Ales (all Flying Dog Beers including event exclusives will be on tap), Holland Brown Books, earX-tacy records, The Lebowski Festival, Old Town Liquors, Heine Brothers Coffee, Guitar Emporium, Leatherhead, The Louisville Film Society, Published in Heaven, The Global Literary Renaissance, The Moving Mystery Theatre, DiY Do it Yourself Productions & more to be announced.

July 2, 1960, From Bermuda 23 Years old:

“I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is as crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics.” Hunter S. Thompson

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." Hunter S. Thompson

"Who the fuck do you think wrote THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS, a bunch of stone sober clerics?" Hunter S. Thompson

"As for my perspective of the world and my writing, drugs usually enhance or strengthen my perceptions and reactions, for good or will. They've given me the resilience to withstand repeated shocks to my innocence gland. They've given me the strength to deal with the shocking realities guaranteed to shatter anyone's beliefs in the higher idealistic shibboleths of our time. Anyone who covers his beat for twenty years, and that beat is 'The Death of The American Dream', needs every goddamned crutch he can find."

Hunter S. Thompson

"Everybody is rolling over in an age of cowardice, fear, greed. You can fight city hall, and you can beat the system. People are getting afraid to try. I couldn't have told you what the Fourth Amendment was until I got rolled over by that gang of white trash pig D.A. investigators that came to my house. Refusing to plea bargain and choosing to face a sixteen-year prison term in court until all charges were dropped, it was as much fun as I ever had in my life. I think it's something people should do and be able to do, just say Fuck You. You're the ones who broke the law, you came into my house." Hunter S. Thompson

The Dark and Bloody Ground

by Russel Hulsey

Hunter Thompson's Louisville!

Gus Van Sant's Louisville!

Will Oldham's Louisville!

Ron Whitehead's Louisville!

Jim James' Louisville!

Sam Gilliam's Louisville!

Tim Krekel's Louisville!

Will Russell's Louisville!

Thaniel Ion Lee's Louisville!

Sean Garrison's Louisville!

Gill Holland's Louisville!

Jason Noble's Louisville!

Leslie Lyons' Louisville!

Thomas Merton's Louisville!

Harlan Hubbard's Louisville!

Hunter Thompson's Louisville!

Gus Van Sant's Louisville!

Will Oldham's Louisville!

Ron Whitehead's Louisville!

Jim James' Louisville!

Hunter Thompson's Louisville!

Hun

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

Ron Whitehead, cell 502 475 7772 or email ron@tappingmyownphone.com

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

1st ever International GONZO FESTIVAL celebrating the life & work of

Louisville Kentucky's native son Dr. Hunter Stockton Shaman Thompson

saturday october 16, 2010 noon to 2 or 3 or 4am @

the new International GONZO Hangoutology Headquarters

The Monkey Wrench, 1025 Barrett Avenue, Louisville Kentucky 40204 usa

phone 502 583 2473, www.monkeywrench.net

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

Ron Whitehead, cell 502 475 7772 or email ron@tappingmyownphone.com

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) GONZO!!!!!!!!!

1st ever International GONZO FESTIVAL celebrating the life & work of

Louisville Kentucky's native son Dr. Hunter Stockton Shaman Thompson

saturday october 16, 2010 noon to 2 or 3 or 4am @

the new International GONZO Hangoutology Headquarters

The Monkey Wrench, 1025 Barrett Avenue, Louisville Kentucky 40204 usa

phone 502 583 2473, www.monkeywrench.net

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

Ron Whitehead, cell 502 475 7772 or email ron@tappingmyownphone.com

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) GONZO!!!!!!!!!

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010

Kentucky Reclamation

for Hunter S. Thompson & Dennie Humphrey

& all The Wanderering Children of The Mark of Cain Clan

the Real People The Real Creative Artists who

continually fight for the right to party & the right

to be ourselves!!!!!!! Long Live GONZO!!!!!!!!!!!

Quebec and Lowell and NYC & San Fran & Orlando have Jack Jack I said

burn baby burn King of The Beats Jack Kerouac On The Road give me the wild ones

Paterson & New York City & Boulder have Allen Allen

I said Kaddish Allen Ginsberg I see the best fearless minds Howl baby Howl

St. Louis NYC Mexico City Tangier Paris NYC Lawrence The Bunkered Toad Clan has

William William yes dammit I said The Exterminator William S. Burroughs Naked Lunch

Italy France NYC North Carolina San Francisco has Lawrence Lawrence

I said dammit listen to me look deep into my eyes & listen I said

City Lights Bookstore & Books Mecca for independent thought thinkers

iconoclasts disappearing truthtellers 1st paperback bookstore in the usa on the farout

left coast 261 Columbus Avenue North Beath San Francisco I said dammit

the most important living poet on the planet today 92 years old but still hanging

come on Lawrence hang on with my friend John Tytell's help got him nominated

for the Nobel Prize in Literature which he deserves more than anyone just like

Ginsberg & Burroughs did & others Gary Snyder Wendell Berry others that

for whatever reason were considered too radical like me & all the fuck we want

to do & have devoted our lives to is to make the world a better place in which

to live for all of us & so like The Dalai Lama & Gandhi & Mother Teresa

& Rumi & Mama & Daddy & Thomas Merton & Gregory Chaney & William Blake

& Edgar Cayce & Muhammad Ali & Neal Cassady & Gregory Corso &

Diane di Prima & Anne Waldman & Ken Kesey & The Merry Pranksters which

includes yes our own my dear friends Ed McClanahan & Guerney Norman &

James Baker Hall & oh dear Great Spirit oh Creative Forces of The Universe whoever

the hell it is keeps sending me us poems & songs thank you i love you i love you

which brings us now finally to the time to closing time closing time in Louisville

Kentucky Louisville Kentucky & its about damn beyond time beyond closing time

where is time well the time the closing time has finally come at last arrived for us

to reclaim to refuckingclaim one of the greatest iconoclastic one of the most fearless

outlaw rebel writers of alltime of all I said of alltime to reclaim our native brother son

native son so now right now the time has come always right on time never too late

everything is always right on closing time yes we're here by God to reclaim reclaim

from Louisville The Highlands Louisville to Florida to New York to San Francisco round

the world to Owl Farm Woody Creek Aspen Colorado and beyond beyond beyond

always beyond beyond IT beyond all boundaries break on through to the other side

and keep on keepin on breakin on through to all the other sides nothing ever ends

the journey is IT IT so now right now we're here in Louisville The Highlands Kentucky

closing time we're here us yes us this band this band of misfits of delinquents of

outlaws yes to live outside the law you must be honest and oh hellyes honest fearlessly

honest we be regardless of the consequences truthteller poets writers honest fearless

outlaws we be and so we're by God right here right now reclaiming reclaiming our

native son practicing some long way too long overdue poetry of hillbilly outlaw

Kentucky Reclamation Sorcery reclaiming the one and only for Louisville The Highlands

Kentucky right here right now at Dennie Humphrey's The Monkey Wrench here in the

heart of The Highlands Louisville Kentucky right now right here at The Monkey Wrench

the new International GONZO Hangoutology Monkey Wrench Gang Headquarters

we're here reclaiming here at The 1st ever International GONZO FESTIVAL we're

reclaiming the one and only the one and only i said the one and only KING KING

OF GONZO KING OF GONZO GONZO GONZO Dr. Hunter Stockton Shaman yes

Shaman Thompson The Now and Forever KING OF GONZO DR. HUNTER STOCKTON

SHAMAN I said dammit dammit I said SHAMAN THOMPSON so KEEP LOUISVILLE

GONZO KEEP LOUISVILLE GONZO KEEP LOUISVILLE KEEP LOUISVILLE GONZO

KEEP yes you heard us we said KEEP KEEP KEEP LOUISVILLE LOUISVILLE

LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY GONZO GONZO GONZO GONZO

and always remember to ask yourself WHAT WOULD HUNTER DO

Shelley Vaughn Hora & Ron Whitehead

september 2010

AHA

1st ever International GONZO FESTIVAL celebrating the life & work of

Louisville Kentucky's native son Dr. Hunter Stockton Shaman Thompson

saturday october 16, 2010 noon to 2 or 3 or 4am @

the new International GONZO Hangoutology Headquarters

The Monkey Wrench, 1025 Barrett Avenue, Louisville Kentucky 40204 usa

phone 502 583 2473, www.monkeywrench.net

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

Ron Whitehead, cell 502 475 7772 or email ron@tappingmyownphone.com

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) GONZO!!!!!!!!!

1st ever International GONZO FESTIVAL celebrating the life & work of

Louisville Kentucky's native son Dr. Hunter Stockton Shaman Thompson

saturday october 16, 2010 noon to 2 or 3 or 4am @

the new International GONZO Hangoutology Headquarters

The Monkey Wrench, 1025 Barrett Avenue, Louisville Kentucky 40204 usa

phone 502 583 2473, www.monkeywrench.net

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

Ron Whitehead, cell 502 475 7772 or email ron@tappingmyownphone.com

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) GONZO!!!!!!!!!

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Saturday October 16, 2010 from Noon till 2AM at Dennie Humphrey's The Monkey Wrench.

this first ever, then annual, International GONZO FESTIVAL launches Dennie Humphrey's The Monkey Wrench as International Gonzo Hangoutology Headquarters. giant Hunter mural (by Carol McLeod, Andy Cook, Evan Leibowitz, & Alexander King: check out www.courier-journal.com 9/20/10 Metro Section photo of GONZO mural plus 9/21/10 LEO for GONZO FESTIVAL ad) will be unveiled as part of the Festival, which will birth International Gonzo Hangoutology Headquarters Monkey Wrench Park. next year life size bronze statue (already commissioned) of Hunter will be unveiled plus billboard with KEEP THE HIGHLANDS GONZO emblazoned on it.

The Monkey Wrench, 1025 Barrett Avenue, Louisville KY 40204 Phone (502) 582-2433, http://www.facebook.com/home.php7n1/group.php?gil=120003034721497 (who comes up with these fucking internet addresses?! shite!!!!)

Tickets, now on sale, for the Rain or Shine event are $12.00 in advance for General Admission or $15.00 day of the event for the entire show. VIP ALL Access (only 100 of these tickets available & only @ The Monkey Wrench) $75.00 includes complimentary Food and Beverage (whatever you want to eat/drink for entire 14-hour non-stop Festival) for entire Fest. Tickets just now available @ earX-tacy records, The Monkey Wrench and online @ www.eTix.com

This will be an international event / happening / celebration featuring Hunter's widow Anita Thompson and some of the best bands, musicians, singers, spoken word poets, authors, outlaw troublemakers (especially Ron), visual artists, dancers with snakes, speakers, sculptors, photographers, dragons, and filmmakers including Scott Carney of Wax Fang, The Galoots, Anita Thompson, John Yarmuth, The Fervor, The Workers, NY Mets Poet Laureate Frank Messina, Gatewood Galbreith, Tyrone Cotton, Nerves Jr., The Commonwealth, Bad Reeds, Russel Hulsey, Your News Vehicle, The Stiffs, Gnuma, Lotus Blake, Brigid Kaelin, Jacklyn Marceau, Brett Eugene Ralph with Jamie Daniels, Paul K with Jon Ashley, W. Loran Smith, Susi Wood, Captain America Merry Prankster Ed McClanahan, John Gage, John Paul Wright, Kent Fielding, Ninnie, real mean and dangerous but beautiful naked fire breathing women (with handcuffs & whips), Eric Sutherland (Holler Poets), Marion Dries & Laura Shine, ugliest man on the planet contest which will be held round back (the winner will be tied to that sassafrass tree out back), Six White Horses, Glasspack, Ray Rizzo & The Java Men, 23 String Band, Jak Son Renfro & Serpent Wisdom, Rani Bri Newman, Dean McClain, wild monkeys (Ron's gonna let outta their zoo cages the night before), Charlie Newman, J.B. Miller, Sarah Burkey, Kelly Render Wilkinson, Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead & Onward Pilgrim, Johnny Sands, Justin Lewis, Angela Wood (& snake), The Ghost of Rebekah Trigg, David Humphrey, Emily Caudill, Nanine Henderson, Angelina Wedding, A, Ray, Danny O'Bryan, High Water Mark, William Sovern, Rob Z, James Davis, Thomas A. Minor & The Picket Line, Dylan Browning Whitehead, Gui Stuart, Nancy Wilson, Soul River Brown, Shelley Vaughn Hora, Matter of Chance, Bradford Nathanial Whitehead, Divinity Rose, John Hagan, Samantha The Hawk Hawkinson, Matthew Landen,

the Performer List with times will be sent out tomorrow. it's just too damn convoluted and i'm already crosseyed nearly blind seeing having visions of terribly beautiful thangs.

plus The Everything GONZO Art Show (curated by Andy Cook) Official Opening Reception October 8th @ 6pm with works by Russel Hulsey, Howard Wilson, Christopher Felver, Scott Shuffitt, Emil Walton, Jeremy Dixon, Shelly Vaughn Hora, Paul Paletti, Erin Fitzgerald, Jamie Lynn Smith, Elizabeth Windisch, Rebekah Trygg, Angela Wood, George Scott, Ragen Daly, William Brandum, Wilfred Sieg III, Chase Spring & Scott McCrory.

many other participants to be announced plus there will also be special unannounced surprise guests.

Hunter S. Thompson films and documentaries will be shown non-stop throughout the festival.

Kyle Meredith, 91.9fm www.wfpk.org WFPK Radio Louisville Music Director and Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead will Host the event. Ron will also perform with his new band Onward Pilgrim.

thursday October 14, 2010 Live in-store GONZO FESTIVAL performance @ earX-tacy records Bardstown Road featuring many of the GONZO FESTIVAL performers plus talk/reading/signing by Anita Thompson of ANCIENT GONZO WISDOM: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson and GONZO WAY: A Celebration of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. Performances talks by Anita Thompson (& signing), Dennie Humphrey, Ron Whitehead, Russel Hulsey, Shelley Vaughn Hora, Justin Lewis, Brigid Kaelin, Frank Messina, Tyrone Cotton, The Workers, Your News Vehicles, and more.

plus earlier same day October 14, 2010 several GONZO performers producers will appear on WFPK 91.9fm www.wfpk.org Radio Louisville with DJ hosts Laura Shine and Marion Dries.

plus be watching for LEO Music Editor Matt Herron's feature interview with Hunter's widow author Anita Thompson.

plus. announcements regarding other GONZO FESTIVAL related happenings to be announced. updates will be sent out twice a week tween now & Festival.

get your tickets asap. they'll be gone in no time. plus pick up beautiful Keep Louisville Gonzo t-shirts and bumper stickers at The Monkey Wrench now plus at the Festival plus even more limited edition Gonzo (& related) posters, t-shirts, bumper stickers, and pens will be available plus Gonzo tattoo art plus remember the Hunter S. Thompson Lookalike Contest Award & Presentation plus entire event will be filmed and photgraphed for one-hour documentary and coffee table size book with text (to raise funds for next year's festival).

Sponsored by: Dennie Humphrey's The Monkey Wrench, Beerhouse Distributors & Flying Dog Ales (all Flying Dog Beers including event exclusives will be on tap), Holland Brown Books, earX-tacy records, The Lebowski Festival, Old Town Liquors, Heine Brothers Coffee, Guitar Emporium, Leatherhead, LEO, WFPK 91.9fm Radio Louisville, The Louisville Film Society, The City Cafe, The Tim Faulkner Gallery, The Bodega, The Shady Lane Cafe, The Funeral Home Recording Studio, Wild n Wooly Videos, Al Fresco Recording Studio, Published in Heaven, The Global Literary Renaissance, The Moving Mystery Theatre, DiY Do it Yourself Productions & more to be announced.

any other questions call God, phone 502 475 7772

July 2, 1960, From Bermuda 23 Years old:

“I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is as crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics.” Hunter S. Thompson

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." Hunter S. Thompson

"Who the fuck do you think wrote THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS, a bunch of stone sober clerics?" Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson

The Dark and Bloody Ground

Hunter Thompson’s Louisville!

Gus Van Sant’s Louisville!

Will Oldham’s Louisville!

Ron Whitehead’s Louisville!

Jim James’ Louisville!

Sam Gilliam’s Louisville!

Tim Krekel’s Louisville!

Will Russell’s Louisville!

Thaniel Ion Lee’s Louisville!

Sean Garrison’s Louisville!

Gill Holland’s Louisville!

Jason Noble’s Louisville!

Leslie Lyons’ Louisville!

Thomas Merton’s Louisville!

Harlan Hubbard’s Louisville!

Hunter Thompson’s Louisville!

Gus Van Sant’s Louisville!

Will Oldham’s Louisville!

Ron Whitehead’s Louisville!

Jim James’ Louisville!

Hunter Thompson’s Louisville!

Hunter Thompson’s Louisville?

Hunter Thompson’s Louisville!!!!

Russel Hulsey, 2010

Keep Louisville Gonzo!

to check out new Ron videos go to

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it

give me honesty freedom & liberty or give me death!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

Ron Whitehead, cell 502 475 7772 or email ron@tappingmyownphone.com

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

1st ever International GONZO

1st ever International GONZO FESTIVAL celebrating the life & work of

Louisville Kentucky's native son Dr. Hunter Stockton Shaman Thompson

saturday october 16, 2010 noon to 2 or 3 or 4am @

the new International GONZO Hangoutology Headquarters

The Monkey Wrench, 1025 Barrett Avenue, Louisville Kentucky 40204 usa

phone 502 583 2473, www.monkeywrench.net

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

www.tappingmyownphone.com

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

Ron Whitehead, cell 502 475 7772 or email ron@tappingmyownphone.com

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) GONZO!!!!!!!!!

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010

Dr. Hunter Shaman Thompson Is Dead

A Tribute by Ron Whitehead

My friend and hero Hunter S. Thompson is dead. I followed his life and
work from the release of Hell’s Angels till now. I will continue to
follow it. My friend Gene Williams and I sold Hunter’s books we sold the
first Rolling Stone magazines in the underground bookstore, For Madmen
Only, and in the headshop, The Store, we operated on South Limestone in
Lexington Kentucky (now Sqecial Media). I never dreamed I’d eventually work with Hunter and with members of The Beat Generation: Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Herbert Huncke, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Amram, Diane di Prima, Amiri Baraka, and others. Their works changed my life. Dreams do come true.

Hunter shot himself. He is gone. He died in his kitchen in his cabin at
Owl Farm Woody Creek Colorado. I read his Nixon obituary, “He Was A
Crook,” and other works to him in that kitchen. I took my children to
visit him. He loved young people. He loved his family. I drank and did
drugs with him. We watched basketball. One night, years ago, in early
May my son Nathanial and I arrived, driving 24 hours non-stop from
Kentucky, just in time to watch the NBA playoffs with Hunter. Don
Johnson called several times wanting us to come over. Kentuckian Rex
Chapman was playing for the Phoenix Suns. The Suns were down by nine
points with one minute to go in the game. I looked at Hunter and said
I’ll bet you that Rex will hit three threes and tie the game, that the
Suns will win by one point in three overtimes. Hunter looked at me and
laughed. Rex hit three threes and tied the game. But Phoenix lost in
three overtimes, by one point. I got damn close. Hunter paid closer
attention to me after that. We talked about life about our families
about literature. Hunter was a good kind man. He was full of life. He
was tough. He was a real human being. He was spirit, holy spirit, no
matter what anyone says.

Hunter is one of America’s one of the world’s greatest writers. He
stands shoulder to shoulder with Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Jack
Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, all five America’s Best prose writers,
bar none.

I had the honor of producing, with the help of Douglas Brinkley and many
young people and friends, The Hunter S. Thompson Tribute at Memorial
Auditorium on 4th Street in Louisville Kentucky in December 1996. We had
a sold out standing room audience of over 2,000. I brought in Hunter,
his Mom Virginia, his son Juan, The Sheriff of Pitkin County, Johnny
Depp, Warren Zevon, David Amram, Douglas Brinkley, Roxanne Pulitzer,
Harvey Sloane, Susi Wood & a bluegrass band, and many more. The Mayor gave Hunter the keys to the city. The Governor named Hunter, Johnny, Warren, David, Doug, and me Kentucky Colonels. It was aspectacular event.

Hunter is one of America’s one of the world’s greatest writers. He
stands shoulder to shoulder with Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Jack
Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, all five America’s Best prose writers,
bar none.

Jonathan Swift, George Orwell, William S. Burroughs, and Hunter S.
Thompson are literary giants, visionaries who have much in common.

People continue to say that there will be no audience for Thompson’s
work, that no one will understand or care. Yet as I travel across
America across the world working with young people, of all ages, I
witness a movement, amongst young people, away from the constraints of
non-democratic puritan totalitarian cultures. I see a new generation
that recognizes the lies of the power elite, a generation that is
turning to the freethinkers the freedom fighters of the 50s and 60s,
recognizing honoring them as mentors.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes her or
him its instrument. The artist is not simply a person acting freely, in
pursuit of a merely private end, but one who allows art to realize its
purposes through her or his person. Artists have moods, free will,
personal aims, but as artists, they are bearers of a collective
humanity, carrying and shaping the common unconscious life of the
species.

I have heard more than once that Hunter S. Thompson is a madman. That
oh look at what he could have done if he lived a more sane life. Nobel
Prize winner Elie Wiesel, pre-eminent Jewish author, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize, in The Town Beyond the Wall, says: “Mad Moishe, the
fat man who cries when he sings and laughs when he is silent...Moishe—I
speak of the real Moishe, the one who hides behind the madman—is a great man. He is far-seeing. He sees worlds that remain inaccessible to us.
His madness is only a wall, erected to protect us- us: to see what
Moishe’s bloodshot eyes see would be dangerous.” In Jewish mysticism,
the prophet often bears the facade of madness. Hunter S. Thompson stands in direct lineage to the great writers and prophets. And as with the
prophets of old, the message may be too painful for the masses to
tolerate, to hear, to bear. They may, and usually do, condemn, even
kill, the messenger. Hunter stood as long as he could. He fought a
valiant fight. He was a brave yet sensitive soul. He was a sacred shaman
warrior. He saw. He felt. He recorded his visions. He took alcohol and
drugs to ease the pain generated by what he saw what he felt. He lived
on his own terms. He died on his own terms. Did the masses kill Hunter?
Did he kill himself? He found the courage to stand up against the power
mongers and the masses. At least thirteen times he should have died but,
miraculously, didn’t. He chose to take his own life. He completed the
work he came to do.

If life is a dream, as some suggest, sometimes beautiful sometimes
desperate, then Hunter’s work is the terrible saga of the ending of time
for The American Dream. With its action set at the heart of darkness of
American materialist culture, with war as perpetual background, playing
on the television, Hunter S. Thompson, like the prophets of old, shows
how we, through greed and powerlust, have already gone over the edge. As
Jack Kerouac, through his brilliant oeuvre, breathed hope into
international youth culture Thompson shows how the ruling power-elite is
not about to share what it controls with idealists yearning for a world
of peace love and understanding.

We must look beyond the life of the artist to the work the body of work
itself. That is the measure of success. Like those who have re-examined
Orwell’s 1984 to find a multi-layered literary masterpiece, we must look
deep into Thompson’s work and find the deep multi-layered messages. His
books, especially the early ones and his letters, are literary
masterpieces equal to the best writing ever produced.

Knowledge, from the inception of Modernism, and through post-modernism
and chaos to The Ocean of Consciousness, is reorganized, redefined
through Literature, Art, Music, and Film. The genres are changing, the
canons are exploding, as is culture. The mythopoetics, the privileged
sense of sight, of modern, contemporary, avant-garde cutting edge Nabi
poets, musicians, artists, filmmakers are examples of art forms of a
society, a culture, a civilization, a world, in which humanity lives,
not securely in cities nor innocently in the country, but on the
apocalyptic, simultaneous edge of a new realm of being and
understanding. The mythopoet, female and male, the shaman, Hunter S.
Thompson returns to the role of prophet-seet by creating myths that
resonate in the minds of readers, myths that speak with the authority of
the ancient myths, myths that are gifts from the shadow.

Ron Whitehead's 13 suggestions for Louisville, Kentucky to pay
tribute to native son Hunter S. Thompson:

1) Courier-Journal (Kentucky's main daily newspaper) devote
entire Saturday SCENE (arts/culture section) to Hunter's life and
work.

2) LEO and Velocity (Louisville's weekly alternative newspapers) & other

local (& regional/national/international) publications devote entire issues

to Hunter's life and work. (LEO did feature on Hunter right after his death. but they haven't devoted entire issueto him)

3) WFPK 91.9fm (all music) and WFPL 89.5fm (all news)
(Louisville's Public Radio Partnership, NPR affiliate) devote one full day & night of programming to Hunter's life and work.

4) Baxter Avenue Theatres (Louisville's art film theatres) start
Annual Hunter S. Thompson Film Festival.

5) Place historic marker in front of Thompson Family home on
Ransdell Avenue in Louisville's Highlands neighborhood. Purchase
the home and turn it into Hunter Museum similar to what
Kentucky did for Bill Monroe's Rosine, Ohio County, Kentucky
home. (my friend Amanda Buck got permission to do onsite historic marker)

6) Place giant Hunter mural on side of Dennie Humphrey's The Monkey Wrench (guess what, it's happened! yes! the 1st of my 13 suggestions to be honored. thank you Denny & Joe Wendling & everybody @ The Monkey Wrench & Thank You Carol McCleod, Evan Leibowitz, Alexander King & Andy Cook for painting the beuatiful mural of Hunter which will unveil right before sunset with Susi Wood leading everyone in singing one of Hunter's favorite songs My Old Kentucky Home.

7) Rename The Louisville Free Public Library (the main library at
4th & York downtown) The Hunter and Virginia Thompson Free
Public Library. Hunter's Mom Virginia retired, as librarian, from
same library. Have a Hunter S. Thompson Room for students &
scholars.

8) Rename Louisville's Cherokee Road Hunter S. Thompson
Road.

9) Move the Daniel Boone statue (Daniel with rifle), at entrance to
Cherokee Park, to Boone County. Replace it with statue of Hunter
with typewriter, gun, and other necessary Hunter items. Well i changed that

suggestion to instead we've already commissioned 2 artists to create a

lifesize bronze statue of Hunter standing holding typewriter in his left hand & arm with his right arm right raised clenched Gonzo dagger & peyote button fist. Plus we're turning Dennie's The Monkey Wrench into International Gonzo Hangoutology Headquarters & creating a Gonzo Hangoutology Garden eventually adding benches and billboard which will read Keep The Highlands Gonzo. So like my 92-year old friend Lawrence Ferlingetti's City Lights 261 Columbus Avenue, North Beach, San Francisco where Ferlinghetti founded the first ever paperbook bookstore in the usa in 1953 which has become mecca for independent poets writers thinkers round the globe the same will happen here in Hunter's Highlands here at 1025 Barrett Avenue & The Monkey Wrench, new International Global Gonzo Hangoutology Headquarters.

10) Rename Cherokee Park Hunter S. Thompson Park.

11) University of Louisville start Annual Hunter S. Thompson
International Literature Symposium. University of Louisville Rare
Books and Archives purchase, catalogue, and exhibit Hunter's
entire archives. (hasn't happened but Delinda Buie, Director of
Rare Books and Archives, is ready to start collection.)

12) City of Louisville designate July 18th Annual Official Hunter
S. Thompson Day, Public Holiday, No School, No Work, Concert
on The Great Lawn at Ohio River Waterfront, downtown.
Musicians/Bands perform their own but especially some of
Hunter's favorite songs.

13) Keep Louisville Gonzo (all this came to me in a 3am vision)!

(now part of Festival intro)

ok stay with me now this won't take long i'm almost done then everything will get on the road. Thank you Dennie Humphrey & Saundra & Joe Wendling & everybody @ The Monkey Wrench & Thank You Scott Shuffitt & The Lebowski Festival & Kyle Meredith & everybody @ WFPK 91.9fm Radio Louisville & WFPL & WUOL & Thank You Gill Scott & Augusta Holland & Holland Brown Books & Stephanie Brothers & everybody @ The Green Builkding & Thank You to all our Sponsors: Tisha Dean with Flying Dog Beer & Beerhouse Distributors & Gordo & everybody @ Old Town Liquors & John Timmons, Rebekah Cornwell, Sean Bailey & everybody @ earX-tacy records & Mike Mays & everybody @ Heine Brothers Coffee & Jimmy & everybody @ Guitar Emporium & Lynn & Nick Boone & Leatherhead & Jim Henry & everybody @ The City Cafe & Bill Smith & Susi Wood & The Shady Lane Cafe & Tim Faulkner & The Tim Faulkner Gallery & everybody @ The Bodega & George Parker & KyGREENtv & The Louisville Film Society & Todd Brashear & everybody @ Wild n Wooly Video & Matt Herron & everybody @ LEO & Special Thanks to Andy Cook & all the artists who have work in the kickass EVERYTHING GONZO Art Exhibit on display inside which reminds me to let you know that all the musicians, singers, performers, artists, photographers, filmmakers poets, writers, speakers everyone who has brought their creative work everyone donating their lifelong work on behalf to pay tribute to our hero Hunter S. Thompson so please buy food booze music poetry art. add sex and you got the perfect evening!!!! THANK YOU to each and every one of the performers all of whom have volunteered there time for a writer a hometown boy they love

and thank you to the filmmakers & photographers to the sound and light crew & to Amanda Buck who did so much research to help me lay groundwork for what is finally turning into lightninged reality to all the volunteers & everybody everybody seen and unseen (& i know Hunter's right here with us) everybody involved in this 1st ever International GONZO FESTIVAL and please forgive me if i've left anybody off who is participating in any way. and yes finally (shut the hell up) there's no more appropriate way and i'm deeply honored and humbled to introduce to you she came all the way from Owl Farm Wood Creek Aspen Colorado here to inaugarate the 1st ever International GONZO FESTIVAL the one and only Queen of GONZO

this beautiful young lady please give a warm welcome to Anita Thompson!!!!

not only to we have to fight for the right to party but we also

have to continually perpetually fight for the right to be

ourselves, whatever that means for each & everyone of us.

truth, albeit constant, is simultaneously paradoxically flowing,

an ever changing river. we've all got to learn to embrace

and let go and flow not only with the river but to become to be

the river. cause ultimately, at some level of our being, explicit

or implicit, we are the river, and the lightning. we are God's open

nerve. we are The Storm, The Storm Generation.

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

Ron Whitehead
february 22, 2005 (edited/updated 9/28/10)
the highlands
louisville, kentucky

copyright (c) Ron Whitehead 2005 & 2010

We are The Storm Generation

"I have long admired RonWhitehead. He is crazy as nine loons,

and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics."

Hunter S. Thompson

i have finally stepped fully and completely into mystery

paradox uncertainty not knowing. i'm now walking on air.

keep Louisville (& the world) Gonzo (& weird)!!!!!!!!!

new book THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO

and on parting, the wilderness poems to be released by

Gill Scott Holland & The Green Building/Holland Brown Books

july 17th followed by year long world tour.

already working on next two books. the first is

A BOOK OF PRAYERS FOR THE MODERN TRAVELER

(inspired by my friend Mark Reese) plus my autobiography

which is being written Q&A interview style by my daughter Rani

and a new cd with my new band Onward Pilgrim which will be

recorded soon in Iceland.

we are The Storm Generation

plus facebook & facebook fan club

1st ever International GONZO FESTIVAL celebrating the life & work of

Louisville Kentucky's native son Dr. Hunter Stockton Shaman Thompson

saturday october 16, 2010 noon to 2 or 3 or 4am @

the new International GONZO Hangoutology Headquarters

The Monkey Wrench, 1025 Barrett Avenue, Louisville Kentucky 40204 usa

phone 502 583 2473, www.monkeywrench.net

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

Ron Whitehead, cell 502 475 7772 or email ron@tappingmyownphone.com

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) GONZO!!!!!!!!!

1st ever International GONZO FESTIVAL celebrating the life & work of

Louisville Kentucky's native son Dr. Hunter Stockton Shaman Thompson

saturday october 16, 2010 noon to 2 or 3 or 4am @

the new International GONZO Hangoutology Headquarters

The Monkey Wrench, 1025 Barrett Avenue, Louisville Kentucky 40204 usa

phone 502 583 2473, www.monkeywrench.net

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at

P R E S S I N Q U I R I E S , P L E A S E C O N T A C T :

S t e p h a n i e B r o t h e r s 5 0 2 . 5 6 1 . 1 1 6 2

s t e p h a n i e @t h e g r e e n b u i l d i n g . c o m

Ron Whitehead, cell 502 475 7772 or email ron@tappingmyownphone.com

keep Louisville (& the world & all intergalactic & interdimensional space) GONZO!!!!!!!!!

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010

Hey Ron,

Here is a link to the promo video, I think it turned out really great. Let me know what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xy1DDhYv2c

or

http://tiny.cc/gq9ax

Scott

--
Scott Shuffitt
Founding Dude
Lebowski Fest
(502)724-4643
414 Baxter Ave, Suite B0200
Louisville, KY 40204

1st ever International GONZO FESTIVAL celebrating the life & work of

Louisville Kentucky's native son Dr. Hunter Stockton Shaman Thompson

saturday october 16, 2010 noon to 2 or 3 or 4am @

the new International GONZO Hangoutology Headquarters

The Monkey Wrench, 1025 Barrett Avenue, Louisville Kentucky 40204 usa

phone 502 583 2473, www.monkeywrench.net

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet & damn proud of it!!!!

502 475 7772

plus facebook & facebook fan club

Copies of the Ron's new book (20th)/cd (30th)/dvd (1st), THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems, are available at the author’s shows, and at