{"id":137,"date":"2012-07-24T05:37:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T05:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juice3d.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=137"},"modified":"2017-12-20T02:05:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T02:05:15","slug":"an-overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/howardbloom.net\/?page_id=137","title":{"rendered":"An Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is a monumental, epic, glorious literary achievement.<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Every page, every paragraph, every sentence sparkles with captivating metaphors, delightful verbal concoctions, alchemical insights, philosophic whimsy, absurd illogicals, scientific comedy routines, relentless, non-stop waves of hilarity.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The comparisons to James Joyce are inevitable and undeniable.\u00a0 Finnegans Wake wanders through the rock &#8216;n roll sixties. &#8220;Wow! Whew! Wild! Wonderful!&#8221; \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<strong>Timothy Leary<\/strong><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1887\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1887\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1887\" src=\"http:\/\/new.howardbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bloom-by-bramley-filling-in-background-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"How I Accidentally Started the Sixties\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How I Accidentally Started the Sixties<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 48px; color: #666600;\">How I Accidentally Started the Sixties<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/new.howardbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bloom-by-jason-schneider-1967-72dpi-e1384554059563-300x119.jpg\" alt=\"bloom by jason schneider 1967 72dpi\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The strangest memoir you will ever read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You or your parents lived it. I helped start it. And it was an accident. It was the era of myth, legend, sex, and extreme adventure called The Sixties. The decade when people under the age of 25 changed the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1926 aligncenter\" style=\"cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/new.howardbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bloom-by-jason-schneider-with-Leary-quote-11-26-2013-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"bloom by jason schneider with Leary quote 11-26-2013\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howardbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bloom-by-jason-schneider-with-Leary-quote-11-26-2013-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/howardbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bloom-by-jason-schneider-with-Leary-quote-11-26-2013-638x1024.jpg 638w, https:\/\/howardbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bloom-by-jason-schneider-with-Leary-quote-11-26-2013.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI blasted through Howard Bloom\u2019s How I Accidentally Started the Sixties\u00a0like the wildfire swallowing up my mountain in California. I loved it. The molecular amusement ride, the sexual Disneyland, the Chevy 350 Impala blasting down the freeway at 120 mph. The universal essence is its brilliant simplicity&#8230;..Reality is really a mind field seen through Bloom\u2019s neurotic Buddha-like mind resplendent with every major family issue mortal humans will ever come across in a life time: identity, parents, meaning, self, non-self, food, habitation, education, goals, marriage, family, children, God, sex, more sex\u2014\u2014\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\u2014DRUGS. It slithers like a rattlesnake across the page, the way a story should. What I love most is the off the wall comedy. Howard Bloom as Harpo Marx riding a freight train like Buddha carrying his life in a sleeping bag. I mean it\u2019s priceless. Bloom\u2019s psychedelic journey across the American landscape, is deciphered through the irresistible minds of murderers, crackpots, Nobel Prize Playboy bunnies, scholars, waiters, hobo gurus, cops, professors, French majors, psychiatrists, cock suckers, recreational drug users, Mormons, Jews, nut jobs, laundry mat owners, demonic children, lizards&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..Aldous Huxley with a pinch of Timothy Leary&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.and every molecule in the universe. It separates Bloom from any scientist\/global mind who ever lived. Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein, and Aldous Huxley would be proud. Each man strived to marry science, art, and poetry but never managed to pull it off. How I Accidentally Started the Sixties does. I salute Howard Bloom. His doctrine sparkles every page with his Promethean fire; distilled in Shakespeare\u2019s immortal words, \u2018From women\u2019s eyes this doctrine I derive\u2019&#8230;..[women] are the books, the arts, the academies, that show, contain and nourish the world.\u2019 Love\u2019s Labour Lost, only in Bloom\u2019s case, found, lost, and then found again. God only knows what else this mastermind is hiding from the rest of us.\u201d &#8211; <strong>Mark Lamonica<\/strong>, winner of the Southern California Booksellers Association Nonfiction Award, author of <em>Junk Yard Dogs<\/em> <em>And William Shakespeare<\/em> and <em>Renaissance Porn Star: The Saga of Pietro Aretino, The World&#8217;s Greatest Hustler<\/em><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Click here to read a Sample of How I Accidentally Started the Sixties<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1911 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/new.howardbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Beautiful_Hippy_Woman-wikimedia-commons-243x300.png\" alt=\"Beautiful_Hippy_Woman--wikimedia commons\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howardbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Beautiful_Hippy_Woman-wikimedia-commons-243x300.png 243w, https:\/\/howardbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Beautiful_Hippy_Woman-wikimedia-commons-832x1024.png 832w, https:\/\/howardbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Beautiful_Hippy_Woman-wikimedia-commons.png 1736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"right\">How I Accidentally Started the Sixties is currently available for sale at Smashwords.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/* 15pJQhrPh3XJCUOiaQCa62html *\/ --><!-- yFr85sEXVn --><!-- \/* 1uqjsQSyWVhmOHAEVa1i62html *\/ --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is a monumental, epic, glorious literary achievement. &#8220;Every page, every paragraph, every sentence sparkles with captivating metaphors, delightful verbal &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/howardbloom.net\/?page_id=137\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1886,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-137","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;This is a monumental, epic, glorious literary achievement. &quot;Every page, every paragraph, every sentence sparkles with captivating metaphors, delightful verbal concoctions, alchemical insights, philosophic whimsy, absurd illogicals, scientific comedy routines, relentless, non-stop waves of hilarity. &quot;The comparisons to James Joyce are inevitable and undeniable. 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