From Asia Times
''ON THE ROAD IN NEVADA AND UTAH -
In the search for the (remixed, imploded?)
American dream the road goes on forever. I left
San Francisco in an Otis Redding's Pain in my
Heart mood - past the playground of Silicon
Valley Google/Facebook whiz kids, lanky blondes
talking into their McBook Pros on the sidewalk,
desperate flotsam and jetsam of the 47% defying
the shadows in downtown at night, Italy alive at
Coppola's Caf้ Zoetrope, the resurgence of Occupy
Oakland, the Hudson 49 that crisscrossed the West
in Walter Salles' ode to Kerouac's On the Road
now parked at the Beat Museum - and I went
east, past an already snow-stormed Sierra Nevada
and an eerily quiet Lake Tahoe that seemed to have
emerged from a noir opus like Out of the
Past, the ghost of Robert Mitchum included.''
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