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...letters "http" plastered all over magazines, and daytime talk shows flaunting their e-mail addresses. "The Net" opened in theaters around the country, C-SPAN hosted World Wide Web seminars, MTV televised a Michael Jackson chat session and The New York Times monitored news group activity following Jerry Garcia's death. And there I was, with my ethernet card still packed from school, feeling more than slightly impotent...
...said in those days, a Negro. Racial epithets were hurled around and sometimes led to fistfights. But it was not "You're inferior--I'm better.'' The fighting was more like avenging an insult to your team. Among my boyhood friends were Victor Ramirez, Walter Schwartz, Manny Garcia, Melvin Klein. The Kleins were the first family in our building to have a television set. Every Tuesday night we crowded into Mel's living room to watch Milton Berle. On Thursdays we watched Amos 'n' Andy. We thought the show was marvelous, the best thing on television. It was another...
...DEBORAH GARCIA Jerry's widow inherits a third of his multi millions-plus his comic-book collection...
...Jerry Garcia used heroin within days of his fatal heart attack, but drugs did not play a direct role in his death, according to a coroner's report released today. Instead, the Grateful Dead guitarists's his heart simply gave out. Garcia died Aug. 9 after checking into a drug rehabilitation clinic in Northern California. "He was a 53-year-old man with hardening of the arteries," Marin County coroner's investigator Gary Erickson said. "This was a mechanical process." (Two of three arteries leading from Garcia's heart had been reduced to "a pinpoint.") Heroin or no heroin, music...
...life is indeed a song, then Garcia and most of his older fans played it in different styles: studio version and free-form concert improv. Because the fans learned to play life straight, they will get by. Because he saw life as a long jam session leading to harmony or anarchy, he died--long after he might have, long before he should have. But as a force for good music and good vibes, Garcia can go to heaven and keep on truckin'. Like the song says, he will survive...