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...BULK of this book, however, is about the LNS, and Mungo tells his story with talent and gusto. Unlike Jerry Rubin, he can write, and some of his passages transcend the steady stream of daily escapades. He talks with warmth about the people: Marshall Bloom, the co-founder of LNS who single-handedly ran the anarchic organization, and whose singularly dynamic personality eventually led to the split in the LNS; Little Stevie Wonder, a 16-year-old photographer-hanger-on who ended up dead in a car accident, strung up on heroin; Bala, Bala, another co-founder and jack...
Today the LNS, that is, the LNS in New York, still operates, though its subscribers are barely making it. Witness the Mole here. But Ray Mungo, who founded the service and wrote his book, Famous Long Ago, about that crazy year, writes from a backwoods Vermont farm, living what he calls the "post-revolutionary life" in the New Age. His account, as the title indicates, is both a history and an autobiography, and it is, as the title also indicates, a story of days gone forever. "We're closing the book on the 1960s," he says, "and good riddance...
...real radical rag, printing the kind of stories LNS would later specialize in. His account of those years is refreshingly ironic- a welcome relief from those numerous tomes gravely relating the intricate workings of local politicos-but it unfortunately omits some events we would like to hear about. Mungo was there, and active, when the Resistance was still viable, when acid was to be avoided, and when Nixon and Mitchell stayed in New York. Mungo was calling for the impeachment of the President in front of LBJ's close advisers, shaking up the B.U. establishment, and living in his world...
...Lingle Mungo is the tongue-twisting title of a litany of 38 baseball players whose names, recited in unison to a slightly Latin beat, are alleged to evoke peals of campy hilarity. Everyone from Virgil Trucks to Johnny Kucks is lauded by Singer Dave Frishberg. Mungo, the titular hero of the piece, was a 1930s Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher who now spends most of his time fishing and golfing in Pageland, S.C. "I think it's great," he says. "It's the first publicity I've had since I retired...
Like Dylan, whose lyrics and ethos are scattered through the magazine, Mungo abandons the city of the mind, the building blocks, the ideologies, and goes down home. He tells stories of himself, his mother, and father, Aunt Assie and Uncle John, a kid who got the clap at B. U., Auntie Irene, and these are nicer. "Luckies cost a quarter of a pack at Meister's, where you had to explain it was for your auntie Irene." He tells us he's "smiling a whole bunch" these days...