By theo seventies, he went off to the rails. And he was pretty homeless for a period of time, living in a storm train evengot that bad now,. Just going into fast food joints and eating whatever food he could find in garbage or whatever. But it moderated into the eighties, and he became known in the early days of the zene movement. That's when i first came across some of his writings, like 87, with the dredlock recollections.
In this episode, we chat with writer and historian Adam Gorightly on the life, work and ideas of Kerry Thornley, aka Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst or simply Lord Omar, Jesse Sump, the Grand Caliph of California, and Ho Chi Zen; author of Zenarchy and The Idle Warriors; co-founder of Discordianism and co-author of the Principia Discordia.
From AdamGorightly.com:
Adam Gorightly has been chronicling fringe culture for two decades. His articles have appeared in nearly every 'zine, underground magazine, counter-cultural publication, and conspiratorial website imaginable. Bringing a mischievous sense of Prankster-Discordianism to the zany world of fringe culture, once Gorightly connects his dots, readers are plunged into alternative universes which forever alter their view of 'reality.'
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