On this blistering June 3, 2025, we’re raising a double-barreled toast to two literary titans born on this day—Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) and Larry McMurtry (1936–2021)! Ginsberg, the Beat shaman, detonated Howl like a lysergic pipe bomb, his ecstatic, jagged verses a middle finger to Moloch’s mediocrity, chanting for the dispossessed with a cosmic wail that still echoes through America’s underbelly. Meanwhile, McMurtry, the Texas bard, carved Lonesome Dove and The Last Picture Show from the sun-bleached bones of the West, his pen a Bowie knife slicing open the bruised heart of the frontier—cowboys, dreamers, and misfits spilling their melancholic beauty onto the prairie dust. One howled at the moon, the other sang about its sorrow; together, they torched conformity and mapped the wild soul of this land. So crank the jazz, pour the whiskey, and drink deeply to these two badasses.

N.P.: “Lost My Mind” – Left Lane Cruiser