Think you might be a beatnik–a beret-wearing, espresso-sipping, bongo drum-having, work-slacking member of Generation Beat?

Tried nothing–and you’re all out of ideas? Stop letting The Man bring you down. Set your way-back machine to 1960, and let us lay this way-out questionnaire on you.

Sure, it’s not our questionnaire, man; like, the New York Times was first to dig it, and they copped it from the University of Texas at Austin and a cat named Harry Ransom.

(That guy is a cube; like someone should Ransom his missus. Not really, man.)

What I’m saying is, who can own a questionnaire? I mean, does Gene Krupa own those wiggy little solos he lays down, man, or do they belong to the universe?

Yeah. Think about it. Really makes you flip your gate.

But seriously, how gone are you? Are you real gone? A solid sender? Do you dig the arts? Are you cooler than a cool Jackson?

Dig this bull session and let us know, man. The junior senator from Wisconsin asked us to keep an eye on things while he’s gone.

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