You got to love cats. They have it sussed. Food, the comfiest chairs. and apparently they exploit owners by purring

Rest in peace, Simon Vinkenoog [Dutch blog w/English option], poet, friend of artists like Karel Appel, translator of Beat Generation figures like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, psychedelic enthusiast and "weed ambassador" of Amsterdam, and author of such guides to hip living as How to Enjoy Reality. One of the European jazz-loving proto-hippies who made the '60s swing and mentored several generations of culture hackers, though he was never widely known in the US.

The world just got a shade darker. Again.

From Simons' Website


Thus the mourning advertisement sounds which will stand today in the Parool. If one thing has become clear in these has expired summons, then is that, however, the overwhelming quantity people for whom Simon of meaning have been and will remain. For this reason everyone is welcome of this delicious man personal farewell come take. He is of our all. Did not adress its necessary, because we know all which he was and what he has meant for the world.
The travelling box will be open, Deo Volente, so that one him can small attentions which on its last travel will accompany slip him. Also can become on the travelling box signed and which called feels itself the dead can whisper of course something in the ear. To be friends bandsmen again for him game, lustre to what they want give him, in music is possible that improves still then with words. It will be come and, up to the moment that are three sons Robert, Alexander and Arthur, with Derrick mount man, Joep Bremmers and René francs from Antwerp - friends with whom he has shared the last years of its life intensely - Simon to its last rustplaats will bring. Everyone can throw symbolic schepje sand on the travelling box and for my geestesoog to see I eventually a mount arising, covered under a sea of flowers.

Ever Simon have given that to know he would want disappear kindest on a fire battery in Ruigoord of this world and for this reason we address there a joy fire to inform the sky of its arrival.

If there wasn't any proof that things ar going way to mad in the world, then there is now.

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