ZenOnMars: Will check out the Rolling Thunder book—literally: my central library branch has a copy. Would not mind a new golden age at all...I'd take a leap of faith for that!

Thank you Sven2 and ZenOnMars. I'm happy to have the entire essay here as part of a comprehensive JFC archive.

HOWEVER: Could everyone who reads the article here please click on the link anyway? "Open Salon" is Salon's blogsite and it automatically counts the number of times an essay is accessed. It will give me an idea of how many people are--might be?--reading it. Thanks again.

Neil Allen (Zodzelig)

Here's the link to an essay I wrote giving my thoughts on JFC and urging people to check it out.

http://open.salon.com/blog/zodzelig/2011/05/06/i_will_go_to_imperial_beach_seeing_john_from_cincinnati