Jack Boulware
@jackboulware.bsky.social
Journalist, author, producer, consultant. On Substack @ "What Jack Boulware Fails to Realize." Co-founder of Litquake & The Nose magazine.
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New on @substack - Revisiting the Gemstone File: #LBJ #Kennedys #JEdgarHoover #HowardHughes, and #Albanian frogmen, all from a bar in S.F.'s Tenderloin district. #conspiracy #conspiracytheories tinyurl.com/e7mrpk7a
The Grandfather of All Conspiracy Documents
LBJ, the Kennedys, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, and Albanian frogmen
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November 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
New on @substack - Revisiting the Gemstone File: #LBJ #Kennedys #JEdgarHoover #HowardHughes, and #Albanian frogmen, all from a bar in S.F.'s Tenderloin district. #conspiracy #conspiracytheories tinyurl.com/e7mrpk7a
New on Substack - We’ve been hearing a lot about private jets recently, from Epstein’s “Lolita Express” to FBI Director Kash Patel using gov jets for personal use. Here's the story of my first experience with a private jet... jackboulware.substack.com/p/you-never-...
You Never Forget Your First Private Jet
Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, via Hollywood Reporter
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November 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New on Substack - We’ve been hearing a lot about private jets recently, from Epstein’s “Lolita Express” to FBI Director Kash Patel using gov jets for personal use. Here's the story of my first experience with a private jet... jackboulware.substack.com/p/you-never-...
New on Substack - Here's a 1995 timeline of San Francisco. Includes Jerry Garcia, the Unabomber, Berkeley’s Waving Man, a six-foot statue made of Jell-O, and mayor Frank Jordan singing naked in the shower. tinyurl.com/2s3jf3dp
52 Weeks That Shook the Bay Area
A 1995 snapshot of San Francisco, when everybody was still using AOL
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November 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
New on Substack - Here's a 1995 timeline of San Francisco. Includes Jerry Garcia, the Unabomber, Berkeley’s Waving Man, a six-foot statue made of Jell-O, and mayor Frank Jordan singing naked in the shower. tinyurl.com/2s3jf3dp
New on Substack - "…A melancholy peek at a band which is about to disintegrate. Especially if you know more of the story." tinyurl.com/4c8czcxv #TheLastWaltz #scorsese #Winterland #SanFrancisco
The Last Waltz: Legendary Film, or Hippie Shitshow?
Is it really a dark, bloated window into the mid-70s rock and roll abyss?
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October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
New on Substack - "…A melancholy peek at a band which is about to disintegrate. Especially if you know more of the story." tinyurl.com/4c8czcxv #TheLastWaltz #scorsese #Winterland #SanFrancisco
October 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Sleep with One Eye Open
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Turns on San Francisco
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October 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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New on @Substack - The Electric Clear Light Acid Mess: Inside the 1990s bust of LSD bagman Captain Clear Light - “What I’m trying to tell the world and ask the world is…here, I turned on 50 million people. Why don’t you all send me a dollar?" #sanfrancisco #acid #northbeach tinyurl.com/muec5t27
The Electric Clear Light Acid Mess
And the bust of LSD bagman Waldron Vorhees, aka Captain Clear Light
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October 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
New on @Substack - The Electric Clear Light Acid Mess: Inside the 1990s bust of LSD bagman Captain Clear Light - “What I’m trying to tell the world and ask the world is…here, I turned on 50 million people. Why don’t you all send me a dollar?" #sanfrancisco #acid #northbeach tinyurl.com/muec5t27
New on @Substack- "Plains States Exorcism." Since it’s nearing Halloween...When I was in college in the late 1970s, an exorcism was conducted inside my family church in Montana. It sounds nuts, I know. Read for free, subscribe to support. tinyurl.com/5n86wyxc
October 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
New on @Substack- "Plains States Exorcism." Since it’s nearing Halloween...When I was in college in the late 1970s, an exorcism was conducted inside my family church in Montana. It sounds nuts, I know. Read for free, subscribe to support. tinyurl.com/5n86wyxc
New on @Substack - Scourge of the Lefties - "We are adaptable out of necessity. We have learned to compensate for a ruthless right-handed world.” tinyurl.com/2p8xwvfa
September 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
New on @Substack - Scourge of the Lefties - "We are adaptable out of necessity. We have learned to compensate for a ruthless right-handed world.” tinyurl.com/2p8xwvfa
New feature story at @altajournal.bsky.social - "The Cult of Eichler: The houses of this mid-century modern developer are hotter than ever. But renovating one can require joining an online support group." #josepheichler #eichlerhomes #midcenturydesign #architecture #realestate
Why Renovating an Eichler May Break Your Heart (and Wallet)
The houses of this mid-century modern developer are hotter than ever. But renovating one can require joining an online support group.
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September 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
New feature story at @altajournal.bsky.social - "The Cult of Eichler: The houses of this mid-century modern developer are hotter than ever. But renovating one can require joining an online support group." #josepheichler #eichlerhomes #midcenturydesign #architecture #realestate
New on #Substack - The King of Late Night: America's talk show censorship, and the career of #JohnnyCarson - “Democracy is buying a big house you can’t afford with money you don’t have to impress people you wish were dead…” tinyurl.com/ycyzzj4s
The King of Late Night
America's talk show censorship, and the career of Johnny Carson
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September 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
New on #Substack - The King of Late Night: America's talk show censorship, and the career of #JohnnyCarson - “Democracy is buying a big house you can’t afford with money you don’t have to impress people you wish were dead…” tinyurl.com/ycyzzj4s
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One of my favorite moments in the history of free speech: Larry Flynt publishing a satirical Campari ad featuring Jerry Falwell Sr. as an incestuous drunk who first had sex with his mother in an outhouse. Falwell sued. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court found that satire is protected speech.
September 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
One of my favorite moments in the history of free speech: Larry Flynt publishing a satirical Campari ad featuring Jerry Falwell Sr. as an incestuous drunk who first had sex with his mother in an outhouse. Falwell sued. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court found that satire is protected speech.
New on @Substack - "The Things You Find While Moving: Why the hell am I hanging onto this stuff?" Billy Carter beer, Joey Ramone action figure, postal killer hat, and much more crap I recently unpacked. #hoarding #moving #barrygoldwater #joeyramone #billycarter #goingpostal #czechsausage
The Things You Find While Moving
Why the hell am I hanging onto this stuff?
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September 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
New on @Substack - "The Things You Find While Moving: Why the hell am I hanging onto this stuff?" Billy Carter beer, Joey Ramone action figure, postal killer hat, and much more crap I recently unpacked. #hoarding #moving #barrygoldwater #joeyramone #billycarter #goingpostal #czechsausage
New on @substack - A History of Mondo 2000 Part 2: The downfall of Mondo and the rise of Wired - tinyurl.com/drn27p2v
#mondo2000 #wiredmagazine #negativland #u2
#conspiracy
#mondo2000 #wiredmagazine #negativland #u2
#conspiracy
A History of Mondo 2000 Part 2
The downfall of Mondo and the rise of Wired
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September 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
New on @substack - A History of Mondo 2000 Part 2: The downfall of Mondo and the rise of Wired - tinyurl.com/drn27p2v
#mondo2000 #wiredmagazine #negativland #u2
#conspiracy
#mondo2000 #wiredmagazine #negativland #u2
#conspiracy
New on @substack - A History of Mondo 2000 Part 1: Up and Down With the Next Millennium’s First Magazine - #mondo #mondo2000 #Cyberpunk #cyberculture tinyurl.com/4dzcnc7x
September 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
New on @substack - A History of Mondo 2000 Part 1: Up and Down With the Next Millennium’s First Magazine - #mondo #mondo2000 #Cyberpunk #cyberculture tinyurl.com/4dzcnc7x
New on @substack -- "The Longest Night of My Teenage Life: Another #Montana episode you won't see in the #Yellowstone series" tinyurl.com/yv237rt8
The Longest Night of My Teenage Life
Another Montana episode you won't see in the Yellowstone series
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September 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
New on @substack -- "The Longest Night of My Teenage Life: Another #Montana episode you won't see in the #Yellowstone series" tinyurl.com/yv237rt8
Next month arrives a new #SpinalTap movie, album, and book. Here's a brief update, an interview I did in 1992, & liner notes by #SteelyDan's Walter Becker, who ignored the band and wrote only about the “Crosley Phase Linear Ionic Induction Voice Processor System”... tinyurl.com/msxz93
Spinal Tap: The Joke That Never Gets Old
A new concert film, a new album, a book, and an interview from 1992
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August 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Next month arrives a new #SpinalTap movie, album, and book. Here's a brief update, an interview I did in 1992, & liner notes by #SteelyDan's Walter Becker, who ignored the band and wrote only about the “Crosley Phase Linear Ionic Induction Voice Processor System”... tinyurl.com/msxz93
New on @substack - "Our Man Sly: That time I wrote for Sly Stallone's magazine, entitled SLY." #magazines #freelancehell #realitytv #pasadena #stallone tinyurl.com/2jtuy2j9
August 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
New on @substack - "Our Man Sly: That time I wrote for Sly Stallone's magazine, entitled SLY." #magazines #freelancehell #realitytv #pasadena #stallone tinyurl.com/2jtuy2j9
New on @substack -- "On the Road to S.F.: Driving to San Francisco on a motorcycle that's too small." Starting life over at age 22. Caution: contains mention of #Kerouac #AlvinToffler #HarlanEllison #TomWolfe, and selling Time/Life books over the phone. #sanfrancisco tinyurl.com/2v9x66en
On the Road to S.F.
Driving to San Francisco on a motorcycle that's too small
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August 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
New on @substack -- "On the Road to S.F.: Driving to San Francisco on a motorcycle that's too small." Starting life over at age 22. Caution: contains mention of #Kerouac #AlvinToffler #HarlanEllison #TomWolfe, and selling Time/Life books over the phone. #sanfrancisco tinyurl.com/2v9x66en
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I hear the Vance strategy session has been cancelled for tonight.
Pity. It looked like a productive agenda.
Pity. It looked like a productive agenda.
August 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I hear the Vance strategy session has been cancelled for tonight.
Pity. It looked like a productive agenda.
Pity. It looked like a productive agenda.
A fever dream about the “presidential confidant”
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Is Laura Loomer Coming for You?
A fever dream about the presidential confidant and “right-wing agitator”
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August 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A fever dream about the “presidential confidant”
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They said they wanted a White House run like a business; they got a White House run like a protection racket.
First they came for Columbia. The dominos of extortion continue to line up… #HigherEd
Cornell Close to White House Settlement of Up to $100 Million
The White House is eyeing a settlement of as much as $100 million in negotiations with Cornell University about an agreement that would reinstate hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen federal rese...
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August 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
They said they wanted a White House run like a business; they got a White House run like a protection racket.
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To please Great Leader, the Smithsonian has removed Trump from its Impeachment Exhibit. Now, only Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton are shown as having been impeached. (Nixon resigned before the vote.) We are only minutes away from Barack Obama being removed from photographs à la Joseph Stalin.
August 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
To please Great Leader, the Smithsonian has removed Trump from its Impeachment Exhibit. Now, only Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton are shown as having been impeached. (Nixon resigned before the vote.) We are only minutes away from Barack Obama being removed from photographs à la Joseph Stalin.
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Our democracy is under assault as never before. That’s why my next piece will criticize the left for overreacting to the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad.
July 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Our democracy is under assault as never before. That’s why my next piece will criticize the left for overreacting to the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad.
This weekend's 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead is reminiscent of 1990, a very profitable moment when their merch rights were sold off to Lucasfilm. In response, SF's satirical Nose magazine devised a (largely) fictitious Grateful Dead Annual Report for shareholders. #gratefuldead #sanfrancisco
The Grateful Dead, Inc.
The band's Annual Report to shareholders, from 1990
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July 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This weekend's 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead is reminiscent of 1990, a very profitable moment when their merch rights were sold off to Lucasfilm. In response, SF's satirical Nose magazine devised a (largely) fictitious Grateful Dead Annual Report for shareholders. #gratefuldead #sanfrancisco