Good & Dead Boomer Heroes

<img src="http://www.nintendorks.com/chris/archives/singletear.PNG" alt=" - " />
 #10. Iron Eyes Cody  
 
 Cody gained his fame as the �??crying Indian�?� in the 1970s �??Keep America Beautiful�?� campaign. In the most watched public service announcement in U.S. TV history, we watched a teardrop snake down his craggy, presumably Native American visage after motorists chucked a bag of garbage near his feet. But although he claimed to be Cherokee, offered supplications to the �??Great Spirit,�?� and was America�??s Token Indian for decades, he was an Italian poseur born �??Espera DeCorti.�?� His TV teardrop wasn�??t even real�??it was a li�??l squib of glycerine. Cody was to Native Americans what wiggers would become to blacks�??a patronizing, insulting attempt to vampirize someone�??s culture without having endured any of the attendant suffering.

<img src="http://paperfrog.com/images/Kerouac.jpg" alt=" - " />
 
  #9 Jack Kerouac:
 
 More like Jackass Kerouac. Ten times more fag than either Ginsberg or Burroughs and only one-tenth the writer. His unbearably effusive �??masterpiece�?� On the Road is the literary equivalent of the liquor-induced internal hemorrhage that cut him down at age 47�??a sloppy cranial menstrual cycle in severe need of an editorial tampon. The main character�??s name is Sal Paradise�??how stupid is that? Written while �??on the speed,�?� On the Road may have inspired countless �??stream-of-consciousness�?� imitations, but the �??stream�?� was the rank piss of a hopeless alcoholic, and the �??consciousness�?� was that of a homophobic cocksucker who went on collegiate gay-bashing jaunts with jock friends before bedding dozens of men.

[thirsty moore]

Truman Capote certainly wasn't a fan.