KCRW DJ Mario Cotto shared this video for The The’s “The Beat(en) Generation” via Facebook yesterday and I had to give it a second posting. Hey! Did you enjoy this piece? We can’t do it without you.

But the Beat Generation will always be defined by its slouching poster boy, Jack Kerouac. And the publication on Sept. 5, 1957, of "On the Road" will always be the Beat movement's watershed moment.