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 â??crying Indianâ? in the 1970s â??Keep America Beautifulâ? 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 â??Great Spirit,â? and was Americaâ??s Token Indian for decades, he was an Italian poseur born â??Espera DeCorti.â? His TV teardrop wasnâ??t even realâ??it was a liâ??l squib of glycerine. Cody was to Native Americans what wiggers would become to blacksâ??a patronizing, insulting attempt to vampirize someoneâ??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 â??masterpieceâ? On the Road is the literary equivalent of the liquor-induced internal hemorrhage that cut him down at age 47â??a sloppy cranial menstrual cycle in severe need of an editorial tampon. The main characterâ??s name is Sal Paradiseâ??how stupid is that? Written while â??on the speed,â? On the Road may have inspired countless â??stream-of-consciousnessâ? imitations, but the â??streamâ? was the rank piss of a hopeless alcoholic, and the â??consciousnessâ? was that of a homophobic cocksucker who went on collegiate gay-bashing jaunts with jock friends before bedding dozens of men.

Truman Capote certainly wasn't a fan.