"I'll tell you 'bout Texas Radio and
the Big Beat... I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless
night Wandering the Western dream Tell you 'bout the
maiden with raw iron soul" -- Jim Morrison, "The
Wasp"
The Cosmic Giggle must have been in full-tilt
hysterics on January 19, 1943 when the oil refinery
seaport of Port Arthur, Texas, won the heavenly
crapshoot as the birthplace of rock & roll's first
female superstar, Janis Joplin. In retrospect, Port
Arthur's most famous daughter both defied and
defined the Texas town that raised, rejected,
reviled, then ultimately rejoiced in her brief, mad
existence.
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