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Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Jul 2003
Comments
Nicole,
Yea, I visited the Sun thang on the day he died. Something profound about that but I don't know what it is. Memphis is currently reeling from a damaging storm that has the local power company struggling to get around 60,000 homes back on the grid. I feel that the locals are somewhat distracted and stunned at the same time. Tornado warnings last night but all is sunny and warm today. Funeral services haven't been announced to the public anyway. The influence on me as a kid by the likes of Howlin' Wolf, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee, Carl Perkins, Elvis, Rufus Thomas, and a host of others is really the basis of my early musical awakening. Phillips drove the black musical bus right to the front door of us silly little white kids homes. I am not of fan of hip hop and the Memphis sound is certainly missing from the airways these days. I have noticed that lots of performers you don't see on the west coast play here, the place still has a magnetic mecca-like draw. I am tired, loaded up my 66 Ford F100 today for the 2100 mile trip back to Santa Cruz starting at dawn. You can still here an amazing variety of music on the radio here, really amazing. Stuff you can't get in the Bay Area.
Steve,
I talked with Barry Lloyd in Paragould, the guy I bought the truck from, about your history. He is an older fellow and his mother still lives here. He wanted to know how old your folks were and I guesstimated about 70. He said that there are lots of Boyds in Paragould. The town population is about 25,000 now. Several factories have moved in here in the last couple decades and jobs are here. The culture retains what you would expect from a bible belt perspective. Very anglo here, not like Memphis at all. I can send you Barry's email if you want it. He is a pretty nice fellow and is definitely part of the culture here. I am turning into Eileen in the morning, burning up some asphalt for the next three or four days. I will check in when I stop for rest. See ya. Gotta sleep.
Name: Silent Steve
EmailAddress: silentsteveboyd@hotmail.com
Date: 31 Jul 2003
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I hear ya Eileen; I dumped the blade even before reading yer' post. I swapped the tight-assed levis for a pair of kangaroo pocketed cargo pants that roll up in a jif. I dumped the 8oz flask also. (they always seem to attract fire water)...lets see. Oh;..the boots; ya... (lucky or otherwise) they are also history. (part of the fundamental change)... Yep;..leather sandles from here on out. They let the tootsies breath and also jive with the no sock thing and with them on instead of the boots, I wont be pegged as a pervert at the laundra-mat.(more on that later.. you gotta picture it in yer' mind).....anyway,.. Oh...I dumped the pencil and note pad; as I intend to stick to my memory and dont want to cloud any issues with facts. I may pick up a wind breaker, but for now Im' hanging onto the rain coat. (as I will need coverage while sitting wathing my clothes spin in the dryer.) I Will report in often from cyber cafes etc. On with the hunt.
Name: Jag
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Jul 2003
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Good Stuff Hammond!!!! (Take back the media site is phenomenal)
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Jul 2003
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Counter-Punched (yet again)
"Speculation Blues" (revisited from the guestbook)
http://www.counterpunch.org/guthrie07312003.html
and more importantly - Everyone! - watch this video
"Army of One" - (the networks should run this twice a day!)
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/onearmy.html
Name: Eileen
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Jul 2003
Comments
Steve~ditto Jags blessing to you. Keep in mind if you do Gray Hound they may hunt out your knife and anything else they don't understand. Hardly any stations seem to do this but the big towns. Prayers go with you.
Yeah, Rena, I'd like to get a description of those pants as well. They the old style open wrap? PS Always good to check every once in awhile to verify ones reality and choices, ain't it. Yep, travel's not what it used to be. It's enough to try the patients of a saint..or make one of you!
Carla..email in process.
Name: oops
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Jul 2003
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Oh I meant lifting them and tucking them into their waistband like with skirts sheesh I think I'll proofread this one.
~*
Name: Char ~*
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Jul 2003
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Rena or someone could you give more of a picture of your pants? (this is not a personals ad) I think I know what folks are talking about like lifting light wide pants which has always been the only way to bicycle too with em : ) ? Or are we talkn bout sumpin ahm missin?
Please give the waves waves and the dolphins hugs for me!
Rena!
Love n New Beginnings
Char ~*
(on the Rainbow Way)
Name: Nik
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Jul 2003
Comments
Mark, there must be some activity in Memphis surrounding the death of Sam Philips...did you get over to Sun yet?
Name: Eric
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Jul 2003
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Rena -- thanks for pointing that out. There's now a link to the July archive at the top of the Guestbook.
Name: r n a
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Jul 2003
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Hi Eric. The entries for July 1- July 26 have disappeared. there's no link.
anyway, back on Maui and grateful to be here. Meeting Steve in NYC was one of the highlights of my trip. along with meeting my new grandson "BeenJammin."
got caught in an NYC bomb scare scenario on Monday, caught in the traffic jam for the councilman shot at city hall last Thursday, , and in the jam over Cecilia Curz (is that her name) funeral on a Tuesday. bio family drove me crazy and i was again reminded why i left home and sought out an alternative community.
Peace to all, r n a
Name: ~*
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Jul 2003
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oops..... Chet Helms Birthday party and concert this Friday!
Allen Cohen's Benefit coming up a little later. To be announced.
Sorry 'bout any confusion. This information highway gets a little twisty turny sometimes, but the flow is strong and good.
Power to the People
Go with the Flow ~
Char~*
Name: The 3rd Page
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Jul 2003
Comments
Thanks Mark - catch you on the come back...
Name: Ohio girl
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Jul 2003
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Outta Sight Steve. They weren't zeros they were bicycle wheels.
Name: Steve
EmailAddress: not gone yet....
Date: 30 Jul 2003
Comments
Mark; my dad's dad was Robert (Bob) Boyd. Mom's dad was Charlie Kirkland. Dad's mom's kin were Fosters from Georgia who were connected to the Weatherfords as well as the MacGillivries who had Creek blood early on and Mom's side were tied into the Kentuky branch of the Huckabees who were part Blackfoot. According to my genetic back ground its a wonder that I havent scalped anyone yet. Oh, I just got an e-mail from a great cat that I was busted with at the Die-In. I told him to hit the guest book. He was in S.F. in the mid 70's. Give him a warm welcome.
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Jul 2003
Comments
News Flash from a digger in Memphis! Poindexter is going down over the terrorist futures market plan. He is poised to resign tomorrow. Are the cracks beginning to show in the pot that holds this crap together?
Steve,
I was in Paragould today. Bought the truck I came to see and now waiting out the bad weather here in Memphis to plan my return to the best coast. I forwarded your history in the area tonight to the fellow I bought the truck from and will talk with him about it when I return to pick up the truck tomorrow or the next day. He is an old timer and may well remember some your story. Beale Street sucks almost much as the carnival at Graceland. Elvis Schmelvis. These are the cheesiest tourist scams I have been conned into seeing.
Hammond,
I got your message about the 3rd Page today and I need to do some tuning up on it. I will get it back to you after I get back to Santa Cruz. Thanks again.
Name: Jag
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Jul 2003
Comments
Happy Trails Steve! Keep your powder dry and
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.
(traditional gaelic blessing)
Name: Silent Steve
EmailAddress: Mugu Guy Pan
Date: 30 Jul 2003
Comments
Hey...sorry about that MUGU. I scrolled down and saw that you got to that guestbook first; so..I either followed you, or Im' that much further ahead of you. (???!!!). Well folks; It's down to the wire. I gave everything away to street vendors except Nik's bed. Im' ridin' legally Clyde outa' here with nothin' but a rain coat, pair of lucky boots, button fly levis, linen shirt and Greek style sailors cap. As part of a fundamental change: I dumped the I Ching for good this time but kept the inside rice paper leaflet page with chineese writting and inscriptions to wrap around my cold hard cash. The answers I want arent' the written kind. I plan on seeking them in every set of eyes that I see. Heres the break down: I have three pieces of ID wrapped in a waxed papper envelope, a Camillus rigger's marlin spike knife, small pocket flask w/ funnel, a pocket sized mole skin travel journal and a Koh-I-Noor 0.7mm rapidomatic pencil w/ spare leads, a P.O. Box key and Clyde's chain lock key. From here I plan on stream-lining as I go. Hell....who needs a rain coat, Hu Rena??? Ya, screw the rain gear...see; I told ya that I was gonna stream line from here. Speaking of line... hope to see ya all further down the line. Happy Trails. P.S. Dont you kids... Ah fuck it. I want all of you kids at home to try this. (at least once in yer' life). Build some character. I dare ya'.
Name: carla
EmailAddress: carlaneil@hotmail.com
Date: 30 Jul 2003
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Eileen and Miranda,
where are the both of you. we miss ya'll. we are both here in california and anxious to get together and say hello again. You have both become dear friends to us in fact the only friends we have and truly need you both in our lives. Please write me and let me know you received this note. We miss you so much but we are glad we got out of NM. It's been kind of hard lately, Vermont didn't work out so we are back on the west coast and glad. So a Digger you are? How about that. I want you to know that it's not your past, or who you know, or what you've done in your life; none of that matters to us/me we clicked as friends and a friendship that last is hard to come by. Miranda Neil really misses you too. Thanks for helping back in NM and packing up our stuff for us to. Thank you Miranda for being careful to pack Neils stuff so carefully. We are getting help here in california now we've go to decide where we are going to live and just get there. Please write soon and I hope the both of you are doing ok and have found your place in the screwed up world. Peace and Blessings, friends always and hope to see ya'll soon. I still can't belive your website. WOW!!!
Name: carla
EmailAddress: carlaneil@hotmail.com
Date: 30 Jul 2003
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Name: carla
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Jul 2003
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Name: The 3rd Page
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Jul 2003
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A new 3rd Page contribution from Allen Cohen
"What About That Dream Poem"
http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/adream.html
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Jul 2003
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Jed (and all who dare to read!) -
here is the link to Frater Choronzon's presentation to the Golden Dawn Society of Thelemic Magick (1990) see: "Doctor Farquharson's Radio" regarding my late mate and to whom I think you are referring. His madness was unique - until you factor in the likes of Syd Barrett.
http://freespace.virgin.net/ecliptica.ww/book/chaosinvocation.htm
Name: ~*
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Jul 2003
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Celebrate with Chet Helms and Help Allen Cohen!!!
(This Friday!)
http://www.hippiemuseum.org/concert.html
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Jul 2003
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"Speculation Blues"
The bulk of DARPA's stock and trade
was exposed in yesterday's papers -
but who wants them?
Homeland (in)Security is risky a speculation.
The terror market might fall-out,
the bottom line might well disappear,
and only the (over)seers of 'schismet'
will have profited from the remains
trading online predictions of terror
guessing in the dark of DARPA that
encourages the future(s) holders
to bet heavily on themselves -
after all, they know the timetables.
© 2003 - Hammond Guthrie
Name: http://www.onlinetransactionsystemsincorporated.com/
EmailAddress: http://www.onlinetransactionsystemsincorporated.com/
Date: 30 Jul 2003
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http://www.onlinetransactionsystemsincorporated.com/
Name: http://www.onlinetransactionsystemsincorporated.com/
EmailAddress: http://www.onlinetransactionsystemsincorporated.com/
Date: 30 Jul 2003
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http://www.onlinetransactionsystemsincorporated.com/
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Jul 2003
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oops! I did that once before- here is the DARPA site
http://www.darpa.mil/iao/
But the other one might be more interesting for some....
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Jul 2003
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DARPA DARPA DARPA DOWN WITH DARPA!!!
Thanks to our Sen. Wyden (D-Or) this ultra-scary and perfectly stupid idea of trading on the future of terror will never fly.
Keep periodic tabs on http://www.darpa.com - scary resource but we need to know! (so we can stop them)
DARPA DARPA DARPA DOWN WITH DARPA!!!
Name: Ohio girl
EmailAddress: freakin' zeros
Date: 30 Jul 2003
Comments
How scary to have a government like a bunch of preteens who ate too many donuts and came up with a really bad idea like terrorism futures and then didn't even have the sense to think that was an awful idea lets forget it immediately. They've been standing in the Krispy Kreame line too long.
Name: Steve
EmailAddress: Here and Now
Date: 29 Jul 2003
Comments
Gotta go...I turn into a punkin at midnight.
Name: Steve again...
EmailAddress: the name game...
Date: 29 Jul 2003
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Hey MUGU; I see that ya' followed me over to the Mourningstar guest book...It's only fitting I imagine;..as I get the distinct feeling that "Your' friends baby; treat you like a guest".....and "In your' head; baby, Im' afraid you dont know where it is"...I stop short at calling you names: in-a-smuch as I dont know your's and dont want to. If its you Sponge, I really think that you need more than help. Your' alter-egos are hiding behind the skirts of your' alter-egos. Ive' heard of being pussy-whipped, cock-whipped but Ego-whipped???...and as far as the above J/A near-quotes; you fill in the rest. How could anyone be that unloved???!!!
Name: Silent Steve
EmailAddress: The Beat Goes On...
Date: 29 Jul 2003
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My personal Congrats go out to all of the NYC A-7 and M-27 folk who keep walking free due to solidarity, rightiousness and pure balls. (some real tough overies in the mix also)... special thanks to the unsung teen-agers in the group. There is hope yet. Coalition group representatives, leaders and those in for the long-haul will meet Sunday, Aug. 3rd in the back parlor of Washington Square Parish House 133 West 4th Street, NYC. If the crowd swells, we can jump over to the Sanctuary or Day care facility. Free food and drink provided by those mythical beasts: THE DIGGERS.
Name: Steve Boyd
EmailAddress: silentstevboyd@hotmail.com
Date: 29 Jul 2003
Comments
Hey Jenn; my E-Mail is silentsteveboyd@hotmail.com and snail mail is: Steve Boyd 7 East 8th Street, Suite 369, NY,NY 10003. My Bro is in Boise Idaho at the moment and my jump back to Eurika soon, (where he was). If he does make the move I may hook up with him. He's got a Hep-C jones after sucessfully cutting off a thirty year Alchodelic binge (just before his liver almost turned to jelly.) I was never a good drinker;...but Stan; well,..we was an expert. He' one lucky cat. I sure would like to be there for him at this juncture of the trip. He's one tough bastard but his pride will be the death of him. Once in Eurika, I could reunite with my original 1957 Zen Friend. We've been doing snail mail and he's a state worker turned shut-in who I would love to liberate. Theres so much escapism in our generation. Think I may go on a sojourn to wake a few folks up. As far as the Eurika scene; heats not an issue, as Im' law abidding for the most part. In fact, Ive matured to the point (in the last several hours) that Im' going to contact the IRS and the State of New Hampshire and get a payment program squared away in order to spend my later retirement with no paperwork dig? (my SSI will pay that shit off)...(The Government paying off the Government)...only in America!!!...(dont you kids try this at home)..Hey, Nik; I havent moved your' bed down yet, as another group is crashing for a few days,,,will do it tommarrow in any event. Later all.
Name: Silent Steve
EmailAddress: Boydsville Arkansas
Date: 29 Jul 2003
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Hey Mark; as a Yankee child I spent some fantastic summers around that neck of the woods. In fact I became a crack shot with my favorite (the 22Cal.) during that period. My dad could light stick matches with one. We were Remington folks; but I learned on a Winchester bolt action. My parents both attended Paragould High. The Boyd Farm was in Rector Arkansas. My Granpa Boyd was a very well know hunting guide and famous coon-hunter in those parts. He raised champion coon hounds. As achild I remember lying on a coon skin rug made from a single pelt. Now; granted,..I was small; but even the big folks said that it was the largest ever seen (the rug you fool, the rug)...anyway, He led Bankers, Lawyers and Pro Base ball players from Memphis Tenn. on some wild ass coon hunts for sure. He sold one dog at the heigth of the depression for an amount that was unheard of at the time. He raised and trained mule teams also. In fact he farmed by mule teams until well after WWII (where by keeping several share croppers and farm hands well fed and working.) His prize Mule teams also sold for record amounts of money. It was said that he tamed them to the point that women and kids could lead them. (Well...Boyd Women and Boyd children anyway)...Lots of kin buried down there, Crockett Co. Tenn., Dyer Co. Tenn. and of course Clay Co. Ark. Check out the fire flies at night.
Name: Jag
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Jul 2003
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I just heard on MacNeil Leher that the Futures market for terroist activities, lets bet on the next assasination attempt on Yasir Arafat, was brought to us buy none other than the folks at DARPA, via the pentagon, the same folks Hammond had the foresight to out. These are some seriously bent folks.
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Jul 2003
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Hell, I just set up shop here in Memphis. Staying in the less than she-she Graceland district near the airport tonignt. Rain and muggy clouds and heat. Thanks to somebody for airconditioned rooms. Tuned in some pretty funky music on the rental car radio here, I am gonna slide by the Sun Studios tomorrow just because. Fucking airport was dripping with barbeque stands the smell was all over the place. Do you think I can deal with Beale Street and the tourist traps? I have to go up into the north east end of Arkansas to Paragould to check out a vintage Ford soon.
Name: The 3rd Page
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Jul 2003
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"Suit Suite - Tout Suite" (click through image series.)
http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/suitsuite.html
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Jul 2003
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jed - then again there was Trevor.... and of course Hoppy. The mad brits with strange names game is afoot!
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Jul 2003
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Jed - humm.....I just sent you another e-mail (test run only) to see if it bounces back again. Maybe I copied it incorrectly. Sorry about misnomering you ala "the dud who had the pictures of Emmett"
Your comment below adds to the chance of our having perhaps met in London.
"a very strange brit with a strange name" - (laughing to myself) and indeed I did run with a few. I think you are refering to the late and illustrious Robin Farquharson (author of "Drop Out"). Robin was mad of course, as well as a (once) well respected mathmatician - and unquestionably one of the brightest minds I have ever encountered. But then he was as I say - quite mad. When the building burned to the ground - the flames took Robin as well. He was reportedly at the attic windown giving an oration to the crowed below until the building collapsed.
The purple basement you refer to is also rather possible
Howard Marks - indeed I know the name well - yet I tried to stay away from this monied crowd - as well as the fellows well met surrounding Auden but following my reading at London University I avoided the Oxford crowd all together..
So then jed - what were you doing at the time - and now?
Name: McMing
EmailAddress: Gettin' pissed
Date: 29 Jul 2003
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Come on Mugu you fucking moron bone-in-the-nose savage .. I got my atom-powered ray-gun ready .. quit hiding in the underbrush, coward .. you shall learn the cost of bringing down upon yourself the wrath of the mighty & unforgiving MING the MERCILESS !!! { < mweehee ha ha > } Resistance is futile. (of course, maybe, then again this cretinous mutant subhumanoid may not understand English.) Nevertheless : Submit,
or perish. -- Ming has spoken.
Name: jed wainright
EmailAddress: jed_wainwright@hotmail.com
Date: 29 Jul 2003
Comments
Hey i never claimed to have a pic of emmett infact i dont have one at all . hammond the address is not a dud and i havnt mistyped it but i didn't receive an email from you either. the place i refer to in kensington was mad micks squatt i cant remember the exact location just that every room downstairs was painted purple. i believe it burnt down around 72-73 i was in hamburg then. i seem to recall that you ran with a very strange brit who i think was caricatured for the pot head Danny with the camberwell carrot in the movie withnail and I .This guy was so far out i cant believe he ever came back in. he had a strange name and people said that he was gay - all i remember was a never ending supply of good pakistani hashish and a very generous nature. there was another guy i would associate with you , a welsh man well educated called howard marks do you remember him. he had a lot of friends from oxford university alot of them were rich americans over in the uk studying at oxford- cambride. i bumped into an old friend taffia hertz 2 years ago and she claimed that bill clinton visited the squat with marks do you know any of this
Name: Jag
EmailAddress: Move over New York
Date: 29 Jul 2003
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Portland has at last joined the civilized world! According to the most news worthy item to hit town in years ever since Sunday morning a crowd of people (over 200) have been waiting in line for the pinnacle of cultural excellence to open its doors. Yes Krispy Kreame has arrived.
I am amazed at how little people have to do or hope for. Too spend two days waiting for a donut? What can be so monumental about a saturated confection of sugar and lard? Portlands provincial mindset is showing which is not all bad, but a freaking donut? Not to mention the local news is treating this as though the Mona Lisa has just arrived for an extended stay.
Name: McMingus
EmailAddress: just another roll of the dice
Date: 29 Jul 2003
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Magnificent plan .. gives a new meaning to the term 'Casino Economy' .. a wager
on mayhem & death, brought to you by the bright boys in Washington .. unfortunately, I don't think this one's gonna fly, but you gotta admit, there are some monstrously creative thinkers at the Pentagon .. Monty Python or Robin Williams could hardly top this latest stunt.
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Jul 2003
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Joe - thanks for the heads up - is this the same "dud" who said he had photos of Emmett taken in Italy? .... a lame duck without a flock
Mark - happy trails mate!
Nic - westward ho soon?
Steve - keep those lanterns trimmed and burning.
Eric - Thanks for fixing the page.
*Mugu and his immediate family seemingly don't need "reasons" for their relentlessly spamic way.
Best of the day to everyone - and it is sweltering in Portland again
Name: Nik
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Jul 2003
Comments
...so let me see...wager on the next terrorist act?????? The pentagon thought this one up...and let's see, I can just hear the conversation between the two "terrorist" who decide to fix the bet..."yeah, we'll rig the statue of liberty to blow up and then pour all of our assets into the date we pick and kaboom...we're rich!!!
Name: Ohio girl
EmailAddress: terrible twos, what a millenium
Date: 29 Jul 2003
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Hello, just resurfacing from my weekend of night shift, back to the zerolicious light of day.
Name: Nik
EmailAddress: ps Eric
Date: 29 Jul 2003
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Eric...I knew you'd love Brighton Beach, it's like being in a totally foreign country...all those specialty shops...totally unpretentious... nostrovia!
Name: Nicole
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Jul 2003
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Shortly after the Loma Prieta earthquake in October 1989, Bill Graham held a benefit in Oakland for the victims of the quake...
Sitting back stage at that event, in a room with about 8 other people including Taj Mahall and Susan Lydon, David Getz and others, Bill walked in with someone. Now, I have never been one to be star struck, but an amazing thing happened when Bill brought this particular gentleman into that room, we all automatically stood up out of respect...for it was the one and only Bob Hope...he was absolutely gracious. warm and friendly. A remarkable human being...He clearly stated that he hated war...but supported the troups, wanting to do what he could to bring some bit of happiness in their horrifying circumstance of war. Bob Hope, Thanks for the memories...
Name:
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Jul 2003
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It takes community ~Love never fails.
Healing thoughts and Blessings to Allen
and Us All.
Onwards and Upwards
Beautiful People
Love,
Char ~*
(ps. it's fun and colorful chasing Rainbows,
and even funner catching them!
Knowing all the while, we ARE what we seek)
: )
Name: Eric
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Jul 2003
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Back from Back East just in time to do some needed cleanup of the page. Will have to tackle the FFR next.
Sorry, Steve, had only one day in NYC, spent the rest of the time with octogenarian parents, including a last minute picnic for the beautiful summer weather on Saturday the day I had planned to come visit you. But I couldn't help thinking it was far better to take the parents to their favorite outdoor natural haunt than to indulge my Manhattan love affair. See you next trip. The one day I did indulge was to follow up Nicole's suggestion of Brighton Beach. All summer I have been longing to lay on a beach somewhere and that one perfect day at BB was my wish come true. Thanks, Nicole. I loved the people on that beach. No hipper than thou, younger than cow crowd. It was a pleasure to share some sand with the Brooklyn neighbors.
Why does Mugu think anyone is interested in his vandalism?
Name: Jag
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Jul 2003
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I believe Eric said he was in New York, Brighton Beach? I think mugu wins for now.
Name: jenn
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Jul 2003
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silent steve,,,yep. I live in northern parts. just 9 miles from eureka...remember me? nicoles sister...anyway, I live here in humboldt co. its a fabulous place and I would love to fill you in...let me know yer email and i'll get more personal wit yer bad self.
the youngest of the clan,jenn
Name: jenne
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Jul 2003
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Name: Joe
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Jul 2003
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Hammond that guy, Jed Wainright, keeps talking about different things like meeting Emmet Grogan in the Alps and having pictures...and meeting you...etc....apparantly he reads books....he is as phony as GW's smile
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Jul 2003
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Eric -
Seems like a Muguspamic barrage has taken place.
The page downloads - but only to Mugu's moniker.
And
then
of
course
every
thing
runs
off
the
page
Hey jed - well this is possible as I did live in London 70-71 off Kensington Hight Street. - I tried your e-mail address but it is a dud
Are you a dud - or are you jed wainright who might have met me in London 70-71?
Name: jed wainright giving up on poetry for a bit
EmailAddress: jed_wainright@hotmail.com
Date: 28 Jul 2003
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Hammond I think we met in kensington london crrca 1970-71 if you are the Hammond Guthrie i remember
Hi i remember back in 1970 i was working with David Essex when i first came across a very intense but talented band who had just decided to call themselves Queen.They were sat round discussing personal names for the band members and all agreed that they could use their own exept for Farookh Bulsara(for obvious reasons)he wanted to be named after one of the planets and venus was his preference .Like today first names are subject to fashion and Freddie wasn't very in at the time so Freddie venus was rejected. Brian suggested Roger- after Roger Daltry- and Freddie went for his second choice "Uranus" however thats were I stepped in and said you cant call yourself Roger Uranus, its to long! fortunatly they all agreed and they settled on Freddie Mercury. I have pics on my pc of this meeting just email me and I will send a jpeg
Name: Silent Steve
EmailAddress: almost gone
Date: 28 Jul 2003
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Hey; my long lost natural Brother dropped me a Dylan post card but as usual, no way to reach him..(my Bro. not Dylan)..anyway; he may be moving to Eurika No Ca, Nor Cal, No Cool. Anyone got a report on whats up in that neck of the woods??...been years since I was in them thar hills. Hey, I ship on Wednesday:..just Me, Legally Clyde, the rags on my back and a possibles bag.the 30th. to loop the loop. Be back on the 14th if I dont touch ground until then. Happy Trails.
Name: McMing
EmailAddress: Too Wide
Date: 28 Jul 2003
Comments
Help ! Eric .. My screen would need to be 5 feet wide to show these messages
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Jul 2003
Comments
Hey All,
I am leaving for Memphis in the morning for a little adventure. Flying there but driving back. I should be in area for a few days trying not to get into too much trouble, I am going alone, so if anyone wants to meet up somehow let me know. I will have a laptop with me so I can check in here.
Name: Nicole
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Jul 2003
Comments
Eileen...another writing suggestion that someone recently gave me and it's so helpful, is in doing yr history...make notes in 5 year increments...it's not so overwhelming then and just jot down the major things that come to yr mind... then memories surrounding stir up...I remember when Sweet William got shot and had amnesia if we told him something that had happened he would then begin to remember the surrounding time...I also put old addresses in Mapquest and when the grid of the block comes...voila, specific memories pop up and clarify...very useful tool...playing music from a specific time crystalizes stuff too...smell as well...
Name: Eileen
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Jul 2003
Comments
Zooming by folks. Finally sent email to Security (not!) CO to the car place that houses the friendly sexual predator I had to deal with. I'm still a bit rattled from addressing this and need to get outside and get some clear air in my head. But wanted to say hi and thanks for the writing advice. 3 hrs huh. Some folks in my family would call that wasting time. Guess that's why so many authors thank their families for their support and patience..? I would love to write 3 hrs a day! Are you kidding?
Patrick..Bo Diddly..what was that about. He played for my Sr Prom ('60), up close and personal. He was so drunk he was laying down flat with the mike, then his guitar, on top of him..and still playing great. I grew up with black blues. We NEVER would have had a white band for anything. What for? I realized yrs later what incrediable music I grew up with that never made it out of the south. Bo and all recorded were the tip of the iceberg and not necessarily the best either! OK they were all great..but there was SO much more.
off to job hunt
Name: Steve
EmailAddress: Fear Not..ah..make that "Dread Naught"
Date: 27 Jul 2003
Comments
Yep; we saw the same show...Michael realy handled himself well. His theory of "US" being afraid of "THEM" really hit home. I dumped my boot knives a long while back and for the world of me cant really put my finger on "WHO" I feared; or why. (Maybe I feared "US".) which may be a Froidian slip for U.S.??!! Go figure. It's a jungle out there...or an Eden;..it's all in the way that you approach it. Later Jag. Big day tommarrow.
Name: Jag
EmailAddress: Moore for Prez
Date: 27 Jul 2003
Comments
I saw the 60 minutes piece and yeah he said just that, irate librarians managed to embarass Harper Collins into publishing "Stupid White Men" after they had pulled the plug on it right after 9/11 seems they wanted a re-write to clean up all the anti Bush rhetoric and Michael refused then he read an excerpt at a library and the librarian was incensed when he explained why it never was published, she got her friends on a librarian chat room/web site to harass Harper Collins and Bam, number one best seller, like they regret publishing it now! I read it last year and it is a great fucking book, Jeb Bush comes off as a bigger A-hole than G.W. if thats possible. Also, a must see, "Bowling For Columbine" an automatic classic.
Name: Steve Boyd the Flintoid
EmailAddress: Fear Nothing
Date: 27 Jul 2003
Comments
Mike Moore for president. P.S. Hey Micheal, did you have an uncle in Flint named Bruce Moore??..He married Loanne Cobb who's father owned Cobbs Resauraunt. Their ol'dog Trixi was a real pal to me.
Name: McMute
EmailAddress: Dread Naught
Date: 27 Jul 2003
Comments
Hey;.. I think "Naught" means "Nothing" (as in "All for Naught").....and "Aught means Zero"..(as in "Thirty-Aught-Six) (30 Cal. 1906 varient).. but who's counting?..I get the drift. Personally; I didnt want to bring Bush up. (now or ever)...the fuck never E-Mailed me).. missed some solid advice. Where the hell is that Imperialist pig gonna' get us bogged down next??..hey, big day in the A/M. Gonna represent the Nations Mutes at the M27 Press Conference. Also gotta tell the gang to maybe get Rev. Hooper to open up for em' on the 3rd. I'm goin' to see my natural children and grandson from the 1st to the 13th. Moving Nik's bed to the first floor also. The new Sexton is grabbing my 4th floor room. I will most likely haunt the pews until blast off. I will re-stock the depleated free courned clothes rack with a variety of rags that Ive' pulled from it. What goes around comes around. I heard that Micheal Moore really made a hit on 60 Minutes. Told how his best seller (Stupid White Men) was all but squashed until some heavy web-site to web-site amoung some Irate Librarians turned it all around. Powerful tool this web. Hope they dont ban it as a Home-Land Security foe. Yep...The Zeros are gonna keep that Ol' Flint boy right on top. He's got my vote. The man is sane.
Name: Jag
EmailAddress: Hee Dow
Date: 27 Jul 2003
Comments
Shades of the Beverly Hillbillies, how about the "Double Naughts" as in George "Jethro" Bush, naught into naught equals naught.
Name: Steve...
EmailAddress: wow....I mean WaWaWaWow
Date: 27 Jul 2003
Comments
Hell, how can a mute aquire a speach empediment you may ask??...(start typing real jittery)....I need to slow down, but the core group of M27 folk are just now starting to mill around out front. Im' hosting the next two meetings so I must re-scedule my NH trip until after the 3rd. Got to run. Focus on Peace.
Name: Steve again...
EmailAddress: time warp,.. year 33
Date: 27 Jul 2003
Comments
Hey Ohio Girl; John Lennon dubbed 1970 "Year One"... so maybe we could just coult off from there and maybe draw up our own calandar. Hell, the Inca and the Romans did it. (In so many was I was born in 1970) I iknow what yer' thinking..NO; not Re-Born. It was different. (woulda' hadda' been there). OLema Ranch 1970.
Name: Steve
EmailAddress: late riser...
Date: 27 Jul 2003
Comments
Nik..sounds as if you are in a good place within a good place,...enjoy the moment and the moment yet to come. I cant thak you enough for delivering a holy woman to my door step. After about three blocks I was cleansed..and not by the rain. Hey Ohio Girl; according to Ol' Omar, here's whats comming down pronto: after the seven year dance of Uranus and Pluto, (ending in 2011)..the world will be in a very different condition politically and socially. Uranus in Pisces should stir up mucho upheaval and innovation..(the birth of Mormonism and Christian fundamentalism is an example of this pairing. Pisces rules the underdog, the enslaved and the disenfranchised (no names please)..whose status was raised in previous Uranus Pisces periods. The last time these two teamed up was in the early 20th century from 1919 to 1927, during the "Roaring Twenties". The mesh signaled the "Jazz Age". The "Lost Generation" of writters began publishing and socially, the down-and-out triumphed. The gals won the right to vote in 1920 and Gandi started fucking with the Brittish in India. The flip side was Boot-legger Wars, the Mafia's secret "Cosa Nostra" and the roots of the IRA. Also: Pluto in Sagitarious (until 2008) should pull all of us away from our quest for aquiring wealth to a journey for the meaning of it all via interconnecting with one another on spirituality (outside of traditional religions), philosophical, and intellectual levels. Saturn in Cancer: We must put in the time in order to get the pay off. Very restrictive vibes..but the reward is maturity. (about time)..so, in clossing; a name for this era or decade??....hows this?...in as much as a zero denotes the absence of quality, quantity and mass,..lets start by calling it the TWOS. OK,..that makes this Two Three,..get it?..or maybe the TWIN decade. (Ahhh Looookkk..."TTWWWIIINNNSSS!!!!!.....hell, I dunno',..knock it around abit. How about you Sponge??..any input???
Name: Ohio girl
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Jul 2003
Comments
That's funny. And I feel so famous, the new millenium matches our bank account! Oh well back to work.
Name: Jag
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Jul 2003
Comments
Hey how about the soaring zero's for the expected Bush deficits and just the negative start.
Name: Ohio girl
EmailAddress: blank slate
Date: 27 Jul 2003
Comments
Seriously it has always bugged me in a small way, concerning people talking about the years 1900 to 1999, there are cool phrases like the twenties, and yeah the James Cagney roaring twenties, the thirties. But you have to say "between 1900 and 1909" or "between 1910 and 1919" the "teens" would sound stupid, and it's even more awkward now that we have 2000, 2001 etc. I'm looking for a neat phrase about this stuff. "The turn of the century" was one way to describe 1900-1920 I guess. The zeros, the roaring zeros......zeros is a blank slate maybe that's a good thing.
The Ohio farms are awesome to look at right now, they are at the peak of green abundance and aliveness (I bet upstate NY is the same). To see an Amish man taking a team of horses into the barn as dusk approaches, really disorients you about time and the zero years of a new millenium. The "government" that is already trying to f... this up seems so theoretical at a moment like that.
Name: Jag
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Jul 2003
Comments
Nichole, it sounds like a perfect setting for introspective sounds and meditations, I can almost smell the birch and the smoke from the fire. Knowing you enjoy the tunes makes it very gratifying. Peace
Name: Nik
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Jul 2003
Comments
Eric, I start reading in the left margin, and since th e computer is facing north I finish reading somewhere in middle of the Atlantic...is it the mugu?
Name: Nicole
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Jul 2003
Comments
Jag, thank you so much...I brought the cd's with me up state and my friend Susan said ,"how did he know?" I answered "kinship, kindred souls, shared history and the like" I'm looking out the window now at the ridges of the catskills and at the Ashokan resevoire and lisening to the voices of all the friends that slept outside by the bonfire that is stil lightly burning yet this morning...My ex husband Johnny throws this great party for his beautiful wife Karen every year...so much music...so much food...I can smell birch bark burning on the fire...m-m-m-m-m-m-m
Name: Steve
EmailAddress: The Great Diggersbey
Date: 27 Jul 2003
Comments
When I mentioned the "Roaring" thing; I was refering of course to the 1920's aka: "Roaring Twenties"...beguining about now:..the planetary activity has set the stage once again for some "New Dances","New music" and "New Freedoms" from time-worn traditions..only one catch:...(we gotta get away with it).... "Oh, how in the world can the old folks tell..it aint gonna' rain no more???"...
Name: Steve...
EmailAddress: almost gone..
Date: 27 Jul 2003
Comments
Hey Jenn; as a garbage man from way back, Im' here to tell ya that the fattest tomatoes and the heartiest Pot grows in the dump. As too plastic; Ive' seen plastic milk jugs bust like glass and turn to powder after long exposure to the suns ray...the trouble is: They bury it all!!!...it wont break down for hundreds of years. And we have to pay for gas to light the stove! They "Burn-Off" the methane from dump fires for years. (thats because they cant put them out).. Up in smoke. Go figure. Hey I watched the Television today and saw a show on the growing bicycle culture in the USA and how they are fighting for their share of streets etc. That may be my next cause. I plan on going straight human power. Walk, peddle or crawl. (well.. run in a pinch.) Later all.
Name: Steve....Again......
EmailAddress: The "Boring Zeros?....
Date: 27 Jul 2003
Comments
OK; come on...let's name this decade....ah...fill in the blank. 2000 to 2010___________. Hmm..blank??..blank???...maybe thats it! The Blank Decade.
Name: Steve
EmailAddress: silentsteveboyd@hotmail.com
Date: 27 Jul 2003
Comments
Hey Ohio Girl; just checked out yer' photo's on the Morningstar site... wow...I mean WOW. The June before last I bussed through Ohio and realized just how long it had been since seeing real family farms. Funny how each generation has the notion that they invented farming and fucking...Oh; there goes my mouth again..I had met a whole bunch of Mennonites here in NYC who were from those parts. I was kicking around between Bellview, McAuleys and the Bowery Mission. Those folks bus in all the time to sing for the local down-trodden. They do a mono-tone voice thing thats very angelic. Hey,..back to the "Ranch" thing; .. you may remember Onanda. It wouldnt take too much research to find the life magazine photo of the crowd scene at Altamont. She showed me the pic back in early 70. She can be clearly seen with her man. Of couse, posting it without her permission could back-lash. (as she very well may be Sister Onanda of Mercy by now)... you know how that goes. Oh,.. as far as the "Roaring Zeros".. there's alot of planetary activity that corresponds with that era. The original Lost Generation of actors, writters, poets, artists, bootleggers, and racket-men spun out of it. Hell; prohibition is even on the re-bound. Here in the city, you knock twice, tell em' that Joe sent ya' and then slip into a "Smoke-Mill"...screw the gin;..ciggarette girls in fish-net stockings working the Isle. Well, gotta go. Hey, you look great. (great folks look great)...but you knew that.
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 26 Jul 2003
Comments
Jenn,
Being "We" is a complicated matter for contemporary society
built on psuedo-individualism and "overcoming" nature and
"harnessing" its power. What drives humans to need dominance
over all things? Sitting in a traffic jam the other day behind a minivan
sporting a religious bumper sticker reading "My God is awesome"
implying that any other is not, said more than its driver realized. The
"we" implied by that bumpersticker is not an inclusive context
but one of dominance over others. "We" win, you lose, fuck you.
I don't think "we" have moved off the medival plane much. My
"WE" and yours are weeds, crickets, wind, beatific mutes,
nomadic female bus drivers, gardeners, half-assed comodified Diggers like
myself, and anything else that lives or exists in this reality. I feel as
much a fellow traveler with the caged elephant at the SF Zoo as the
redtailed hawk circling over the bluff near my house. The majority of
humans still seem unable to make that step. The only thing that appears to
draw "americans" together is violence and consuming. To me it
seems so easy, just change your mind, accept being part of it all and get
on with it.
Name: Jag
EmailAddress:
Date: 26 Jul 2003
Comments
I'm glad it arrived so quick Ohio Girl, glad to do it and am happier
even still that you enjoy it :)
Name: jenn
EmailAddress:
Date: 26 Jul 2003
Comments
mark.......yep, it's just all a big "WE". We make up the
world, the conditions, the misery, the beauty. We have to change it. We
are it. We can't hate unless WE are hate itself. We can't love unless we
are love itself. We are One people, all inclusive, if we had no duality,
if we could really see the Devine in ourselves, then in others...WE would
have paradise more often together. Namase
Name: Ohio girl
EmailAddress: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Date: 26 Jul 2003
Comments
Before getting into the three-days-of-nightshift-weekend, I've been
happily enjoying the second CD from Jag, which arrived this afternoon.
Awesome! Thanks!
Name: REDNECK POET BILOXI
EmailAddress: jed_wainright@hotmail.com
Date: 26 Jul 2003
Comments
I`m an nastybator, I`m a big boobed mama coming for you
I`m the space invader, I`ll be a sucking rollin` bitch for you
Keep your mouth shut, you`re fucking like a big nipples bird And I`m
busting up my balls for the words
Keep your wide on eye on me babe
Put your titties to my head
Press your pussy face close to mine, love
Freak out in a sexrace daydream oh yeah!
Don`t fake it baby, lay the real thing on me
The church of man, love, is such a sexy place to be Make me cum baby,
make me know you really care
Make me pull out all your hair
Name: Ohio girl
EmailAddress: Roaring Zeros
Date: 26 Jul 2003
Comments
Wow, in spite of feeling pretty much like crap I've been listening to
Jag's sensational CD, I've been having a grand old time in New York and
hearing music in Asheville and eating in a luxurious garden in these pages
lately. Don't we got fun! Roaring Zeros now, I like that! There's never
been much of a name (in any century) for the years 00 to 19. So now, what
to call 11 to 19?? Morningstar......there are 2 pictures of me (Fran) in
the scrapbook on the bottom of page IX. Rena I hope you'll be posting baby
pictures somewhere!
Writing.....I always wanted to. I always wanted to write nonfiction,
philosophy or biography or something. Never really wanted to write
fiction, but then a friend got me into trying it and becoming a
confessions writer. "Moral porn" one of my kids calls it! Really
the stories aren't porn sorry it's not that exciting. Anyways, writing
these stories is teaching me a tremendous amount about writing, first of
all that I love it, I always wondered why it didn't go smoothly like this,
fiction seems to come much easier (to me). Second of all, that maybe now I
could write other stuff too. Peace
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 25 Jul 2003
Comments
Jenn,
Very well put. When will "we" finally get it? It is the
"we" part that is the problem.
Eileen,
How about this. Start your story from the day we sat in the Headlands
coffee shop and your tears fell when you talked about Sweet William. If
you could write down the stories you told me that day in the way you spoke
you would be on your way.
Name: Jenn
EmailAddress:
Date: 25 Jul 2003
Comments
Namaste, I want to share, because I would give you all a helpiing of
this day if it were in my power. I know not everyone is driven by need to
grow healthy food, or given the gracious gift, resources or the land, but
I must say that the satisfaction of growing ones own meal is beyond words.
The gratitude I feel running my fingers through the rich soil, with the
birds singing, the dragonflies gliding, bumble bees humming, humming birds
chirping and screaming through the air, cats lolling, dogs resting in the
shade from chasing EXTREME wildlife through the woods. I wish I could send
you each a flower from my gardens, mixed with veggies and vines. I would
bestow the world a feast if only it were in my power. Each strawberry,
every blueberry, every last succulent huckleberry, thimble berry, himalaya,
I would conger you up some jam to spread on your toast in the early dawn.
Steve, there is that dawn again, persistant one. The coast is so fertile
and abundant, my belly is full, my soul is balmed, I'm off to a deeply
earned slumber. We really would benefit by sharing more of the land with
those of like mind. The digger dream is that of hope? Is that of sharing?
Caring? for the earth? For the tribe? For the humanes? I teeter twixt the
sublime graceful pleasure of fresh chard, herbs, carrots and beets...and
the despair of the hungry, worn, battered sisters and brothers of this
earth. Will we ever get the fucking picture? An Aside: Our town now
boastfully recycles any plastic. Yeah for that....? NO! The shredded,
bundled bales go directly by ship to China for the processing of the polar
fleece the americans are so fond of, and proud to be using
"recycled" plastic...the workers of these factories are mostly
young girls and women who are disposable, by means of this disgusting
unregulated polluting practice. So, to combat this...do not buy any shit
you don't really NEED especially in that plastic crap that has a number
higher than a TWO.2. night all...
Name: patrick
EmailAddress:
Date: 25 Jul 2003
Comments
Mcming, Thanks for the heads up. I figured out the schedule. Man it was
crazy and crowded down here. We did,nt have to shuttle. We live downtown.I
beleive there is some cd release party for a group called the muse's at
the st Lawrence Basilica on Sunday. Neat ol' church. Know anything of
they're music? Saw a couple panama hats, no black hatband. I was wearing a
"HULA GIRL CIGARS" Tee shirt. Bo Diddly was Bo Diddly still
after all these years. Later, Peace and prosperity Patrique
Name: Steve again...
EmailAddress: silentsteveboyd@hotmail.com
Date: 25 Jul 2003
Comments
Hey Hammond; I just reviewed alot of the Third Page stuff that you've
compiled,..excellent,..great show-case. After I establish a writter's
get-a-way up in Calaias;(Ive' given up art).. I could never match the
images that folks conger up in thier heads upon digesting the written
word.. (although, Henry Miller pulled the water color thing off with-out a
hitch)...Hmmm..anyway..after I get grounded and survive my first winter
I'm entertaining the Idea of putting together some Digger Yin-Yang
take-offs (Boroughs's cut-up style with a touch of Boydism added to the
mix) to alot of the like-minded collective soul thats flooding down the
pipe-line which in my mind, seems to be begging to be dissected by not
just any run-of-the-mill Dr. Frankenstien. Will keep you posted. Write,
Write, Write...
Name: Silent Steve
EmailAddress: Greenwich Village
Date: 25 Jul 2003
Comments
Hey; dont look now, but the Free Frame Of Reference Page has been
infiltrated by a gang of Capitalist Health Scam Artists. How Rude.
...Hmmm... lets put em' to the test shall we??...How about some FREE
SAMPLES???!!!!!!
Name: Pappa Steve Hemmingway
EmailAddress: West 4th
Date: 25 Jul 2003
Comments
Hey Eileen; you are a book!!! Heres where it starts. Right here! The
Digger Hotel Round Table. The beguining of the Roaring Zeros. (2000-2010)
Wake up and smell the spirituality ya'll. Take heed from the tribal women,
Film, write, talk, dream, edit, publish, produce, act, react, regenerate,
smoke, drink, (creatively, that is)..dance, make music, illuminate,
invent, elect, emancipate, interconnect and embrace tommarrow and have
fun. (but you knew that)...P.S. I have a lead on renting a small house in
Calais. Now: alot has changed...I have one question:... are drugs, public
nudity, sanitation and code violations still an issue??? Just kidding; I
was goofing on that Morningstar Ranch thing...wow...In my book; home is
where no harm shall come. Later. P.S. Hey McMing: you got the South-East
covered??. If we get enough involved we could pipeline whats really
comming down in the "OUR" Nation. (But it would have to be word
on the street with no headlines)....naturally....
Name: Jag
EmailAddress:
Date: 25 Jul 2003
Comments
Eileen;
Thanks for the reply "Sam" :) let me know what you decide on.
Hammond and McMing make excellent sense, in my limited capacity all I
could add would be the old maxim "Every journey begins with the first
step".
Name: McMing
EmailAddress: to Eileen
Date: 25 Jul 2003
Comments
I am not the author of any published writings except here, maybe .. But
I know a few literary people .. (and of course, there are all kinds of
manuals & advice on how to write, to sell your writings, etc.) .. But
what I would mention is a little book called "Finding the
Center" by I believe V.S. Naipaul .. the crux is: to tell a story (
any story, including the story of your life ) first thing is to find the
center, the turning point, the 'McGuffin' if you will .. & then the
rest is easy. Story as meditation .. find this text & tell me I'm
wrong.
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 25 Jul 2003
Comments
Eileen - Much like life "it" (your book/story) is a play
without a plot and you begin now - heading anywhere you like. What
happened inbetween is the story - what happens now is the story and what
happens next is the story. Plenty of life actors to include my dear so
characters won't be hard to find. Didn't we already find a title of some
sort? "Computer Fried Prose" I think. Just go to work girl.....
That is how you do it. But you have to keep doing it...... and doing
it..... at least 3 hours a day min. until you have a first draft to work
with.....Write anytime....
:-) H.
Name: Eileen
EmailAddress:
Date: 25 Jul 2003
Comments
Oh this coming to the library for computer time is starting to drive me
nuts! I just scanned this page from the bottom up and I am so frustrated
not to be able to jump into the flow the way I so badly wish. As soon as I
get a job will get my internet connection. In the meantime..yes Jag, you
found me.
I just did a liver cleanse and wasn't up to the treck over here
yesterday. I can't belive what came out of my body (sorry folks) and how
much clearer my head is..so I expect my energy to follow suit. I knew this
trip..road food and Motel 6 pet friendly rooms, and housecleaning
chemicals would take their tole..yep. I am now starting a worm and
parasite (that was kind of ass backwards but I was in a hurry) to take
care of the Motel 6 stays, dairy, and meat. Eating any more has become
down right dangerous for me. Heck being in a body is dangerous. Ha!
Anyway the library is closed for the wkend..so have a good one yall.
Just know I keep an internal dialog with you ALL (am dying to get down
with the UFO, crop circle reporter) and am chopping at the bit to jump in
deeper.
PS..I was told once again today I should be writing a book. I just
don't have a clue where to begin. Any thoughts out there, how to get a
clue to even the topic? Can't figure out what to try to wrap my mind
around. As all of us have had enough of a life..not to mention simply One
Day!..how does one do this? Waht's the story?
Name: McMing
EmailAddress: Ashevillian
Date: 25 Jul 2003
Comments
Patrick .. hope you check back here today (Fri. 25th July) .. Bo
Diddley's playing tonight, 9 PM, not Saturday .. details on the festival
in the Mountain Express or Asheville Citizen-Times, both available on the
internet .. I might be there, not sure, I don't like being around crowds
much anymore .. but they sure know how to throw a party so nevermind my
old-man attitude .. great food & a really really great street party ..
One tip would be, take the shuttle bus in ($2/roundtrip) either from
Asheville Mall or K-Mart on Patton {W. A-ville} .[Parking will not be an
option downtown.] Other musical groups I can recommend -- Buncombe
Turnpike (4-part harmony on some wonderful old-timey & bluegrass
material) .. Ashley Chambliss (piano & vocals, her own original
material, a great vocalist .. think Ricki Lee Jones) .. Jimmy Landry ..
Ghost Mountain (blues out of Satchmo, channeled thru Memphis, with a
little detour thru the Delta) .. wear a hat if you're going, I'll have on
a Panama with a black ribbon & I'll look for ya.
Name: The 3rd Page
EmailAddress:
Date: 25 Jul 2003
Comments
3 new poems in War(d) Reports from Muldoon Elder, Adam Engel and Sam
Hamod
http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/Testpg5.html
Venceremos!
Name: patrick
EmailAddress: reconnected
Date: 25 Jul 2003
Comments
hey everyone!! ifinally have received my new laptop. I keep looking for
my side mouse. I'll get comfy with this one soon enough I'm sure.
Wow Nic, Great relay to Ohio Girl.
Steve Congrats on beatin' the rap. Love your mad energy bro.
Mcming are you gonna check out bo diddly at bele chere celebration
downtown on saturday night. Its kinda cool the city of Asheville providing
this 3 day deal at no charge to folks. This will be the first time
attendence for me. Glad the drinks are'nt free. I'd be bummed.
I don't post much on this sight, Although it is the only one I do post
on, But bI sure do relate to you all and look forward to reading the
guestbook. Thanks.
Good to be back to the mountains. It is sure a lot cooler temperature
and vibe wise than down in Georgia. Peace Patman
Name: Nik
EmailAddress:
Date: 25 Jul 2003
Comments
Steve, Eric called yesterday asking for beach suggestions so I gave him
directions to Brighton Beach...he's going today, perfect day for it...I'm
heading upstate at 3 so I won't know what he's up to after the beach...
Name: Steve
EmailAddress: ya'..again..
Date: 25 Jul 2003
Comments
Hey Rena,.. I just checked out that hippie museum site and ya!!! Char~*
does some good-vibe stuff alright!. Sorry to hear about Allan;..thats the
trouble with rapping on this guest (quest) book; everything slides by so
fast... anyway;..I Hope that Allen makes it in more ways than one. (and
here I was punchin' on my liver the other night)...Ya, right... guys!!..wanna
impress the girls??..punch yer' liver a few times. Wham... a few real good
stabs! Hey... back to Calais for a minute.. I understand that they have a
collage up there where I could maybe sit in for awhile,..maybe learn
something. Kinda' start off where I left off in 69. Close the hoop, so to
speak. I dont know. Up late...no one to talk to; even if I could.
Eileen;.. you up???
Name: Steve
EmailAddress: still up...
Date: 25 Jul 2003
Comments
Hey Eric;..let me know when you plan on hitting town. As I was telling
Rena;.. I dont get out much. Hey, I cant get my mind of of the north
country....I just found out that Calais was at one time dubbed Main Street
USA on account of US Highway No. 1 starting from there. I knew an old con
from Copper Harbor Michigan (upper penninsula) where Old Highway 41
started...but I dunno' what they called that place....he shot his finger
off with a 25. automatic while running through the woods one night hand
cuffed. He was chased down and tackled by the first female officer in that
neck of the woods. I think she was French-Indian. It was very romantic;
the moon-light, the trees, the snow,...the way he told it. ...something
about her ripping part of her blouse off in order to wrap up his bleeding
hand... and the long walk back. I can picture George Clunney starring in
that scene. Well,..it's all unfolding at this end;..the end is becomming a
begining...and none-to-soon either. Drop me a line. We can do somethin'...
maybe roll our pant legs up and walk in the rain.
Name: Steve...
EmailAddress: up late again...name dropping...
Date: 25 Jul 2003
Comments
Hey RNA... I just checked you out on the web; (Rena Morningstar) (Google..I'm
feeling lucky)... wow,...what a site..(the site I mean)...I will delve
into it sooner than later. (the site I mean..)... Yep;..that's the gal who
curled up and smiled at me alright! ...yep!
Name: Steve again...
EmailAddress: smilin'
Date: 24 Jul 2003
Comments
Dylan??..(he dont remember me either)...Dawn??..with me around; not
even the crack of dawn is safe. But really folks; here' my final score: No
Hep. No T.B. No STD. No HIV. NO FUN. What an evening: I was a perfect
gentleman and RNA was a perfect lady. (dont ya' hate when that
happens??)... The best years are ahead of us all! I would like to start
planning for communal retirement. Pooling SSI, pension and retirement
checks,...get a gang of three wheeled bicycles and wheel chairs going.
Drill out the core of our walking canes and fill them with Led. Lean on
the Sunday Bingo games for a cut of the action...maybe push generic drugs,
or pan-handle off of the grandkids. You know... keep it respectable.
Name: Steve
EmailAddress: Spell-Check
Date: 24 Jul 2003
Comments
Ah...make that "Stroked"..(what kinda' freak do ya' think I
am??)...
Name: Steve
EmailAddress: late riser
Date: 24 Jul 2003
Comments
Im' still faking out alot of the locals...I stay walled up on the 4th
floor and they all think Im' in Maine. Hey Rena, I got yer' note. Sorry to
miss the connection. As I said I will swing up for a short stay at my
son's place and see whats cookin'. Must return to NYC by Aug. 14th to
cover a shift. Will E-mail and write from up there most likely. Wow,..I
never figured out whether stickin' yer' pants up yer' ass like that was an
attempt at keeping yer' clothes dry or to get yer'legs wet...but who
cares??!!,...the crowd liked it! You were a real tourist attraction. Those
legs..wow!!! It was like a Heafty Bag commercial gone 50's. A dancing
trash bag. Folks, it was like a 55 gallon condom with a ten quart
reservoir tip. She called it a "hooded poncho". (I asy she
picked it up in the Valley of the Jolly Green Giant. Man; those legs!!...Nik
will back me up on this:..I sank to my knees in the church foyer and
kneeded, strocked and patted them. (and that was before greeting her
hello)...oh, those legs. On our way up to check my mail, Rena pointed out
some Infamous local hang-outs where she used to teeny-bop. Hey Nik; your'
hair looked lovely. It shows off your' facial bone structure. Cant wait to
settle in up at Calais. Maybe Free the place up a bit. Who knows...maybe
they could us a good-will ambassador. (or did I proclaim myself Mayor...I
cant remember)...I should have;..then again...In any event: "Welcome
all". And remember; Everything in moderation...including moderation.
Name: Jag
EmailAddress:
Date: 24 Jul 2003
Comments
Eileen;
I've tried to e-mail you but I don't think its working, I was offering
you a complilation of music for a house warming present, if your
interested let me know and I hope all is well.
(you have my address I think)
Name: Jag
EmailAddress: @rememberjoehill.com
Date: 24 Jul 2003
Comments
http://www.jwj.org/
Jobs With Justice
I participate in a little legislative spamming through these folks, a
worthwhile organization.
Name: rena
EmailAddress: dancing in the rain
Date: 24 Jul 2003
Comments
it's thursday and it's raining. doesn't look like we're going to see
you today Steve. i'm fine with the rain, but today is my daughter's
agenda...
Name: r n a
EmailAddress: revolve rotate radiate
Date: 23 Jul 2003
Comments
p.s. Steve... i love Sunrises also. i'm always up at the crack of dawn,
as dylan used to sing... (at least on Maui)
Name: Rena
EmailAddress: grinning
Date: 23 Jul 2003
Comments
had a great evening with Professor Boyd last night. Look forward to our
next conversations. I'm hoping to get by for another visit before heading
back to Maui. Will you be around tomorrow afternoon, Steve? I'll be
treading through a shopping blitz with my daughter in SoHo and hope to
steer the energy over to positively 4th street. I'm hoping to just aim
down to the vegetarian restaurant across the street from your digs when we
arrive in the city, and stop by your place first. i'm expecting we'll be
in the area around noon. Nicole, too bad you had to leave so soon. I
wanted to hear you sing and i know we have lots of magical stories and
adventures to share.
Steve, thanks again for a memorable night. I enjoyed our walk in the
concrete rainforest. next time on maui!
hope to see you before my flight Tuesday. with Aloha, Rena
ps grandson Ben was a dream. He likes my singing!
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 23 Jul 2003
Comments
Nicole,
I thank you for the effort you made as well. Making connections for
Ohio Girl and acting on opportunities to further a mutual context lies
really at the core of the Digger legacy. A very elegant act. Each one
teach one. That is the prevailing response at Planet Drum (PB/JG) to the
present shit mess this culture is in. In conversation a week or so ago, PB
very eloquently described the power of an individual act and the ripple
effect it can have . In a replay of Les Diggers de San Francisco a few
days ago I got the whole thing again. Eileen, at the risk of speaking for
PB which is always dangerous, I hope that answers your earlier question
about what their response to it all is. The song remains the same. I am
still only 1% Free but I am working on the other part too.
Eileen,
In reference to the need to move, I mean just start moving, I am
afflicted with or genetically predisposed to the same tendency. I have
learned or have been conditioned to temper it but I know that I have to
trust my own voice. When that nomadic voice raises to the forefront of my
generally chaotic inner conversation I know it's time to get on the
highway. Once in 1991 or 2, after suffering a severe case of job burnout
in the local trauma center, I drove non-stop from Ben Lomond (Santa Cruz,
Ca) to San Antonio, hung a right down to Corpus Christie, out over the
bridge to Padre Island and hung a left over to Port Aransas, straight to
the shrimp fleet dock, bought bag of freshly caught big ole shrimp, bought
a bottle of wine, checked into a campground nearby and cooked killer plate
of scampi, drank the wine and went to bed. I had no idea that I would end
up there but I had to go.
Name: Eileen
EmailAddress:
Date: 23 Jul 2003
Comments
Steve Rena Nicole..such a beautiful report. And the offer to Ohio
Girl< Nicole? I'm so glad, so proud to be in such good company.
Name: RED NECK POET BILOXI
EmailAddress: jed_wainright@hotmail.com
Date: 23 Jul 2003
Comments
AUTHORITY
YOU SAY YOU DROPPED OUT
YOU LOVE IT
WOULD YOU GET IT
THE MILGRAM BUZZ
WAVEY LINECROSS
NO TRIANGLE
YOU GIVE THE MILGRAM BUZZ
SEDUCED BY THE WHITE COAT
THE CLIPBOARD
THE ATTENTION
YOU KEEP CRANKING IT UP
AND BUZZING THAT BUZZ
COS HE SAID ITS OK
GET THAT MILGRAM BUZZ
HELL ITS NOT YOUR FAULT
YOU KNEW THE GUY WAS IN PAIN
YOU HAD TO KEEP ON PRESSING
I WAS FOLLOWING ORDERS
YOU WOULD DO IT AGAIN
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 23 Jul 2003
Comments
Nicole,
I saw that story a while ago on CNN's website. Reminds me of the Mayor
Moscone/Harvey Milk murder in SF City Hall. BTW, we out here have been
without smoking in public places including bars and restaurants for some
years now and it is well accepted by the majority. At first there was a
backlash but it died down rather quickly. When I still worked at the
hospital I sometimes would go outside for some air, and be amazed to find
smokers standing in the rain puffing away. Several of them were
Respiratory Therapy Techs. My Daughter just returned from NYC and loved it
but she said smoking is more prevalent there than in Dallas. In later
years when I was working for Ford I noticed about 4 years ago that they
were eliminating ashtrays and lighters from some of their new models.
Times change. They now offer a "smokers option" if you want it
equipped that way.
Name: Jag
EmailAddress: @Keepyourheaddown.com
Date: 23 Jul 2003
Comments
Nichole
Lunatic fringe strikes again, this is a crazy mixed up muddled up world
for sure, by the way I spelled it that way cause it seemed right (I guess
it was) :-)
Name: Nicole
EmailAddress: thiscrazy@world.notverycalm
Date: 23 Jul 2003
Comments
News Flash!!! A gun man just opened fire on people in City Hall...2
people shot, the mayor, Bloomberg is unharmed...the gunman still at large.
The city shutting down again...bridges and tunnels closed...subways
rerouted...ugh!...probably someone pissed off about not being able to
smoke in his neighborhood tavern...
Name: Jag
EmailAddress:
Date: 23 Jul 2003
Comments
Alright Nichole, second times the charm!!
Name: Nicole
EmailAddress:
Date: 23 Jul 2003
Comments
Jag, you're an awesome human being...the music was in the mail today,
thank You.
Name: Reversed Freudian?
EmailAddress:
Date: 23 Jul 2003
Comments
"memer(ship)" = "member(ship)" = oh well - )(-
there ya go!
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 23 Jul 2003
Comments
Nic - Excellence in motion my dear - eh what Ohio Girl? Nic is right on
the pulse - the heart beat that somehow surrounds us all,
Ohio Girl - and all who dislike your spamic drudgery - postini.com is
very -very good. I have used their filters for 2 years and only on rare
occasion do I get a spammed message in my actual mailbox - like one or two
a month. All of the defered spam goes to a file at postini (virus
possibles are listed sep.). I get around 200 non-virus letters a day from
relatives of the Abacha family trust in Nigeria, salespam-verts offering
immediate ways to engorge my memer(ship), tips on how make oodles and
oodles of money at home and of course all the porn anyone could ever not
want! - with postini this is all very easy to dump - or read if I want to
- and easy to sep. out any you want to deliver to your mail box at home.
Highly reccomended!!!
Name: Ohio girl
EmailAddress:
Date: 23 Jul 2003
Comments
Thank-you Jag for relaying my information! Nicole your last message
sure had me laughing. You should have my address and e-mail address and
phone number now, I didn't want to put my e-mail address up here, I
already have a lifetime supply of Spam and am seemingly best friends to
everyone in Nigeria.
Name: Jag
EmailAddress:
Date: 23 Jul 2003
Comments
Nichole check your e-mail I, forwarded some info for Ohio Girl, I think
it is fantastic what you might be able to accomplish for her.
Your Rena, Steve meeting sounds alot like a typical day in Oregon, wet
with a chance of wetter, although today is heading for the 80's not
typical here.
Name: Nicole
EmailAddress:
Date: 23 Jul 2003
Comments
...so yesterday afternoon, 5 ish, I'm sitting in my little cubicle and
in walks Rena, gorgeous earth mother goddess...and I realized very soon
that I am way out of step with the "natural" world...the weather
was extreme yesterday in the northeast in terms of rain and wind...but was
I concerned when I left for work? of course not...so there we were walking
down the street in ...she in her sturdy sandals with her pants cleverly
rolled up and pinned to her sides, a rain poncho with a hood...and an
umbrella, a change of dry clothes in a bag, etc etc etc and meanwhile
there I am with my fru fru shoes falling apart because they're getting
soaked, my veddy sophisticated pants turning into wicks and drawing tons
of water upwards to my knees, my umbrella carefully directing water into
my purse...etc etc etc...We arrived at Steves and after a short visit
there I had to leave...and I'm so sorry I did as it turned out...the sushi
was good but the company was not...and it sounds like they had a lovely
evening ...my loss. Nik
Name: Ohio girl
EmailAddress: Thank-you Nicole
Date: 23 Jul 2003
Comments
I'd like to meet all of you in person. But then it would be the sixties
again, when we didn't have to go looking for a home, when we were all
drawn together and it was a real home for awhile. (Maybe not
"we" specifically, but we the group who have never settled in
quite right since then, not most of us).
Nicole that's a beautiful offer, it can't hurt and just think, what if
it helped. Thank-you.
Name: Steve again...
EmailAddress: a real vibe.....
Date: 22 Jul 2003
Comments
Well; It was the final straw: Yep..Im' a sun-rise boy and she's a
sunset girl; I demanded her to get out!...she curled up on the couch and
smiled. I suggested that we settle it by sitting back-to-back. No dice.
She lulled me with tales of Einstine, whale songs and water babies.
Looking rather dapper: in a Village sort of way,.. I hailed a cab on 6th
Avenue pointing to Rena all-the-while to keep them from zooooming by. (but
thats another story). Theres alot to be said about spending an evening
talking to a lady. I never knew what I was missing. You folks gotta try
it. On that note, I look forward to sitting down with each and every one
of you in this life time... whether up in Calais, here in NYC, or out on
the coast. Its a date. You too Sponge.
Name: Silent Steve
EmailAddress: silentsteveboyd@hotmail.com
Date: 22 Jul 2003
Comments
Oh Rena... the rain...the walk...the summer colored skin...Im' proud to
say that Im' past fifty. What a lovely evening,..exchanging our most
valuable possession ...our time. Aloha. Until we meet again. Aloha.
Name: Nik Rena and Steve
EmailAddress:
Date: 22 Jul 2003
Comments
Hi everyone, here we are at the WFSUMC mission accomplished! It's
raining cows and chickens out side...I forgot the camera...so we'll just
have to tell you all about it later. With warmregards, Nik
Name: Again and again...
EmailAddress: using up ink...
Date: 22 Jul 2003
Comments
Ah..make that "STEED". Well, its about 5:45. I gotta go meet
three wet ladies out front soon. Or.. maybe just a little damp... Its been
pouring off and on...or..on and off; (I can never tell)...can you? Will
give a full report on their conduct later. Trust me.
Name: Steve Again...
EmailAddress: CAMERA???????
Date: 22 Jul 2003
Comments
Wow!!..I can show off my tattoos, my half-assed wall mural...and lets
not leave out my stead; Ol'Legally Clyde. Hey Nik; since our trails
crossed last; I got as inked up as a Barbary Pirate. (he who put down the
funny-pages)..truth is; I went full-color in order not to project a gang
or jail-house image. Still have alot of spaces to fill. Ive' been divorced
for about ten years now and am just starting to feel single. Odd...very
odd.
Name: Steve
EmailAddress: all wet at this end
Date: 22 Jul 2003
Comments
Raining off and on here...sure.. I will hang in there Eileen...hey Nik;
fine cause. Im' awarding you today with a very small gold anchor and
heart. (symbolizes Hope and Charity).. you may want to add a cross to it
for Faith;.. but then again; you have enough of that to go around as it
is. OK;.. where were we?..oh ya..Gouge has the South West proper. Hey, I
helped Martha My Dear plant flowers and string up a series of white wire
fences out front. We did it in the rain. I got about 45 years younger real
fast. Bare-footed. Good feeling.(as in feeling good) Back to the
cause:..Best wishes to all of the Hep and Hip folks out there as well. I
dont mean to make light of it,..but most are likely Hep-Hip, dig? (or
would that be Hip-Hep?)...anyway, try to get George Carlin in on it. Hey;
Im' trying to curb my foul language. It's easy to swear...but when your'
mute,.. it takes an effort to spell out all of those dirty words...so;..thats
a help I guess. This is yer' Ol' Uncle Steve sayin': Keep It Clean Kids.
Name: The 3rd Page
EmailAddress: letters@spiritone.com
Date: 22 Jul 2003
Comments
New click image series! (by Hammond)
"Suit Suite" http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/suitsuite.html
:-)
Name: Nicole
EmailAddress:
Date: 22 Jul 2003
Comments
Ohio Girl, Just got off the phone with a friend of mine who is
organizing a big fund raiser for hepc research. They are hosting a black
tie event and selling tables for between 10,000 and 50,000$ and have sold
over 350 tables so far. My friend Julia is married to Willie Nelsons bass
player and so of course they will be playing and another patient of Dr.
Bacon is Naomi Judd,(she will be performing also)any way they called me to
get in touch with Peter to see if he'd be interested in participating
(Willies suggestion) I say all that to say this, Julia said that Dr. Bacon
is the number one specialist and hep c researcher and that he is wonderful
about helping people out who are having a difficult time of it (in terms
of healing or financially) She said he is willing to travel also and that
as a favor for my helping her on this event, she'd have him call me...but
I'm Okay so I'd like to have him call you...you up for that? let me
know...Maybe he can help you...let me know
Name: Jag
EmailAddress:
Date: 22 Jul 2003
Comments
http://www.portodeisanti.org/james_koller.htm
Eileen, I found these works by James Koller most are recent but
beautiful non-the -less
Name: Eileen
EmailAddress:
Date: 22 Jul 2003
Comments
Oh yeah..cell phones. you got that so right. I was having a bit of road
rage last yr tail gating and all and someone called the cops on me. Put a
whole new twist on things out there that's for sure. I'm really wanting
you to keep us with you Steve.
Name: Steve Again...
EmailAddress: they said that it couldnt happen here
Date: 22 Jul 2003
Comments
Hey Eileen, in my day (as a rubber bum)..while thumbing mother road;
snitch poles (CB antenas) were the dead give-away. But on that note; they
were only used to detect the heat. What with 99% of the population in
today's snitch-society; the American public (spell that p-u-b-i-c) ARE the
heat. Walking, jogging and driving around with a cell phone glued to their
ears, its odd, un-natural and un-nerving. It puts a whole new cyber-slant
on the hick-term "Yer not from around here..are ya??!!" and/or
"You might know where yer' goin'..but I dont think ya' know where ya
are!!!" Watch yer back out there kid. I know that I will. Calais is
calling. I hope that in our own ways; we can all find our own private
Olema.
Name: Steve
EmailAddress: just woke up
Date: 22 Jul 2003
Comments
Hey Hammond; it was me playing Moses. Really, the Money and Prestige
thing is motivating and thats about all. It takes more than drive. But
think about it;..if it was a ghanga sosiety and we all swapped dope for
goods; the elders would be saying: dont chase after the "Almighty
Dope" (instead of "Dollar"). Its basic symbolism; or; to an
extreme "Idolism". The money is (like all Idols) hollow. I hope
that the youngens on site didnt take it wrong. Its the core that counts.
Got to get to the root. (OK girls:... The Garden). More than enough TV
evangalists already. What was I thinkin'???...Hey: Ive' got some terrific
news of a personal nature; but am keeping it personal..(that's a first).
Although Calais will be home port, I was just informed via snail-mail that
I will always have a snug harbor in the land-locked mid-west. The love
involved
