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Name: Silent Steve
EmailAddress: MFPNYC
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
Open Letter to my friends at United for Peace and Justic, No Blood For
Oil,Not In Our Name, NYC Anarchists, ACT UP NYC, RCP Youth Brigade, The
Brooklyn Greens, Loud Brooklyn Dykes, Booklyn Parents for Peace, Hunter
Col. Student Lib eration Action Movement, Reclaim the Streets, The Pink
Bloc, Shift Control, Black Cross, Medical Activists of NY, Not In Our Name
Youth, Wetlands Activism Center, Williamsburg Peace Coalition, Industrial
Workers of the World NYC Branch, *And Others: Thanks for your' support and
encouragement. All of you fuckers made some big points here. See you all
this Sunday. Got loads more Free Digger Bread (with butter this time) and
free cold drinks. Will also set up a Mic for P.A. system. See ya in
Church. Steve
Name: Steve
EmailAddress: 49th&5th
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
Shit, I missed Ramsey Clark's press conference here at the Peace
Church. Thanks again Hammond. Hey Nik; I have a copy of "The Last
Empire", 1986 film featuring Chomsky, Zinn, Dellums, Forsberg,
Ellsberg, Caldicott and Tsipis. You gotta see it. Later. M.F.P.N.Y.C.The
Monochrome Mute.
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
Hammond,
It is alive! Mutes for Peace is represented.
Name:
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
It Works!!!
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
HTML is such a pain!!!
Here it is one last time folks
Mute Force! http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/mutesforpeace.html
Please say it works......
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
Hammond, all I bring up is a blank page; John
Name: 3rd Page
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
Mark..... Hummm....... I will investigate but it really should be
working - can anyone see it? someone? http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/mutesforpeace.html
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
Hammond,
I just checked it again at 2:45 pm Pacific Time and it is still blank.
Name: Nicole
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
Hammond, leaving the office now, and if you think the great lakes poem
is a better bio...well sir, you are the editor and I trust you.
Name: Cat D
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
Hi everyone i finaly took the plunge and bought my first PC so I can
visit more often. Its been a very busy month at work so I havn't been
around .Just popping in to say hello and I hope this message finds you all
well.
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
Mark - thanks, I am working on the site so at times it might not work.
I have redone the image - see if it works now
Mute Force! http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/mutesforpeace.html
Name: TRON WILLIAMS
EmailAddress: TRONTAZZ5@HOTMAIL.COM
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
NO COMMENTS, BUT LET ME GIVE YOU SOME POEMS IN MY HEAD. MY MIND IS FULL
OF WORDS THAT PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD NEED TO LISTEND. I HAVE THINGS THAT A
MAN CAN'T HANDLE NO MORE. WE DIE AND HOPE TO LIVE AGAIN, BUT WISH WE CAN
PAID I WAY TO HEAVEN. GOD IS NOT A JUDGE OR A LAWYER, BUT YOU CAN'T GET
WAY WITH THE CRIMES THE YOU DID. I AM TRYING TO LET PEOPLE NO THAT A
COUNTRY MAN WILL DIE IN YOUR ARM WITH SAD GOOD BYES, BUT WANT YOU LIVE
AGAIN. WHEN YOU DIE TO SOON, YOU MADE YOUR CHOICE THAT HELL IS YOUR HOME
TO LIVE IN. DON'T CRY BECAUSE YOU DID WRONG AND WANT TO REPENT YOUR SINS.
YOU DON'T HAVE NO FRIENDS WHO LOVE YOU LIKE YOUR FAMILY DO. LET ME STOP
AND JUST EMAIL ME
Name: Mark
EmailAddress: Techsupport@Mutesforpeace.com
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
Hammond,
I just tried that link you posted 3 times and it is coming up as Mutes
for Peace but no image. Check it out as I think it needs some tweaking.
Name: The 3rd Page
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
Mark - and ?
Steve's pic direct access!
http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/mutesforpeace.html
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
Nicole,
I got your message. Looks like all is okay here. Maybe it was a web
traffic problem that has passed.
I haven't heard from Eileen yet as she is in the process of settling in
on the Big Island.
Scroll down through the weekend messages and find the link to Steve's
picture from IndyMedia NYC during the "die in" in Manhattan last
week. Very inspiring.
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
Nicole,
I got your message. Looks like all is okay here. Maybe it was a web
traffic problem that has passed.
I haven't heard from Eileen yet as she is in the process of settling in
on the Big Island.
Scroll down through the weekend messages and find the link to Steve's
picture from IndyMedia NYC during the "die in" in Manhattan last
week. Very inspiring.
Name: Nicole
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
Eric,Mark, Hammond and Steve...well here I am so it's okay now...just a
temporary glitch I guess...
Name: Nicole
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
Patrick, Eileen is in the middle of moving...to Hawaii I think...she
thought she might be out of touch for a bit...good hearing from you
again...
Name: Nicole
EmailAddress:
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
Patrick, Eileen is in the middle of moving...to Hawaii I think...she
thought she might be out of touch for a bit...good hearing from you
again...
Name: patrick
EmailAddress: quick, reverse the fan
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
This just in.It looks like Peter Arnett is has just died for Bush's
sins.All the other reporters seem to tremble this morning after Arnett was
canned for spewing the truth. Silent Steve-- Now I realize why I have
moved back to the city from the deep mountain woods.You don't need to
change your look man. Fierce is GOOD. WWhere is Eileen?
Name: patrick
EmailAddress: quick, reverse the fan
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
This just in.It looks like Peter Arnett is has just died for Bush's
sins.All the other reporters seem to tremble this morning after Arnett was
canned for spewing the truth. Silent Steve-- Now I realize why I have
moved back to the city from the deep mountain woods.You don't need to
change your look man. Fierce is GOOD. WWhere is Eileen?
Name: Annie Christ
EmailAddress: MildAnarchist@excite.com
Date: 31 Mar 2003
Comments
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here to visit the International Anarchist’s Alliance</a>
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Name: Steve Presley
EmailAddress: Memphis Rising
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
Hammond...(I mean Col. Parker)..you can have every word that I ever
spewed. Re-shape them, mix and match em'...cut up, paste up. Do yer' beat
thing. Have at it. Build a Super Human. Mutes For Peace...("Ya' dont
say??)...
Name: Silent Steve
EmailAddress: standing on the Nile
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
Great Meeting. Man those Anarchists are just to damned organized. It
defeats the purpose. Kinda' like a filthy neat-freak. Big meeting again
next Sunday. Get Here. Big Doin's. Radiant??!!!..ya,..ya, ..sure..like a
monochrome mummy rising from Memphis. I saw a photo of me getting hand
cuffed; resembled the President of the Straight Satans getting busted with
Manson,...I need a good make-over.
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
3rd page, I looked, I Liked, very enigmatic.
Name: 3rd Page Archive
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
This is from Vol. 1 - Click on each image to continue - :-) The 3rd
Page
"Live Open" http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/LIVEOPEN.HTML
Name: Turning over in my grave
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
When the going got tough in '68 the "tough" got going, headed
to the hills. The theorists an tacticians an philosophers fell over each
other to get out of town, when it got too real. Steve you look radiant in
that picture. Great Shot. Unless the momentum is turned it wont matter how
many shrubs we plant.
Name: FYI Service
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
On April 5th QUICKSILVER GOLD will be performing their debut concert at
The Marin Center Exhibit Hall, located 20 miles north of the Golden Gate
Bridge. This all star band will be paying tribute to the legendary 60's
band Quicksilver Messenger Service, performing such songs at "Who Do
You Love", "Pride of Man", „What About Me",
"Dino's Song", "Fresh Air", "Mona", and
more. This special show also features Jefferson Starship (with Jefferson
Airplane founders Marty Balin & Paul Kantner and special guests) and
local favorites Vinyl. Wavy Gravy will MC. A special dance performance by
Estara and a world class multimedia light show!
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the McGinnis Skate Park in
San Rafael.
JUST ANNOUNCED ˆ SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMERS! David Frieberg (Quicksilver
Messenger Service, Jefferson Starship), Greg Elmore (Quicksilver Messenger
Service), Kathi McDonald (Big Brother & The Holding Company, Ike &
Tina Turner), Signe Anderson (Jefferson Airplane), China (daughter of
Grace Slick & Paul Kantner) Kantner, Jose Najera (David Grisman,
Babatunde, Merl Saunders) Darby Gould (Jefferson Starship) and other
surprises!
For ticket information, see the concert poster at:
http://www.vinylgroove.com/images/SKATEPeacePoster150dpi.jpg
Name: The 3rd Page
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
Steve - Now click on "Silent Steve"
http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/Testpg4.html
Name: Steve
EmailAddress: The Village
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
Mark, you may try the Newark Airport and take the Path in, or just grab
the bus from there. Bring a friend and Crash here if ya wanna' save the
big bucks. The Lady Reverend is comming to town to either kill me or bless
me with eternal life around that time, so it may be a soap opera in
progress, but hey; in any event WELCOME. You can get to the 4th Street
Station from everywhere. Give Nik as buzz; we can all Drink For Peace. Hey
Hammond: on that bio, remember that Im' whats wrong with this
country...(least we forget)...
Name: Ohio girl
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
Protesting pays off. We protested budget cuts to the residents' evening
snacks at the nursing home, which was gross, eating snacks was a simple
and enjoyable activity and they need the nutrition. A whole bunch of aides
put in our 2 cents worth. It actually worked, the good snack foods came
back. It feels so cold out today, around 30 degrees. A few weeks ago 30
degrees would have felt like a heat wave. Anyways there are buds and the
beginning of leaves of the trees and bushes, boy am I ready for spring and
summer. Peace
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
Steve,
I may be coming to NYC on the weekend of the 12/13 to attend the
anti-war rally. Let me know if you want to get together, I can't get
arrested though, gotta be back in California by Monday evening. Looks like
at this point I will be coming alone unless I can shake some money out of
a tree. At any rate is it better to fly into LaGuardia or JFK?
Name: Silent Steve
EmailAddress: silentsteveboyd@hotmail.com
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
Hammond;...more bile??...ah..Bio??? Sure,..lets see....Founding Father
and Spokesperson" of Mutes For Peace, self-styled Traitor, Peace
Church Sexton, Artist in Residence, Board of Trustee member, Homeless Task
Force member, Out Reach Ministries member, Martha's Kitchen food
coordinator, guiding light of the Up-Against-The Altar-Mother Fucker
Project (on going, work in progress)...Sole Proprietor of the
on-again-off-again branch of the 21st Century New York City Diggers
supported and supporting the Washington Square United Methodist Church,
Soul Child of Eileen Ewing, Hashish Hound, matrimonial adventurer and
explorer of the occult regions. (among other things.)
Name: Silent Steve
EmailAddress: silentsteveboyd@hotmail.com
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
ACHTUNG!!...if any one gets an Email from "Me" (Steve Boyd or
Silent Steve).. DO NOT OPEN IT. But if you do, ..do not buy any of the
horse-shit. I only return (answer) Emails. I do not send first. Got
That??? Also...the fuck-offs who stir the honey on this site have been
silent..(bad sign)...there are also some "Game-Players" who have
hit the FFOR page. These folks do not have real lives, so the make do.
Creepy aint it???
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
Steve - Thanks mate, I am glad you like the layout and text on your 3rd
Page - Vinceremos Mutes For Peace (you traitors!) - Bio statement - now
just a litle more on YOU! - at Peace Church / in NYC - and a url link to
the church or your favorite motorcycle repair shop okay?
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
Mark - Steve - Hummm...... anarchists on the loose with your address'
beware! Thanks for the spelling JAG - Here is the link again with
correction and a new link at the bottom of the page - Click DIGGERS NYC
http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/mutes.html
Cheers, H.
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
Mark - Steve - Hummm...... anarchists on the loose with your address'
beware! Thanks for the spelling JAG - Here is the link again with
correction and a new link at the bottom of the page - Click DIGGERS NYC
Cheers, H.
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
Hammond,
Sorry that message posted to Nicole was for you about the mysterious
email. I didn't send anything and I didn't send anything from Planet Drum
either. I ran a virus scan and nothing came up.
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
And the winner is "Paparazzi" (accordding to my MS Word spell
check)
Name: Steve
EmailAddress: silentstevboyd@hotmail.com
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
Hammond; I didnt send anything. Ive' blown away all of my Email
contacts and only resend to folks who write to me first; then I blow
everything away again. Been getting alot of Digger inquiries from Germany
but they are not in English. (???!!!) Hey Joe, big doin's over here at the
Peace Church tonight at 6:00 p.m. Check it out. Hey Nik; thanks, and all
of my best to you and the boys in the "Band". P.S. Hey Hammond;
my Bio???...ahhh...Benign I hope!!! Just put that I graduated from the
Olema Ranch Fool's school with flying colors, class of '70'. (End of the
World Mob.) Full-fledged "J.D" (Juvinile Delinquint/Junior
Digger) Hey, nice job stringing together the train of thought. You are one
hell of a word Smith. Still trying to find time to pick up your' book
again.
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
Nicole,
I didn't send you anything from my home or Planet Drum yesterday. I was
at Planet Drum on Thursday but didn't send any emails that day. I will
rerun my virus scan and see if I can figure it out.
Name: FYI Service
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
The Bechtel Haliburton Bout
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2003/03/29/BU245605.DTL
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
Thanks Nic - I look forward to the changes!
Does anyone know how to spell 'paparazi' correctly?
Steve and Mark - did you each send me an e-mail yesterday? Mark's was
with out subject from planetdrum and Steve's was labeled
"Congratulations." - They were both picked up by my virus
catcher so I had to dump them without reading the infections. Let me know
if you actually send these - if not some log-brain is using your address
book for virtually vile purposes.
FYI - and prayers - New to The 3rd Page
"The Deadly Mirhab" http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/eden.html
Name: Nicole
EmailAddress:
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
I'm up here in Saugerties on the river...it's beautiful, grey and misty
slight rain, swans gliding, trees budding, one quiet fly fisher casting
from his row boat...peaceful. Going into woodstock to play music at 2:00
and back to the city this evening...
Loved the pics of you Steve...I'm so proud to have you representing...
...in regard to "women did all the work" I believe that
everyone did equal parts at different times...some times words are what is
needed and sometimes it's plain ol' elbow grease, sometimes brainstorming
but ALWAYS men and women contributing what ever it is they can and are
willing to at any given moment...balance...yin and yang...positive
negitive...working, standing still, talking, being silent...men &
women. Warm regards to all, Nik
ps. Hammond, I will e to you a small bio and I also edited my piece
just slightly and will send it as well...
Eileen are you in the islands yet?
Name: Tom Diaz
EmailAddress: tomas@laurelrose.com
Date: 30 Mar 2003
Comments
Orchestra Baobab http://www.orchestrabaobab.com
Name: Tom Diaz
EmailAddress: tomas@laurelrose.com
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
Re Turning over in my grave.. “The digger men have been playing with
their lavoliers since '66. The women always did do all the work, all the
men ever did was talk. Blah Blah Blah.”
**
In 1967 at Tolstoy Farm I worked very hard. Working at Morningstar was
difficult. In 1968 I decided to go back into the money community and since
1968 I have been working very physically outside in all types of weather
on the Ohio River. My head and mind stayed at the place that I learned to
be, at; Morningstar. I have lived in the/that moment and the space
provided by life. I did that until my body said quit in 1998. About that
time I started to write knowing that I had to continue to work, moving
forward with my body not wanting to pound the earth anymore.
I understand statement above but is does not apply to me. Work lets me
see the sun, lets me be.
Name:
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diggers
Name: Silent Steve
EmailAddress: Mutes For Peace
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
ACHTUNG New Yorkers. M27 Coalition Meeting: Sunday March 30th
Washington Square Peace Church 135 West 4th Street, between Wash. Sq. Park
and 6th Ave. refer to m27 web site for agenda.
Name: ?????
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
Is that the (truthful) voice of Eileen?
Name: Turning over in my grave
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
The digger men have been playing with their lavoliers since '66. The
women always did do all the work, all the men ever did was talk. Blah Blah
Blah.
Name: THE 3RD PAGE
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
THANKS MARK and STEVE -
"Mutes For Peace" http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/Testpg4.html
Then click on "MUTE FORCE!"
Name: Ohio girl
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
Great picture!! And thank-you Mark, I can never figure out anything
except a direct link.
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
Steve,
That is a fucking great picture! Here is a link directly to it. Check
it out.
http://f15.nycimc.org/gallery/album29/mutesforpeace
Name: Silent Steve
EmailAddress: I left it in the street
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
Thanks for the honor Hammond. Hey, if ya do wanna' tag on a photo of
the founding father of Mutes For Peace; check out http://www.indymedia.org/
under Indymedia Coverage, just click onto New York City. Im' blazing like
a silver moon in the Gallery which is fronted by the Cop on horseback.
Click him to open the gallery. Again,...thanks for the support.
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
Steve - Wrong!
Here is the working link -
"Mutes For Peace" http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/Testpg4.html
Name: The 3rd Page
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
Steve - Click on your reverse radiation icon in this section: And let
me know....
"Mutes For Peace!" http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/Testps4.html
AsEver -
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
Hammond, Cheeny's relation to Haliburton is well-documented, his
multi-million dollar severance package so he could accept the VP was also
a slap in the mug to all Americans who expected an unjaundiced approach to
business by this adminstration as for proving his energy commision's ties
to all of the above, the fact that he refuse's to release it's
participants and has successfuly quashed any and all attempt's at forceful
disclosure is proof enough that he has much to hide. He needed a Supreme
Court ruling to accomplish it while we were all "distracted" by
the impending war.
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress: writenow@spiritone.com
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
Steve - Perfecto (and further notes are welcome) - I will create a 3rd
Page from all of your notes regarding Mutes For Peace - ending with how
"The Mutes For Peace thing bombed out" and post the link
tomorrow sometime. Are there any web links that might apply or and .jpg
photos of you at the scene?
Gouge - How would you like your name listed in The 3rd Page - Alias
Gouge or Paul Gouge?
Nicole (Gouge and Steve) - Please send me (individual e-mail) a brief
bio statement I can attach to your names in the index of contributors.
Nic - any links to your music would be perfecto!
Once I am ready to launch Vol 2 (end of next week or before) I will
send all contributors the link and any changes or additions can easily be
made. Thanks to all 3 of you for participating!
Name:
EmailAddress: Hai Ku'ed
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
A twig, a leaf, a drop of dew, sunlight glistening, life anew
Name: Steve
EmailAddress: "Traiter" Vic's
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
Au...well Hammond, the Mutes For Peace was a spur of the moment thing
to basically cover my ass in reference to Police Brutality. I was filmed
by both sides (Press and Cops) before, during and after my arrest, and
made it very clear that I was pretty fucked up.I had the misfortune to lay
down in the street next to a cat who's sign said: "Your Silence Is
Killing Us". It was the same type of brown tombstone sign with white
letters as my sign. (both being painted at the same Wash. Sq. Church
rally)..aint it the way?..talk about coincidences. Basically, the M.F.P.'s
(Me) was a one-man cell. (impossible to infiltrate) and I guess the mottos
would be: "Actions speak louder than words", "Find A
Voice", Say It Loud" and my favorite: "Shut Up"
(Thanks Little Richard)...maybe I could broaden the appeal and make it
less exclusive by welcoming Mimes into the fold. I keep seeing photos of
folks who were on both sides of me, but I turned off the paparatzi by
continually pointing to the hole in my neck with my middle finger. Thats
what pissed the cops off. Hey, a big Hello to Melisa of the War Resisters
League. Later Hammond. Hey, drop in any time. "MUTES FOR PEACE"
Name: The 3rd Page
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
Tragedy (today) in war - what else is there?
"The Deadly Mihrab" http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/mir.html
Name: Ohio girl
EmailAddress: stormy weather
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
The news from Iraq is so awful and will prove to some people that this
war just had to be, while showing all these deaths that, pure and simple,
would not be happening without a war. And now there will never be a way to
know, historically, what the world would have been like without this war.
On the "homefront," my own homefront is very unsettled as I wait
for the hepatitis C re-test results, I want to get that phonecall and then
I don't. So......another Haight Street comfort memory, the Guruda. A
second-floor or loft coffee house with tapestry wall-hangings and sitar
music, what a place to trip.......... And Thanksgiving day 1969(?)
watching Foghorn Leghorn cartoons, laying on cushions I think, at the
Straight Theater. Peace
Name: FYI - Service
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
And don't forget the Guardian! http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
JAG - The H Contract for putting out the oil wells in Iraq was
blatantly signed and delivered (without an open bidding process) about 3
weeks ago. Cheney was once the VP - and made millions on his stock options
when he wasn't elected along with Bush. These are some of the guys who
were with Dickman at the White House discussing the future concepts of the
US "Energy Plan" - but I can't prove this - well, because the
court rulled that Dicky didn't have to release the names of the Dick-like
greedy ceo's who were being wined and dinned somewhere near the Oval
Office. There were a few other contracts handed out to other nepotistic-polictico-smerf-ceos
at the same time Haliburt. got their share of the "reconstruction
project" under theis administration's ideo-illiogical plan to rebuild
Iraq as "the first free - democratic state in the Middle East"
and smack dab in the middle of more trouble with Iran - Syria and who
knows where it goes when ultra-faith-based maniacs and a blathermouth like
our Defense Minister of Really Dangerous Statements are at the helm of
Spaceship Earth.
Accurate news is only available from the foreign press - and even then
you have to read between the lines
Suggested News Web Sites:
BBC World News (realplayer news every hour) Reuters beaking news
antiwar.com Sidney Morning Herald
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
"Homeland" security?, Lets see, Hitler called it the
"Fatherland", Stalin called it the "Motherland", any
one see a pattern here?
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
Halliburton Handed No-Bid Iraqi Oil Firefighting Contract You still
believe this war is about nothing more then WMD's? I wonder how many other
of Bush and Cheney's friends are benefiting from this war? The US
government didn't even bother to give other companies a chance to bid for
this contract. While on the topic of WMD's you might want to check out
this, about the lack of skepticism when it comes to the media making
claims for weapons in Iraq. Remember Fox and their claim of a
"HUGE" chemical weapons stash? How are we to get accurate news
on this war if the journalist's we rely on are nothing more then puppets
for this administration?
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress: writenow@spiritone.com
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
Steve, in moments you crack me up like no one else on the planet!
"Mutes For Peace!" - is a stone keeper mate. The 3rd Page wants
to print a Broadside for your mute brigade so please e-mail me the
Steveistic details (using the notes below as well) and I will create a 3rd
Page for you in the section I am calling "War(d) Reports" (in
the soon to be released Vol. 2 of my joural) - RSVP
Draft Page Click Here
http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/Testpg5.html
Name: Silent Steve
EmailAddress: Traitors NYC
Date: 29 Mar 2003
Comments
The Mutes For Peace thing bombed out. I only met one mute besides me
and he's an anti-French Republican. No offence ladies,...but In as much as
only female Diggers have expressed outrage on whats getting piped up our
asses, I have concluded that Digger men are all either out in the woods
scrapping moss, tending rose gardens, or saving an endangered dust mite.
That being said Im' dumping the banner and starting the Traitors of NYC.
Remember what those are??..George Washington,..Thom. Jefferson,..you know;
Traitors. Im' getting balls deep in the movement and will only comment on
what comes down after the fact. Its gonna get wild in the streets.See ya'
in the funny papers. Peace on you. Keep the beads baby. P.S. Hey, you all
out giving Karate lessons and sippin' espresso with your accountants or
what?? Where the fuck are the Olema People????
Name: Lily Pond
EmailAddress: justlilypond@hotmail.com
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
Oh! Thanks, Eric — guess I missed that. I’ll check it out.
By the way, does anyone remember the exact address on Willard? It was
below Carl, wasn’t it? What about everyone’s names who lived there? I
remember three women from the top floor, one was tall, one short, and one
in between! All had dark hair. I can picture them, and even their rooms,
but not their names.
Lily
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
Hey Hammond, had a great time and was thouroughly impressed with your
acumen concerning our old haunts, will stay in touch and would enjoy a
reunion with my So Cal brethren, Nichole et al.
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
Nicole - Dig this - Asking you about Phil set me on a broader search
and I sent out a few e-mails to old friends still in the LA music set -
and working for Rhino. I struck gold! Apparently Phil doesn't have a
telephone much less a computer but my friend at Rhino says his buddy is in
touch with Phil and he sent me the buddies e-mail address. So - tomorrow I
will contact him and hope to get in touch via carrier pidgeon or something
with "wizard." Amazing worlds we live in eh? And - I just had
lunch with JAG who is a marvelus guy and not a bad snooker player either .
He beat me soundly both games. He is one of us Orange County survivors
Nicole - right out of the old melting pot. When you come our way this
summer we should all get together.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Name: Nicole
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
Hi guys getting ready to go for the week end...upstate...actually
playing a benefit for a sick friend (one of woodstocks long time
bartenders and now the manager of bearsville studio, Jimmy Barlow) with
Levon Helm and a good crew of folks trying to help him out with bills...so
I'll read you all on Monday...
By the way... My first real R&R show was at the Long Beach Civic
Auditorium, Ike and Tina Turner, Buffalo Springfield and Airplane...it was
awsome and bizarre when years later I was involved with most of those
folks...I guess there was some kind of destiny thing happening there...and
of course here too with all of us. With REALLY Warm Regards, Your old pal,
Nik
Name: Eric
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
Lily Pond --
There are two different video clips on that page. Scroll to the bottom
and you will see the "Free Poetry Bust" clip. It shows Ama
wearing the American Flag, and then at the end of the clip he gets busted.
You can download these clips (there are low-bandwidth and high-bandwidth
versions) from links on that page.
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
Hammond, I'm free now through Monday AM, call and we'll figure were
then
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
JAG - Hummmm...... We ran the same run around the same crowd it seems.
What is your day like today or tomorrow for a meet somewhere in the
middle? - I will call you early afternoon -
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
Hammond, the Shrine was de-riguer for the Sunset scene, I got backstage
so to speak occasionaly, got to meet Jeff Beck for a while, and his sound
crew, the light show people I only saw on their scaffolding but they
seemed pretty "content" and yeah, Cream, and especially Baker,
were so zoned every time I saw them I knew they were all tweeking between
sets. I found the meth scene their as well.
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
Ah - memories - Does anyone remember (what a stupid question) the LSD
(Light Sound Dimension) in SF (at Sacramento and Polk)? Bill Ham and
friends put on a great little deal for a brief moment in time time-space
continuum here. Very trippy all the way around with matresses on the
floor.
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
JAG - (The Shrine) As usual at the time - I was there - and usually
backstage (well, there wasn't much of a "backstage area" but
that is where I usually wound up being friends with the wacky light show
crew (who I met through my other wacky light show friends at The Chetah in
Venice) At the Shrine I saw all of the Who shows - with Arthur Brown' s
flaming headgear, Traffic, the orig. Mothers of Invention numerous times (eg)
and met Clapton, Bruce and Baker (Cream) when the played. Man was Ginger
Baker ever a hard baked case! I was (ahem - at the time) known around
Hollywood/LA as "a righteous speed freak acid head" and thought
I was well heeled to the diverse set - but standing next to Baker's
towering skeletal frame looking into his 60 yard stare really freaked me
out. He was exceptionally eerie.........
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
Nicole - "Wizard" - how did I know you would know! Yes - that
is my old mate Phil. I met him via his psychiatrist father who doled out
Sandoz ampules to my friend "Jimmy the Clerk ." I remember
sitting with Phili one night and he related a story from the night before.
A sweet young thing had come to Phil's after having dropped her first dose
and wanted Phil to be her "guide." Sort of like asking Svengali
to hold your wallet but nonetheless. Phil said sure - but then after she
came on strong Phil said he had to leave her alone for awhile. She sort of
freaked at the idea of being alone so Phil gave her an emergency phone
number to call if she got into trouble and left (for 6 hours!)and when he
got back she was gone. I asked him what number he gave her in case of
emergency and he had given her the number that connected to: "At the
sound of the beep the time is.......(whatever)"
That was Phil in a brief nutshell.
Any ideas on how to find him?
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
Eric, when our leaders resort to "Bringing Democracy" to the
un-enlightened people of the mid-east it smacks of the "White Mans
Burden" of Christianizing the indigenous peoples of the world in the
18th and 19th centuries, a self serving ploy for a land grab.
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
This is off main topic but Hammond, Nichole, did either of you get to
the Shrine Auditorium in its hey day, it was the site of the best music in
all of So Cal for awhile, total music environmet, huge light show, Cream,
Zappa, Airplane, Pink Floyd, Quicksilver, etc, etc, etc, it was a perfect
locale for tripping.
Name: Nicole
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
Lilypond. I lived on the corner of Fredrick and Ashbury and remember
that corner store as well ...not too far. while reading your post I could
actually feel the fog in the air at the mouth of the park on stanyan st...I
know that these memories we are all having must have a healing affect on
what all of us must be experiencing due to the current world
situation...so please everyone...send some more.
Name: Nicole
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
Yeah, the unicorn sounds familiar...and I think the Prison was in
newport...there was a guy we called the "wizard" who sounds like
your description of Phil...this guy was just slightly older than us and we
were eager to hear all of his ideas...I spent alot of time with a group of
song writers who had some kind of a deal with Capitol records...all lived
at the beach...I think I might be colliding two separate times periods
together...yes, the fog...I think this must be good exercise for the brain
though...really making it work...Do either of you remember an all night
diner called Bel Isle's ? We used to take acid at the beach and on the
wind down or the wind up go there for breakfast...
Name: Lily Pond
EmailAddress: justlilypond@hotmail.com
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
Nice comments — thanks! Neat to see that video. There were a number
of city hall steps readings, and that one doesn’t appear to be the
american flag one. Also, it mostly looked like city hall folk rather than
free city folk, so I must have gone to one or two others....
Hmmm — I think the little market was on the corner of either Willard
or Stanyan and Frederick. Too bad that house got torn down!
Lily
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
Hammond, the Unicorn sounds familar, but for some reason I connect it
to Huntington Beach, there were a couple of Psych shops right on Hwy 101
next to Jack's Surf Shop, and the Unicorn was near their,(I think). I
spent a lot of time in HB but 35 years fogs the memory, that and a lot of
mind altering substance's. Did'nt spend an inordinate amount of time in
Newport or Balboa, HB was so much closer to me.
Name: Eric
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
"We are facing the extinction of American democracy" -- Mark
Crispin Miller, on KPFA this morning, commenting on various trends in our
society. Mentioned Supreme Court Justice Scalia's belief that the
emergence of democracy has obscured the Truth of God working through our
national leaders! Mentioned that the new electronic voting machines are
sinister and can be easily manipulated, and are all manufactured by big
Republican-contributing corporations! Mentioned that he thinks it's
entirely possible that the 2004 elections will be postponed!
He's a professor at NYU, his book is The Bush Dyslexicon.
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
Nicole - Our Coffee House exchange the other day has my brain spinning.
Where was the Prison of Socrates excactly? And what was the name of that
little club at the very end of Balboa Peninsula? - just before Avenue A I
think (was it The Unicorn?) And speaking of that area of Newport did you
know a guy named Phil Pearlman? He was tall, an intellectually wacky acid
head, had long, long hair and wore granny glassed - looking much like Chet
Helms. He was the son of a local psychiatrist and lived on Ave. B as I
remember - a little psychedelic love shack wired for sound. Ring any
bells? JAG?
Name: JAG
EmailAddress: young republicans
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
Steve, you finally made the evening news around here! They buried the
story all day and "saved" it for dinnertime. There trying to
charge the Portland protesters with terrorism as well, un-fucking
believeable!
Name: Ohio girl
EmailAddress:
Date: 28 Mar 2003
Comments
Steve, NY was on CNN to such a degree that I was sure hoping you'd be
on the website not in the slammer tonight!! Seems they've got alot of
people to process.... During the day CNN (headline) showed short clips of
the die-in, shortened to the point of violence-only, like when a movie is
edited down so much that all its violence looks gratuitous. In the evening
on (regular) CNN they had a lengthier piece, also talked about a church
meeting, and an interview with Daniel Ellsworth. What a treat to see a
human being thinking so fast and so clearly.
Lily Pond, a grocer who ran a tiny grocery with his wife, an Oriental
man, used to give me "throw-away" fruit, I can clearly picture
walking out into the soft black night with a box of loose grapes, looking
back at the yellow light through the door of the grocery. It was the same
part of Haight St., I wonder if it was the same store? That grocer saved
me from a diet consisting largely of speed and orange soda, I've always
remembered his for-real generosity. Was that the dented-can store where
you could buy cans the label had been lost from, and it was really cheap
and always a surprise to open the can? It was downtown or something,
someone took me there once, a food warehouse before the idea was as
widespread as today. Peace
Name: Steve
EmailAddress: Duu..
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Hey, his name is Kim Walter. Any way, from what Ive' seen, the little
go around this mourning is drawing alot of Jewish heat by a protest that
took place a little later a few blocks down 5th Ave. from where I got
busted. In jail I saw a few folks with the phony blood on em' but didnt
know what to think. I thought that it was Iodine or antiseptic. One kid
had a bandaged head from where a cop tried to make him eat his own camera.
Anyway, Im' gonna get some sleep. Maybe do again on Friday.
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Steve,
Right on, you all made CNN. It is on their website tonight. Latest out
here is Willie Brown, SF Mayor says he may sue ANSWER for 12 million bucks
for the costs incurred by the city during the protests. I also was told
that AssCroft wants to prosecute the NYC protesters for sedition based on
the premise that they hampered the efforts of Homeland Security to protect
NYC from terrorists. Fucking insanity.
I just finished watching Wes "Scoop' Nisker's performance at the
Cayuga Vault replayed on community TV in Santa Cruz. Remember him all you
old SF folks? "If you don't like the news, go out and make some of
your own." A great show. Saturday Night live has been using that
format for the "weekend update" for decades. He did a updated
"Swami from Miami" thang too.
Name: Silent Steve
EmailAddress: home
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Hey I just checked out the http://www.m27coalition.org
and it seems that the process is taking all night. I was one of a dozen
who got out by 8:00 PM; because I was one of the first to get busted.
Ouch!...anyway, True; they did deny me our lawyer, but I printed my name
on a slab of balogna (with a mustard packet) and had a cat relay that to
the defense team over a pay phone. The "Right to remain silent"
was a moot point, and I didnt really know what charges were brought
against me until I was free. At the rate that it was going, those folks
will be there till dawn. Later.
Name: Alister Cameron
EmailAddress: alister@cameron.not
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
In Australia, a digger is a soldier.
What with Iraq and all that, I thought you might be interested to know
that.
<a href="http://alister.cameron.name">Alister
Cameron</a>
Name: Steve
EmailAddress: home again home again gigitty gig
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Yep Joe; balogna sandwiches. One piss call in twelve hrs. I mimed that
I was gonna piss in the trash barrel and a Detective authorized me to use
paper cups. I filled six tall ones. The shy types passed. Hey, one house
wife was busted. Said that she couldnt just stand by while this shit comes
down. Also two young Rappers who wanted to goof on the Peace Creeps. I
made some good friends with the M27 crowd. There were some oldies there
also. Thanks go out to a solid cat named Kim Henry from Queens.
Name: etheric
EmailAddress: other worldly
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Steve -- it works to clog up the system. Only so much energy to go
around. Glad you survived the ordeal. & now - on to the future -
Sinclair Lewis & Ida Mae Tarbell, we have only begun to fight !
Name: Silent Steve
EmailAddress: Mutes For Peace NYC
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
So there I was, lying on my back in the center of the 49thSt/5th Ave.
Intersection,..watching four helicopters hover overhead like vultures. The
first wave was arrested for just writting on the side walk with chalk. I
was handled with kid gloves due to my scars and I mimed that I had a bum
shoulder. I was among 4 men and 11 women..well...if you could two teenie-boppers
14 & 15)...who were the first to get roped. We were transfered to
buses on the West Side, then hauled down. We were held for 12 hrs and
fingerprinted on the state of the art machines. (Palm print etc) Out of
the 150 in the holding tank at the Center St. local, I was the only one
that actually looked "Disorderly". Cops kept asking me if I had
gotten shot. One said; "You Got A Hole In Your' Neck!...anyway, I was
the onlyone who they asked: "Are you a gang member"(?!!)...I
heard trhat one of the cop buses broak down in midtown and cused more of a
jamb-up than the Demonstration. (Aint it the way??)..The whole gang will
regroup..(I wonder where)..he, he, he...
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Ya, they busted 150 or more
Name: Joe
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
I guess Steve is having balogna sandwich cuisine tonight.
Name: Eric
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Lily Pond,
That was a beautiful message. I have a snippet of the digger film
Nowsreal online here showing the poetry reading that you mentioned on the
steps of City Hall (which the Chronicle called the Poetry Bust):
http://www.diggers.org/freepoetry.htm
Name: Mc Wot izit ?
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Beautiful.
Like listening to "It's a Beautiful Day" 's first album ..
can almost smell the patchouli .. damn I miss those days ! we were so in
tune at one time
Name: The 3rd Page
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
"In the Protection of Peace"
http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/warface.html
Name: Mc Wot izit ?
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
JAG - Funny contrasts because I also quit driving, Talk to you tomorrow
over the land line.
Name: karen
EmailAddress: yeah
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
I remember living on a houseboat, on Portage Bay in '79 and everyone
crowded onto the dock and into the house to share dinner and an evening
with Buckminster Fuller; he was pretty hard of hearing by then, but
someone would ask him a question; and he would answer it so completely
that no one could say anything for several minutes afterward. There was a
blue and gold macaw listening in on the whole evening; the next day, that
bird was repeating samples of conversations and then after whole
paragraphs of words; she'd throw her head back to laugh a jolly belly
laugh like a human being! Bucky had made a very BIG impression on
everyone!
Name: karen
EmailAddress: bluefawn@roclisland.com
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
I hear you Hammond but I like back ground when I drive and it beats
Howard Stern! Really they are radical left, eclectic, ethnic and diverse.
90.7 on your dial:
Name: Lily Pond
EmailAddress: justlilypond@hotmail.com
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
I lived in the Free City house on Willard Street in the Spring of 1968.
I ended up there because several people I had known in Detroit were
staying there. David Savage was one of them.
While there I met David Lloyd-Jones who was transcribing a Buckminster
Fuller (a guy he had known growing up, if I recall correctly) lecture to
be mimeographed in the free city basement for distribution.
I remember sitting on pillows around the huge dining room table
stuffing Brautigan’s seed packets. I remember dining each evening on a
donated whale (wow — long time ago, eh?) from the freezer.
I remember going to Canned Foods with Paula, and getting
“throw-away” fruit from the little grocer on the corner. I remember
Hilda’s (was that her name?) familia, eaten with milk and honey for
breakfast.
I remember being joined by my friend Mark who was also from michigan
and he ended up going to Black Bear to live and I never saw him again. I
still have photos somewhere of him helping paint trashcans purple to put
in Golden Gate Park.
I remember the women’s rooms upstairs, Judy? Was it? And two other
women who sometimes I can remember their names and right now I can’t.
I remember thinking the upstairs was the women’s part and the
basement was the men’s part and the basement was more interesting,
printing 1% free cards, and stuff like that.
I remember sitting on the steps of city hall while peter coyote read
letters from friends in hawaii who had trees growing right through their
houses; this was a protest day because someone had been arrested for
wearing an american flag so a lot of people were wearing american flags on
the city hall steps that day.
I ended up moving over to stanyan where peter also lived; that’s
where I saw on tv johnson give his “I will not seek, and I shall not
accept” speech.
I remember kirby doyle and his son. I remember tasting zuchinni for the
first time. I remember the heady smell of euchalyptus, and the sea breeze,
and that kitchen, and I am almost transported again.
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
JAG - I think I quit listening to radio in 1969
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Thanks for the post on the NYC demonstrations, its the only thing I've
seen or heard on the subject.
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Hammond, have you been listening to KBOO radio here in town? They are
the only station locally or other that has nailed the war coverage. They
have had interviews with the human shields in Baghdad and have totally
raked the Bush regime since the outset!
Name:
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Dreams and Hope -
This is what the future is truely made of.... and praying that war is a
but a transient nightmare
Peace to all.........
Name:
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
arrrrrghh. why is that coming up on the Post articles? it doesn't on my
machine...just put something in the boxes & it'll come up....
Name: gouge
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36682-2003Mar27.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37026-2003Mar27.html
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2003/mar/27/032703841.html
just a little on NYC demos
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Have yet to hear of the NY demostrations, just like the media to bury
it some where and make the interntional media be the only ones to give it
any air play, I am so freaking sick of seeing human interest coverage and
fucking fluff stories that I'm ready to fling the remote through the
screen!
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
I have come across some more interesting things I'd like to post and
some of my own today but I am out the door, on the highway to SF and
Planet Drum to do my duty. Back tonight, this discussion the last couple
of days has helped me get my head back. It helps to remember the roots of
all this.
Name: Nicole
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
My friend Martin Carey, the artist who drew the Mandala for the
original digger papers lives in woodstock with his wife Susan and I know
they bought the house together with Paul Krassner...But I never had the
pleasure of meeting him...they still have the house there some 30 years
now...
Mark, just read the interview...excellent, thank you...that's right
heart to heart...start where you stand I always say.
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Hammond, I am indeed in stump town USA, I did'nt know that was your
locale, I'm in Milwaukie, I'd love to get together, I'll e-mail; John
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress: writenow@spiritone.com
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
JAG - Your note about the Ken, Ken, and Paul Show at the Aladdin
theater makes me wonder are you here in Portland, Or.? I thought you were
in Maine! If you are here (is that a surreal tv program from the 50s?) -
let's have a meet somewhere and see where we are.
Speaking of Krassner he has a new piece in the soon to be released 3rd
Page Vol. 2
"The 10 Suggestions" - http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/krassner3.html
Mark - Ha! Yes - I remember when Jimmy first went to Hawaii - not long
after I met up with him. He and his mates had by that time made their
(ahem) sunshine start-up fund by making numerous trips to Afghanistan
picking up kilos of (ahem) indigenous souvenirs for the hearts and minds
back home. Once the scene began to receive way too much local and federal
attention I began giving more and more time my aimless wanderings in LA
sleeping in 24 hour Hollywood movie houses.
Name: Mc Wing Nut
EmailAddress: {off-planet}
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Whoever and wherever you are -- Don't Give Up the Fight [IMHO.]
But politics is the real arena .. time to get organized & throw out
the bums in Washington. The real deal is elections in 2004 .. I'd say even
throw in with the Dems if that's the only action going .. heard of
Constitution Party ?, started in Hawaii (believe it or not) that might be
worth looking into .. whatever, street action cannot be the be-all end-all
.. you risk turning off the very folks, ordinary working stiffs, etc., we
really need on our side. Think about it.
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Nicole,
I was there in July of 64 and I don't know how long he stayed there but
I would think it would have been for awhile as he cared for his mother.
JAG,
I am with you on Dennis Miller, he is a full fledged idiot. He seems to
wanna be a Lenny Bruce wanna be. He is awful, with terrible timing and the
content of a hack. So long Dennis, hope you can find work somewhere.
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Nichole, Mark , Hammond
Really enjoyed reminiscing I would bet our paths crossed at least a few
times in those day's, like they say though "If you can remember the
sixties you" I forget the rest.
Bush was just asked on TV if he would consider using nuclear weapons in
Iraq and he obfuscated once again, left it open, the thought that he could
even consider it is bone chilling indeed!
Name: Nicole
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Mark, the address is 1628 Riverside Dr. My sister Penny actually lived
there for years around 62 to 67 untill she got her Tuluca lake
house...she's a year older than me so she's 55, when was yr friend there?
I'll try again...
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Good interview, I especially like his dig at Dennis Miller, I used to
think he was insightful and provocative but now all I hear is acerbic and
caustic, not even thought provoking just mean spirited, he hit bottom by
being interviewed on "The O'Riley Factor" promoting the war. I
saw Krasner at the Aladin theatre in Portland with Ken Kesey and Ken Babs,
it was mostly Krasner though reading excerpts from a new book. He
mentioned that most people think he played guitar for the Jefferson
Airplane :)
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Nicole,
How close can it be? The apartment my friend Bruce Saunders lived in
was on Riverside drive a block or so west of Victory Blvd. across from the
end of Griffith Park.
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Nicole,
I just clicked on it and it worked for me. Try it again or go to
www.buzzflash.com and search the interview archive for Feb. 18.
Name: Nicole
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Mark, I come up with a "non existant" message when trying to
click on that...could you give me somewhere else to go to read it?
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Here is a link to an recent interview with Paul Krassner I find
interesting.
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/02/18_Krassner.html
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Like I feared last night mainstream media are ignoring any
demonstrations in NYC or other cities and only reporting "war"
news. Like 1000's protesting isn't war news, I have channel surfed the
entire network cable and all and no mention yet, Its early, maybe it'll
get picked up , good luck their.
Hammond I've got to give your tome a read I'm sure it will spark some
memory or click on a few synapse's.
Name: Nicole
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Steve, I'm watching the coverage of the demo on tv in the office
here...they said there's more police that demonstrators...but I thought it
all looked pretty impressive myself...when I got off the train this
morning here in mid town...cops on every corner...jeesh! btw, sorry I
haven't been by, but I've been in bed by 8 o'clock every nite for weeks it
seems...and getting to the office early every morning...I need to get a
life...I am going to Florida on the 11th for 10 days though! hurray!
Mark,Hammond and Jag...bet we danced or tripped or surfed or sang or
marched or did something together somewhere along the route...
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
RNA,
Rosemary Woodruff passed away from a heart attack on Feb 7, 2002. I
didn't know her and it was a quiet passing. There were some mentions of it
in the press but very little. She was attempting to archive Leary's stuff
at the time and I was thinking of offering to help, I was working on
similar stuff for the Bergs, but she passed before I got it together. I
remember reading that someone else is or was working on an archive but I
don't know who it is. Here is an SF Chronicle article.
Rosemary Woodruff -- LSD guru's ex-wife
Susan Sward, Chronicle Staff Writer Saturday, February 9, 2002
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Rosemary Woodruff, former wife of the late psychedelic guru Timothy
Leary,
died Thursday in her home in Aptos at age 66.
Surrounded by friends, Ms. Woodruff died of complications from a heart
attack she suffered a week earlier.
Born April 26, 1935, in St. Louis, she grew up in that city and dropped
out of high school to marry an Air Force officer when she was 17. That
marriage ended quickly, and she moved to New York in the 1950s.
She told friends later that it was there that she received her real
education, living in the bohemian community of lower Manhattan that was
populated by jazz musicians and artists.
In 1965, she met Leary, a former Harvard University psychology
professor who was the host of weekend events where participants took LSD
at a country estate in Millbrook, N.Y. Leary -- who coined the oft-quoted
phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out" -- had been dismissed from
the Harvard faculty in the early 1960s for his experiments with drugs.
Ms. Woodruff moved in with Leary and was co-host of the events, which
were attended by numerous celebrities, psychologist R.D. Laing, actor
Peter Fonda and artist Saul Steinberg. She became the third of Leary's
four wives in 1967 at an event that the New York Times reported was
directed by Ted Markland of "Bonanza."
Kate Coleman, a Berkeley author who wrote a recent profile of Ms.
Woodruff, said, "Rosemary was known by the nickname 'Ro.' She was the
epitome of hip and beauty. She knew everyone -- Yoko Ono and John Lennon.
She kept in touch with Huxley when he was in L.A."
Coleman said Ms. Woodruff told her that she helped her husband escape
in 1970 from a California state prison where he was serving a 10-year
sentence for a marijuana conviction.
Ms. Woodruff told Coleman that she raised the funds that financed the
escape, in which Leary made his way to a prison roof, traversed the prison
grounds on a cable and then jumped to his freedom on a road outside the
prison.
The Weathermen, a revolutionary youth group, helped Leary pull off the
escape,
Coleman said.
The couple then made their way to Algeria, where they were given
sanctuary for a while by Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver in his
compound there.
The couple's marriage broke apart in the mid-1970s, and Ms. Woodruff
traveled throughout Europe and Latin America before "living
underground in Cape Cod for 14 years" because she still faced a
pending drug charge in Laguna Beach and her former husband had told the
FBI about her role in his escape, Coleman said. Leary himself was captured
by authorities in Afghanistan in 1973 and remained in prison in California
until he was released by Gov. Jerry Brown in 1976.
In 1994, authorities in Orange County dropped charges against Ms.
Woodruff, and she surfaced in Half Moon Bay, where she ran a
bed-and-breakfast establishment for five years until her health failed,
Coleman said. Ms. Woodruff then moved to Aptos and gave some guest
lectures at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Leary died in 1996 of prostate cancer at the age of 75. In Leary's last
months of life, Ms. Woodruff and her former husband were reconciled and
she helped care for him, Coleman said.
Friends said plans have not yet been finalized for a memorial service.
Name: r n a
EmailAddress: Rosemary?
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Mark, Rosemary died last year? what do you know? She endured so much:
being under house arrest in Algiers, courtesy of Eldridge Cleaver.
Eldridge later went on to gain fame for inventing the ballsy pants that
had knitted pouches for men's genitals so the guys could let it all hang
out and show their stuff while still legally clad. The prison escape,
visiting her husband in prison, police busts, one while they were making
love on some psychedelic. Leary came to Maui and spoke about how not only
did the police barge in on them while they were making love, but they tied
up Tim's legs with Rosemary's pants. It is not easy being the sould mate
of radical and famous visionaries.
Name: The Monk
EmailAddress: West 4th Street
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Oh Ya,..a word to the wise,..If ya do connect with Reverend Billy, tell
him "Silent Steve Sent Me"..(but for god's sake; dont mention
Walt Disney)..(wink, wink, nudge, nudge,)...
Name: Brother Boyd
EmailAddress: Ziggity-Hot-Damn
Date: 27 Mar 2003
Comments
Hey,..living In a Church, as I do,..I cant help from being reminded of
Religion from time to time,..and while pondering the variouse Saints and
Sinners who Ive' come in contact with in this line of work; I just
remembered a Charismatic Wild Cat Preacher who I met and shook hands with
one night last year at a candle light rally, (I was passing out free
candles)..anyway,... He had a Digger Smile and dollar Sign Eyes. His name
was Reverend Billy. Check his act out. (But dont send money)...later.
Silent Steve.
Name: Silent Steve
EmailAddress: No thanks,..Im' fine..
Date: 26 Mar 2003
Comments
Hey, did ya' check out thier "Go As A Group"
program???...shit, I am a group. Well, good night folks,..I gotta get up
early. Hmmm...better check my Horiscope. Hey, I saw a good one tonight:
"Caution! Unexploded Civilian!" (think about it). Also:
"OIL: THE NEXT TOBACCOO". Wow, what a hyped up mob
tonight,..wonder what they all do in Peace Time,..Hmm.."Peace
Time"??..lets see, I was born in 52'..Korea, the 50's..,..hmm..Vietnam,...
early 60's to early 70's...Gulf War I in the early 9o's,...Gulf war II
early 00's...the 80's???...Oh ya, DISCO!!!. Ah...am I making any sence???...and
if so;..Scary, Aint It???....Bottom line: I guess these folks have had a
full dance card. (when are they gonna get it right)...
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 26 Mar 2003
Comments
Steve, your passing on some good jams man but I hear ya, music to
soothe the savage breast isn't what you need right now, maybe some flak
vests or serious head gear! Take care of your-self and don't be a dead
hero or somthin like that!
Name: MUTES FOR PEACE
EmailAddress: NYC
Date: 26 Mar 2003
Comments
Death Of Digger II: Birth Of,...(well, ..you be the judge of
that)....Oh, and thanks for the tune offer, but save the campfire songs
for the next Young Republican Jamboree,...Hey, Thanks Bob, but I feel
secure hiding behind my handycap and gimp arm. But hey, lets take a vote:
who thinks its about time that I got my hair parted down the middle???
Hey, they jump on my ass and youll'see some terror. Hell, my body is a
weapon. Hep, once a big dude grabbed me by both legs and swung me like a
club. Knocked a whole row of folks right off of their bar stools like
dominoes. I was afterwards labled "A Good Sport". I was
thankfull that it didnt catch on like Dwarf Tossing. Thats the kind of
thing that ya' gotta sweat out when you hang around with big people.
Kinda'make ya' cringe at the words "Batter Up!!"...But, hey,
check it out!...ACHTUNG MOUSKETEERS!!! NO BUISNESS AS USUAL!!! Stop The
War On Iraq!! Join an act of non-violent Civil Disobedience. MASSIVE
DIE-IN Rockefeller Centre at 5th Ave. (around 50th St.) 8:00 AM Thursday
3-27 Legal Protest Alternative Pe-action meeting Wednesday Night. Location
to be announced,..(Right here; right here; you aint' just a shittin')...For
more Information & Newest/Latest---check out: http://www.m27coalition.org
Now, back to Disney on Ice. (..Id'e like to see that)... But hey , no
shit, I sailed around the defunked military Prison in the harbor up in New
England where ol' Walt layed in this cell and dreamed of the Magic
Kingdom,..no shit, the place was all granite and looked like a midevil
Castle..I think that he was a consciencious objector or something. They
also say that his dishonnorable discharge was proudly displayed on his
office wall which was televised on his weekly show,..Go Figure???
Name: Mc Ming
EmailAddress: yet again
Date: 26 Mar 2003
Comments
Steve -- I know you gotta go when your heart says go .. but I would be
remiss not to say I have grave misgivings about any action in Manhattan
right now .. I'm afraid the junta in DC wants bad things to fuel their
dirty little war .. stay home, man -- we need you here. OK ?
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 26 Mar 2003
Comments
New york is ripe for revolution from the sound of it, I hope the
bastards don't silence the mass's by ignoring the action and reporting a
"small disturbance" was quelled by patriotic forces in
conjunction with local police. The media have it in their power to
effectivly silence dissent by merely ignoring it. The louder the dissent
the more they seem to downplay the event.
Silent Boyd be sure to duck!
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 26 Mar 2003
Comments
JAG,
That area is still fairly the same as it was. The Rio Del Mar flats, as
they are called, was pretty much built out by then. Aptos Village suffered
some damage during the 1989 earthquake and lost some old buildings but the
village itself hasn't changed much at all. The surrounding areas have
attracted the wealthy and multimillion dollar "trophy" homes dot
the hills and the beach hill area south of Rio Del Mar.
Name: Gouge
EmailAddress:
Date: 26 Mar 2003
Comments
Steve, take care out there. You're a good man. But they're out to bust
some skulls on the street, & I don't want yours to be one of them. For
what it's worth, my thoughts are with you. Take care. Bob
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 26 Mar 2003
Comments
Mark I spent a week on that beach waiting for a check to be forwarded
to general delivery at the local post office, we would walk about a
quarter mile south toward the penisula, and camp so as not to be noticed
by the local police, there was an overpass to highway 1 right where we
camped. My friend lived up the canyon (ravine?) that highway 1 went over,
we would trek up the canyon about a 1/2 mile and his house was on the
right, we got shower privileges but the wife did'nt want our rabble their
at night, new baby and all, we abided and all was well. Really is amazing
how paths cross!
Name: Silent Steve
EmailAddress: Knotts Berry Farm
Date: 26 Mar 2003
Comments
Short notice; didnt think we could give em' the space,..the Rev gave
his best stand up Ghandi, then left me "In Charge" of 500
luddites; abolitionists; union organizers and revolutionaries. In short:
It was a Free Church tonight. They immediatly greeted the
plain-clothes-men, then kicked out all of the Press. I had my Magna-Doodle
and protested on behalf of a Village Voice Sweetie that I recognized. They
all agreed that the Free Press could stay to support but not report. They
then "Voted" to kick another group out and I wrote "Your
Exclusivity turns me off", I then gave the whole gang the finger and
walked. I did however return to help some freaks hang banners in the
balcony. Bottom line?..looks like I may get arrested at the Rockefeller
Plaza "Die In" tommarrow. (watch for my sign: "MUTES FOR
PEACE"). Later. Now,..ah..could ya' please pass the
"Jelly???"...P.S. No punches telegraphed here,..its all over the
news and the cops are gearing up as I speak. (Should be a good one)..I
rolled a bowling ball down the center line of Bowery one night,..but I
cant recall ever playing dead in the street,..Hmmm...
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 26 Mar 2003
Comments
Far fucking out Hammond, I was only an infrequent visitor but indulged
myself whenever their, what I liked was the fact that they sold nothing
but psyshedelics and smoke, nothing bad for the soul, I had to find that
in the barrios around my neighborhood when ever I needed to get down for
real, and luckily I moved around enough that my habit was always on a
part-time basis but even that took its toll. I spent most of my child hood
on a beach and surfed a lot, long boards before the short shit took over,
remember David Nieuva? Best long boarder I ever saw, shot the Huntington
Beach Pier while on the nose! On a 10 ft. wave it was un freaking real,
and also during the Duke Kahanamoko Surfing Contest, he won hands down.
Long time ago, 1964 or so.
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 26 Mar 2003
Comments
Hammond,
I took many hits of orange sunshine. Good stuff. Some of those folks
"migrated" to Maui around 68 or 69 and brought lots of it with
them. Leary's ex-wife lived in Aptos in later years. She passed away last
year.
Name: Mark
EmailAddress:
Date: 26 Mar 2003
Comments
JAG,
Small world again. I live right there. I run on the beach on mornings
when the tide is low right through the pier that goes out to the cement
ship, which is now a fishing pier, at Seacliff and Rio Del Mar. I am about
a quarter mile up from the beach.
Name: Hammond
EmailAddress:
Date: 26 Mar 2003
Comments
JAG - Yeah that's the place - orig. Bluebird Canyon until the
Brotherhood burned it down so to speak. I was in residence (as a weekend
visitor )and then gone before Tim made the set his west coast stash bag.
"Jimmy the Clerk" made the orange sunshine and he is still out
and about the world (under alias) as are a number of other originals from
those days though many have died - and a few are still on the lam (forever
I am afraid). Just a bunch of surfers with too much acid on there
hands....... great people.
Name: JAG
EmailAddress:
Date: 26 Mar 2003
