Thursday, July 31, 2014

Diatrymas stomping around in Kent, Washington?

By Jack Brummet, Science Ed.

I like the idea the Diatryma may have been stomping around the banks of the Green River, a couple of blocks from where I grew up. . .


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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Drawing: faces #894/scratchboard

by Jack Brummet

[India ink scratchboard (bottom); digitally altered scratchboard (top)]

click to enlarge
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

ATIT Reheated from six years ago: Barack, pick Smilin' Joe!

By Jack Brummet with National Affairs Ed. Pablo Fanque



While the campaign and Barack himself have been very circumspect about his choice for running mate, they have floated at least the following names:

  • Virginia Governor Tim Kaine
  • Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius
  • Indiana Senator Evan Bayh (an olive branch to Hillary supporters)
  • Senator Joe Biden (our favorite)
  • Georgia Ex-Senator Sam Nunn
Pick Smilin' Joe, Barack! He's got the foreign policy experience you need, and he's great on the campaign trail. He never gets tired of talking!
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Thursday, July 24, 2014

"Pause: Get out of the game," a videogame about the dangers of videogame addiction

By Jack Brummet, Games Editor


Pause: Get Out Of The Game is a game, or, what the original publisher called "an informational campaign"  to raise awareness about "the dangers of video game addiction."  Pause was developed by Dwayne Rajkumar.

The game "mimics the life of a video game addict as they play at the cost of ignoring their family, friends, responsibilities, and personal health. The player is presented with choices and the opportunity to stop playing at any time; consequences of continuing result in the degrading of the
ir characters physical and personal life."



Not too shockingly, comments for their YouTube video are disabled.  And, alas, the game has disappeared from the net (so far). It was available for download in a couple of different locations, finally ending up on Dropbox, where it is also not available.

On YouTube, I found another anti-game screed, posted below.  It is a parody.

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Drawing: Faces #890 - Just Married, Part 8

by Jack Brummet

click to enlarge
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Monday, July 21, 2014

The first videogame—"Tennis For Two," running on a Donner Model 30 with oscilloscope display

By Jack Brummet, Gaming Ed.

Tennis for Two may be the first videogame (1958)? It ran on a Donner Model 30 analog computer; the display was an oscilloscope.

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Friday, July 18, 2014

Cookin' with Jack #8: Cioppino

By Jack Brummet, Soup Ed.



Jack's Cioppino

(Serves 6-8; you can easily double or triple it)

3 tablespoons olive oil (many recipes use butter; I don't)
1 large fennel bulb, halved & thinly sliced, tough outer leaves removed
1 onion, rough chopped
3 large shallots, chopped
2 teaspoons salt (at least maybe more--let your taste buds be the guide)
some fresh ground pepper
4 fat garlic cloves, finely chopped
1/4 cup tomato paste
1 (28-ounce) can diced tomatoes in juice
1 1/2 cups dry white wine, and pour a tumbler for yourself
5 cups fish stock (If you buy whole raw shrimp, boil their shells and tails in a cup and a half of water.  I also often use clam nectar or clam base.  Both is good)

1 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper flakes, (I was thinking of trying a habanero instead.  Or just mince a bird pepper, or hot chilies, or use a few shakes of Tabasco or Sri Racha. 
2 bay leaf
1/2 tsp. thyme
2 tsp. dried basil
2 tsp. dried, or fresh, oregano
chopped parsley
dash of Worcestershire sauce

1 1/2 pound manila clams, scrubbed
1 pound uncooked large shrimp, peeled and deveined
1 1/2 pounds firm-fleshed fish fillet.  I use fresh Puget Sound Rockfish (aka "snapper") or fresh (and for a few months each year, frozen), Alaska Sockeye.  (I have considered also trying smoked Salmom too).
Optional:  In the northwest, buy Dungeness Crab and toss a handful on top at the end.
Optional: Squid, added at the very end, cooked maybe 1 minute--flash cooking in oliv e oil keeps it tender
Optional: Scallops.  Split in half, in the very last 2 minutes before serving. 
Optional: Fat chunks of Maine Lobster
Optional: garnish with some preserved lemon

Heat oil in a big pot over medium heat. Add fennel, onion, shallots, and salt and saute until onion is translucent.  Add garlic and your pepper or chili and saute two minutes. Stir in the tomato paste and tomatoes with their juices, and the wine, fish stock, and the herbs. Cover and simmer slow for 30 minutes.

Add Worcestershire (a teaspoon or so) and the clams (or mussels).  Cook until the clams begin to open, about 4 minutes. Add the shrimp and fish. Simmer gently until the fish and shrimp are just cooked through, and the clams are completely open.  This only takes a couple of minutes.  Remove from heat!  This is key.  Don't overcook the fish.  Error on the side of under-done!  Remember the fish will be sitting in hot stock. 

Season with salt if needed and add chopped parsley and optional preserved lemon.  Ladle into bowls.  Serve with sturdy bread (in SF it's always sourdough), for dipping, and a delicious red wine (Cotes du Rhone, Rioja, a Bordeaux, or even a great Cabernet). 
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Thursday, July 17, 2014

Frederick Walton's Peeler's famous letter about bloodsuckers

By Jack Brummet, Conspiracy Ed. 

[collected some years ago.  It appears on a handful of other websites.]


March 1980

Gentlemen:

I find it my duty to complain to the U.S. Senate of the use of bloodsuckers by Harold Brown and Stuart Eisenstat.

My name is Frederick Walton Peeler, age 31, and I am told my birthdate is December 29, 1948. The individual who pretends to be my father is William Frederick Peeler, news editor of the Washington Star News. William Peeler is a bloodsucker, a black eyed bloodsucker, with co-workers such as Sidney and Eleni Eestein.

My blood is identical in type to that of James Ewell Brown Stuart. Small amounts of it make blue eyes black. Small amounts of it, like bionic serum, in transfusion result in Eyesinstein phenomenon similar to that portrayed on Bionic Man. In violation of my constitutional rights, Harold Brown and Stuart Eisenstat both use Pentagon bloodsuckers to harry to such an extent that I live in a virtual 1984 Orwellian nightmare with bloodsuckers rather than Orwellian cameras: Bloodsuckers, peeping bugs, who have been humored like Bionic Men or Bionic Women, bloodsucking bugs who are worse than any sort of electronic bugging that Richard Nixon could devise.

The bloodswilling has been bad since the early years of my life, and particularly since the first years of elementary school, ages 6, 7, 8, etc. The situation has worsened since the beginning of 1973. The bloodswilling that occured while I was attending George Washington University, where I was an honors student, was so bad that I had to withdraw from the University, at the same time I obtained a divorce. Since the time I received a divorce decree in early 1974 to present, the bloodswilling had been so bad that it is difficult even to read or write with the bloodsuckers peeping or in the ears 16-24 hours a day bugging, bugging, bugging. For weeks or months at a time, sleep was difficult and even the simplest work almost impossible with bloodsuckers in the ears bugging, bugging, bugging. It has been impossible to date since my divorce in 1974 with the bloodsucking bugs following me everywhere, peeping in my apartment. Since the inauguration of Jimmy Carter, the situation has become unbearable. A certain Jewish clique has taken to using the bloodsuckers like voodoo dolls, either wiring their genitals or feathering their genitals in proximity. Since the inauguration of Jimmy Carter, the conditions have often approached torture. I'm told second hand that my "blood is not chemically human." So much for Jimmy Carter's human rights program. Again it is 16-24 hours a day as a captive audience for liberal, black, oriental, Christian, and homosexual propaganda. Again it's the use of bloodsuckers as voodoo dolls.

There are numerous media bloodsuckers (I'm told that Dan Rather and Mike Wallace are two of them) numerous Star News bloodsuckers, but most of the bloodsuckers seem to be Pentagon employees and service children that attended Rose Hill, Bush Hill Elementary schools, Mark Twain intermediate schools, Edison and Robert E. Lee High Schools with me. To the best of my knowledge, the Pentagon bloodsuckers get their fresh supplies of blood by [illegible] apartments and taking blood out of our sleeping bodies. I don't know who Harry Brown's or Stuart Eisenstat's Dracula is.

I have not donated blood since November-December of 1970 while in Oakland Army base awaiting transportation to Viet Nam. I was diverted to Fort Sill, Ok. and have since been discharged, honorably, with a Good Conduct Medal, and have a Veteran's Administration 10% disability of the left ankle resulting from a deliberate injury, a closed rupture of the left Achilles tendon. I was deliberately injured by other service personnel 2 days before I was supposed to get out of the Army. Their objective in that deliberate injury was to get my particularly different blood out of my body. The people conspiring to injure me hoped that surgery would have been necessary to correct that deliberate injury. From that surgery, from that bloody surgery, they would have been able to get large amounts of my particularly valuable blood. The leg was placed in a cast, and fortunately surgery was not necessary.

Throughout the period of my U.S. military service, all medical personnel lied about my blood type, saying that it was O+. It is not O+, and that has been known since my childhood when it took approximately 20 stitches to close a gash in the left knee. This was the first deliberate injury to get blood out of my body, the ankle injury being the second. The stitches were made at the Alexandria Hospital not far from Robert E. Lee's Alexandria, Va. home. The injury occured on Apple Tree Drive in Rose Hill, a sub-division in Franconia, Va. The Kennedy family got a St. Bernard later from a close neighbor. I assume they were after blood too.

The blood from the 20 stitch nick, at least on stein, was taken to somewhere near Princeton University. Years later there was a girl in my High School, Lee High School, named Sharon Mercer and another girl named Sharon Kawamoto (pronounced Cow-a-mow-toe throughout high school) and a Cow-amow-toe sorority. There were a lot of bloodsuckers in Lee High School. There was blood all over the backyard from that knee laceration: it was at a picnic and there were witnesses.

So people have been sitting here in Franconia and Springfield swilling blood pretty regularly since I was eight years old. That's over twenty years. Many of them have Pentagon jobs now. I thought it would get better in 1975 when I had a bleeding rectal cyst removed, but it hasn't. The cyst was not malignant, so some of the bloodsuckers drank the blood, ooze and pus from it. I'm sure my toilet is tapped, and I'm sure that someone consumed the blood out of the toilet from the bleeding rectal cyst.

Bill Peeler and Thelma Peeler have been pretending to be my parents since we moved here to Virginia, on Biscayne Street in Huntington, a sub-division south of Alexandria, sometime around 1952. Anna Perry, nee Peeler, has been pretending to be my sister since as far back as I can remember. John [illegible] Peeler and James William Peeler, 23 and 25, have been pretending to be my brothers for over twenty years. Most of the family members other than myself are penis nosed. I am not penis nosed, I am thumb nosed. I sucked my thumb when I was a child.

The worst of the bloodsuckers that Eisenstat and Brown uses are queers, the cocksuckers. Can you conceive of having a cocksucker swill your blood? There is no privacy whatsoever. Imagine being in bed with a woman while the bloodsuckers peep. Imagine the cocksucking Bionic Men and Women.

If the Senate can't stop Harry Brown's Dracula and Stuart Eisenstat's Bionic bloodsuckers, then I and others that have similar blood (there are several of us in this country.) are going to request diplomatic asylum in some other country. The bloodsuckers recently followed me across the entire country, from Virginia to California by car. It has been impossible to lose the bloodsucking tics for even a half hour during the past 6 years. All the way to Canada and back. All the way to California and back. I traveled by way of Baton Rouge, to Houston, to El Paso, to Tuscon, to San Diego, to Los Angeles to Pheonix to El Paso, the bloody red baton pass, but the god damned tics apparently made it alive. I'm not Christian, I don't believe in blood swilling or communion, and the several of us are going to find some way to retaliate for the bloodsucking of these god damned bugs. If the Senate can't stop the bloodsucking, can't clean the blood up, then the Senate is going to wake up and find us gone. For myself, I intend to work as a mason for at most another year to get money to get out of here.

Frederick Walton Peeler

P.S. Don't believe the tapes Nixon and Ford made by bugging screaming arguments between my ex-wife and myself. My ex-wife went to school, high school, with one of the Ford boys.

Drawing: Faces #847 - scratchboard faces

By Jack Brummet

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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

The Grateful Dead (with Bruce Hornsby and Branford Marsalis) perform Black Throated Wind at Madison Square Garden

By Jack Brummet, Music Ed 

The Grateful Dead, when Bruce Hornsby was in the band for a year or so and Branford Marsalis was sitting in, perform Black Throated Wind at Madison Square Garden September 10, 1991.

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A pretty amazing selfie with Warren Buffet and Sir Paul McCartney

By Jack Brummet, Flyover States Ed.

Tom White, stumbled upon Paul McCartney and Warren Buffett sitting on a bench outside an ice cream shop in Omaha, Nebraska.  Only in Omaha: no one even noticed them. He took a selfie with them in the background and captioned it “Chillin with my homies.”

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Drawing: Faces No. 846 - The Head Librarian

By Jack Brummet

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Monday, July 14, 2014

Hot Sex On Chipotle's Rooftop

By Mona Goldwater, Public Decency Ed


A Newark, Delaware couple has been charged with lewdness and indecent exposure for having sex on a Chipotle Mexican Grill rooftop.

Police  received multiple reports Saturday night of a couple making the beast with two backs above the Chipotle on East Main Street.

A cop asked 38-year-old Michael Suh and 27-year-old Nicole Germack to stop.  They continued for 20 seconds and then ran into into Suh's apartment where they were arrested.
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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Drawing: Faces No. 841

By Jack Brummet


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Poem: Probability

By Jack Brummet


Simple probability
And statistics

Tell us ineluctably
That the more times

You stick your head
In the lion's mouth,

The more likely it is
That one day he will close it.
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Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Well, slap my ass and call me Sally. The City Attorney of Seattle was one of the first people in line to buy leaf today.

By Jack Brummet, Seattle Metro Ed.


It is fascinating that the city attorney, Pete Holmes, of Seattle was in line to buy reefer at the Cannabis City opening today.

“I bought 2-2 gram bags of OG Pearl which was recommended,” said Holmes. “I’m keeping one bag for posterity and one for personal enjoyment at some point when it’s appropriate.”

Man, things have changed.  I didn't expect I'd ever live to see this.  Despite all the chaos, I hope it all works out.

You can find more detail and more from Pete Holmes here.
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Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Poem: Odds

By Jack Brummet





Simple probability
And statistics

Tell us ineluctably
That the more times

You stick your head
In the lion's mouth,

The more likely it is
That one day he will close it.

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Sunday, July 06, 2014

A Neal Cassady rap, annotated by Ken Babbs

By Jack Brummet, Beat Ed.


click to enlarge - Neal Cassady left, Jack Kerouac, Right

Kim Spurlock transcribed this Neal Cassady rap (probably from an acid test, since the Grateful Dead can be heard). It was annotated by Ken Kesey's close collaborator, Ken Babbs

Voice: Neal Cassady...Neal Cassady...

[Tentative Drumroll]

Neal: (OFF MIC; APPROACHING) I got the penguin(1) right here in my
pocket...Phil Phil(2) I just bought a three hundred & thirty-five dollar
fender mint Bic(3)...come again on that lemon a roasta beef(4)...Four
fingers(5) ya know are...I've forgotten it...that's just enough
see...trying to play ya see...(GROANING IN BACHGROUND) The claw(6) &
me...three inches the bigger thumb...and I said of course to the
Metro(7) as the...but it hides my thumb and also reveals my Greek
torso...well at 49th I said Spence(8) hadn't seen him since 51st...he
said move 2-49th. Nope moved to 51st. Well again Heinz(9) said...The
waiter in '56 beet the 6 seeds(10) he had. Seed law and marijuana...The
only writing I ever did was a laudatory(11)...But on marijuana
"oooooooo...," I was saying in the..."Are you alright in there on the
wall(12) Mr. Cassady?"...cause I was having these insights you see. I
only got 20 years on you.(13) I knew I should've worn more paisley.(14)
I double-crossed at...no...the son of the man(15) is about to mount the
podium. Grimsby(16) was impressed in a short drive. I said I'm serious
about America to Marco Greg(17)...at the last year you know we arrived
just in time.(18) Double park in Winnemucca(19)...speed er
endurance.(20) Six days it was. Finally she grabbed the Vick's
VapoRub(21) instead of the Vaeline it was and that was what ended it.
My first child '42 then(22)...Charlie Valencia(23) on Temple(24) where
we had an Acid Test(25)...but 1350(26) his father half Mexican half
Irish like Anthony Quinn(27) so he loved her you know...there was a
triumph of us. The only 3-way I ever had. Kerouac's not queer but my
present wife the fourth and he it was just a New Year's Eve
sortofa(28)...He was always looking for a colored girl(29)
Keroassady(30)...finally he found her Bedford-Stuyvessant and that was
the last time I committed suicide(31) I knew toward the Ford sign across
the Hudson(32)...gotta getta across this long Missouri that preacher
said VanHelLuther(33) I didn't see it.(34) Move on. Menopausal.(35)
Don't ask me how 20 years (36) I held 10 on the railroad(37) and 10 more
for...an I'll be dead a thousand years(38) see so if I don't do right
now right in it...Reb Parker(39) the same Acid Test then. He used to be
Al Collins all fat and sassy you know and but he was all skinny and
dressed in...you can work yourself into anything how do you get out of
it? 6 uh days, 6 glasses a day pretty soon your system demands it.
1000 days Aurobindo(40) says you've had it. Old Joe Alcoholic you know
we used to drink together but he went drinking. Gitcha enjoys but...Dry
is always D insteada T(41) so the second...a German
pornography(42)...(SINGING) "Burn..." Hmm each daay offered thou week
to week. O in The Name of The Christ don't call on that I say that's
another...then the next day November 1st is All Souls All Saints.(43)
He did nothin and I did nothin and finally nothin, there wasn't nothin
he wouldn't do for me and nothin I wouldn't do for him. We sat around
all the time doing nothin. 100 miles an hour goin a great 4 wheel
drift(44) he uh adjusting his goggles you know everybody in the audience
with their right foot but I can't heel and toe(45) I'm double left.(46)
I'll get the Pigpen(47) microphone going I've got to cut the
organ...Ginsberg(48) forced us up here. I went because it's a good
drive; Mt. Baker out of the Chillaquin Indian country in Oregon; the
lava beds and the guy(49) who was opposite brother Chuck's(50) Eugene
creamery should know the area. He was an editor who'll never make it
because of the rocky overhang.(51) So I drove up into the snow and found
you know...I excited all to turn him. Guy comes in last one outta the
mountains; Ed Sanders(52) leader...3 things I had: a flat tire, a place
to stay, & a joint. He handled all 3 immediately...couple years later I
found a course he had a couple wives a couple kids and everything but
anyway...it's true...yer home is...so anyway the ski-boy...I excited him
to move...a week...and I'm glad I didn't hear it...protected you
know...The minister: "I'll blow ya for money," he said-half hour later
she...what did she say...? He was listening to the radio and I said
"O..." I'd just gone thru...fortunate you know you throw off. Don't eat
when you're angry. Who was ever happy angry? Before all fixin
due...'53...a pleasure dome you see. Antrophy. Thank you...thank
you...I went...I used to have my 2-16.(53) I...left the a fleet of
course and finally the 4th largest union(54) we'll take that up but
first the guy...then the stockboy...and when I was replacing the 3rd man
from moving on Obetrol(55) changing too fast you know...the tires(56)
so...I lost my...extension.(57) Logical Positivism had a great increase
at UCLA recently they got Alcindor(58) but no water polo...what are we
gonna...? you all are surrounded...I've never found who was...I played
short short...outfield-no glove...you just need...I learned an illegal
pitch-caught Satch Paige(59) barehanded...after the 303 guard you know
had done me in cause the coach thought I was chicken. Why bother was
my...vein. The brain of the..."But Nell.(60) Now see here Hard Dick."
[Major Hoople/W.C. Fields voice] My wife medical secretary works for
Stiff Dr. Peck. Double reed.(61) From the second balcony Dillenger(62)
uh...the L5...I said to Robert Jones Melvin(63)...on the left he wears
these rings. A sensitive-we're all sensitives. Thinks it's alright to
charge to astrologize.(64)

The Embryo you know
goes thru the Fish Stage
but we didn't enter
until Ape Late.
Christ-Adam-Higher Soul
help us out thru
so the Cyclopses don't win
the Unicorn Brew.
We're here to Experience...
and finally Evolution
the Little Toe
we'll beat it tho-
The Odor of Sanctity.


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1. PENGUIN: Pocket book of ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac.
2. PHIL: Phil Lesh, bassist of the Grateful Dead.
3. BIC: Cigarette lighter, noted because Phil had no light. Five
o'clock in the morning at the Watts Acid Test, light barely
glimmering. Phil was still thumoing when Babbs shut down the
power. "No light! No light!" Phil screamed, but to no avail.
It didn't come back.
4. ROASTA BEEF: Riffing on the chow at the Straight-always the
worst, and Cassady was a truck driver's special man, hated
ratburgers.
5. FOUR FINGERS: Pertains to his flute playing, "Three finger
delight," he said, "no, that's masturbation," but in this case
he's threatening to play the flute like he always did while
driving the big bus Furthur, thus the groans from the musicians.
6. CLAW: His hand with the tip of thumb cut off. (See ON THE ROAD
for best explanation for how it happened.)
7. METRO: The law. Police station. Clenches his fist to hide the
thumb and reveal the torso, muscles tense.
8. SPENCE: Dick Spence, a connection, always drive past his place,
no telling what might be available.
9. HEINZ: As in '56 flavors in '57, or was it the other way around?
10. 6 SEEDS: busted for seeds the waiter was, can you believe it?
11. LAUDATORY: Refers to a 6 page letter to Gavin Arthur who visited
Cassady in San Quentin when Neal was doing two years for two
joints; lotta time on his hands. My brother's bar in Neal's
hometown of Denver has the letter on the wall.
12. THE WALL: Some of the best writings can be found on the shit-
house wall.
13. 20 YEARS: Cassady's a bit older than the audience in the
theater. He's being heckled.
14. PAISLEY: In vogue amongst the younger set; why not join in?
"If you want to be loved, be lovable," Cassady often said.
15. SON OF THE MAN: Christological reference to San Francisco's
Mayor's son. Chip Alioto.
16. Roger GRIMSBY: San Francisco television reporter.
17. MARCO GREG: Nightclub critic always thought Cassady was putting
everyone on. "Talks about cars a lot, doesn't he?"
18. JUST IN TIME: To save the lady from committing suicide, she's at
her nitwit's end.
19. WINNEMUCCA: Nevada: east of Reno on Interstate 80. Site of the
Mustang Ranch, a a barbed wire enclosed bordello. The manage-
ment dug Neal so much they didn;t charge him for services
rendered. Always a quick stop for Neal when heading East out
of Frisco.
20. ENDURANCE: "What, what? Consistency," Cassady said. "Not how you
come out of the blocks or make the first turn." You gotta be in
it for the long haul.
21. VIC'S VAPORUB: Mentholated version of the popular lubricant.
22. FIRST CHILD '42: One of many kids alleged to have been fathered
by a young Neal in Los Angeles and Denver.
23. CHARLIE VALENCIA: her boy friend.
24. TEMPLE: Street in L.A.
25. ACID TEST: Were held in L.A. in spring of '66, Cassady the star,
Grateful Dead the band, Pranksters the crew, Furthur the bus.
26. 1350: Street address on temple. Now a shrine to the CKC nuts.
(Cassady Kerouac Corso). The Cassady virus was brought across
the border on the bottom of the sneakers of a wetback. Cassady
was all man. From the top of his head to the bottom of his
feet-to the very sole. They say clothes can't go to heaven but
those shoes had sole. Other soles picked up the Cassady Virus
and it's since spread across country and now into Europe.
"After us, the deluge," Kerouac said, a soulful man.
27. ANTHONY QUINN: the actor who was shooting a movie called Guns
for San Sebastian in Mexico and involved with Neal's last lover.
She had to make a choice between Neal or Quinn, she chose Neal.
28. SORTOFA: Read all about it in Carolyn Cassady's book, HEARTBEAT.
29. COLORED GIRL: Neal and Jack took her to Neal's house in Los
Gatos and past Carolyn asleep and up the pull-down stairs to the
attic, pushing the girl's ass to get her through the hole when
Carolyn woke up. It was Neal's birthday and he was supposed to
be wining and dining Carolyn under candlelight but Jack called
to say he'd been busted, could Neal come bail him out? "Back
in 'alf a mo' darling," and that was hours ago the candles have
burned out Carolyn is pissed. What do you think she did to get
even?
30. KEROASSADY: the composite Jack/Neal: a hybrid personality that
did 'em both in.
31. SUICIDE: After Carolyn got her revenge, Neal was so devastated
he sat in the car with a gun in his hand all night fighting over
suicide being wrong versus I don't wanna go. He rejected
suicide as an option and decided to go home and beg.
32. FORD SIGN: Billboard where you turn West driving from Manhattan
to the coast.
33. VANHELLUTHER: Preacher who lectured Neal on the wonders of
Valballa, home of the warriors slain in battle.
34. DIDN'T SEE IT: Blessed are the peacemakers-for they shall be
called the sons of God. "There is no excuse for violence,"
Cassady said, "except when making love."
35. MENOPAUSAL: Just as the woman stops bleeding, the peacemaker
declines to shed blood. The grace that comes with age.
36. 20 YEARS: My, how time do fly. To think, 20 years gone by
already, like a blink of the eye. Kerouac said, "Cassady knew
time."
37. RAILROAD: Neal was a brakeman on the railroad for ten years,
with an impeccable record, never missed a train, but when he
went to prison, lost his job, his pension, his wife, his home.
38. 10 MORE FOR: For what? Not even Cassady could predict that. But
he still was going to give it all he got in whatever time he got
left. DEAD A THOUSAND YEARS: the orthodox lapse between
incarnations.
39. REB PARKER/AL COLLINS: Old runaround friend of Cassady's he ran
into at the Acid Test.
40. AUROBINDO: Savant who knew body functions from having existed
at one time or another as every organ in the body, so he was a
soothsayer alright-could tell you straight what alcohol did to
you, and Cassady was always scared of the booze what with
growing up on skidrow Larimer Street in Denver with his wino
father.
41. D INSTEADA T: A Nealish proto AA injunctive?
42. PORNOGRAPHY: Those German drink so much beer it's obscene.
43. ALL SAINTS Church: Downtown Denver where Neal was an alter boy.
44. 4 WHEEL DRIFT: Auto racing. A Stirling Moss technique. Going
around corners giving it the gas and breaking at the same time.
You slide but don't cartwheel if you do it just right.
45. HEEL AND TOE: Heel on the brake, toe on the gas.
46. DOUBLE LEFT: Cassady was left handed, so left-footed too, and
couldn't manipulate the heel and toe with his right foot.
47. PIGPEN: Ron McKermnan: vocalist and keyboardist for the
Grateful Dead. Since deceased.
48. GINSBERG: Allen the ubiquitous poet.
49. THE GUY: Luther Frease, RIP, who worked at the Springfield News
across the street from the Springfield Creamery.
50. BROTHER CHUCK: Ken Kesey's brother, who owns and operates the
Springfield Creamery (not the Eugene Creamery) Chuck is also an
original Merry Prankster who was on the bus, Furthur, in 1964
when Cassady drove.
51. ROCKY OVERHANG: Luther's furrowed brow.
52. ED SANDERS: Leader of the Fugs, radical music group of the 60's.
He also wrote book, THE FAMILY, about Charles Manson.
53. 2-16: Union card. He's riffing about the fleet, never having
been in the Navy or any other branch of service, being color-
blind..."I was out there on the grass and all," Cassady said,
"and to me it looked red. The grass red? You're nuts. I was
so mad at that grass I learned cars."
54. 4TH LARGEST UNION: Railroad brakemen.
55. OBETROL: Great speed. An OBETROL 10 tablet contained: 2.5 mg.
each of Methamphetamine saccharate, Methamphetamine
hydrocloride, Amphetamine sulfate, & Dextroamphetamine
sulfate. OBETROL 20's contained twice this potency.
56. THE TIRES: at the Los Gatos Tire Company while on parole after
stretch in San Quentin.
57. EXTENSION: for his socket wrench.
58. ALCINDOR: Later known as Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
59. SATCH PAIGE: Ancient Negro pitcher finally made it to the big
leagues with the Indians at age of sixty-something.
60. NELL: The nurse in W.C. Fields comedy.
61. STIFF DR. PECK, DOUBLE REED: Carolyn worked for a spell as
receptionist to Radiological Associates; Dr.'s Clemmer M. Peck,
MD, & Robert H. Reid, MD. DOUBLE REED: The oboe, most difficult
of instruments to play. You gotta get just the right lip on it.
62. DILLINGER: John, the 30's gangster shot down as he left The
Biograph movie theater, Chicago-July, 1934.
63. ROBERT JONES MELVIN: Religious leader who got rich from
donations, but after all, gotta drive a Caddilac, you think
they'll give money to a man in a clunker?
64. CHARGE TO ASTROLOGIZE: No money changers in the temple


[Material for this piece researched and collected as part of an ongoing
project: THE CASSADY FILE.  For more information write: THE CASSADY FILE: POB 630: COOPER STATION: NEW YORK 10276]

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Thursday, July 03, 2014

Associated Press: Sasquatch hair samples turn out to be from known animals


LONDON (AP) — "DNA testing is taking a bite out of the Bigfoot legend. After scientists analyzed more than 30 hair samples reportedly left behind by Bigfoot and similar mythical beasts like the Himalayan Yeti, they found all of them came from more mundane creatures like bears, wolves, cows and raccoons."
. . .
"In 2012, researchers at Oxford University and the Lausanne Museum of Zoology issued an open call asking museums, scientists and Bigfoot aficionados to share any samples they thought were from the legendary ape-like creatures."
"I thought there was about a 5 percent chance of finding a sample from a Neanderthal or (a Yeti)," said Bryan Sykes of Oxford University, who led the research, the first peer-reviewed study of Bigfoot, Yeti and other "anomalous primates."
. . .
"Sykes and colleagues tested 36 hair samples from Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Russia and the U.S. using DNA sequencing and all of them matched DNA from known animals. Most were from bears, but there were also hairs from a Malaysian tapir, horses, porcupine, deer, sheep, and a human.
"While Sykes said they didn't find any proof of Bigfoot-related creatures, he acknowledged their paper doesn't prove they don't exist."
[See the full article on the Associated Press site here]
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Ten more signs that we love

By Jack Brummet, signs and symbols ed.




 






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