9-20-09 michael hurley, forest bloodgood, the press club, portland oregon

Michael Hurley w/ Forest Bloodgood (violin)  9-20, 2009. Press Club.


1. slow poke
2.don't know why i love you like I do (?)
3. another unknown song. All I Need.
4. mr blues
5.  riding a bronc in the big rodeo/ a filly i'll find/a carefree range rider
    yodel yodel fiddle I O

"Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (August 7, 1890 – September 5, 1964) was a labor leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Flynn was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union and a visible proponent of women's rights,

birth control, and women's suffrage. She joined the Communist Party USA in 1926 and late in life, in 1961, became its chairwoman. She died during a visit to the Soviet Union, where she was accorded a state funeral with processions in the Red Square attended by over 25,000 people."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gurley_Flynn

           "an East Side Joan of Arc".
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6.  Ghost Riders in the Sky

"An old cowboy went riding out one dark and windy day
Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way
When all at once a mighty herd of red eyed cows he saw
A-plowing through the ragged sky and up the cloudy draw
Their brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel
Their horns were black and shiny and their hot breath he could feel
A bolt of fear went through him as they thundered through the sky
For he saw the riders coming hard and he heard their mournful cry
Yippie yi ooh
Yippie yi yay
Ghost riders in the sky
Their faces gaunt, their eyes were blurred, their shirts all soaked with sweat
He's riding hard to catch that herd, but he ain't caught 'em yet
'Cause they've got to ride forever on that range up in the sky
On horses snorting fire
As they ride on hear their cry
As the riders loped on by him he heard one call his name
If you want to save your soul from hell a-riding on our range
Then cowboy change your ways today or with us you will ride
Trying to catch the devil's herd, across these endless skies
Yippie yi ooh
Yippie yi yay
Ghost riders in the sky
Ghost riders in the sky
Ghost Riders in the sky

7. I Might Never Get to Heaven/But I Once Got that Close
8.the Bear (fiddle , dobro) banjo
9. Detour Sign
"Lyrics
Headed down life's crooked road lot of things I never knowed
And because of me not knowing I now pine
Trouble's got in the trail spent the next five years in jail
Should have read that detour sign
Detour there's a muddy road ahead detour paid no mind to what it said
Detour oh these bitter things I find should have read that detour sign
When I got right to the place where it said about face
I thought that all my worries were behind
But the father I go the more sorrow
I know I should have read that detour sign
Detour there's a muddy road
Detour there's a muddy road
Should have read that detour sign"
Songwriters: Paul Westmoreland
ongwriters: Hughie Thomasson

10.  Twilight Zone
     "Everything is weird
Turning out just like I feared
Someone calling in a nightmare tone
I don't want to live in the twilight zone
I don't want to live in the twilight zone
Please, send a letter of reprieve

Door knob turning round and round
Blue ghost drifting slowly down
Voice keeps calling in a nightmare tone
I don't want to live in the twilight zone
I don't want to live in the twilight zone
Please, send a letter of reprieve

Darling, why don't you send me that old letter of reprieve?
You know, the blue ghost got his fingers on me
But I want to leave
I don't like it here at all
Help me make my escape
You know I just seen something coming

nd it looks like a ten-foot ape

I don't want to live in the twilight zone

Please, send a letter of reprieve

You know, I hear those chains dragging

And they getting closer

So I guess this must be a ghost

Or else it's a Gösser

You know the werewolf was by tonight

But he didn't look so well

And I guess this must be Count Dracula now

Ringing at the front door bell

Door knob turning round and round

The blue ghost drifting slowly down

A voice keeps calling in a nightmare tone

I don't want to live in the twilight zone

I don't want to live in the twilight zone

Please, send a letter of reprieve 

11. Rag Mop (mop mop mop, I say R a. G g)
12. You Got To Quit Kicking My Dog Around

(Jimmy Driftwood)

Me and Lim Brick and Old Bill Brown
Takin’ a load of corn to town
My Old Jim Dog, the darned old cuss
He just naturally followed us

As we drove by Sam Johnson’s door
Passed and cursed him out the door
Jim, he’s good behind the box
And all them fellers are throwin’ rocks

Refrain:
Every time I go to town
The boys keep a-kickin’ my dog around
Makes no difference if he is a hound
You got to quit kicking my dog around

-Solo-

They tied a can to Old Jim’s tail
Running him around the count jail
That made us a-dead burned sore
Lim, he cussed and Bill, he swore

Me and Lim Brick and Old Bill Brown
Lost no time a-get them down
We lost them fellers on the ground
For kicking my Old Jim Dog around

Refrain: -Solo-

Jim saw his duty there and then
He tore ‘em to them gentlemen
He sure messed up the courthouse square
With the rags and meat and the hide and hair

The Sheriff came and stopped the fuss
And all them boys shook hands with us
We gathered ‘round that load of corn
And every man had a healthy horn

Refrain: -Solo-

Old Jim Dog is worth much cash
But I can tell you, he ain’t no trash
He wakes me up before the break of day
And he keeps them revenue-boys away

He’s the best old dog, you ever did see
Wherever I go, he follows me
His voice is sweet, his name is Jim
He’d fight for me and I’d for him

13. O My Stars
14. what'll you say /what'll you do/when you whole life is thru?

   I ain't got no home
   I was born to roam i was born to roam
sea and sea and shore and shore and coral is coral there is no moral
            i laid down on med tried to take my rest
but my mind did wander like wild geese in the West
*****
13. I Paint a Design
14.Cars, Jars,Guitars
15. KnoCan do
15. This World will be Destroyed Again/ Can't stand Long
16. The Greatest Love

     ends, 80 minutes Sony Minidisc acoustic sound engine 

Joe Hill, Preacher and the Slave

"Joe Hill (Gävle, Sweden, October 7, 1879 – Salt Lake City, Utah, November 19, 1915), born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund and also known as Joseph Hillström,[1] was a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, familiarly called the "Wobblies").[2] A native Swedish speaker, he learned English during the early 1900s, while working various jobs from New York to San Francisco.[3

] Hill, an immigrant worker frequently facing unemployment and underemployment, became a popular songwriter and cartoonist for the union.

His most famous songs include "The Preacher and the Slave" (in which he coined the phrase "pie in the sky"),[4] "The Tramp", "There is Power in a Union", "The Rebel Girl", and "Casey Jones—the Union Scab", which express the harsh and combative life of itinerant workers, and call for workers to organize their efforts to improve working conditions.[5]

In 1914, John G. Morrison, a Salt Lake City area grocer and former policeman, and his son were shot and killed by two men.[6] The same evening, Hill arrived at a doctor's office with a gunshot wound, and briefly mentioned a fight over a woman.
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Yet Hill refused to explain further, even after he was accused of the grocery store murders on the basis of his injury. Hill was convicted of the murders in a controversial trial. Following an unsuccessful appeal, political debates, and international calls for clemency from high-profile figures and workers' organizations, Hill was executed in November 1915.

" the last of Hill's ashes (but not the envelope that contained them) was turned over to the IWW in 1988. The weekly In These Times ran notice of the ashes and invited readers to suggest what should be done with them.

Suggestions varied from enshrining them at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, DC to Abbie Hoffman's suggestion that they be eaten by today's "Joe Hills" like Billy Bragg and Michelle Shocked. "

Bragg did indeed swallow a small bit of the ashes with some Union beer to wash it down, and for a time carried Shocked's share for the eventual completion of Hoffman's last prank

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"In 1990, while living in Austin, Barnes formed the Bad Livers with bassist Mark Rubin and fiddler Ralph White. The band's 1992 debut album, Delusions of Banjer, was produced by Paul Leary of the Butthole Surfers and released on Quarterstick Records. It gained the band some attention in the alt-rock-country scene; they followed it up with another album for Quarterstick, Horses in the Mines, released in 1994.



 The band then released three albums on the Sugar Hill Records label. During his tenure with the Bad Livers, he was acclaimed as "a prodigiously talented picker, and a glorious singer"[12] with "an ideal bluegrass voice.""

Laurelthirst, Michael Hurley (forest bloodgood 2010. tea song.

"The Preacher and the Slave" is a song written by Joe Hill in 1911. It was written as a parody of the hymn "In the Sweet By-and-By". The Industrial Workers of the World (commonly known as the Wobblies) concentrated much of its labor trying to organize migrant workers in lumber and construction camps. When the workers returned to the cities, the Wobblies faced the Salvation Army (which they satirized as the "Starvation Army").[1] Hill had first encountered the Salvation Army in Sweden when he was a child.[2]

Several songs were written parodying the Salvation Army's hymns, "The Preacher and the Slave" being the most successful. In this song, Joe Hill coined the phrase "pie in the sky."[3] The song is often referred to as "Pie in the Sky", or as "Long Haired Preachers" (which was its original title).[4] It was first published in the 4th edition of the Little Red Songbook in 1911.[forest, isis, surreal 

 Jon Neufeld the bumpkin fingerpicker swilling avast, David Reisch on bass, Snock. years ago, Laurelthirst

Laurelthirst, Michael Hurley (forest bloodgood  2010
lewi longmire, david reisch. anna shelton

1. Since I Met You Baby
2. The Portland Water
3. "mermaids on the reef and they're calling me/ moon flower"
     no idea what song this is. snock never tells us before. no set list wham
kinda nice.
4. The Rue of Ruby Whores
5. http://www.landoflofi.com/folks/devendra-banhart.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM9JgfObeUw
6. I Got No Place to Go (title, author unknown)
7.  Cars, Jars, Guitars ( nailing that fiddle, Forest
8. The Revenant
9. ? "you tear the soul from me/ each time you leave/i want to live so i forgive every time you leave."
10. Eldorado      (edgar allen poe)
11. Can't Help Myself
12. The Bear
13. Have I told You Lately I love You
14. Wildegeeeses
15. Go Easy Mabel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJrhkxAH0os

16. Tea Song. Blue Hills vinyl.
17. blue dreamer/?/  who fucking knows. big guessaroo.
18. knocandoo no can do.
19. Great Grandfather (when the Land was young/   
                          picked his teeth with a hunting knife)
20. Grand Canyon Line
21. Never Get to Heaven but I never Missed a Turn
22. Meara O Reilley (pretty as the day u Wereborn)
23. I Paint a Design ( dave: we got a tip jar/whaddya want for nothing jesus
24.  O My Stars
25. Long Haired Preachers (Joe Hill)
26 Lewi outtro: TABLE OF VALUE! TABLE OF VALUE!

wobbly song, so scary.




@    &      *      !       %     #   
"And now I see the wind
Blowin' from Northwest
I hear them Honkers again
On their rambling quest

Over Lord's Valley I roll like a ball
And in the wind I hear them call
Wild goose, loose goose, I count them all

Yonder stepping that ol' lighten-walkin' wolf
Hungry as always
Long legs and long ears and tail
And a long, long will

I had no goose and I tried to keep her
And she awake and I'm the sleeper
She flew away left me the weeper

But there ain't no chills cold wind
Blowin' through our love nest
I feel your heart beat again
In the Wilderness

I had no goose and I tried to claim her
It's only in the wildness, can you name her
It's only in the wildness, can you tame her"
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"Lyrics (w. nelson)
Since I met you baby
My whole life has changed
Since I met you baby
My whole life has changed
And everybody tells me that I am not the same
I don't need nobody
To tell my troubles to
I don't need nobody
To tell my troubles to
'Cause since I met you baby, all I need is you
Since I met you baby
I'm a happy man
Since I met you baby
I'm a happy man
I'm gonna try to please you in every way I can
Songwriters: Ivory Joe Hunter"

Pickathon 2011 Michael Hurley (Rue of Ruby Whores)

Michael Hurley, the LuridThirst.

big fan. Ohio.

Pickathon 2011 Michael Hurley setlist
Sony Minidisc 80 minute capacity, analog sound engine

(hurley, reisch, bloodgood. longmire, anna
no set list. never know what Snock is about to play.
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1. sound check banter
2. the Portland Water ( here on Mt Tabor

**********"The Portland water they swillin' cold
and it swills my body but not not my soul
Oh the call up to Portland on the public telephone
said it sure is rainin' here in the state of Oregon
Up in the canyon lookin' down on the river
and the wind come blowin' and it makes me shiver
Oh the call up to Portland on the public telephone
said it sure is rainin' here in the state of Oregon
You see them injuns lookin down on the water
they say the river is the spirit's daughter
Oh the call up to Portland on the public telephone
said it sure is rainin' here in the state of Oregon
Honey honey honey honey whatcha tryin' to do
Why don't you signal when you are through
Oh the call up to Portland on the public telephone
said it sure is rainin' here in the state of Oregon
You can see quite a ways on the great hillside
And the people there livin' where the injuns died
Oh the call up to Portland on the public telephone
said it sure is rainin' here in the state of Oregon"  genius greasewood

3. No Can Do (Knowcando
4. Have I blot/told You How Much I love You (Willie Nelson)
5. Cain't Help Myself
6. wildgeese
7. Troubled Waters
8. I don't Got No Place To Go
9. Cars, Jars, and Guitars
10. The Rue of Ruby Whores
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL6_pMdMhlQ  video

11. The Bear ("think I'll hire these guys!"
12. Meara O Reilley (nice fiddle, Forest, cuz I knew Meara from her AVA gig
   in Astoria.)
13. The Revenant
13. mouth trumpet thing
14. Jocko's Lament "In addition to the Townes Van Zandt cover and seven original tracks, Holland and Parton over new takes on Michael Hurley's "Jocko's Lament" and Bob Dylan's "Minstrel Boy." Wildflower Blues is due out Sep. 8 on Cinquefoil Records."
15. I PAINT  a  Design
16.

"Have I told you lately that I love you
Could I tell you once again somehow
Have I told you how with all my heart
And soul I need you
Well darling I'm telling you now
My heart would break in two if I should lose you I'm no good without you anyhow
Have I told you lately that I love you
Well, darling, I'm telling you now

[steel - guitar]

Have I told you lately when I'm sleeping
Every dream that I dream is you somehow
And have I told you how my every thought
Is in your keeping
Well, darling, I'm telling you now
My world would end today if I should lose you
Cause I'm no good without you anyhow
Have I told you lately that I love you
Well, darling, I'm telling you now"


double violin sweet

arrowleaf balmsam, you are the flower, your soul burning blue. the old pinewood.

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xmas 1971 stillwater Oklahoma with great grandmother luderman

other

Lee Bloodgood, 40, 000 acres

Lee Bloodgood, far right in the blue shirt, my dad's cousin whose father Ellsworth was a cattle ranching pioneer in the Gila Wilderness area as Apaches defended their territory. 

Lee owned 40,000 acres and shot a man who had trespassed and left his cattle gate open.

Instead of being convicted for murder, or manslaughter, Lee was found to be mentally incompetent, and his 40,000 ACRES was taken by the state of New Mexico.

michael hurley, forest bloodgood, the Press Club 2009

snock 2009 blue tape on disc

1. might never get to heaven (good fiddle solo, forest 5:02
2. the bear (my fiddle sounds good, apt.
3. i still love you (nice hurley high vocals
4.  eyes eyes (nice acoustic balances
5. o my stars
6. mr blues
7. sweet lucy
8. rag mop mop mop
9. cars jars guitars
10. "forest and i acknowledge that the world ain't right, but
 lets see what we can do about it."   Michael Hurley. lead into
next song

11. troubled waters
12. slow poke
13. jesse (?) sherrif playing blackjack/ dice in my shoes/ cards be my tombstone/ crapshooter blues/ nine racket men bambling/ three women out of north atlantic note/ heart a thumpin/ jesse went to hell bouncing jumpin/ charleston/ one foot up tornado dragging/ wagon/

blind willy mctell
dime crap shooter blues
14. cain't help myself
15. el dorado ( edgar allen Poe) guitar sparkle intro
16. gelatine (?) high harmonics
17. ? shovel in a little more coal/need my gin
18. ? my heart jumps straight/ new river/ woo whoooo Snocko/ catfish on the bottom/ now im up here with the blues/ what the moon beam shine down to me; you could see the /////woe oww wee/ e

new river flows (finger slap harmonic/ old hog on the bottom. like a free stream of life, myh eart jumbs straight to you.....tonight

19. Since I met You Baby
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Gaily bedight,
   A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow, 
   Had journeyed long, 
   Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.

   But he grew old—
   This knight so bold— 
And o’er his heart a shadow— 
   Fell as he found
   No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

   And, as his strength 
   Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow— 
   ‘Shadow,’ said he, 
   ‘Where can it be—
This land of Eldorado?’

   ‘Over the Mountains
   Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow, 
   Ride, boldly ride,’
   The shade replied,—
‘If you seek for Eldorado!’


Source: The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (1946)

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Slow Poke
Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys
F: (Slow poke, slow poke, I'm a silly old slow poke)
M: You keep me waitin' till it's gettin' aggravatin', you're a slow poke
F: You wait and worry but I never seem to hurry, I'm a slow poke
M: Time means nothin' to you, I wait (you wait) and then
F: Late again, eight o'clock, nine o'clock, quarter to ten
M: Why should I linger every time you snap your finger, little slow poke?
F: Why can't I hasten when I see the time's a-wastin'? I'm a slow poke, dear
M: Why should I keep tryin' to change you? It's not the thing to do
F: Here's the thing to do-I guess you'll have to learn to be a slow poke, too (slow
poke, too)
F: (Slow poke, slow poke, I'm a silly old slow poke)
ALL: We keep on waitin' till it's gettin' aggravatin', what a slow poke
We wait…

Listening to Next Sony minidisc 80 minute Michael Hurley/ Forest Bloodgood
show.
.
2009. unsure about where this gig was....marked with blue painters tape "2009"

Clyde, Ellsworth, Freeman Bloodgood. Kingston New Mexico

pawnee bill stonemasonry

Gordon William Lillie (February 14, 1860 – February 3, 1942), known professionally as Pawnee Bill, was an American showman and performer who specialized in Wild West shows and was known for his short partnership with Buffalo Bill.

In 1888, the Lillies launched their own Wild West show, which they called "Pawnee Bill’s Historic Wild West". May starred in the show as the "Champion Girl Horseback Shot of the West." Their first season was a financial disaster.

They re-organized as a smaller operation called "Pawnee Bill’s Historical Wild West Indian Museum and Encampment Show." That show was popular and financially successful. Lillie added Jose Barrera to the cast; he was widely popular performing as "Mexican Joe".

 In 1907, Lillie hired performers from a variety of backgrounds. The show included Mexican cowboys, Pawnee, Japanese performers, and Arab jugglers.

Pawnee Bill invested in banking, real estate, and oil. He operated various business interests and dabbled in film making at his ranch. In 1930, May and Pawnee Bill opened Pawnee Bill’s Old Town near the ranch. They sold Indian and Mexican crafts, and featured annual rodeos. That enterprise burned to the ground in the 1940s and was never rebuilt.

In 1936, the couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in Taos, New Mexico. In September of that year they attended a local celebration in Tulsa, Oklahoma. While driving back to their ranch that night, Pawnee Bill lost control of their vehicle. May died as a result of her injuries, and Pawnee Bill never fully recovered. He died in his sleep on February 3, 1942, at the age of 81 in his home outside of Pawnee, Oklahoma.
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Pawnee Bill believed strongly in the importance of the bison to the history of the American West and to the Plains Indian culture. He desired to perpetuate and develop the bison and lobbied congress to pass legislation to protect the animal.[3] This was the beginning of the ranch's time as a bison preservation. The ranch is an active member of the Oklahoma Bison Association today.

In December 1910, Lillie and his wife May's dream of a home on top of a hill overlooking a bend in the Black Bear River was realized.[4] The building of their Tudor-style Arts and Crafts home was completed after nearly a year of construction. James Hamilton, an architect from Chester, Pennsylvania, designed the home with input from Lillie and his wife. The home was a beautiful crafted residence, both comfortable and modern. Area laborers worked to construct the nearly 5,300 square feet (490 m2) home from native stone quarried from the Ranch grounds.[2]

Between the years of 1910 and 1926, many other buildings were added to the ranch site. Between 1910 and 1913 the carriage house, log cabin, blacksmith shop, and observation tower were added to the site by the Lillies to accommodate their growing businesses.[1] In 1926, to meet the need for larger livestock accommodations, the Lillies built an impressive three story barn. The barn housed Pawnee Bill's herd of Scottish Shorthorn cattle. Its basement level sheltered the ranch horses while the second floor provided housing for the cattle. The top was used as storage for alfalfa and other feed crops harvested from the ranch property.

On October 10, 1975, the site was included on the National Register of Historic Places under the original title of Blue Hawk Peak Ranch.[2

money laundering the status quo ask Mike Mukasey and Prevezon

"The meeting brought together Donald Jr and two other senior campaign aides with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin, and Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian American political operative and former military officer.

Kaveladze was in 2000 named by the New York Times as responsible for using about 2,000 shell companies in the US to launder $1.4bn from Russia and eastern Europe into accounts at Citibank and the Commercial Bank of San Francisco."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/18/trump-jr-russia-meeting-irakly-ike-kaveladzehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/18/trump-jr-russia-meeting-irakly-ike-kaveladze

lynn conover, forest, Ladd's Inn days

 forest at Ladds Inn for a gig

 Sulinn and Lynn Conover. Sulinn's parents partied with Ernest Hemingway in NY city.

the former Mrs Bloodgood, so awesome. a nice photo.

the beauty of free speech worldwide

United States
189
Ukraine
23
Romania
21
France
13
Ireland
8
Egypt
6
Poland
5
United Kingdom
2
Ecuador
1
Hungary
1
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Hola amigos Internationalle
Aloha
Ciao bellisima

Michael Hurley w/Forest Bloodgood, Jolie Holland

Michael Hurley w/ Forest Bloodgood marathon here in my home studio nest on Tabor
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1. Opening for Jolie Holland at the Ace Hotel
    Snock, Forest, Lewi Longmire 80 minutes, Sony Minidisc

     the Weed Song*

i paint a design*


    hallelujah i'm a bum*

rusted volcano hinge

lit by nocturnal lute kalediscopes
beamed in the dust of a body home mind area, motes
fastened with the hefeweizen yeast fog of clarity.
the coutours please themselves rare periods
as rolling seals in green waves or grains of wheat in golden toast,
drawn into the woods-------- the door speaks .  if not the wind's
eyeknobs dimmed by gimme mine
grime greed, vanquished in a snowglobe split in two so to not seem cyclops
the party traffic cone
the bowler hat on the bobby on his break berrating beatniks,
these accoutrements to clutter
bear not mentioning for musty smell
&luckluster fortune dander-flecking off loose planets,
and nebulae in cribs, or under seas more valued, and dunes less eaten
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over miles of ice that was once mother's father's mother
over gallons of land mixed into animal parts that once taken become man
over quanta both gone and in decrepit age zany zipping
that is the quality of spirit that moves hinges on a volcano
over clouds exhumed, inhaled, interred, inurred.
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more vital the stone bone bead leather
sap wood fur fire
water water form food
hut cave tree view
below basin rain bow
morn mist blue fade
born blind all seen
prism beam stick rock


3-26-17 mt tabor portland orgegon

jesus on appamatoxx wood

jesus on appamatoxx wood
going down deliverance river
to a federal pen of pigs
wearing crowns of barbie twigs
fire gas sun open all nite
for gut soon all things pass
legal kidney stones, our kin
all must get stoned
stomp yer leadbelly foot, unheards
un herd yer slough, snake
un rapt the campus rape or priestly silence
unless you do, will who?
time eats its children
treaty trick on blanket pox
truces hold by nail, denial.
eagles eternally chew
fire giver liver
gizzard wizard lightning
crowd sourced halo fine
welcome, theatre of pratfallen heroics
good deeds gone sour in injun land
scalp the tickets while you can
what can be canned of duh
it comes out the peepee hole

pyramidal hornbeam (1992)

 great trees stand between the wheat field and uncultivated spots of prarie grass;
occassional pools of water along the highway; childvoice leads my attention to the
front of the bus and the tops of heads seen above seats. what does the printed
word?
     where fly thoughts inspired in moving one's body and life-purpose through a
nation suffering the weakness of imbalanced power& conquest? on which plane
does my regard for humanity involve hope, and how will these concerns manifest
theirselves in concrete good? should we just keep trucking slabs for the pyramid?
     the bodily hold on reality affirms; quality is only grasped in the context of a
minimal, sustaining quantity. our greyhound has stopped at the U-totem.  people
get off to smoke, stretch, start conversations. a woman boards, hauling a trash
sack of belongings, angrily muttering to the rear seats. she curses me when i
approach, then a small indian child starts to cry, and every wishy washy desire i
may have to befriend the friendless burns with attempted soothe.
     the bus travels downtown. streets, they shine with rain and folks windowshop
without hurry. my life is eternally young. the good soul beats down loneliness
to afford all a philosophy of benevolence. big word men and women hold one
another at night greet the stars travelling unaware, the sun stays on a groove.
     were a common theme possible, would we invest in love or invent beauty?
plenty of food or a sensible notion of void? how did we resign ourselves to loss?
i was born without shoes on my feet and my soul treads accordingly.
     i am singing if crying, and grievance as pollution  mars language in the german
sense of symphony, but less so than a young family who copes on the rainy bus
moving through kansas yearing like a congregation. solicit *heart, and you're
lent a brief wink to scratch more words into the itch. there is a vastness untapped
in the wisdom of compassion. (1992, "they shine with rain."

jellyfish

fort anomaly, and the princess scourge

surreal t.s. hawthorne, kittens, horse, etc etc swale creek USA

bloggod and brother grant 1970

forest 1986 stillwater, sidney

 sidney,father of my girlfriend Ann

mom etc etc

me and dad, long beach 1971

good might art

cold have bot that warhol for one hundred
says dad worth trillions
if should might will be good.

lake carl garth brooks

there at the hideaway cabin on lake carl
blackwell, fourth of july
1984 1985 1986
garth brooks ate all the fucking potato salad
dumb ass played on the porch
for hours, scrounging coors
from those who lost at horseshoes
there at the hideaway cabin
where i broke my nose
dove into the two foot lake
thanks garth.

eyes on director, enid OK

chan marshall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGgGW1ZalY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGgGW1ZalY




Lived in bars
& danced on the tables

love her.

phebe, primal font of all knowledge in the cosmos

"Phoebe was traditionally associated with the moon (see Selene), as in Michael Drayton's Endimion and Phœbe (1595), the first extended treatment of the Endymion myth in English.

 Her consort was her brother Coeus, with whom she had two daughters, Leto, who bore Apollo and Artemis, and Asteria, a star-goddess who bore an only daughter Hecate.

 Given the meaning of her name and her association with the Delphic oracle, Phoebe was perhaps seen as the Titan goddess of prophecy and oracular intellect.

Given that Phoebe symbolized prophetic wisdom
just as Coeus represented rational intelligence,

 the couple may have possibly functioned together
 as the primal font

 of all knowledge in the cosmos." 

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*

(In retrospect, delete the absurd notions and pranks that seemed cogent in late night revelry or haze.)  

apollo 13, 3200 phaeton, the geminids

On December 16, 2017 at 23:00 UT, Phaethon will pass 0.06893187 AU (10,312,061 km; 6,407,618 mi) from Earth

six million
407 hundred thousand
six hundred eighteen

I like how the medallion says
apollo 13 returned on april 17, 1670

spooky brandnames unite (1994)

conspiracy boards ship w/cutlass
shhhhh
itlike, clever enough to crawl
below starbullets and media ref     use,

portions of which are blatant product-placement
deserving its own pumped-up gonad juices

composted of filler subtractives
&psychedelic flavor structures

spooky to own the world
when they're one percent
        of one percent


Maui 1994

normal as normal gets what it paid for

Donald Trump inauguration

According to filings with the U.S. Federal Election Commission, Citgo donated US$500,000 towards Donald Trump's presidential inauguration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citgo

"http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/348007-trump-exempts-citgo-from-venezuela-sanctions


 
Trump exempts Citgo from Venezuela sanctions
© Getty


President Trump is exempting Citgo Petroleum Corp., owned by Venezuela’s government, from the financial sanctions imposed Friday on the country.

The latest set of sanctions is meant to punish the government of President Nicolás Maduro as it moves to rewrite the country’s constitution and consolidate his power. To that end, the sanctions seek to exclude the Venezuelan government from the United States’ economy, including its markets and capital, and to make sure the U.S. does not assist the Maduro government.

But Citgo, an oil refiner, retailer and transporter based in the United States and owned by the government’s Petróleos de Venezuela, will get to operate largely as normal.

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“Oil refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast that process the heavier grades of Venezuelan crude represent a significant portion, nearly 10 percent, of U.S. imports,” wrote Sens. Bill Cassidy (La.), John Cornyn (Texas), Thad Cochran (Miss.) and Roger Wicker (Miss.).

The former Champlin Refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, which was purchased by PDVSA from Union Pacific was integrated into the CITGO refining network.

1990 Fox Television’s animated program “The Simpsons” made its television debut; “America’s Funniest Home Videos” was the most popular television show.

1990 CITGO became wholly owned by PDVSA.

1990 The former Champlin Refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, which was purchased by PDVSA from Union Pacific was integrated into the CITGO refining network.

1990 CITGO acquires the Seaview Asphalt Company, headquartered in Blue Bell, PA with a refinery in Paulsboro, NJ.

1990 CITGO honored with the prestigious Petroleum Marketers Association of America Supplier Cup.

1991 Soviet Union collapses.

https://www.citgo.com/AboutCITGO/CITGOHeritage/CITGOHeritage1990s.jsp

"Company Overview

CITGO Refining and Chemicals Company L.P. engages in refining and petrochemical manufacturing operations.

The company was formerly known as Champlin Refining & Chemicals, Inc. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

 CITGO Refining and Chemicals Company L.P. operates as a subsidiary of CITGO Petroleum Corporation.

6100 South Yale Avenue
Suite 1200
Tulsa, OK 74136
United States
Founded in 1995
Phone:
918-495-4000
Fax:
918-495-4511
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Citgo has been cited by environmentalists for using crude oil from the Amazon region, at their Corpus Christi and Lake Charles refineries in particular. In 2015, the Corpus Christi refinery was processing 16,337 barrels of crude oil per day coming from the Amazonian rainforest.

Possible sale to Russia

Due to the poor state of Venezuela's economy that includes a high risk of default and a 2016 deal offering 49.9% of Citgo as collateral for a $1.5 billion loan to Russia, it is possible that the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela may give Citgo to Rosneft, Russia's government-run oil company.

 Both Republicans and Democrats in the United States urged oversight on this deal, describing CITGO's sale to Russia as a risk to the national security of the United States. 

prescient postings

https://www.thedailybeast.com/reza-zarrab-claims-rudy-giuliani-and-michael-mukasey-tried-to-broker-us-turkey-prisoner-swap

"Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, is a long-time friend of Trump who was considered for several Cabinet posts. Mukasey was attorney general under President George W. Bush.

Giuliani and Mukasey avoided mentioning the “central role” of Iran in the charges against Zarrab on filings submitted to the court about their work and said the case had no serious implications for U.S. national security. Judge Richard Berman slammed the omissions as “disingenuous” earlier this year. (Giuliani previously called Iranians “suicidal homicidal maniacs.”)
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I really had no idea this was going to trial today.


Just happened to post it last night, about Prevezon and Mukasey. on target again, in sync.

Occupy Congress, General Strike, or Impeach ASAP

Indeed, Georgia Representative John Lewis, a Democratic civil-rights pioneer and leader of the recent House sit-in, told CNN:

Sometimes you have to violate a rule of law to uphold a greater law, a moral law. We have a right to stand up, to speak up, to speak out. We have a right to sit down, or to sit-in, to engage in nonviolent protest. It is always right to do right.

____________

The Pentagon has buried an internal study that exposed $125 billion in administrative waste in its business operations amid fears Congress would use the findings as an excuse to slash the defense budget, according to interviews and confidential memos obtained by The Washington Post.


____________


9 million kids get health insurance under CHIP. Congress just let it expire.

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Prevezon was represented at that appeal by Michael Mukasey, the former U.S. attorney general whose son, Marc, has been rumored as a potential replacement for Bharara in the Southern District.

(As if this wasn’t complicated enough: Michael Mukasey is also currently working along with Marc’s law partner, Rudy Giuliani, for Reza Zarrab, the Turk close with that country’s leadership charged by Bharara with busting Iran sanctions. The pair have told the judge in that case that they were retained to find an extrajudicial resolution—presumably meaning a deal between the Trump administration and Turkey—to get their client off the hook.)


https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-latest-russia-conspiracy-busted-why-the-feds-settled-the-prevezon-case

eyes

mesa, forest, isis. the dalles, Oregon 2004

girls

one more cup of coffee before isis goes

foggy morning breakdown

another hit wonder for isis

ad lib isis

with a kitten for a slide

off the cuff solo

tortured muses

isis and mesa hour 1

mesa, isis, cat

mesa, the columbia river trail, the dalles

mesa, rock fort, the dalles

family runs to the sea

bowling with the Chairman Mao, with Gibby of the Butthole Surfers 1989

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/58/4154/1024/Top4.jpg

Surreal 1994 Woodstock NY

http://surrealwoodstock1994.blogspot.com/2014/03/surreal-ts-hawthorne-1994-ny.htmlhttp://www.oocities.org/SunsetStrip/5774/public.htm

USA Today Surreal and Forest Bloodgood

winter king gas