Friday, April 27, 2018
zooz
:At first she said she couldn't possibly
be married that night,
but when I told her
that the preacher would be there,
the cabs were hired,
the ferry would take us over
and it would be
very awkward
to stop the proceedings,
she decided
we had better
be married at once.
She got Hannah Stone, who is
now Mrs. Dr. Josephi,
to act as bridesmaid."
Seven children were born from that
union: 'three of the Gray daughters died
from diphtheria during a two-day
period. The Grays survived
their other two children, Wil
-leta and Hawthorne.'
peach ah
goodbye dormant volcano
ciao fucked up abode
see you alligator later
on the pie a la mode
piece of pizza
niece of peach
ah
nat know 1%
i would nat know if she misses me,
more than my food
our money
my rock star zirconium fakery.
i miss her, i mussed
us.
done
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Tenant Rights 101 Civil Rights 101
As a landlord, you have the right to receive rent for the use of your property. You also have the right to have your property returned to you undamaged at the end of the rental agreement. It should be returned in the same condition it was received, except for normal wear and tear.
In exchange for these rights, it is your responsibility to provide a home that is habitable and to make repairs when needed.
You must also equip the residence with a properly working smoke detector and provide the initial set of batteries if it is battery operated.
It is your duty as a landlord to respect your tenant’s rights. These rights include the right of peaceful possession. By renting your property to the tenant, you give that tenant the possession and use of your property free from interference. That means that you may not enter frequently, at odd hours, without a legitimate reason, or without notice. You typically have the right to protect your property through reasonable inspection to make repairs and to show the property to possible buyers. You must give at least 24 hours notice of your intent to enter unless the tenant has asked in writing for repairs within the last seven days or there is an emergency.
As a landlord, you are responsible for observing federal, state and local laws when it comes to the use and condition of the property.
When you rent your property to someone, you must give him or her your name and address or the name and address of your authorized manager. You cannot discriminate against a tenant for having children, for being disabled, or for any other illegal reason.
Some of the additional reasons include: a tenant’s successful defense against the grounds for a past landlord’s attempt to evict him or her; the tenant’s having been the victim of a domestic violence or sexual assault or stalking crime; the tenant’s religion, or race or ethnic background. In some locations, it is unlawful to treat differently people who are aged or who are not heterosexual.
You may not retaliate against a tenant by raising the rent, shutting off utilities, or trying to evict the tenant because he or she complained to you or a public agency about habitability conditions, discrimination or other violations of the law, or because the tenant joined or organized a tenants’ union or organization.
You cannot lock a tenant out. The only exception to this prohibition occurs when a tenant who can demonstrate she or he has been the victim of domestic violence, stalking, or sexual assault asks to have the perpetrator tenant locked out of the unit where the victim of the crime continues to live.
https://www.osbar.org/public/legalinfo/1247_rightsdutieslandlords.htm
https://www.osbar.org/public/legalinfo/1247_rightsdutieslandlords.htm
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Helen Keller, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, IWW, Upton Sinclair
WHO led?
"A founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 1920, Flynn played a leading role in the campaign against the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti.
] Flynn was particularly concerned with women's rights, supporting birth control and women's suffrage. Flynn also criticized the leadership of trade unions for being male-dominated and not reflecting the needs of women."
https://www.aclu.org/
"“So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy.” — ACLU founder Roger Baldwin
When a roomful of civil liberties activists — led by Roger Baldwin, Crystal Eastman, and Albert DeSilver — formed the ACLU in 1920, the Supreme Court had yet to uphold a single free speech claim. Activists languished in jail for distributing anti-war literature. State-sanctioned violence against African-Americans was routine. Women won the right to vote only in August of that year."
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"The ACLU was founded in 1920 by Helen Keller, Roger Baldwin, Crystal Eastman, Walter Nelles, Morris Ernst, Albert DeSilver, Arthur Garfield Hays, Jane Addams, Felix Frankfurter, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and its focus was on freedom of speech, primarily for anti-war protesters.
During the 1920s, the ACLU expanded its scope to include protecting the free speech rights of artists and striking workers, and working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to decrease racism and discrimination. During the 1930s, the ACLU started to engage in work combating police misconduct and supporting Native American rights. Many of the ACLU's cases involved the defense of Communist party members and Jehovah's Witnesses.
In 1940, the ACLU leadership voted to exclude Communists from its leadership positions, a decision rescinded in 1968. During World War II, the ACLU defended Japanese-American citizens, unsuccessfully trying to prevent their forcible relocation to internment camps. During the Cold War, the ACLU headquarters was dominated by anti-Communists, but many local affiliates defended members of the Communist Party.
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In one typical instance in 1923, author Upton Sinclair was arrested for trying to read the First Amendment during an Industrial Workers of the World rally
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An Injury to One is an Injury to All
IWW
NATO
ILWU
"Upton Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.
In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muck-raking novel The Jungle, which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.
In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muck-raking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the “free press” in the United States. Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created.
Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence"
Writing during the Progressive Era, Sinclair describes the world of industrialized America from both the working man's and the industrialist's points of view. Novels such as King Coal (1917), The Coal War (published posthumously), Oil! (1927), and The Flivver King (1937) describe the working conditions of the coal, oil, and auto industries at the time.
"A founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 1920, Flynn played a leading role in the campaign against the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti.
] Flynn was particularly concerned with women's rights, supporting birth control and women's suffrage. Flynn also criticized the leadership of trade unions for being male-dominated and not reflecting the needs of women."
https://www.aclu.org/
"“So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy.” — ACLU founder Roger Baldwin
When a roomful of civil liberties activists — led by Roger Baldwin, Crystal Eastman, and Albert DeSilver — formed the ACLU in 1920, the Supreme Court had yet to uphold a single free speech claim. Activists languished in jail for distributing anti-war literature. State-sanctioned violence against African-Americans was routine. Women won the right to vote only in August of that year."
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"The ACLU was founded in 1920 by Helen Keller, Roger Baldwin, Crystal Eastman, Walter Nelles, Morris Ernst, Albert DeSilver, Arthur Garfield Hays, Jane Addams, Felix Frankfurter, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and its focus was on freedom of speech, primarily for anti-war protesters.
During the 1920s, the ACLU expanded its scope to include protecting the free speech rights of artists and striking workers, and working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to decrease racism and discrimination. During the 1930s, the ACLU started to engage in work combating police misconduct and supporting Native American rights. Many of the ACLU's cases involved the defense of Communist party members and Jehovah's Witnesses.
In 1940, the ACLU leadership voted to exclude Communists from its leadership positions, a decision rescinded in 1968. During World War II, the ACLU defended Japanese-American citizens, unsuccessfully trying to prevent their forcible relocation to internment camps. During the Cold War, the ACLU headquarters was dominated by anti-Communists, but many local affiliates defended members of the Communist Party.
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In one typical instance in 1923, author Upton Sinclair was arrested for trying to read the First Amendment during an Industrial Workers of the World rally
**
An Injury to One is an Injury to All
IWW
NATO
ILWU
"Upton Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.
In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muck-raking novel The Jungle, which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.
In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muck-raking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the “free press” in the United States. Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created.
Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence"
Writing during the Progressive Era, Sinclair describes the world of industrialized America from both the working man's and the industrialist's points of view. Novels such as King Coal (1917), The Coal War (published posthumously), Oil! (1927), and The Flivver King (1937) describe the working conditions of the coal, oil, and auto industries at the time.
sea daughter haiku born
born at sea on the tip of a haiku
twenty six thousand foot tall mango Land
surreal learned how to swim
toppled by warm waves
eighteen yards ago, eighteen clocks of sand
castled in flesh and beauty
daughter
island nation heart maven
sandwiched tween two sisters
all the cascades
you command of rain born at sea
daughter a tsunami strong current
carries earth forward
on new eyes ayes
deep state dry well
On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was the target of a lone wolf domestic terrorist bombing that left 168 people dead.
One of the people who died in the attack was Al Whicher, who had served on George H. W. Bush's Secret Security detail.
Bush called the man who served under her husband "a devoted husband and father".
The next day, April 20, 1995, the Bushes were scheduled to go to Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Barbara was supposed to speak at a Junior League event in the noon and accompany her husband at the Salvation Army annual dinner.
The Bushes debated whether or not they should continue with their plans due to the bombing, ultimately deciding to go, because "both groups help people in need."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Bush
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Bush
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Incidence,
Coincidence,
Incidence.
Mom, teaching English at the Math and Science Magnet School, deep in the deep deep brains of Ok,
Mt Tabor Mt Tabor
Mount Tabor is an extinct or
dormant volcanic vent,
the city park on the volcano,
and the neighborhood of Southeast Portland,
Oregon that surrounds it.
The name refers to Mount Tabor, Israel.
Mount Tabor (Hebrew: הר תבור, Modern Har Tavor, Tiberian Har Tāḇôr; Arabic: جبل الطور, Jabal aṭ-Ṭūr; Latin: Itabyrium, Koine Greek: Όρος Θαβώρ, "Oros Thabor") is located in Lower Galilee, Israel, at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley, 11 miles (18 km) west of the Sea of Galilee.
It was the site of the biblical battle of Mount Tabor in the time of judge Deborah, between the Israelite army under the leadership of Barak and the army of the Canaanite king of Hazor, Jabin, commanded by Sisera, in the mid-12th century BCE.
It is believed by many Christians to be the site of the Transfiguration of Jesus, although Mount Hermon at Caesarea Philippi has also been proposed. Mount Tabor is known as Itabyrium in the Graeco-Roman world, and the Mount of Transfiguration in some Christian contexts.
Mt Tabor, home of Bull Run Water, best in all the Land.
sunset gold patio
sunset gold stone so hard we went thru
3 hundred dollar blades doing
a 200 sq foot patio me and shane
him cutting me leveling
wearing earmitts classical music on my radio
done in a few days more or less
glimmering moonlight and snail boulevards
shiny shiny so sharp unloading
the 300 pound slabs off the truck
just me and darrin
one nice cut a line on that old arm sunset gold
and gardens all around it
fort anomaly kid 1889
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_C._Gray
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_C._Gray
Hawthorne Charles Gray (February 16, 1889 – November 4, 1927) was a captain in the United States Army Air Corps.
On November 4, 1927, he succeeded in setting a new altitude record in a silk, rubberized, and aluminum-coated balloon launched from Scott Field near Belleville, Illinois, reaching 42,470 ft (12.94 km), but died during his descent after his oxygen supply became depleted.
The record was recognized by the National Aeronautical Association, but not by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale because the dead aeronaut "was not in personal possession of his instruments.
Gray was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his three ascents on March 9, May 4 and November 4.
Gray was born on February 16, 1889 in Pasco, Washington.
He was the son of William Polk Gray (1845-1929), a prominent steamboat captain in the Northwestern United States, and Oceana Falkland Bush.
Hawthorne Gray was a graduate of the University of Idaho.
Gray served as an officer in the Idaho National Guard and enlisted in the United States Army in 1915, serving as an infantry private in the Pancho Villa Expedition of 1916.
Gray was commissioned a second lieutenant on June 2, 1917, and transferred with the rank of captain to what was then the United States Army Air Service in 1920. He began piloting balloons in 1921.
He placed third in the 1926 National Balloon Race and second in the 1926 Gordon Bennett balloon race.
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On March 9, 1927, Gray set an unofficial altitude record of 28,510 ft (8.69 km) in a balloon launched from Scott Field, but passed out from hypoxia in the thin air, regaining consciousness only just in time to drop ballast and slow his fall after the balloon descended on its own.
On May 4, Gray set an unofficial record for highest altitude reached by a human being, as he attained 42,470 ft (12.94 km) in a balloon over Belleville. Because of the rapid descent of the balloon, Gray parachuted out at 8,000 feet, disqualifying him from recognition by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), which required that the balloonist land with his craft.
On November 4, Gray attempted to set an official record. After reaching an altitude of 40,000 feet, he lost consciousness and died. His body was found in the balloon basket in a tree near Sparta, Tennessee, the next day.
The balloon's barographs showed that Gray had reached a height between 43,000 and 44,000 feet.There were various theories about the cause of Gray's death. He may have severed his oxygen hose accidentally while cutting open bags of sand ballast.
It is also possible that Gray became too cold and tired to open the valve on one of his oxygen tanks, or that an internal organ was ruptured by decreasing pressure. Aeronaut Albert Leo Stevens believed that Gray died during descent or on impact.
The Scott Field board of inquiry which investigated Gray's death concluded that he died because his clock stopped, causing him to lose track of his time on oxygen and exhaust his supply.
Gray was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and buried in Arlington National Cemetery
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_C._Gray
Hawthorne Charles Gray (February 16, 1889 – November 4, 1927) was a captain in the United States Army Air Corps.
On November 4, 1927, he succeeded in setting a new altitude record in a silk, rubberized, and aluminum-coated balloon launched from Scott Field near Belleville, Illinois, reaching 42,470 ft (12.94 km), but died during his descent after his oxygen supply became depleted.
The record was recognized by the National Aeronautical Association, but not by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale because the dead aeronaut "was not in personal possession of his instruments.
Gray was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his three ascents on March 9, May 4 and November 4.
Gray was born on February 16, 1889 in Pasco, Washington.
He was the son of William Polk Gray (1845-1929), a prominent steamboat captain in the Northwestern United States, and Oceana Falkland Bush.
Hawthorne Gray was a graduate of the University of Idaho.
Gray served as an officer in the Idaho National Guard and enlisted in the United States Army in 1915, serving as an infantry private in the Pancho Villa Expedition of 1916.
Gray was commissioned a second lieutenant on June 2, 1917, and transferred with the rank of captain to what was then the United States Army Air Service in 1920. He began piloting balloons in 1921.
He placed third in the 1926 National Balloon Race and second in the 1926 Gordon Bennett balloon race.
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On March 9, 1927, Gray set an unofficial altitude record of 28,510 ft (8.69 km) in a balloon launched from Scott Field, but passed out from hypoxia in the thin air, regaining consciousness only just in time to drop ballast and slow his fall after the balloon descended on its own.
On May 4, Gray set an unofficial record for highest altitude reached by a human being, as he attained 42,470 ft (12.94 km) in a balloon over Belleville. Because of the rapid descent of the balloon, Gray parachuted out at 8,000 feet, disqualifying him from recognition by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), which required that the balloonist land with his craft.
On November 4, Gray attempted to set an official record. After reaching an altitude of 40,000 feet, he lost consciousness and died. His body was found in the balloon basket in a tree near Sparta, Tennessee, the next day.
The balloon's barographs showed that Gray had reached a height between 43,000 and 44,000 feet.There were various theories about the cause of Gray's death. He may have severed his oxygen hose accidentally while cutting open bags of sand ballast.
It is also possible that Gray became too cold and tired to open the valve on one of his oxygen tanks, or that an internal organ was ruptured by decreasing pressure. Aeronaut Albert Leo Stevens believed that Gray died during descent or on impact.
The Scott Field board of inquiry which investigated Gray's death concluded that he died because his clock stopped, causing him to lose track of his time on oxygen and exhaust his supply.
Gray was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and buried in Arlington National Cemetery
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born at sea oceanna
"The Queen Anne-style Captain William Polk Gray House
was built around 1899 Captain Gray was born in 1845
in Oregon City. In 1860, he began a career
on the steamboats of the Columbia River.
He married Ocia Falkland Bush,
who as born at sea
near the Falkland Islands
aboard her father's vessel. "
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born at sea aboard her dad's boat,
makes one a fckland
wishbone of sorts, so the corner balcony porch
in her Columbia River queen anne victorian
could espy her captain her husband her man
pilot up or down the biggest power around
the river untamed born at sea
born at sea aboard her dad's boat
born at sea aboard her dad's boat
born at sea born at sea born
at sea oceanna
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William Polk Gray was born to William Henry and Mary Dix Gray in 1845 at Oregon City. He was the second of six children.
Gray was introduced to sailing at an early age; at fifteen, he operated a mail boat out of Astoria, Oregon. At sixteen, he became Captain of a four-man crew primarily composed of Native Americans, which carried freight along the Frasier River.
Gray led expeditions to Alaska during the Alaskan Gold rush, ferried supplies and troops during the Indian Wars, carried automobiles up and down the Columbia, and ferried cargo across the Snake River.
Gray and his wife claimed land in Pasco, WA, where he became involved in city council and commerce.
He founded the first Congregational Church in Pasco in collaboration with Luther and Clara Wilkins.
W. P. Gray and his wife built their home in Pasco, WA, and Gray was employed with the Northern Pacific Railroad as captain of the steamer Frederick Billings. Three of the Gray daughters died from diphtheria during a two-day period.
The Grays survived their other two children, Willeta and Hawthorne.
Willeta passed away in 1922, and his last son, Hawthorne, died tragically in a successful attempt to earn the world record for high altitude in a free balloon in 1929. His writings reflect a deep sadness at the loss of his children.
William Polk Gray died on October 26 1929 at his home in Pasco, WA.
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"MARRIAGE BIOGRAPHY: (Excerpts from 'Reminiscences of Capt. W. P. Gray, Page 344)
"I was married on October 27, 1868, at Portland, Oregon. My wife's name was Oceana Falkland Bush. She was the adopted daughter of Mrs. Hawthorne, of Portland, a pioneer family after whom Hawthorne avenue and Hawthorne Park are named.
"My wife was born on her father's brig, the 'Rising Sun,' just off of the Falkland Islands while on a voyage around the Horn. I met her for the first time at the celebration over the driving of the first spike in the Oregon and California railroad in East Portland, April 16, 1868."
"I went to the river to take the ferry. I happened to meet my wife's adopted mother, who had just come over. I told her that I was going over to see Ocea and asked her to save me the trip by having Ocea get ready as soon as possible, so that we could be married that evening. She said it was impossible. I told her I was used to doing the impossible and I would make all arrangements and be there that evening.
The ferry quit running at 8 o'clock. I arranged with them to make an extra trip for us and promised them ten dollars an hour for whatever time it took after 8 o'clock. I hurried down town where I bought a wedding ring, hired the necessary cabs, secured a license, arranged with a preacher to be there and got Bob Bybee to stand up with me as best man.
I went out to see how Ocea was getting along. I asked her if she was all ready to be married that night. I never saw any one more surprised. Her mother had thought it was a crazy notion of mine and decided not to tell Ocea anything about it.
At first she said she couldn't possibly be married that night, but when I told her that the preacher would be there, the cabs were hired, the ferry would take us over and it would be very awkward to stop the proceedings, she decided we had better be married at once. She got Hannah Stone, who is now Mrs. Dr. Josephi, to act as bridesmaid."
Seven children were born from that union: 'three of the Gray daughters died from diphtheria during a two-day period. The Grays survived their other two children, Willeta and Hawthorne.' (5 of 7 children mentioned)
‘Mr. Gray secured 19 acres on the bank of the Columbia River for $100 where city of Pasco is now located, and built their home. Mr. Gray later secured 80 acres, extending from the river to the railroad section where Pasco is located; he platted 50 acres of it as an addition to Pasco before the plat of Pasco itself was filed!’
'Mr. Gray was the local land agent for the Northern Pacific. He had charge of the selling of their lots and acreage. He was County Commissioner, a dairy with 10 cows, 100 hogs, and had over 200 horses, and was feeding over 400 of the Northern Pacific employees. In addition to this, he was attending every Republican state convention.' (to keep the flow of the Columbia River unimpeded)
"By the summer of 1886 he had 45 different kinds of trees growing on his place at Pasco, without irrigation.
In addition to a large number of vegetables usually grown in the Northwest, he successfully matured peanuts, cotton and sugar cane."
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176099614/oceanna-falkland-gray
reams and reams of hewnstone
visiting houston and our cousins, aunt, uncle
who was never there
mr important, hair slicked back, bourbon at 10
after reams of law work
paying forward the country club pool account
to rub elbows, or not, with barbara
as much as a pine
tree chooses his soil and rock and water
grown over stones to split the root-beer
float, ordering from
the pool, and no money. just saying i want it.
aunt went jogging with barbara
i hear, gav'ersome sun screen 90, as the sun
and oil burnt off our sky
her sons no sons of bitches
just world fuckers
well some one got to fuck the world, huh
visiting hue
stone, the lee side of the ponderosa, a nailed up
perch with a rope to tarzan over
to the other huge trunk
the cousins hand me down jeans and duds
well worn after they got to me and grunt
their big dog
their schwinn 10 speeds and perfect roads and
sidewalks, made for barb
a raw, barbie rose
ah, bar bar A
hewn:
chop or cut (something, especially wood) with an ax, pick, or other tool.
"we have finished hauling and hewing timber"
synonyms: chop, hack, cut, lop, ax, cleave, split; fell
"the logs are freshly hewn"
2.
NORTH AMERICAN
conform or adhere to.
"some artists took photographs that hewed to more traditional ideas of art"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Bush
Her personal views on abortion were not known, although her friends reported at that time that she "privately supported abortion rights."
She explained, "I hate abortions, but I just could not make that choice for someone else."
She caused a stir when she said that she supported ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and was pro-choice on abortion,
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Monday, April 16, 2018
Vegan Athletes and Leaders
http://johnsalley.com/blog/
"A proud native of Brooklyn, New York, John found a love for basketball at an early age. He accepted a Basketball Scholarship to Georgia Tech to play for legendary head coach Bobby Cremins. From there Salley went on to become a 15-year NBA veteran and was the first NBA player to win four championships with three different teams.
After his retirement from the NBA in 2000, Salley explored several opportunities in both television and film. John has served as host for numerous award shows and recently hosted the Reunion Shows of VH-1’s #1 rated show, Basketball Wives. John is also the head of his own production company.
John is actively involved with Operation Smile, PETA and the fight against Diabetes. In addition, John is involved with PCRM and visited Washington in Nov ’09 and May ’10, speaking to Congress about the Child Nutrition Act, asking Members to support legislation that would increase vegetarian options in meals served in public schools.
John has adopted a plant based (raw vegan) lifestyle, and is a frequent speaker at VegFest’s across the USA. As a Wellness Advocate, one of John’s main missions in life is to continue to educate people on the benefits of living a healthier lifestyle though better eating habits. "
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"Damian Lillard ends vegan diet because he lost ‘a little bit too much weight’
Lillard lost over 17 pounds while vegan."
https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2018/1/19/16909254/damian-lillard-not-vegan-diet-lifestyle-update-
trail-blazers-nba-trends
"Lillard was one of several higher-profile NBA players to adopt a vegan lifestyle, including Kyrie Irving, Jahlil Okafor, JaVale McGee and Wilson Chandler. Al Jefferson is a vegetarian, and Michael Porter Jr., a projected top-five pick in the upcoming NBA draft, is also vegetarian."
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yo, Damian. You hired the wrong cooks:)
virtual tourism shout out!
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Mt Tabor, Portland, Oregon
gestalt
send her to school with a beansprout in her hair, big sister raised her literally up the side of the house, in a basket, for fun and games while mother was teaching and big brother
studied his Latin. born in oklahoma during WW2, her mom's uncle a real oil baron, a real powerhouse. born within days of discovering the biggest oil field of the decade, west edmond, by a doodlebugging Ace, my Mom was the balance, beansprout in her hair and daddy a deacon attorney riding the roller coasters of mid life crises, and moral conundrums. call daddy crazy, she clocked a girl with her metal lunchpail. the cheese didn't even slide off the bun.
countering the hundreds of millions of gallons of crude, mom's light sweet energy burnt the smoggy clouds off the city, derricks on the lawn of the capitol. out route 66, her grandmother farmed a few hundred acres of soybeans, cotton, and wheat. the barns and fields of childhood, and machines to lug it to the Co-Op, to the troops here and abroad. rosy riveter generation, the pride of a bandanna holding back the untameable.
her uncle the admiral, the filling stations with her mother's name in neon, covering the states roads streets and products, and still not part of it; not from the stone mansion or enormous cement silos holding all the grain of the land, but from the Land itself, the clear sweet water, the germination of will and beauty, growing and rising above.
trauma and scandal, the snake skin of prosperity against the rocks of morality, her father mad as a hatter they said, and who is to tell now. scars running on fumes, leave them in the garage under an old tarp. her mom took her to Tacoma, for awhile, the fog and sound and whales so close to a high school wearing snow sweaters in fashion shows for Grease. letters from daddy, getting better, missing his perfect girl in the most eloquent humility guided pencil. soft, soft, soft words. i can reckon where Mom got her smarts and humanities, but i don't know how she became the master chef along the way to her dissertation on Gnosticism and Melville. her hair she'd call "mousey" as it changed fashion and color with henna, or curlers.
my bedroom and little legs go downstairs in the middle of the night, woke up from a dream, crawl in bed with mom and dad. brother in a cradle, handed down, nearby. screens on the windows, and fireflies, and the smell of rain on the way. every meal an elegant production, every food served we tried, even the liver. home made donuts, or waffles strawberries and whipped cream from a glass gallon jar, whose cows were our friends in town a few miles away at the goldenbergs farm by the lowland creek. little legs soaking up the minerals, of the Land.
mom an angel, but not without her clarion intellect, or devil horns when needed. rivet on our jeans, get us to the school bus in the dark, our lunches in the lunchpail with scooby doo or superman or the such. mom, harvesting asparagus into a big woven basket, barefoot by the chicken coop, with a glass of white wine and a novel riddled with her notations and underlined passages. our library room, with the turntable, and Mimbres pots and blankets, covered in blue books she's be grading, coffee rings on one or two to show she cares too much to sleep. her ashtray a saucer from the kitchen, her cup with lipstick. her olive oil in the bathroom, at night rubbing a dab into her pores after the makeup layers were hauled off her face. my no wrinkle mom, all our laundry swinging on lines out behind the house, wind dried.
four jobs at once, or more. staying home with me when i had the chickenpox, reading Charles Dickens together in bed for days. grant and i, towing our kitten litters around in cardboard boxes, over the living room floor if the carpet had been rolled back, for dancing the night before. hosting, one of her many fortes, and a gaggle of friends who were like aunts and uncles to me and my little brother.
mom wasn't great at cutting our hair, so when we'd go to dallas, her mom would take us to the barber or to their Church, until we said we'd prefer not to, and that was that. our civil liberty was pretty good. mom had harry byrd K. for a stepfather as an adult, there in dallas, and his odd mix of libertarian, minister, naked National Geographic books, and large leather recliners near the who's who book he'd mention once a year. visiting grandma and HB in dallas was cantelope, grapefruit, oatmeal for breakfast, and dr pepper at lunch. brother and i were left there for a few weeks one summer, when mom and dad went to europe, sending back toys and postcards.
driving us here, dropping us off there, our home 5 miles out of town and all those extracurricular things called life. baseball practice, football, violin lessons, basketball games, going to the roller rink, going to the matinee with an actual VW love bug in the lobby at the Leachman. drop us off at multigrahpis for art camp, making ceramic dinosaurs, painting them in glossy Oil.
putting us in the bath at home, mom, folded towels. mended rips. smoke wafting from her study, in the kitchen, blender making some typical feast as she simultaneously works her way thru grad school tedium and small town politics. there is nothing to edit, everything was good, or better, or part of being human animals out in the pines, all doing firewood together on our 80 acres, the pond hard as asphalt. gestalt, another word in mom's pocket apron.
lugnutto
coming from the coast, i remember that much.
meeting nat's dad, granny and papa
there by the burnshit bridge
yep. try to make it a few
more blocks, smoke
flagging ignorance till we stop
near an auto crap store.
went to eat, old pappy points at me chin
says whats that. a soul patch they call it
dickwad golfer. the trooper towed over
to the specialist revved the motor,
no oil in her
hear how bad
that is?
Sunday, April 15, 2018
art film
romance so tawdry
you
never, piano
waterlogged and beaver chewed
quagmire of herzog
towed to forever on a jackass
Spleen, Baudelaire
I)
February, peeved at Paris, pours
a gloomy torrent on the pale lessees
of the graveyard next door and a mortal chill
on tenants of the foggy suburbs too.
The tiles afford no comfort to my cat
that cannot keep its mangy body still;
the soul of some old poet haunts the drains
and howls as if a ghost could hate the cold.
A churchbell grieves, a log in the fireplace smokes
and hums falsetto to the clock’s catarrh,
while in a filthy reeking deck of cards
inherited from a dropsical old maid,
the dapper Knave of Hearts and the Queen of Spades
grimly disinter their love affairs.
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/spleen
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/spleen
sophomoric wisdom
how i met gg, gosh, so long ago
here comes the rhyme we dunno we dunno
we were Pioneers, 17, 15
doing physiology with Baudelaire's dead spleen
poems on her wall, her parents tre cool
university dad, he got his own drools
how they didn't know it me in the window 2 am
parked my 280 100 yards down the bend
making love or just loving, in her window in her heart
then back on gravel roads to AP smarts
we lived out country, the highways long and straight
our late night engines shouldabeen been a closed debate
one time coming back home, gg's kiss still my water throbs,
a hundred troopers faced off a gun loon lost his knob
as chapter dunce, i must relate
made out with tammy, gg turned all hate
sophomoric wisdom not such a shallow queen
when fools no more worldly show their bitter green
all those scribbles unabashed,
hope the sheetrock's gone
hope and will, the young untrashed
met this gg song
symbols of symbols (1988)
in spring i go out into the garden
with a wheelbarrow of fresh words:
texture, nurture, tread, harvest
my car has broken down so i tow it
over to a mechanic using a chain of words:
together, eat, melt, martyr
going out into the harsh sun of the equator
i insist my children wear a bonnet of
words: pool, freckle, yang, augment
i write a poem intending it to work
on playing: shuffle, gaia, smile, rot
beware the symbols of symbols
forgotten, beware
the brain, hour sun
1989 Lawrence, Ks.
haiku 2000
Haiku, Maui 2000
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Avocado skin
Mango lipped volcanic
Pineapple necklace
Baby
Friday, April 13, 2018
good mop
work a good day, mop down the floors
thieves and lowlifes are there in your drawers
lurking in shadows the bushes and manes
never see sunlight but from the lear jet planes
three pint sweet, her hair made of rafters
holding moon in a sky framed of solemn hereafters
down the block 's home, not so far away
time reminds legs; get up some motion delayed
yet another hike home long after bus runs are dead
a remote sort of comfort pilots my head
until wham a blurred instant i'm flat on the ground
the suspect already 50 feet off like a hound
end a bad night, pave sidewalks with anger
or opposite, oppose vile intent, violent strangers
forest fires are natural, trump is Fascism
James Comey slams 'the forest fire that is the Trump presidency' in book
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"Comey's recollections detail what he calls Trump's "mob"-like approach to leadership and take aim at the President's disposition, which he says created "the forest fire that is the Trump presidency."
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Comey wrote in one passage that Trump gave him "flashbacks to my earlier career as a prosecutor against the mob."
"The silent circle of assent," Comey described. "The boss in complete control. The loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them worldview. The lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and above the truth."
He even drew parallels between a visit to Trump Tower and New York Mafia social clubs he'd seen in the 1980s and 1990s."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/12/politics/james-comey-book-donald-trump/index.html
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
S
Lettered in Tennis
played nearly every day from age 12-18
Learned very much about life from Tennis
Got to spend time with my Dad
Learned how to lose.
Monday, April 09, 2018
Friday, April 06, 2018
Oakland friends, World friends, Old friends
"The Mack is a 1973 blaxploitation film directed by California native Michael Campus, starring Max Julien and Richard Pryor. The film also stars Oscar-nominee Juanita Moore, and Tony nominated actor Dick Anthony Williams."
"The original script for the film was written on prison toilet paper by a man named Bobby Poole.
While staying in Oakland for two months, director Michael Campus met Frank Ward, a real pimp and drug dealer from Oakland. Max Julien's character of Goldie is based upon him.
In order to shoot the movie, Campus needed Ward’s permission, as a large portion of the scenes were in his territory. In exchange for his guidance and protection, Campus put Ward in the film. All of the homeless people, junkies, pimps and women in the film were supplied by Frank Ward.
Although he had Ward’s protection, the film was also in Black Panther territory. While they were filming bottles and trash cans would be thrown off the roof by Black Panther party members.
In order for filming to run smoothly, an additional deal had to be made with Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, who were then put in charge of providing extras for the film. About halfway through the production of the film Frank Ward was shot and killed while in his Rolls Royce.
There was speculation that the Black Panthers were responsible for Ward’s death, so the filmmakers and cast relocated to safer areas for filming. Despite the tension, the film opening was held in Oakland with all of the proceeds going towards the Black Panthers' milk fund."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mack
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Powerful cast of individuals involved in this film, wow. Met the daughter of the man who owned the pool hall used in the film. What solid, awesome, strong young women....and not bad at pool:)
"The original script for the film was written on prison toilet paper by a man named Bobby Poole.
While staying in Oakland for two months, director Michael Campus met Frank Ward, a real pimp and drug dealer from Oakland. Max Julien's character of Goldie is based upon him.
In order to shoot the movie, Campus needed Ward’s permission, as a large portion of the scenes were in his territory. In exchange for his guidance and protection, Campus put Ward in the film. All of the homeless people, junkies, pimps and women in the film were supplied by Frank Ward.
Although he had Ward’s protection, the film was also in Black Panther territory. While they were filming bottles and trash cans would be thrown off the roof by Black Panther party members.
In order for filming to run smoothly, an additional deal had to be made with Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, who were then put in charge of providing extras for the film. About halfway through the production of the film Frank Ward was shot and killed while in his Rolls Royce.
There was speculation that the Black Panthers were responsible for Ward’s death, so the filmmakers and cast relocated to safer areas for filming. Despite the tension, the film opening was held in Oakland with all of the proceeds going towards the Black Panthers' milk fund."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mack
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Powerful cast of individuals involved in this film, wow. Met the daughter of the man who owned the pool hall used in the film. What solid, awesome, strong young women....and not bad at pool:)
Thursday, April 05, 2018
goddess earring birthday girl
warmed up on pool cracking balls hard home
up walks jennifer
huge gold triangle earrings, all smiles
and the dimpled chin beauty wears,
talking with her is easy fun until
her eyes flutter a million year old cloud
from Nigeria via Oakland and soon
all her features perfect continue,
she and her two friends play a few games
she buys me a shot of tequila
i giver her some fused glass earrings
off they go
(call me
SE Portland
orphan endorphin
day before blusterday
up at 7
at work at 9, for 8 hours
working hard,
20 feet up a ladder
under the eaves
over the rose thorns
get on the bus back home
hey, dad! my sweet 16
surprises me
there by Reed College
there where i had the key
to the kingmaker's place
for months and months during that fall
of mothball sequestration
day before hester prynne
hid in the split rock
and came back from 6 years
raised by the Indians
who done in her maw
winners don't get sidetracked
get home with most of paycheck,
storm door blowing
glass shards of sound across the
extinct or dormant volcano
wham
wham
the notes all ignored, the music bad.
working hard at good energy
as hippies say
as parents say
as teachers say, to hustlers cons& chameleons.
finally in my room, my space
slam slam wham
shhh it's "home"
landing her grocery
cans of soup on the counter
like an enraged wide body airplane out of diesel,
bumping down hard
oh me oh my O's
about being at the DMV
"all the dew doh day"
having a hissy fit,
putting all peace on men
on pause, the most minstrel
lost-partum kindness.
Lil' OrFun granny
dressed up for Vegas Warbucks,
her whipped boy
with the fat wallet.
LOSER, "little bitch"
tickles the funny bone just in time
to scum the film off this filthy soup.
thank good nest
thank still water
thank you mom and dad
thank you 3 mountains
we can weather It.
a modicum of eve
jimson weed the spiraled white flower
the thorn-apple of eve's delight
leaf the medicine smell tells one all
beware, wary bee.
prickly protected shell
(stay out! and keep in.!)
tiny dark seeds plot, waiting.
walls don't come alive,
our eyes awaken, cotton mouth
bites hard, as the liver and kidneys
pay the psychedelic tax.
everything is funny, other than
near paralysis and needing to piss
take too much,
and go meet darwin
back in 1998.
Hydro Spaceport Pt 2
"In 1981, the nine-year film rights were set to expire. De Laurentiis re-negotiated the rights from the author, adding to them the rights to the Dune sequels (written and unwritten). After seeing The Elephant Man, De Laurentiis' daughter Raffaella decided that David Lynch should direct the movie.
Around that time Lynch received several other directing offers, including Return of the Jedi.
He agreed to direct Dune and write the screenplay even though he had not read the book, known the story, or even been interested in science fiction.[51] Lynch worked on the script for six months with Eric Bergen and Christopher De Vore. The team yielded two drafts of the script before it split over creative differences. Lynch would subsequently work on five more drafts.
This first film of Dune, directed by Lynch, was released in 1984, nearly 20 years after the book's publication. Though Herbert said the book's depth and symbolism seemed to intimidate many filmmakers, he was pleased with the film, saying that
"They've got it. It begins as Dune does. And I hear my dialogue all the way through. There are some interpretations and liberties, but you're gonna come out knowing you've seen Dune."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)#Further_film_attempts
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critics, Zero.