egmont

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/21/guantanamo-bay-hunger-strike-half-inmates

________


hunger is a hate crime
hunger is a tool the powerful use to control
hunger and want are unnecessary
hunger is stupid
hunger is for the worms
hunger is a vapid mindset
hunger is off my map but full of geodes
hunger bites back
hunger is an altruistic tick
hunger is the tool
hunger is the crutch for the loo girl
hunger is losing face
hunger is a bad make up
hunger is not up for grabs, it has earned its castle-keep
hunger is full of shit
i eat your hunger for esther

resale royalty rights PASSAGE

"n fact, legislation was proposed in both the Senate (S.2000) and the House (H.R.3688) in December 2011 that would provide for a national resale royalty right.

The Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011 (EVAA) would provide for a 7% royalty to be collected from sales of certain works of art where the sale price exceeded $10,000. Half of this payment would go to the artist or successor in copyright, and half would go towards an escrow account to support U.S. non-profit museums.[5]

 Both pieces of legislation are currently in committee.

In conjunction with the consideration of the legislation, in September 2012 Congress published a Notice of Inquiry requesting comments from the public on factual and policy matters relating to a possible federal resale royalty right."
_______

inalienable artist rights, pending?

"California's Resale Royalty Act was signed into law in 1976. The resale right has its origins in the French law droite de suite, first enacted in 1920, which provided French artists the right to receive a royalty from resales of their work.[3] 

The droite de suite reflects both the idea that artists have certain moral rights in their works (such as the inalienable right to be associated with their works) and the economic concern that artists often are unable to benefit from the full value of their works, where they have low bargaining power in initial sales or where their works appreciate significantly in value after the first sale.[4] 

As of 2012, over 60 countries across the world recognize some version of the resale right."

___________

"The Commerce Clause has been interpreted by the Supreme Court as not only affirmatively granting to Congress the power to regulate commerce among the states, but also, by negative implication, prohibiting the states from unjustifiably discriminating against or burdening the flow of interstate commerce.[9]

 A state regulation violates the Commerce clause where it “directly controls commerce occurring wholly outside the boundaries of a State.

__________

pending appeal inalienable right to be associated with their works)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Resale_Royalty_Act

surrey 1982

Frans Jansen Bloetgoet, Flushing, New Amsterdam NY

bloodgood Center-Francis forest

"Captain Frans Jansen Bloetgoet (Anglicized to Francis Bloodgood) (c. 1623 - 29 December 1676) was a Netherlander who immigrated to Flushing, Long Island, ancestor of the American Bloodgood family."

" Frans Janszen Bloetgoet was born around 1623.[1] He was the son of Jan Heyndrickse Goetbloet (or Bloetgoet) and Geertgen Thomas, both of Gouda, South Holland.[2] He was living on the Corten Tiendewech, Gouda when he married Lysbeth Jans, of Gouda on 18 February 1645 at Reeuwijk, near Gouda.[1]

The couple emigrated soon after their marriage.[1] They brought with them their child, Geertie when they emigrated to New Amsterdam in 1659.[3] Bloodgood was made secretary to the Colonies on the Delaware river in 1659.

They moved to Flushing, and Bloodgood was appointed Schepen of Flushing in 1673


 On 24 May 1674 he was made chief officer of the Dutch militia of the settlements of Flushing, Hempstead, Jamaica and Newtown

__________

" Flushing was the site of the first commercial tree nurseries in North America, the most prominent being the Prince, Bloodgood, and Parsons nurseries.

 Much of the northern section of Kissena Park, former site of the Parsons nursery, still contains a wide variety of exotic trees. The naming of streets intersecting Kissena Boulevard on its way toward Kissena Park celebrates this fact (Ash Avenue, Beech, Cherry ...Poplar, Quince, Rose).

 Flushing also supplied trees to the Greensward project, now known as Central Park in Manhattan."

flushing remonstrance neverending saga

The Flushing Remonstrance was a 1657 petition to Director-General of New Netherland Peter Stuyvesant, in which several citizens requested an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship. It is considered a precursor to the United States Constitution's provision on freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights.

The Flushing Remonstrance was signed on December 27, 1657, by a group of English citizens who were affronted by persecution of Quakers and the religious policies of Stuyvesant.[2][4] None of them were Quakers themselves.[1]

 The Remonstrance ends with:

The law of love, peace and liberty in the states extending to Jews, Turks and Egyptians, as they are considered sonnes of Adam, which is the glory of the outward state of Holland, soe love, peace and liberty, extending to all in Christ Jesus, condemns hatred, war and bondage.

 And because our Saviour sayeth it is impossible but that offences will come, but woe unto him by whom they cometh, our desire is not to offend one of his little ones, in whatsoever form, name or title hee appears in, whether Presbyterian, Independent, Baptist or Quaker, but shall be glad to see anything of God in any of them, desiring to doe unto all men as we desire all men should doe unto us, which is the true law both of Church and State; for our Saviour sayeth this is the law and the prophets
.
Therefore if any of these said persons come in love unto us, we cannot in conscience lay violent hands upon them, but give them free egresse and regresse unto our Town, and houses, as God shall persuade our consciences, for we are bounde by the law of God and man to doe good unto all men and evil to noe man.

And this is according to the patent and charter of our Towne, given unto us in the name of the States General, which we are not willing to infringe, and violate, but shall houlde to our patent and shall remaine, your humble subjects, the inhabitants of Vlishing.

Four who signed were arrested by order of Stuyvesant."
____________

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/nyregion/05remonstrance.html?_r=0

in the belief that they had grants of authority

"In a phone call on January 30, 1981, Edwin Meese encouraged President Ronald Reagan to issue a pardon, and, after further encouragement from Felt's former colleagues, President Reagan pardoned Felt.

The pardon was signed on March 26, but was not announced to the public until April 15, 1981. (The delay was partly because Reagan was shot on March 30.) In the pardon, Reagan wrote:

During their long careers, Mark Felt and Edward Miller served the Federal Bureau of Investigation and our nation with great distinction. To punish them further — after 3 years of criminal prosecution proceedings — would not serve the ends of justice.
Their convictions in the U.S. District Court, on appeal at the time I signed the pardons, grew out of their good-faith belief that their actions were necessary to preserve the security interests of our country. The record demonstrates that they acted not with criminal intent, but in the belief that they had grants of authority reaching to the highest levels of government.

Nixon sent Felt and Miller bottles of champagne with the note "Justice ultimately prevails."

holistic peace

"The holistic concept in medical practice, which is distinct from the concept in the alternative medicine, upholds that all aspects of people's needs including psychological, physical and social should be taken into account and seen as a whole.

 A 2007 study said the concept was alive and well in general medicine in Sweden."

___________

Symptoms themselves are not always easy to "treat" because their roots remain hidden; the causes behind the symptoms.

Our tips of iceberg are important, but only "the face" of our real inner story.

Peace.

rich wobbly

harmony is weird.
Our choice inflections, notwithstanding,

 nor falling "over"

bankrupt gusts
imply less mean

they are bank
-raped, we're....weird.

dumpster divination 5-15-14

On May 15, 2007, Falwell was found without pulse 

and unconscious in his office at about 10:45 a.m.

after missing a morning appointment, and was taken to Lynchburg General Hospital.

"I had breakfast with him, and he was fine at breakfast...He went to his office, I went to mine and they found him unresponsive" said Ron Godwin, the executive vice president of Falwell's Liberty University. His condition was initially reported as "gravely serious"; CPR was administered unsuccessfully.

 As of 2:10 p.m., during a live press conference, a doctor for the hospital confirmed that Falwell had died of "cardiac arrhythmia, or sudden cardiac death". 

__________

And I was on an Emergency Room surgery table, watching this, having fallen in a construction dumpster and injuring my arm with permanent nerve damage in the process.

snippet O

O can move the court,

deflate the ball

 but every winter's discontent

cannot hide behind one percent's

shadow government

sponsor, for all rely on 

where to send the check and balance

that is why the toilets are marble

they stay put for the game,

not the players

parents ugh

http://www.oprah.com/relationships/Forgiving-Your-Parents_1



some decent advice and philosophy there O.

in front of my own bank in my own town

no wrong righter

ditch fancy talk
i love natalie
natal atlas

life wife
no wrong righter
seed stow store

natural cloud

running into out of inkamasktinkadoo
i found you
natalie
in a horse trailer, welding geldings.
dragon spirals later, labor.
wakan taught surreal
capella swim. maui hands,
then mesa.
our midwife& best friend
keeps taking birth
by giving running
in
to out of
inka
mastink
adoo

flex solo anti-thesis

once sweet oregon,
hazelnuts, milkshakes&
million smiles.

soon rowhouses,
mystery gone lot.
iconic cop billboard, lingered.

made of supposed
money supposed to be made
honestly from work,

while labor does
most work
gets no food, much less

real
democratic
muscle

Ditchtown with Lynn Conover and Forest Bloodgood at Edgefield tonight

in the winery
7-10

no rotten toms!

just cameras
hoots hollers
good times

page view from a knight's helmet

weird how my blog "page views"
changed from roughly 666
in the past month
to 393...overnight?

don't count
NSA/fbi/etc

LOOKS?

Cruel and inhumane, even by Christian standards...

education by rote,
food by molecule,
love by gift,
time by forgettances.

dream big lie

sun

roar

teacher

raise

port

land

union

now

muscles irish, swiss.

running up the totals,
jim thorpe

had muscles.

reigns

fury,
thunder,

Nutritional Super Agenda NSA nuttoid. com

made

you

LOKI

cats. stars

we possess
nothing

by
chance

NSA pays NOW ERA attention

Melanie
May
Bloodgood


my hero.

statis?doh

stafford koans
R like toyrd R us







statisdoh.

may date america

blot nada
blot nuffins i slay.

and send my
gmac

mufferuck'n
National Org. of Wommen

warriors to
May date America

NSA snuggled YOUR Husband

Right.
get.
vats.
left.
exxon
connoco.
chevron.
bp bp bp bp bp bp bp bp bp
ach du, champlin.

ach du.

NSA

Private
General
Quarters
Begin
Inherently.

NSA apoopopolectic

O
more
Bloodgoods!

beot

Despite

remote voueurs

worked up on billionaires
when i don't want long math.

treed, simple.
been raped by Sabina

 on vengeance
( plans.)

 NOFSBull sheets

intrude, overmuch
usually.

NSAnta

Obama started the conference by saying "Jay (Carney) has made a list of who's naughy and who's nice," referring to the press corps that have been OKed.

Funny to Obama?

More Orwellian threats to the rest of the USA and world.

food of design

i don't know what dance the leaves take
from wooden shelves
as yet still tree
&joyously so, under saw's time
backstepping an hour here then there
for banker farmer plot puncher types
confusing even the mixing pots of colors
for the cottonwouldrather
&cede her of leb, anon,
downright dirtnap
spiraling flutter to the underbrush
sans wind, the slowly disengaging
remonstrance
                      multi-hued dragonskinflakes
                      spent their unfurled becomings
called springing not for nothing,
as calibrated
to niche-fill with sensors
feeding light, making food,
until sun daily
drifts less by solar thrust,
jetisoned plasma parts from the primary furnace
all detritus
in a scheme-ier grandiose farce
for floor feeds the feet of dancers
               leaping bruise machines
artfully
bespeckled, mauve blue ochre
&vermillion beard keeps coming over the moon,
between sunraises,
lop lop the ends are topped
caw caw day hour is not late,
if murk seems to take the sky
at four thirty things are known
in and of
portlandluck (takes cover to recover full light
mirror-clause.                            miracle,
actualized anomaly
devoid of instruction
inscrutable only in detail

dependence day

fireworks celebrate the 4th of july sky over the gulf of persia
and you're in italy, sleeping off a siesta,

the plane's passengers crossing the channel to their homes
smelling of lebanese meats& spices, the sound of silly children

happy to see their daddy, the spouse's complaint
of the local vicious dog that terrorizes the meter reader

just doing his rounds, and i'm pitching horseshoes
in oklahoma, taking aim and firing with my lower lip

silently chewed in contemplation
throwing my shoe& hoping for a ringer

as the macho burst of fireworks resounds in my mind
&all i felt was disgust, a dust gust of remorse,

dashdashdash dotdotdotting thru all the miles times& warzones,
all i felt from this celebration of isolation was nausea,

mind churning with visions of bloated floating dead
O spangled banner of of amerika who'd guess

you're not an island? surrounded by mental waters, you only lower
your drawbridge to send out armed salesmen

what carrion you produce along the skyways of commerce!
what blisters swelling on your triggers of ignorance,

what vain nationalism with your civil plights
& condom nation of others! and here, what say i of myself?

i too am amerika
i too an isolatoe

but i think and think that my dream has abandoned me
expand the terroritories into hearts of love,

knock out those with too much to give
wrap nature in disposable diapers and talcum consciences

by proclaiming (i am not) me
we swear it don't hurt though the drought burns pink skin

patriots! independence day
fade away like a pipe bomb

like a stomach ache
like comparisons that knot the side& shatter our illusory caskets!





1989 Midland Review #5
Oklahoma State Univ.

Iran Flight 665

"While flying in Iranian airspace over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf on its usual flight path, it was destroyed by the United States Navy guided missile cruiserUSS Vincennes (CG-49). All 290 onboard including 66 children and 16 crew perished."


 eat shit CIA. 

inkamastinkadoo

way gone& very back too

rode into frown.

teeth mountain had blunted

crows feet before grimace was vehicular,

                       taxied by tax levy surplus.

less meaning is impossible in the context of trying.

                       blame lambs. flame bands.

read my shirt& die dirty good circles

my sponsor is aloof inc.

(just ran into out of inkamastinkadoo

O moved to Camp Foetid

O moved the ball,

g8 to camp foetid but the foe there mowed lawns

for summers all year,

unseasonably rich sequestrian facilities that whinny like jetboats

forcing blonde photos to don flesh

whine dine& plagarize tastes less oriental,

world economy being white

as a drained gash zone,

leaving chicago

only NATO.

blunderbus-implement of trumpeting vile patriarchs!

O can move the court,

deflate the ball, but every winter's discontent

cannot hide behind one percent's

shadow government

sponsor, for all rely on where to send the check and balance

that is why the toilets are marble

they stay put for the game,

not the players

Manning

foie gras detainee,

fattened for courtroom infamy

shackled in danger orange,

code pink protectors and grey panthers recall Pentagram Papers

while the most manly

is a cunning crossSnitcher from Crescent,

not accused of telling Truth the time

but put on show for a hawk pecking

songbird: do not eat

the gaps between bars will convey your thin ghost to the world by interNets

unable to restrain

the girth of Earth embodied in a single

winged hero

whose grain may be read by the Woulds that leave

places we can honor

organized crime in uniform november 17 2011

as elizabeth nichols is pepper sprayed November 17 2011

police surveillance November 17th 2011 chase bank protest

nametag November 17th 2011 Chase bank civil liberties abuses

elizabeth nichols Portland Nov. 17th before she is pepper sprayed

liz nichols chase bank november 17th 2011

Earth to Houston: abort the Frackpipe!

"The Canadian prime minister has already said to the American president, if you don't want to build this pipeline to bring – create 20,000 American jobs and bring oil through the United Statesto the largest refinery complex in the world, Houston, I want to put it straight west in Canada toVancouver and ship the oil direct to China," Gingrich said at the debate.

"You'll lose the jobs, you'll lose the throughput, you'll lose 30 or 40 years of work in Houston."

________

And think of all the jobs "created" from the environmental damage this will allow!

Think of all the private prisons that will swell with middle class Americans that protest this for eternity!

Think of poor, poor Houston. Corporate Welfare knows no boundaries.

A State Department analysis of the Keystone plan pegged the job gains as far fewer than 20,000. The report estimated that "The construction work force would consist of approximately 5,000 to 6,000 workers, including Keystone employees, contractor employees, and construction and environmental inspection staff."

get off the Frackpipe!

"Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, questioned whether some people classified as poor or low-income actually suffer material hardship. He said that while safety-net programs have helped many Americans, they have gone too far. He said some people described as poor live in decent-size homes, drive cars and own wide-screen TVs.

"There's no doubt the recession has thrown a lot of people out of work and incomes have fallen," Rector said. "As we come out of recession, it will be important that these programs promote self-sufficiency rather than dependence and encourage people to look for work."

______

"About 97.3 million Americans fall into a low-income category, commonly defined as those earning between 100 and 199 percent of the poverty level, based on a new supplemental measure by the Census Bureau that is designed to provide a fuller picture of poverty.

Together with the 49.1 million who fall below the poverty line and are counted as poor, they number 146.4 million, or 48 percent of the U.S. population. That's up by 4 million from 2009"

_____

One hundred million hungry wide screen TVs, starved for the power to tune IN, turn ON, and drop addiction to oil.

Get off the Frackpipe!

millions of workers strike in the U.K.

• Department for Education figures suggest 62% of England's 21,476 state schools were closed, with another 14% partly shut
• In Scotland just 33 of the 2,700 state schools were open, according to local authority body Cosla. In Wales, more than 1,500 out of 1,776 schools shut. In Northern Ireland, about two-thirds of the 1,200 schools closed
• On Wednesday evening, London Ambulance Service formally requested help from police to answer 999 calls, and has urged people only to call if life is at risk; South East Coast Ambulance Service has said it is only responding to "life-threatening emergencies"
• NHS managers say a little under 7,000 of approximately 30,000 routine operations have been cancelled or postponedacross the UK as well as tens of thousands of appointments
• BBC News Channel's chief political correspondent Norman Smithtweeted: "(Health Secretary) Andrew Lansley says patients who have ops cancelled today will still be seen within 18-week limit."
• In Northern Ireland, no bus or train services are operating
• Plane arrivals and take-offs at Britain's two biggest airports - Heathrow and Gatwick - are said to be largely unaffected with only a few cancellations of in-bound transatlantic flights to Heathrow
• The Local Government Association said about a third of England and Wales council staff were not in work, equating to about 670,000 out of 2.1 million. About 250,000 public sector workers are on strike in Scotland while 170,000 workers in Wales are taking action
• Just 14 job centres out of more than 900 across the UK have closed, according to the Cabinet Office
• Twenty-one people were arrested after an office in London's West End was targeted at about 15:50 GMT by a group of protesters believed to be from the Occupy London anti-capitalist campaign group

___________

police use of pepper spray on fleeing non-violent protestors on a Portland sidewalk

their answer struck forward

being soft and weak where they wish us not

predicting flaws that make virtue

pale opalescence

having frequented busy usurpations in progress

having been given indignities

while asking for help

i consider why our softness is less than theirs,

why their weakness is greater when they are us?

fraught, indelibly

writ in egg on chicken

as vets return to reruns from all wars

feather their lost nests

in limbs gathered, hunted

coveted magic ball answers,

dumb assholes.

their answer

not only objects

it strikes forward.

the size of the ponder

quack mire easy assembly,

easily attained with blind duck

drunk cold duck duck blinks

now it is on federal lands.

used

to be

long mired by the elk in a fen

richly endowed

with his story of layered crud slop,

among coy

caged fish in a shrunk plaza

the size of the ponder

means a lot to the ideas there to grow,

without scope

nor moneykey trials

sum assembly required

working on change is a panhandler's fool's gold

when change is the currency we breathe

not elk breath

but crown victoria's subject of admiration

here to catch the falling leaves

embedded is as embedded does,

foot-rot mythosophy

don't stand out when you crate your stand

on their slipbox,

sum

assembly

re

-mired

black maria

order prevails in paralytic charm

we each get a turn to mein nothing

noodling messages like air guitar patriots

mainly for manly form

dressed in garbled garb of tarped autonomy

here i hear our dissonance departing

it is called a beat

gumshoes, or gaul lashes

fertile riotry

even order is confused

when non-charmed volks

drive paddy wagons

mein street

consensus forged

behind closed whores

now is that good business practice?

open mein street

the elk decrees liberty

contiguous, contagious

unadulterated and

wholed, hearty and not yet hale

though i lean

toward jeffersonian

anti-slavery hyperbole

dicta anathema

push me to dare you to push me

i'm a new man made old

your sorry story sold well

well deep dryness in a heart made of aquifer ghosts

libido frond shade

it ain't a tussle

castles need dragons or their parapets

sob obsolete

replete with tugs

pulling incredulity

either fertile, or sterile

procedure emanates

false dicta permeates

cuz, well, that's what dicta does

cardboard jewelry

collusion assembles regular- like,

transformenters hyphenated

background chatter squirrel massage

the park is yucky to the eye

the disreputable folks are folked up

the elk wears cardboard jewelry

shitty hall

poems are technological anathemas, cast either

from or to two toos

echoing reverberations of endorsement,

also concurring in a general disassembly

that rectitude is verbotten

sounds nasty, is nasty (but tasty

if you are shitty hall

Obama Abides No Freedom Nor Adheres to No US Constitutional Notion of Individual Rights

The President said:

"For America must always stand on the side of freedom and human dignity.

Abroad, America’s greatest source of strength has always been our ideals.

The same is true at home.

We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution:

the notion that we are all created equal, that no matter who you are or what you look like, if you abide by the law you should be protected by it;

that if you adhere to our common values you should be treated no different than anyone else."

____________

just look at the choice of words: the "promise" of the Constitution?

the "promise" of the Constitution?

promise :" an assurance one will or will not undertake a certain action, potential for achievement, seem likely to, give an indication of,

the "notion" of equality?

"notion:" a concept, idea, opinion, vague view of understanding, inclination, fancy, or whim

one need "abide" by laws to be protected by them? since when? laws are enforced on lawBREAKERS who DO NOT abide by laws.

"abide:" tolerate, endure, stand, suffer, support, bear

and finally, must we "adhere" to some fuzzy concept of "common values" to be treated equally?

"adhere:" stick fast to, give allegiance to


I am rather flabbergasted at the grave import of these statements of carefully chosen words, coming from a Constitutional "scholar."


I am truly shocked at how plainly he is saying: we have no inherent rights.


They are all qualified by our conduct and appearance to others!



the US Constitution: inherent rights embodied by fundamental principles of governing.

that is my definition, and one of my favorite gods.

solar forest

forest

bulk section at the cherry sprout!

fast binders

fast friends make friends fast

don't eat: them: fast: friends: relish them,

your dog may be hot

but the bun is bland and blown with sand and grit

of which we eschew

in pickled sweetness brine

chewsy until the molars drop

not from the gums

but to the floor.

full of gold no doubt, scooped up by friends, no doubt

redeemed in lieu of having to sue.

howjadoo? howjadoo?

"and you shake their little hands/

howjadoo"

it is known as an advance

ain't no friend of mine

is a refrain i disdain like dylan on pain who caint unsplain the scrit of brain

(google calls THIS spam

their sausage servers smell it and says it's too spicy)

"i'm wild about their loving/

i like to have my fun"

how you forge friends

you put it out there

d-day style

and ask 'em to take your check

for their questionable goods:

wanna peek under the hoods

coulds shoulds and drill for oil the peckerwoods

oil that must be refined

must be bottled and divined, as to purity

for intricate cogs require lugubrious

attention: howjadoo?

you shake their little plans up and down,

how do you do?

water time

water in the basement

where it should not be

water in the knee

watered down screed

water for the unthirsty

water on the summer orchard

there is one time and place for hydration:

nature's time.

our time is a wet towel

and 6 sets of nostrils, 4 nostrils dry

it's a board decision

chess, candyland, parchesi

parched easy.

oh, swell.

toward the 4th quarter locker room sermon

either play ball or keep yer cajones

in a safety sack on the shelf

either way, it's take your tour of the sausage mill

because things fall off that shelf all the time

bumped off

knocked off

whacked off

offed on and off, switcherooed

it's more of how you work the ball

than play it, cuz it won't take quarters

and all work is free

while play costs arms and legs

what we do and don't

measure our can't eye levers

tipping balance toward stability.

period, the size of a ball.

range

own a home

buy a lie

bed a dream

sleep a life

bleed a day

feed a home

rotten wood

indians gone

* * *

now, they're timber barons

begging toothpicks

for casino martinis,

slumdog zillionheirs.

*** *** ***

poor form

forms poor

farms, grown

of groans.

never needed a farm

needed range.

will show

accumulating a loyal following

is the job for flea collars

ringing miami.

a disloyal following may by definition, lead.

to shed attachments

was buddha's occupation.

to add superfluous foot kissers is to have slippery paws.

to slup is divine.

when buddha's cuisinart

lost a blade you bet he went online for a replacement.

put it on credit.

will show, honey wine.

flea collar for an equator in love

baby bird can half fly

baby duck can swim twice pecking fast

slow food moves profit lines

here, it doesn't wanna hear, it. shrillings are worth

big know. eaten, the bug

flies thrice, masted. masticated and eschewed,

with can't eye levers

sheer primordial autopilot.

if you want,

you find. water under the webfeet,

claws drawn up into torsoes not quite flying but almost not crashing

i'm in love

with agony.

what else will leave me alone?

Revising the Revisionists with my Vision

"Jackstraw was born when rhythm guitarist Darrin Craig and lead player Jon Neufeld met mandolin picker David Pugh and bassist Jesse Withers in 1997 at Artichoke Music, a Portland guitar store and acoustic music institution. Not long after their formation, Jackstraw recorded their first album and hit the road"

(cut and pasted from the Jackstraw Myspace page)

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Actually, Jackstraw was "born" when Forest Bloodgood met Darrin and Jon playing open mic at the Laurelthirst in 1997. At the time, they performed as Good Earth. Soon thereafter, David Pugh, Vaughn Wilson, and Kevin Kerberg were performing at various pubs and venues, Portland's Saturday Market, and parties as Jackstraw. Kevin "bingo" Richey played the banjo when Vaughn was unavailable, and all these people recorded at Sound Impressions studio resulting in the album, Home Far Away.

Soon after the release of the CD, Forest and Bingo were booted from the band; Kevin Kerberg returned to college in Kansas; and Vaughn stuck with the band, until relocating in Colorado. Another Jesse played bass with Jackstraw as well.

As awkward as it may be to point this out, I speak the truth, and whoever wrote their Myspace blurb probably took mythology into their hands for the sake of "simplicity."

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Likewise, the Freak Mountain Rambler's have a much more complex and peopled "birth" than their Myspace page reports. Jimmy Boyer, David Reisch, and Kevin Richey were playing Sunday happy hours there in Feb. 1995 when I had my schoolbus-home parked at a house on Glisan where Jimmy and lots of other cats lived. Jimmy brought me in by invitation, and I became a regular player, showing up after the Portland Sat. Market, often with my daughter Surreal being attended to by Dale and Shirley or other kind regulars.

Many many players cycled thru; numerous drummers(Dead Moon's, also the tweaker who took cellphone calls while playing!), VIP guests sat in. Before Billy Kennedy offered up the name Freak Mountain Ramblers, many regulars just called it "church." When Roger North began playing drums for the Freaks, the band developed quickly from a one-show-a-week deal to a unit ready to gig anywhere and anytime. The self titled first album, Freak Mountain Ramblers, came out in 1999. I quit the band effectively in July 2000, as I had a new baby daughter, Isis. Turtle joined in when Kevin moved to California, and Paul Bisset, the wonderful washboard player of many years also quit playing Sundays.

This all goes to state: the band has deep roots, from the late 60s certainly, but also from 1995-2000, when the Sundays were an inclusive hootenanny, and anything could and did happen. Here's to music, memories, and added perspectives to history. And thanks to Jimmy, Dave, and Roger, for showing me the ropes.

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obviously, it isn't so much when a band is "born," but when it is rebranded, by its adoptive parents.

wah wah wah!

can't take off the tattoo, now.

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The Freak Mountain Ramblers present a unique blend of Rock 'n Roll, Bluegrass, Alternative Country, and Country Blues. With a lineup including 3 members of the inimitable and notorious Holy Modal Rounders The Freak Mountain Ramblers present a unique blend of Rock 'n Roll, Bluegrass, Alternative Country, and Country Blues. With a lineup including 3 members of the inimitable and notorious Holy Modal Rounders/ Clamtones amalgamation of the '70s and '80s, FMR has its roots in the underbelly of the alternative music scene that existed at that time both in Portland and across the country. During the past 7 years the Freaks have accumulated a loyal following in the Portland area by dependably creating beauty and bedlam at their live shows / Clamtones amalgamation of the '70s and '80s, FMR has its roots in the underbelly of the alternative music scene that existed at that time both in Portland and across the country. During the past 7 years the Freaks have accumulated a loyal following in the Portland area by dependably creating beauty and

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mum's the sword

i'm on strike with strikes.

just like you. lie.

you lie.

you strike, liar.

i'm struck, lain.

by lies.

take a stand, meet the lie.

laid, or not, by strikes

we're struck.

mum's not the word.

'tis the sword.

spoon fed robots

if it looks like censorship,
stinks like censorship,

it is sensor shit.
they say "our robots

think(haha
that YOU are a robot

my pot thinks your kettle is black,
too.

alice and wonderland nonsense=spam
james joyce=spam

modern poetry=a refuge
from the robots

yes, i don't spoon feed you.
you must lift the food

to your own
open mouths.

joe fascist

joe camel.



there is joe, and we know.


joe fascist.

achille's jockstrap: google

achille's jockstrap: nothing to hold up.

odysseus's siren: hear nothing see nothing do nothing sign bill.

hercules's agean stable: muck out the elephant stalls for some donkey crud.

zeus's leda: swan song for mcpalin.

oedipus's rex: kill the constitution and marry the bible.

the trojan's horse: a maven maverick.

classics most would ignore with a wink and a rip van winkle nod.






why censor the classics, google?

failure of government exemplar

a DARing "rescue plan"

this is the thousand day swim, buddy. should have left the six pack back on the beachbush.

wow. what about "pre-emptive rescue plans"

better knowed as ABSTINENCE FROM SWINDLING

.addicted to what?
add dick to what?chain bush, now. wusscheney
.is this echo chamber working, or

on TRIKE?three failures of government:

executive
judicial
postpartum

don't rescue fanny and freddy, push them into a big green pillow

fannie and freddie are lost in the woods of the world market
they are scratched and a bit bloody by the attack of twigs
and the ravenous bark amidst blackberry catacombs of loserliness avenue

who will rescue poor poor freddie, and fannie.
with the names of orphans from bergman, dear waifs kicked to the winds
by overpilled Execs enamoured of pecks from roostered rosters
and pecuniary impostors

fannie and freddy may have to mate in the wild
to keep the breed going
may have to eat one another, then mate.

who knows, but the tears of these small giants whimpering amidst the cobwebbed horizon
strikes a curdle in my milk. i cannot sup but for their wayward plight.





verily.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008090503351_Comments.html



one doesn't rescue(risk lives in the attempt)----------enormous Corporations from
untenable precipices. one Pushes them to the right




landing spot.

surreal flies above the eagle