Friday, September 29, 2006


BLACKDOG JUNCTION
Old Spanish Trail
Tecopa Station

Welcome, Marian Alumni
Class of '67,
Summer of Love



First Contact with Lynn McNeil...Feb.2006 from ClassMates(dot)com:
Hi Sheryl (Kris),

Yup, I remember you! I barely recall the wedding, but I definitely
remember hanging out on the senior lawn and walking the halls of
Marian. Mostly that apartment on the beach where we all got into oh,
so much trouble with Carol and Pat and Donna and Linda and all those
lovely sailors. Oh yeah, I guess several of us married at least one of
those sailors. Did you hear that Marian is closing down? They are
building a new HS in Chula Vista to open in Fall 2007 as Mater Dei.
Check out the Marian website.

I'm near LA still. Still married (not to the first one as you can tell
from the name), retired from my second career and back in school again.
Not arthritic yet, but old and fat and gray. How about you? I tried
to read your bio but they want you to join.

Lynn



Original Email from Kris McBride...Sept. 29, 2006

I don't know about y'all, but I have no interest in attending a 40 year reunion at a new industrial-sized,re-named institution in ChulaVista. I prefer to remember our AlmaMater the way she was in the Summer of Love. I've been to the MHS website, and have read everything on it, including the studenthandbook, and have decided that I would not like tobe a student there now, or send my own kids and grandkids there to be processed as cogs in the "machine"...I am so grateful to the now absent Nunsfor educating me in the Humanities, and am horrified that they are gone from the staff, and that ALL Seniors are now subjected to mandatory, militaryapptitude testing in order to graduate. Call me a 'throwback'??? an old Hipi??? an incorrigible misfit???But I am PROUD of 40 years of conscious, social activism, in the Feminist, Anti-Apartheid, Enviromental, and Peace Movements, that the Children of the 21st Century are being trained to ignore in their quest? forassimilation into a
"brave new world". Ah, well! I am crippled by arthritis, retired to the Desert,and am very happy to be off the frontlines of the ClassWars,writing and publishing on my blog, http://thebroadsside.blogspot.com, and working on building a sustainable community to ride out the storm of a not-so-certain future. Anybody wanna talk about gathering together for an alternative reunion, here at Tecopa's Once and Future WindFarm??? We have 160 acres of desert land with surface water, to build and camp on, safe from the hordes of cut-throats and desperados in the cities.
ta-ta...Sage AKA: Kris McBride'67


Email from Susan Southland...Oct.1.6
I would imagine that Carol &Lynn & Mouse & Jack already know the story - not sure about Bob - think he was pretty young the last time I saw him. We are currently traveling in our motorhome and e-mail is pretty spotty. Am in New Hampshire for the next few days and then on to Bar Harbor, Maine. Plan to hit Boston, Philly, then - who knows? Been gone for two months and don't plan to be back in CA until after Thanksgiving. Keep up the good work.
Susan


Email from Carol Andrade Vrooman, 10.02.06
Oh it's Carol Andrade (Vrooman). How are you? You live in the desert? I looked up Tecopa, you're in Death Valley? We just came back from Carson City, rode through Baker and past the 190 turn off to Death Valley.
My significant other, Gary, and I live in Ramona, NE of downtown SD. I'm an ER RN, he works for the Post Office. I have 2 kids, girl Beth who has 2 boys, and a son Bryan who has a daughter and two sons, the most recent is only a few mos old, haven't even seen the little sucker yet.
I also am not really interested in supporting this new whatever they are opening to pander to the rich mexicans. I've thought about seeing whats going on with people 40 yrs after but don't think I'm going to make any effort. I also prefer to remember good ole Marian our Marian the way she was when we left.
I guess we've all found our level in life so to speak. I don't care if citizens think I'm a "misfit" or what they think. There are 2 types of people in this world those I care about and those I don't. If one falls into the "don't" category there is no point in giving any credence to their opinion.
Lynn plays cello in an ensemble. She always was musical.
Dix is retired, has a bad back, fishes with her husband.
I ride a big motorcycle as fast as I can whenever I can. My old man is the Vice President of our chapter of an outlaw club, though probably not the one that comes immediately to mind.


Email to Mr.Gerken, at mariancatholic.org..Oct2006
Please also notify your Class of '67 List
that our Self-Appointed Alternative CyberReunion Committee
has formed to accomodate the far-flung-fringe-faction of
Graduates from Marian's Summer of Love, and that any
photos from the Gauntlet'67 Yearbook can be sent to
blackdogjunction@yahoo.com, for inclusion in
Our CyberReunion Thread at The Sovereignty Rag,
http://thebroadsside.blogspot.com
Thanx, MorganaSage@excite.com aka:Kris McBride Williams .

Email from Patty Edwards Prescott, Friday, Oct. 13, 2006
You are aware that we are planning our 40th class reunion? Bill said he sent an email out.
Did you receive it and if yes, have you voted? Obviously , like me, you would prefer NOT TO DEAL with the new School...........Mater Dei? So sad, I can see moving because they are a big institution and can make more money from the rich folks living in Eastlake...........but other than the BISHOP wants the name changed, (seems he in the past attended a school named Mater Dei).... no one else does.

They should have just carried the name over.

Patty Edwards (Prescott)

Monday, September 25, 2006

 
Me and the Kids,1978 Posted by Picasa

Monday, September 18, 2006

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

“King Victor” at Chief Tecopa’s once and future Treaty Baths,
is to be Nakedly Deposed
in an OPEN to the PUBLIC Ceremony
To
CELEBRATE CHECKMATE
AND
IMMEDIATE RESTORATION OF TREATY RIGHTS
@MEDICINE BATHS
Sir Eric of CLaMclan, may appear
to graciously CONCEDE defeat, and
remove his King from the Board.

VICTOR’S COMMANDMENT

Thou shall NOT
Act like a ROMAN
In MY TEMPLE BATH!
The Goddess says,
So, same says, the Sisterhood of the Vortex
Violation of this commandment carries the following punishments: strip search, shower, and splash dunk,
         in the Ladies Baths where you won’t be let out
    much before you faint, desperately hoping that SOMEbody  will pull you out before you drown.
We’ll sell tickets to watch, and throw teabags to brew
up a nice tannic hogwash.
   Hometown Videos bring $10,000 Bucks for 30 second clips, from a 20’minute video of
Titular Tecopans “cooking a roman stew.”
For: America’s Funniest Videos TV Show,
hipi propaganda footage.
This is a Definitive Ultimatum…Everyone who understands and complies to these terms, WINS

BLOCK PARTY/KEG’r
To Celebrate BOYCOTT of Corporate Management of
TECOPA HOT SPRINGS PUBLIC BATHS
The Sovereign Treaty Shade Union & The Sisterhood of the Vortex
Invite ALL Tecopasetic Sovereignty Activist to Our Cusp Event

OCTOBER 31st to NOVEMBER 1st
All Hallowed Souls Eve, Afternoon at BlackdogJunction until
All Saint’s Day, First Light at Inyo County Treaty Baths

THUNDER MOUNTAIN WAR DANCE
SUMMONING OF THE ELDERS
OVERNITE GATHERING AND ENCAMPMENT
AT TECOPA’S MEDICINE BATHS

Free dry camping at BlackdogJunction for bruja ha(ha)
earthquake magic users, redskins, rednecks, redheads, and bushwhackers
   who want to help consecrate and restore the Vintage Campgrounds,
and help make way for  
Tecopa’s Future WindFarm and Tecopasetic People’s Power Co-op.

OPEN 24/7 Oct.-March, 2007 for
Boycott/ClassActionCampaign to Restore Treaty and Baths
NO fighting dogs, guns, needles, or broken glass.

Friday, September 15, 2006

THIS IS A WAKE-UP CALL
to; ALL TRUE AMERIKANS

BE AWARE...

We have witnessed the demise of Democracy
with the Y2K election,
and have the Constitutional Responsibility
to uphold Our Rights to Freedom,
by impeaching the whole Administration
of this False President,
on charges of conspiracy against
the American People,
war-crimes against the People
of the World,
and High Treason against the U.S. Constitution.

In addition, We can petition Congress
to convene another Constitutional Convention
to update and revision Our Founding Documents,
and We can ask Jimmy Carter
to preside over it from the Chair.

We can bring this government
to it's knees in the Highest Courts,
as we overthrow it by empathic coup,
in order to form a more Perfect Union.

Published: August, 2001,
Letter to the Editor,
Garberville's Life and Times
Dearly Art Bell

I, too have a short story about conscious psychic, time-travel
It started with one wild, organic Magic Oregon Amanita Mushroom; and
was powered by the monotonous pulse of my Own Heartbeat, which was one with something way bigger than me, for 93 million-nano-miles to the Island at the End of
the Timeline, to visit the Queen of the Cosmos. I physically remember to this very day, being a bubble in the SeaFoam washing up the shore, and playing WordGames with the Goddess, and winning a chance to stop at the Sentient Sentinel Satellite on the return trip, to flip the shutdown switch, and punch the reset button on the Mastery of GODProgram, because nobody else was clever, or audaciously brave enough to actually be willing to DO IT, with NO RESERVATIONS!!! I was also given the opportunity to return to any one of my favorite Past Lives, but turned it down because I didnt want to waste the rest of my lifetime here, in a catatonic statethe nicotine fit I was having after an hour and a half of absent-minded effort to roll a cigarette, brought me back to theVolksWagon CreamPuffwhere I was sitting on my bed with a lap full of tobacco crumbs, on a BLM landing on the side of a BIG hill halfway up to the quarry outside Williams, Oregon, a cute little farming community where I wrote a V-dubClub column in the towns newsletter. The triplasted 93 minutes, BY THE CLOCK!!! For REAL!!!

UPDATE: Ides of June, 2007
Re: PAGnewsdaily/Personal Evidence via:UFOlawyer, Peter

"If the Universe is a cosmic computer, then we can infer that it has the ability to end one of its programs. Assuming that what we think is "out there" is actually the holographic representation of higher dimensional beings - then Stars within solar systems - monitor cosmic programs. So if we do exist within a such a program - the evidence suggests that it is about to end."
Dearly Art Bell

I, too have a short story about conscious psychic, time-travel
It started with one wild, organic Magic Oregon Amanita Mushroom; and
was powered by the monotonous pulse of my Own Heartbeat, which was one with something way bigger than me, for 93 million-nano-miles to the Island at the End of
the Timeline, to visit the Queen of the Cosmos. I physically remember to this very day, being a bubble in the SeaFoam washing up the shore, and playing WordGames with the Goddess, and winning a chance to stop at the Sentient Sentinel Satellite on the return trip, to flip the shutdown switch, and punch the reset button on the Mastery of GODProgram, because nobody else was clever, or audaciously brave enough to actually be willing to DO IT, with NO RESERVATIONS!!! I was also given the opportunity to return to any one of my favorite Past Lives, but turned it down because I didnt want to waste the rest of my lifetime here, in a catatonic statethe nicotine fit I was having after an hour and a half of absent-minded effort to roll a cigarette, brought me back to theVolksWagon CreamPuffwhere I was sitting on my bed with a lap full of tobacco crumbs, on a BLM landing on the side of a BIG hill halfway up to the quarry outside Williams, Oregon, a cute little farming community where I wrote a V-dubClub column in the towns newsletter. The triplasted 93 minutes, BY THE CLOCK!!! For REAL!!!

Monday, September 11, 2006


Five years ago, I was homeless in Humboldt County, Ca.,
and sleeping in the Garberville Cemetary with nothing
but a bedroll, backpack, a $10 radio, and my dog, Emily.
I woke up when the sun broke thru the fog and clouds
about 8AM, and I reached over to turn on the radio, like
I did every morning, to here the news that the World
Trade Center in New York had already collapsed. I thought
that it was a bad joke, but hurried to the bar a few blocks
away, where they had a bathroom, coffee, and a big screen TV.
New Yorkers in suits were walking out of Manhattan like
refugees, crowding the bridges that were meant for cars.
The towers had already fallen, and they were showing the
early footage of the buildings on fire, and reporting about
the Pentagon also being targeted...and I remember thinking
how inevitable this kind of attack on these kinds of targets
really was, as serious protest of America's foreign policy
in the World. I didn't feel anger, then or since,
that Americans had been targeted, but that the Government,
the military industrial complex, and the corrupt, corporate control
of the World's resources, the Heart and Belly of the Beast, had
been the targets of a very clear message...the inevitability of
'chickens coming home to roost'.

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Battle of the Sexes

Battle of the Sexes


The following excerpts, from the Kingdom of Nye’s Radio Outpost, are presented here to illustrate that sexist attitudes are still a problem among the members of the Boomer Generation.  
Elk, a truck-driving Grampa, and the administrator of the forum writes…”I's like to thank you all for coming tonight. Please, sit down and have a cool beverage. I suppose you all are wondering why I called you here tonight. Well folks, welcome to the very first meeting of the N.H.B.O.T.B.T.C. What does it mean? It means, "Nupnorthians hell bent on taking back the country" Thats right...its a done deal. We are sick of watching as the evil little bastards walk all over our civil rights, and use the Constitution as bathroom tissue. And so, we are gonna do something about it.

Whereupon, Sage, the Witch of Woodstock Nation, and Queen of Hipi Road  replies…”let's just get my editorial comments on yer language, (which I'll limit to just the flavor of the the first paragraph introduction), outta the way...point: "bastards" is a sexist term, and is not child-friendly, either...point: "bathroom tissue" is a civilized euphemism for 'toilet paper' or TP...suggested edit: change "bastards" to "retards"...rationale: kids understand feelings of contempt for 'stupidity' better when their parentage is not being threatened. If you want Daniel to grow up respecting your honest and passionate opinions, Elk, you gotta be more careful of the words you chose to use to impress him with your powers to talk the walk, and walk the talk. Your Mission, Grampa, is to educate those babies in yer care, to the Truth and Value of LIFe; don't muck them over with gutter talk or duckspeak. 10-4?) end of lecture, next...

And Elk retorts…
Quotepoint: "bathroom tissue" is a civilized euphomism for 'toilet paper' or TP.
Fine. Lets call it what it is...what the hell, we're all adults here, right? Asswipe...butt napkins...a roll o' fun...emergency note pad...There! Happy?  At no time have I EVER stated that I was politically correct. Far from it. Im an old fart, and I live by ONE credo. Live and let live.Just so you know, and you seem soooo concerned that I may accidently slip and let a cuss word fly in the company of my 5 week old grandson, thereby forever corrupting his widdle mind, I try to not swear around the grandkids. BUT...I aint perfect. There have been times when Ive let loose with a colorful sentence or two, while in the vicinity of the rug rats. My grandsons look at me and laugh. How often does one get to see grampa drop a hatchet on his foot? Sh*t happens....Bastard is one of many words that has been twisted into meanings other than the true definition. But, I think in this case, (the neo-cons) I believe I used the term correctly. They arent kid friendly and they ARE sexist.I am a dinosaur, Sage. What you see is what you get.Now, if you'll excuse me, Im gonna go hang out at the Nupnorth drugstore and whistle at the chicks as they stroll by..."Twee! Twee! Yeh baby! Shake it!!!"( Did I mention that Im a chauvenist pig as well? )

Sage . “there is no correct use of a homocidal word like 'Bastard', around ANY of the Goddess's Terran Children.”
warmongers breed bastards to supply life-is-cheap cannonfodder,and I am a NitWit for bothering you poor, crabby futher muckers.sorry.

Elk…Good god, Mrs. Cleaver, take another look. It appears that everyone here has tongue firmly planted in cheek 'cept you!I could, if pushed, whip out my trusty chauvenist pig helmut, tell you to chill out, take two midol, and call your doctor in the morning. But I wont. Instead, I recommend you go back and reread this thread. If you look, real hard, maybe you'll see the humor. This is Nupnorth, Sage. We try very hard to NOT beat things into the sand. It just aint good for the mojo. Now, Im gonna go blow the dust off an old LP Ive had stashed for many years. Its a George Carlin bit..."Seven words you cant say on radio or TV".

Sage…I've never thought anal and phallic bathroom humor was funny.Booby jokes are another matter, because WE ALL GOT TITS!!!and YOU, KISSING MY BUTT would be considered a very funny SCORE, dontcha think??? who's got a picture or cartoon for THAT, tongue-in-cheekies???

Elk…Im sorry you feel my posts are "hogwash", Sage. I guess the only point of view around here, that matters, is yours, eh? So be it. Understand tho, there is a fine line. Be very careful not to cross it.

Sage… yeah, butt...you were the one who bragged about yer non-kosher porker mind-set...I thought you'd catch the pun and think it clever...sorry, MY BOO BOO!
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Elk…Not relevant. You are getting a little too personal. Some of us have known each other for a number of years. There are running jokes that have been kicking around for awhile. I wouldnt expect you to know that, but I would expect you to respect the others and the general tone of the board. If you dont like to laugh, maybe this isnt the place for you.

Co- moderator, Linnea…Hey, Elk. You are quite right. Easy here, Sage. Slow and easy.

Whereupon, Sage is deleted from the Forum   BOOM