Friday, May 16, 2008

O.K.

Gotta report numbers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YpVtW4cKvo
Rite now Wilbur's got 1352 views on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCAq3D-AAbU

Buddy Buie & J.R. Cobb's video from Tommy Wilcox Outdoors using song called THE DAY BEAR BRYANT DIED has 1060 views


I gotta tell this...
This buddy of mine was disappointed this afternoon because one of our friends was not going to show up tomorrow.

I decided to stir the mud~

I said,"Well, he's shunning you. He ain't got a friend
RIGHT NOW in Tuscaloosa
& he damn sho' ain't got one in his
OWN
hometown."

My buddy said,
"Yeah, you right.
He was born
WITH A SILVER SPOON STUCK UP HIS ASS!!!!"

NOW GIT DIS!!!!

This playwright named Mike Vigilant has done a play on Coach Bryant.

He explained it on YouTube & right now he has 7 views.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl6KudQVAbw

courtesy of http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080511/LIFESTYLE/805110304
PLAYWRIGHT RAISES CRIMSON CURTAIN ON FOOTBALL LEGEND


It's among (ed. note: SAY WHAT?!!!!)
~the most daunting- and inspiring tasks Michael Vigilant has ever attempted~

His new play, "Bear Country," spotlights an Alabama legend, Paul "Bear" Bryant, a wise and witty man who rose from his dirt-poor beginnings to becoming the standard by which college football coaches are judged.

"It's a daunting project because of the feelings (University of) Alabama fans and players have toward Coach Bryant," said Vigilant, a playwright who is also chief operating officer at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. "He changed his players' lives. They were different people when they left the program. They were champions on the field and winners in life."

And nobody has to tell Vigilant just how important it is to get Bryant's story right. While researching his subject, he has come to know many of Bryant's former players and others with close connections. Early on, when one of the former players heard about Vigilant's plans, he said, "That's great, but you better do it right!"

What impressed Vigilant most was the fact that even now, 40 years after playing for Bryant, these men still think of their coach, think of him every day.

"I can see feelings well up in their chests and their tears," the playwright said.

On Friday, "Bear Country" will have its first public reading as part of ASF's Southern Writers' Project Festival of New Plays, giving audience members an opportunity to attend and offer feedback.

According to the Paul W. Bryant Museum in Tuscaloosa, Bryant was national coach of the year three times, Southeastern Conference coach of the year eight times, coached six national championship teams, became the "winningest" coach in the history of college football in November 1981 and retired from coaching with 323 victories.

As impressive as he was on the field, Bryant's greatest accomplishment may have been the impact he made on his players and devoted fans.

With "Bear Country," Vigilant hopes to capture the spirit of this remarkable man.

Vigilant, who is originally from the West Coast, has spent the past couple of decades writing and producing plays and musicals, and he has published more than a dozen of his works, including "Cindy Cinderella" and "The Wedding Ring."

Before joining the ASF family, he was a playwright resident and public relations manager at Michigan's Meadow Brook Theatre.

He also was chief operating officer and marketing director for Detroit's historic Music Hall, where he worked with such performers as Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole, Dionne Warwick, Burt Bacharach and Smokey Robinson. While on the Music Hall staff, Vigilant also served as chief operating officer and marketing director for the Detroit International Jazz Festival, North America's largest free jazz event.

A big sports fan, Vigilant loves football and was fully aware of Bryant and his accomplishments. And like Bryant, Vigilant has wrestled a bear. A real bear. Bryant was about 14-years-old when he agreed to wrestle a bear for $1. He earned the dollar, but the bear and its owner left town before paying up. Vigilant was a junior in college when he wrestled Victor the 640-pound bear to raise money for charity.

This experience is one of the reasons Nancy Rominger, ASF's associate director, thought Vigilant would do a great job on the play about Bryant.

"When you look at an idea for a commission, you want a playwright who can do it with honesty and treat the subject with respect," she said.

Several months ago, during a table reading of "Bear Country," Rominger said it received positive reactions. On Friday, she will have an opportunity to see what Vigilant has done since then, and she's really looking forward to that.

But few people are as eager to see "Bear Country" than Young J. Boozer III, ASF's board chairman. Bryant was his honorary godfather and his daughter's godfather. Bryant and Boozer's father, the late Young Boozer Jr., formed a close and lasting friendship when they were roommates and teammates at the University of Alabama.

Boozer admits he was taken aback when he first heard of the commission and said, "You're taking on quite a task."

Being so close to Bryant and his family, Boozer was more than willing to help Vigilant gather information, provide some perspective and connect him with players and other people who would have intimate knowledge of Bryant.

"He (Vigilant) can't afford to get it wrong. There are too many people who knew him and about his life," Boozer said. "But Mike is a great writer and has just the right feel. I have no doubt that when he finishes, it will be right."



Memories of Maine~

To get to Boothbay Harbor, you'll go through Freeport. You'll probably check out L.L. Bean but the Delorme Map Company between Yarmouth & Freeport is the best & you can buy a Maine Gazateer.

Next on the road is beautiful Brunswick with it's old factories on the river & Bowdoin College. I attended the '87 Bowdoin Polar Bear- Tufts Jumbos football game. Ivy League games are different. Bowdoin also has Admiral Byrd's North Pole Expedition museum.

Bath is a big shipbuilding town in competition with Pascagoula. Lots of working men's barrooms.
Wiscasset is old and falling down. In Maine they call it "quaint". They used to have some old wooden schooners wrecked up on the beach. They've probably rotted now.

I remember the great bars out on the docks at Boothbay Harbor. They also have these little short bowling alleys where you use a small ball instead of a regular bowling ball.

The next day you'll pass through beautiful Damariscotta. Take time to ride the streets here.

They tore the Maine State Prison in Thomaston down in 2002 so you'll miss it but it was one monster of a prison. They still have a prison gift shop in downtown Thomaston.

There's not much to Rockland and Rockport but Camden is a gem. Go to the top of the mountain there & you'll see the entire harbor. Heavenly! The movie Peyton Place was filmed there.

The detour that's worth it is between Camden & Bar Harbor. Just past Bucksport you turn south toward Castine then head east from Castine to Blue Hill then take the Ellsworth road out of Blue Hill to get back on the Atlantic Highway to get to Ellsworth & Bar Harbor.

Drive all over Mt. Desert Island. After you find your room, drive up to the top of Cadillac Mountain. (named after the same Cadillac who served as Governor of Louisiana when Dauphin Island, Alabama was the capitol of the colony!)

You can take a ferry out to the Cranberry Islands in Northeast Harbor, then drive around Somes Sound ( one of America's only fjords) to Southwest Harbor. Big yacht factory in Manset then lots of rocks and the Atlantic. Eat lobster at Beal's in Southwest Harbor!!!! http://www.bealslobster.com/

Thursday, May 15, 2008


Furtrader,

I can close my eyes and see thousands(yes,thousands)of bedding
shellcracker in the Ray's Lake,Lewis Lake,Fishpond Drain area
on Lake
Seminole.

Bud



WILBUR WALTON JR. & JIMMY DEAN



Hey y'all~

I realize I'm preaching to the choir but
BROTHERS & SISTERS,
I gotta preach today!

Tonight I googled my screen name "robertoreg" & got 461 hits.
They were ALL good hits.
No identity theft & postings by imposter "robertoreg"s on the Tuscaloosa News forum pages.

My screen name's google had been scrubbed.

MUCHAS! TUSCALOOSA NEWS!

aNYwayzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

Wilbur's CD is dah bomb!

You could make a damn CHRISTIAN movie out of JOHNNY!

LONELY SONG is dedicated to those who've had their heart stomped:

TEARS TURNING INTO WORDS
MELODIES THAT CAN BE HEARD

MR. REDBUD
is a parody of
JOHN LAW SUPREME!!!!

MR REDBUD

IT SEEMS YOU'RE SO MISUNDERSTOOD

A PASSPORT IS ALL YOU NEED

BUT UNTIL THEN I’LL GET BY

AH MR.REDBUD I NEED YOUR SMILE

I’D LIKE TO SEE YOU IN A SHORT WHILE

& LAST BUT NOT LEAST

YOU'LL SMILE AGAIN
Inspirational music courtesy of Wilbur Walton Jr.

The Years and the Wine

Sure took their toll

The Feet that were once steady

Now aren’t so Bold

Old Maps are eyes

that show where you’ve been

I still get the Feelin'

That You’ll Smile Again

YOU’LL SMILE AGAIN

YOUR DREAMS CAN COME TRUE

best,

rr http://snakedoctor.blogspot.com

http://cottonkingdom.blogspot.com



Wilbur On Stage @ COWBOYS


WILBUR WALTON JR. & THE STRANGE GANG
take the stage!!!!!
{David Adkins, Larry Coe, Buddy Burke, Frank Tanton, Jimmy Dean, WILBUR}

See Wilbur's April 13 performance of "Georgia Pines" @ THE NORMAN ANDREWS MEMORIAL JAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YpVtW4cKvo


Johnny

Wilbur Walton Jr.

Southern Americana Tunes BMI

A Dream

Good and Evil Dream

A Dream

A Race

Johnny had a Race… A race

Johnny at his best… Hey hey hey

Johnny at his best… Hey hey hey

is still lacking

is still lacking

A Vapor

Vanishing Vapor… A Vapor

A Trip

Johnny on a Trip….A Trip

Johnny at his worst …. Hey Hey Hey

except for just one thing

Johnny at his worst …. Hey Hey Hey

Can still be saved

Can still be saved

A light

one way light….a Light

A Hope

Johnny got Hope…. A hope

Johnny at his best…..Hey Hey Hey

Johnny at his worst …. Hey Hey Hey

EXCEPT FOR JUST ONE THING

Can still be saved

Can still be saved

Johnny at his best..Johnny at his worst


LONELY SONG

Howard Martin, Wilbur Walton Jr.

Southern Americana Tunes BMI

LONELY SONGS AREN’T HARD TO SING IF YOU’VE LIVED THEM

IT’S EASY TO SPOT A BROKEN HEART IF YOU’VE HAD ONE

NIGHT TIME CRIERS DAYTIME SMILERS

THEY’RE USUALLY THE SAME

YOU CAN’T HIDE I SEE BEHIND YOUR EYES

I FEEL THE PAIN

LONELY SONGS STRAIGHT FROM THIS HEART OF MINE

LONELY SONGS OVERFLOWING MY MIND

TEARS TURNING INTO WORDS MELODIES THAT CAN BE HEARD

IT’S SUCH A LONELY LONELY SONG

DRAWN SHADES CLOSED DOORS ARE FRIGHTENING THINGS

FRIENDS WILL LEAVE YOU STANDING IN THE COLD AND POURING RAIN

ROAD BLOCKS STOPPED CLOCKS SEEM TO SUDDENLY APPEAR

DREAMS YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD WITHIN YOUR GRASP ARE SUDDENLY NOT SO NEAR

LONELY SONGS STRAIGHT FROM THIS HEART OF MINE

LONELY SONGS OVERFLOWING MY MIND

TEARS TURNING INTO WORDS MELODIES THAT CAN BE HEARD

IT’S SUCH A LONELY LONELY SONG

LONELY SONGS STRAIGHT FROM THIS HEART OF MINE

LONELY SONGS OVERFLOWING MY MIND

TEARS TURNING INTO WORDS MELODIES THAT CAN BE HEARD

IT’S SUCH A LONELY LONELY SONG


MR. REDBUD

Howard Martin, Wilbur Walton Jr.

Southern Americana Tunes BMI

MR. REDBUD

IT’S BEEN SO LONG SINCE I’VE SEEN YOU

I THINK PERHAPS YOU’RE NOT COMING

OR HAVE BEEN DETAINED AT THE COAST

AS FOR ME THINGS ARE GOING QUITE SMOOTH

THERE ARE OTHER FIELDS YOU KNOW

I'VE GOT A FRIEND ON AN ISLAND

AH MR REDBUD

I NEED YOUR SMILE

I’D LIKE TO SEE YOU

IN A SHORT WHILE

MR REDBUD

IT SEEMS YOUR SO MISUNDERSTOOD

A PASSPORT IS ALL YOU NEED

BUT UNTIL THEN I’LL GET BY

AH MR.REDBUD I NEED YOUR SMILE

I’D LIKE TO SEE YOU IN A SHORT WHILE


YOU'LL SMILE AGAIN

Wilbur Walton Jr.

Southern Americana Tunes BMI

The Years and the Wine

Sure took their toll

The Feet that were once steady

Now aren’t so Bold

Old Maps are eyes

that show where you’ve been

I still get the Feelin'

That You’ll Smile Again

YOU’LL SMILE AGAIN

YOUR DREAMS CAN COME TRUE

All of the Hard Times

They’ve been a School for you

YOU’LL SMILE AGAIN

WITH HOPE IN YOUR HEART

YOU’LL SMILE AGAIN BELIEVE ME MY FRIEND

YOU’LL SMILE AGAIN

I know there have been Heartaches

Disappointments on a roll

Handouts from Strangers

Sleepless nights in the cold

There’re Hills

There’re Valleys

It’s a Valley you’re in

I Still get the Feeling

You’ll Smile Again

YOU’LL SMILE AGAIN

YOUR DREAMS CAN COME TRUE

All of the Hard Times

They’ve been a School for you

YOU’LL SMILE AGAIN

WITH HOPE IN YOUR HEART

YOU’LL SMILE AGAIN BELIEVE ME MY FRIEND

YOU’LL SMILE AGAIN

WILBUR WALTON JR

Click on the link below to purchase Wilbur's first recording in 35 years
http://playgroundrecordingstudio.com/_wsn/page2.html
(sometimes this page has trouble loading.
In that case, go to http://playgroundrecordingstudio.com
& click on "PRODUCTS" icon)

Or click below to download Wilbur's four new tunes
http://www.digstation.com/AlbumDetails.aspx?albumID=ALB000018284




all three images courtesy of http://myspace.com/playgroundrecordingstudio

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Hey y'all~

We all need to get up to the starting block,
TAKE A STANCE
and be ready to run for Wilbur Thursday when his CD is released.

I need information so shoot it to me.


I was looking at the cover art for the Waco Ramblers CD &

image courtesy of http://www.myspace.com/playgroundrecordingstudio
got wired & inspired to draw a map from my memory like the one on their cover.

image courtesy of http://playgroundrecordingstudio.com/


I am determined to draw a map of Fish Pond Drain & Ray's Lake from my imagination.
(I have not been to either body of water since '68 AEA holidays. I will compare my mental map to the actual & post soon. I challenge you to do the same with some of your own
PLACES IN THE HEART OF A DOTHAN TIGER.)

WHOA!
QUIT BEATING A DEAD MULE.
THE CARTEL SHOWL AIN'T GONNA LIKE DIS!!!!

You ain't gonna believe this.
You know you heard about those people with webcams
who get johns over the internet.
Well the johns, the suckers,
just happened to COPY all the webcam garbage these whores made them pay for.
Now the johns & the porno peddlers have formed a porn YouTube.
ABSOLUTELY BEYOND THE BIZARRE & ALL FOR FREE!!!!
I think I've already learned how to speak Dutch or whatever that language is.
When them gals kick off them wooden shoes they speak some kinda universal language.
ELLA ES LA REINA DE LA CAMA!!!!

best,
rr

Hodges James to me
show details 1:53 PM (13 hours ago)
Reply


My Daddy took my sisters and me to Sears in 1959 or
1960 and gave us $2.00 each to buy some records for
our first "Hi-Fi"

I think my younger sister bought "Purple People Eater"


My older sister bought some Elvis 45's for about 29
cents each including the best Elvis song ever: "My
Baby Left Me"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_9KfH48rVdU

I bought an Everly Brothers album for $1.69: Cathy's
Clown/All I Have To Do Is Dream/Let It Be Me/Bye Bye
Love/Wake Up, Little Susie/When Will I Be Loved.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=juby0KtA88Q

1957: Everly Brothers "Bye Bye Love"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vFoIdxLBm_A&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YKn6h2x5IcY&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kooAgqCHGvU&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tb-4cmjTA1s&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RjLQdY4bktc&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oYjLFzTn2jo&feature=related

1965: Everly Brothers in a medley of songs with Gerry
& Pacemakers:

Monday, May 12, 2008

Subject: HEY THERE!!!

BAD DOG AND RIC, WILL YOU HEATHERNS PLEASE GIVE ALISON SOME SHOUTOUTS FOR THIS WEEK? ALISON HEAFNER AND BAND ...


http://www.myspace.com/alisonheafner
BATESVILLE,MS SPRINGFEST.ON THE SQUARE, BATESVILLE.FRIDAY MAY 16TH @ 6:00P.M. OSCEOLA, ARKANSAS MAIN STREET ROCK FESTIVAL.....OSCEOLA..SATURDAY MAY 17TH @ 7:15 P.M. WITH KENTUCKY HEADHUNTERS!!! YA'LL COME ON DOWN AND LET'S ROCK!!! YOU GUYS DESERVE A BREAK!!!!
THANKS, ROBERT NIX..........................


EL NIXO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've got it circled on my calender but I can't go.
I got other priorities.
Ya know po' folks got po' folks ways.
Sorry.

break a leg!

best,
rr

JT~


Today I got the newspaper section about the debut of the play in the mail.
Excellent!

A one of a kind, heirloom quality collector's item!


Muchas mi amigo!

best,
rr

To: Jim Tiger
Subject: Fw: "Sometimes a Great Notion" --Another memory stirred

Jim

Thanks for letting me know I'm now circulating from Tuscaloosa(!).
Here's word from another Kesey fan/pal.
Thanks for Catherine Cromer. She was swell.
You guys can also be famous with just a little effort.
Thanks again,

Ted


Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:30 AM
Subject: "Sometimes a Great Notion"


Mr. Mahar,
enjoyed your reminisces of the set for above title.
Recall
seeing the house across the river for a year or so, then gone. Looked
like
it belonged there. Your article goes in my folder for the title.

I have an excellent British 16mm scope print, tho with British title
"Never
Give an Inch". Screened it in January, preceeded by "Timber!", a 1960 TV
pilot shot in Cottage Grove area with Slim Pickens doing his own stunts
and
introduced by Billie Reynolds, wife of producer Wm. "Red" Reynolds (The
Chartroose Caboose).

Attended Springfield High School with Ken Kesey, an accomplished thespian
and vigorous football player. His father made novelty ice creams for
Darigold in Eugene, with red valentine core the length of vanilla brick
for
Valentine's day, a red axe for Washington's birthday, a green shamrock,
etc--owned his own molds as I recall.

Hope for more of your reminisces.

Gary

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_M

Pentium M DOTHAN

Dothan

Pentium M 730 core Dothan backside
Pentium M 730 core Dothan backside

Intel launched its improved Pentium M, formerly known as Dothan, named after another ancient town in Israel, on May 10, 2004. Dothan Pentium M processors (product code 80536) are among the first Intel processors to be identified using a "processor number" rather than a clockspeed rating, and the mainstream versions are known as Pentium M 710 (1.4 GHz), 715 (1.5 GHz), 725 (1.6 GHz), 735 (1.7 GHz), 740 (1.73 GHz), 745 (1.8 GHz), 750 (1.86 GHz), 755 (2.0 GHz), and 765 (2.1 GHz). The processor supports neither hyperthreading nor SSE3.

These 700 series Pentium M processors retain the same basic design as the original Pentium M, but are manufactured on a 90 nm process, with twice the secondary cache. Die size, at 84 mm², remains in the same neighborhood as the original Pentium M, even though the 700 series contains approximately 140 million transistors, most of which make up the 2 MiB cache. TDP is also down to 21 watts (from 24.5 watts in Banias), though power use at lower clockspeeds has increased slightly. However, tests conducted by third party hardware review sites show that Banias and Dothan equipped notebooks have roughly equivalent battery life.[citation needed] Additionally third party hardware review sites have benchmarked the Dothan at approx 10-20% better performance than the Banias in most situations.

The processor line has models running at clock speeds from 1.0 GHz to 2.26 GHz as of July 2005. The models with lower frequencies were either low voltage or ultra-low voltage CPUs designed for even better battery life and reduced heat output. The 718 (1.3 GHz), 738 (1.4 GHz), and 758 (1.5 GHz) models are low-voltage (1.116 V) with a TDP of 10 W, while the 723 (1.0 GHz), 733 (1.1 GHz), and 753 (1.2 GHz) models are ultra-low voltage (0.940 V) with a TDP of 5 W.

Revisions of the Dothan core were released in the first quarter of 2005 with the Sonoma chipsets and supported a 533 MT/s FSB and XD (Intel's name for the NX bit) (and the PAE support required for it was enabled, unlike earlier Pentium Ms that had it disabled). These processors include the 730 (1.6 GHz), 740 (1.73 GHz), 750 (1.86 GHz), 760 (2.0 GHz) and 770 (2.13 GHz). These models all have a TDP of 27 W and a 2 MiB L2 cache.

In July 2005, Intel released the 780 (2.26 GHz) and the low-voltage 778 (1.60 GHz).

The CPUID signature for a Dothan is 0x6DX.

This processor is still commercially offered, for example in the current version 701 of the Asus Eee PC subnotebook.


image courtesy of http://tommydevine.blogspot.com/2008/04/happy-420.html


image courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road

From http://www.believermag.com/issues/200803/?read=article_klosterman

A shot from Duel (1971)
A shot from Duel (1971)

“Going from point A to point B is kind of the obvious criteria here.” This is Gus Van Sant, talking via telephone. He is speaking very cautiously; the questions I’ve asked him are so vague and abstract that I think he suspects I’m trying to trick him into saying something he doesn’t believe. “In a movie like Gerry, the characters are looking for a road, which really isn’t the same thing as a Road Movie. All of this probably comes from our own history—wagon trains and literal trains and exploring the West. But by the time we got to the 1960s, it didn’t really matter which direction you were going. Ken Kesey had business on the East Coast, so that required a reversal.”

The reason I am interviewing Van Sant is two-pronged, although it appears neither of my prongs are particularly sharp. The first reason is that I was under the impression that he’s agreed to direct an upcoming version of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe’s nonfiction account of the aforementioned Kesey’s LSD-fueled 1964 bus trip across the United States. As it turns out, Van Sant has yet to officially sign on to this project (he said he was still in the midst of negotiating the deal and writing the script). My second reason for calling is that I closely associate Van Sant with the Road Movie genre, which (in retrospect) is totally specious. A lot of his films are Road Movies in my memory, but they weren’t when I re-watched them. As Van Sant noted, Gerry doesn’t have a road. My Own Private Idaho starts on a highway and ends in Rome (where all roads are said to lead), but everything in the middle seems detached from movement. In Drugstore Cowboy (1989), the characters stay in motion and actively take a road trip, but it’s still not a Road Movie.

That said, there is something about Van Sant’s work that (perhaps inadvertently) inhabits the relationship between travel and life experience. His interest in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is not surprising: besides holding a career-long cinematic interest in drug use, Van Sant claims to have crossed the country by car at least twenty times in his life and still drives from his home in Oregon to Los Angeles on a regular basis.

“I don’t know if I’ve ever shot a physical landscape through the window of a moving car, but I’ve always thought the idea of road stories on film was the central metaphor of a beginning, a middle, and an end,” he says, slightly challenging Salles’s notion that Road Movies don’t operate like traditional three-act plays. “The trip creates a natural progression through the middle of a film. I think a story like On the Road, for example, will actually be more effective as a film than as a book. Going from point A to point B is not what really holds a novel together. But movement can hold a movie together.”

In the hopes of finding clarity, I ask Van Sant what he thinks a Road Movie is. Somewhat predictably, his response makes things more confusing (and also seems to contradict something he already said about one of his own films).

“Well, if Duel isn’t a road movie, then such a thing as Road Movies doesn’t exist,” he says. “But does there even have to be a road at all? Is 2001: A Space Odyssey a road movie? I think that you could argue that it was.”

Monday, July 04, 2005


http://skypilotclub.com
LET FREEDOM RING

This morning I pulled into the parking lot
Of my ancient office inside Archie's Whorehouse


And saw a dust devil swirling around a smashed ICEE cup
Right in the center of my space.
I took it as an omen,
Like the time a painted bunting

http://www.birdsofoklahoma.net/Paintedbunting.htm
perched right next to my head
When I was blue
And looked me in eye like God.
I thought about tomorrow,
July The Fourth.
Yes, the sun will come up tomorrow,
Jesus will roll away the stone
And if he sees his shadow tomorrow morning,
We'll have six more weeks of summer!
Let's shoot off some firecrackers for Jesus!
Let's do some fireworks to uphold the Kingdom of God
Or maybe even just to destroy it.
And I...
then I thought about those 4 original heads.

http://skypilotclub.com
Each one from my Daddy's generation,
Not a draftee in the bunch.
The original dropouts
Who discovered that there was a little organized crime
In every organization.
And I thought about my Daddy,
Working his ass off on top of a mountain of bennies,
And I thought about Kesey

http://key-z.com
and Grogan

http://increvablesanarchistes.org/
[that's grogan on the left]
playing imaginary football
As they ran down Haight Street,
And as soon as I got out of my truck
I looked up into the clouds of my Alabama SKY
And thanked the Good Lord for all the times
He let me get high with some nooky.
Then I knew it was time to go to work.
Ain't love grand?!!!!!
Is this not a great country or what?!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- Robert Register

KPS~

A rilly kewl feature of Turtle Lake is access to the bayou.

Now I haven't been down there in 20 years so I don't know what the fuck I'm talkin' 'bout.

Anywayzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

Back in the day, you could put like a 14 foot john boat with a small outboard in there and go all the way out into the bay from the apartments.

You came out there where Allen's Seafood used to be.

It was so nice to be able to get out on some water from there.

You go out into the channel or cross over & have a drink at the Marina.

You could go hang out at the FSU amphitheatre that's on the shore or the park down by the jr. college or you could go under the bridge out to Pelican Island and hang a left & go over & check out the barracuda in the eel grass over by your place.

I'd love to hear that Turtle Lake is still a kewl place.

best,
rr