Mama Cass Elliott with THE CANDYMEN @ Steve Paul's THE SCENE in NYC.
counterclockwise left to right (I'm guessin') Ole Ox, Nixo, Justo, Gilmore, John Rainey, Mama Cass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXSyFofyV2c&feature=fvwrel

BREAKING NEWS! A brand new, revitalized ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION will be taking the stage @ venues across the country THIS SUMMER. Original ARS vocalist, Rodney Justo, & original ARS bassist, Paul Goddard, have rejoined the group so now this beloved band will be performing with three original members counting keyboardist Dean Daughtry as they promote their new album, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT. http://www.amazon.com/All-Respect-Atlanta-Rhythm-Section/dp/B004V7XWDA

from the ZERO, NORTHWEST FLORIDA archives~Sunday, July 23, 2006
http://robertoreg.blogspot.com/2006_07_23_archive.html
Hey y'all:
My seventeen year old son, Christopher, just got back from an 11 day, 60 mile hike in the Sangre de Christo Mountains of New Mexico. When he returned to his base camp at Philmont Scout Ranch near Cimarron, N.M. this week, he had received a postcard from his scoutmaster here in Tuscaloosa. Unfortunately, Christopher's scoutmaster had to be hospitalized with altitude sickness at Philmont so he missed completing the expedition which included a hike to the summit of Mt. Phillips - elevation 12, 417 feet.


The postcard informed Christopher that he was the only known member of his troop to have ever completed "The Triple Crown of High Adventure Scouting". His scoutmaster went on to say that he knew of no other scout in the entire history of The Black Warrior Council to have completed the voyage at the Bahamas Sea Base,


http://www.bsaseabase.org/adventure/bahamats.html

the Boundary Waters Canoe Expedition on the Ontario/Minnesota Border


http://vnorth.com/

http://adventure.oa-bsa.org/index.php?p=voyage

and the Philmont Scout Ranch expedition.

The Tooth of Time at Philmont
http://www.scouting.org/philmont/index.html

Obviously, my son has been very fortunate to have experienced all of these adventures before entering his Senior Year in high school.

I don't want to express too much of my pride and joy to Christopher because,being a teenager, he will most certainly use any of my compliments in order to gather more than enough rope to hang himself, however, I just had to brag to y'all a little about my boy.

Not only did he complete the Philmont Expedition this week but this summer he got a job in a welding shop, completed his short certificate professional welding license and next week he will represent Aracoma Lodge as Vice-Chief at the National Order of the Arrow Conference at Michigan State University in East Lansing. This meeting will also include a reunion of Christopher's crew who completed the Boundary Waters expedition last summer.

Christopher also works for Pake Realty like he did today so he's been a busy boy this summer.

I got some interesting information about my job this week. A guy at Alabama Power went into shock when he saw all the FYIs attached to our file at the power company. He said in all his years at the power company, he had never seen so much criminal activity associated with one company's power meters. We've got FYI's that describe everything from "Mutilated pit bulldog shot dead beside meter pole" to "tenants threatened to shoot me when I came to disconnect the meter" and then the usual "third meter stolen from box within the last week."
Hey, EVER day HIGH ADVENTURE at Pake Realty!
best,
r

On Oct. 26, 2004, I sent this email to Hunter S. Thompson & he damn sho' got it!
Mr.Hunter S.

This is your invitation from me, Robert Register, to come down home and start talking your trash.

.

Please come down home and hang out with me and my friends in the bars,lumberyards, hardware, plumbing and electrical supply stores of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and the panhandle of Florida.

You'll have fun down home.

We'll make EASY RIDER look like a circle jerk!

Bring your Hell's Angel's buddies with ya and see what they git!

We deal with tough guys like you every day,Mr. Hunter S., and everyday we send them off to Colorado and Oregon and other Yankee Hell Holes where we have deposited our human refuse for the past 90 yrs.


best,
Robert Register

MUST PUT A WARNING ON THIS!!!!
My ABSOLUTELY BEST CRITICS have told me I lose people with dirty words and cussing.
If you among the OFFENDED,
don't go beyond this point.

Here's the email I sent Hunter S. Thompson on October 26, 2004.\
He killed himself four months later.

If That's Your Idea Of IDEAS, HIDE AND WATCH!

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From:	robert register ... Add to Contacts
To:	capn@skypilotclub.com

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CAPN:

Please send this email to your buddy, Hunter S.

Mr.Hunter S.

This is your invitation from me, Robert Register, to come down home and start talking your trash.

.

Please come down home and hang out with me and my friends in the bars,lumberyards, hardware, plumbing and electrical supply stores of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and the panhandle of Florida.

You'll have fun down home.

We'll make EASY RIDER look like a circle jerk!

Bring your Hell's Angel's buddies with ya and see what they git!

We deal with tough guys like you every day,Mr. Hunter S., and everyday we send them off to Colorado and Oregon and other Yankee Hell Holes where we have deposited our human refuse for the past 90 yrs.Check out Compton, California- that's one of Auburn's experimental farms[ if they don't end up in our penitentiary or somewhere else. You need to notice that we are very successful about that shit.]

And we gonna send some more out tomorrow and we'll do the same damn thang the day after tomorrow and a week from tomorrow. We don't give a rat's ass about a bunch of stupid, guilt-ridden Yankees.

And if you disagree with that, show up on our front porch and we'll give you a fuckin' education you ain't 'bout to ever forget.

Ever wonder why shitheads like you don't live around us.

They can't and if they ever did,they'd have sense enough to keep their fuckin' mouth shut.

Please come have fun in the Deep South with us, Mr. Hunter S. and,remember, we know where the damn muddy bottom of the river is.

I DON'T GIVE A SHIT WHAT HAPPENS ON TUESDAY, THIS IS THE STATE OF ALABAMA!

best,

r

Johnny Mack learned his lessons @ DHS. Since his Mama was a McGillivrey it were nuttin' but NATCHULL to name his son, Lachlan, same as the old patriarch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_McGillivray

A wonderful response from Whitney:
When I was in college I worked at the Tuscaloosa Credit Bureau across 27th. Ave. from this house, and I would usually park on the street beside it. Mrs. Jennie Maxwell Richardson lived in it, and she would often be out working in the yard, and loved to talk.

She was a 1910 graduate of the University, and said that she walked or rode the trolley to campus. Said there was a bridge across a gully on U. Blvd. at the time, possibly on the other side of Pinehurst. That gully was filled S. of the blvd. and Audubon Pl. was built on it.

She told me that she christened one of the locks with a bottle of champagne when she was 6, which would have been about 1898. She had a life-sized oil portrait of her 5 beautiful daughters in the foyer of the house.

I suspect she is the young women in the rocker on the left. Would one of those boys be Fred Maxwell, the engineer?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhcflDSUMvc


Gonna do my best to make it to the show tonight @ The Green Bar.
This old mansion sits catty cornered from our block. It was one of the first big houses to be built in Tuscaloosa after The Civil War. It was constructed in 1901 so it took a long time for anyone to accumulate wealth after the devastation of 1865. The Maxwells probably made a mint during the construction of Locks #1, #2 and #3 during the 1890s. Today you can see this old house from our office's back yard and it's just been repainted. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGdWjc5aiT0

image courtesy of Dick Coffee's TUSCALOOSA DOIN'S, Spring Issue 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzZHmHqEE7k

In 2006, Gelly mailed me an autographed copy of Wayne Greenhaw's MY HEART IS IN THE EARTH: True Stories of Alabama and Mexico. That book really warmed my heart because it included Greenhaw's reminiscences of Kerouac, Cassady & Ginzberg in San Miguel de Allende. Wayne Greenhaw passed away today @ UAB from complications from heart surgery. He was 71.
http://www.waynegreenhaw.com/index.php?page_id=259


Seeking information about WATTS & WASHINGTON BLACKSMITH SHOP formerly located @ 811 23rd Avenue. According to the '57 Tuscaloosa City Directory, that address was occupied by Mitchell's Awning & Shade Co. along with Albert P. Lee (A.P. Lee) Real Estate. Now that block is a law office on the north corner & the Regions Bank parking lot on the south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGdWjc5aiT0


I been meaning to finish this story about the letter to Queen from Tuscaloosa, Ala dated July 17, 1939.

This letter was written on WATTS & WASHINGTON BLACKSMITH SHOP stationary but
The BIG REASON this letter is SO important is because it contains a list of 11 dirty jokes(plus one I added which makes an even dozen) that were popular in the Tuskeeloossee Ghetto in '39.

So here we go~

I ) Isn't it a blessing,
A woman can shit without undressing.
Poor men, you, Son of a Bitches,
If you don't undress,
YOU'LL SHIT IN YOUR BRITCHES!

II ) Here's to the honorable Son of a Bitch!
His nuts rots off with the 7 year itch.
His dick hangs down like a 10 lb. hammer
Until his GOT DAM ass sings
THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER!

III )I don't give a FUCK if I never FUCK!
I don't give a FUCK if I do
Cause I'll give a FUCK and I'll take a FUCK
Cause I like FUCKING,
Don't you?

IV ) There was a woman from Savannah.
She FUCK herself with a BANANNA.
The BANANNA broke & she got choke.
I hope it kill her, GOT DAM HO!

V )Anybody know COCK worth $31.00.
It worth $10 to hang like it does without falling off.
It worth $10 to stretch like it does without bursting.
It worth $10 to smell like it does without spoiling.
& anybody know it got a $1.00 worth of hair!
(O.K. I just so happen to know the alternative version of that joke:
Anybody know PUSSY worth $3.00.
It worth a dollar cause you can feed it & it don't shit.
It worth a dollar cause it smell but it don't rot.
& it worth a dollar cause IT BLEED BUT IT DON'T DIE! )

VI ) Tall grows the willow.
Green grows the grass.
The better you treat a Son of a Bitch,
The more he shows his ass!

VII ) Your ass is like a church house.
Your dick is like a steeple.
Your nuts hang down like charming bells
& THE CRABS walk in like people.

VIII ) Birds do it and fly.
Dogs do it and die.
Now why can't you and I?

IX ) Pussy ain't nothing but a damn trick.
Can't nothing stand it but a dam dick.
Dick can't stand it but a few damn licks
Before it be puking like a Son of a Bitch!

X ) There was a little "ninja" (ed. note)
I asked her to let me FRIG her.
She said, "I will, won't til I get a little bigger."
She got a little bigger and I sure did frig her and
Nine months time, she had a little "ninja". (ed. note)

XI ) There was a little cracker.
I asked her to let me jack her.
She said, " I will if you give me a chew tobacco."
I gave her a chew tobacco and certainly did jack her
And nine months time she had a little cracker.

Hey y'all~

My boss' Dad owned a cafe in Montgomery during the thirties. He was one of the main advertisers for THIS WEEK'S NEWS. This little sheet is filled with classic gossip, jokes & philosophy but I think this parody of THE TWENTY THIRD PSALM is the best:

"The politician is my shepherd. I shall not want for anything during this campaign. He leadeth me into the drug store for his vote's sake. He filleth my pocket with cheap cigars; my flask runneth over. He inquireth concerning my family, even unto the fourth generation."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OixqPThDNE

" Yea, though I walk through the mud and rain to vote for him and shout myself hoarse when he is elected, straightway he forgetteth me. Although I meet him at his own house, he knoweth me not. Surely the wool has been pulled over my eyes all the days of my life and I shall dwell in THE HOUSE OF THE CHUMP FOREVER."


image courtesy of the '42 GARGOYLE ~ Johnny Mack Brown (DHS Class of '22) visits the new Dothan High School. The lady on the left is Miss Louise Pelham, Science teacher & librarian (B.S., University of Alabama; M.A., Teachers College, Columbia) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7_ceG90E_s&feature=related



The film we saw @ Dogwood Lodge Saturday night is part of an Alex Cooley project called TIME HAS COME TODAY . Performances from the film may viewed at Cooley's website.
http://www.alexcooley.com/fest-atlpop2.html


http://oz.wikia.com/wiki/The_Uplifters

Howard, Rogers, Lombard,Tracy & Johnny Mack Brown @ Uplifters Polo Field in Pacific Palisades, May 21, 1934. This was the location of The Lofty & Exalted Order of Uplifters' (1909-1947) clubhouse which was built as a high class drinking club in 1923. As it's holdings were being subdivided the organization deeded its clubhouse to the City of L.A. so it's preserved today as Rustic Canyon Recreation Center.
http://www.travelinlocal.com/uplifters-clubhouse-in-the-pacific-palisades/




The Winning Team @ the Uplifters Polo Fields in Santa Monica, May 21, 1934.
The Screen Actors Team (l. to r. : Leslie Howard, Will Rogers, Carole Lombard, Spencer Tracy, Johnny Mack Brown) beat The Producers Team 9 to 3. Carole Lombard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Lombard presented the trophies to the victors. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vefEXXnVVf4

image courtesy of the '42 Gargoyle, Johnny Mack Brown (DHS Class of '22) & his brother, David Brown (DHS Class of '42) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHIqwQcnoeA&feature=related