...ever since...

 Was watching something on the big screen… my landlords big screen in the living room .. his living room. My Cabin is 'up the hill' from the ranch house but I come down to get the running water.. wash my dishes.. Yes running water what a blessing right under your own control.. just turn the knob. I am a huge fan of technology. Some technology that is.

 We humans ... so brilliant!  … or slightly that way. You get one or two bright bulbs and the rest of us just follow up, think we get it, just do our job. Maybe that's an unfair description but I was watching on the big screen this Saturday NIght briefly after washing my dishes… this documentary on Rajneesh…. Bhagwan! I have opinions…  prejudices.

 After two 1 hour episodes I couldn't bear to sit through the exciting conclusion… not that I couldn't handle it, ... the Oregon experiment. As I said to JP … I'm with the locals, the rednecks. Not that I couldn't notice that there was a certain … whoopie!

Joy in Free Love!! All so 60's even though it was the 80's….

 And coincidentally earlier today when I went to CMCM on my day off to try to work on still presenting the essence of Republican vs. Progressive which my two previous shows attempted to deal with…. prior to the Good Humus Farm tour which was quite shocking .. I kept the camera rolling through the mayhem…. though no bloody footage ..the immensity of a little dog getting attacked by rosebushes is horrible enough…. so far after a major announcement to all 590 friends on Facebook …. 4 people according to the counter have clicked on my movie.

  I am very used to this Rodney Dangerfield treatment in this incarnation. After all me and the Rajneesh with his 17 Rolls Royce's have a lot in common. Wait a minute. In common …. ??? ! … thousand of ludicrous acolytes… worshipping his very footsteps.

  Nobody worships my footsteps. Hallelujah there!

  Get to the point of this commentary …. OK.

  The point is this…. ever since Billy Hall ripped the record player's arm off my…. Woodstock the album …. Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner in all his majesty in the Hall family living room …. that I was so thrilled to share with my childhood best friend .. Dicky Hall… probably about the summer of 1971 (me 19 years old )…. maybe even the last time that me and Dicky ever saw each other.. I can't remember.

 Billy Hall.. the Dad of my best friend and Dad of dear friends to this day Cindy and Pammy… said '''get that GaDamn Caterwaulin! out of here" as he strode into the living room where me and Dicky were sitting and if I say ripped the the arm from the record player that would be a terrible exaggeration… yet I swear GaDamn and Caterwaulin' was in the sentence and he was steaming,anger --- hearing one second of Jimi Hendix explore the Star Spangled Banner in 1969, and it was probably 1971 then, and me with my scruffy 'Che Guevara wanna' be' beard and overalls …didn't make him any happier. The fact is that he did not ruin the record.. he could have ripped that needle right across the Warner Brothers grooves…. he had some control. sure Scared me though.. !

  So you got thousands of these happy free love acolytes in Oregon… wondering why the locals are such ' bigots' while dressed in reds and oranges.. Would someone have freaked out if you wore your faded Green T shirt….? People don't know what mind control is unless it is someone else who suffers from it….. All I got to say is Yukk!

 Home rule. Jefferson was our voice. Now the younger generation is dumping the Baby out with the Bath Water… 'Old white men… Horrible throw it all out!'  

 Ever since Billy Hall ripped the arm up and off ..Live from Woodstock 3 lp set … the Star Spangled Banner.. Jimi Hendrix. I knew that Billy Hall was speaking from his heart. I recognized that the older 'infrastructure' of the USA had it's place and had earned it's place.. like WW2 and the Korean War… who risked their lives for this country.. who gave their lives for this country? .. whether the Wars were necessary or not.

 .. ever since..

 I think about invading peoples and cultures. I think about HomeRule. … and I really don't want anyone to be any thing less than themselves and I do believe that the unfinished business of the 60's ... is the business of the 21st century.