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THE GREAT GOOD HUMOR WAR
I swear I’ve written this several times but since I can’t
find it anywhere, here goes again, describing one of my favorite scenarios of
my lifetime.
My first wife, Joyce, and I bought a small prefabricated
house in 1960 that some early entrepreneur had dismantled and moved several of them to a hillside subdivision
in Laguna Beach, CA after they were
utilized for housing during the 1933 Olympics in Los Angeles. Of course, it was
cheap, or we wouldn’t have been able to afford it ($11,000). Since the land was
cheap, it was due to being some pretty
steep hillsides, and the roads wound around several times before it finally
arrived at our house. I spent a lot of effort building an addition
to the house as we were expecting a baby before too long. However, as the old
adage says, ”There are always mosquitos in Paradise”. This particular bug was in the guise of a “GOOD
HUMOR” man, the one that had a glockenspiel on a loudspeaker on his little
truck playing some inane tune over &
over again. We finally had to stop him and ask if he could maybe turn the noise
down a bit as was driving us totally
crazy. Unfortunately, our plea fell on deaf ears and the mayhem continued.
As I was building
quite a bit I had purchased an old but solid International pick-up truck that
was built like a tank and very substantial.
Therefore, one hot afternoon, we parked the pickup on the road,
utterly blocking it for blocks as it was
a very narrow road. This stymied the Ice Cream man and he knocked on our door and asked us to move out truck so he could get by. NO FUCKING
WAY! Was my wife’s answer, so that got
us to an impasse. It didn’t take long to
get from four letter words to Joyce getting her spray-can of Gold Paint
which she ornamented some huge ‘x’s over most of the one side of Mr. Ice Cream
man,s truck. Welll. That pretty much got the Local Police involved, who came up the
curvy road with sirens blaring (Although
that’s not as bad as the god-damned Good Humor Man.). The officers separated
all the combatants and I was convinced to park my truck so the Audio-Terrorist
could continue on his route echoing down the canyon walls.
This whole thing
resolved itself early on as Joyce and I got divorced after a whole year of
married
alternates of Bliss & Misery. I had to sell the house
and moved into my office in South Laguna, above my tool crib, a much more
tranquil arrangement.
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A well
done bio on Beethoven is the current movie COPYING BEETHOVEN. Ed Harris plays a pretty good Beethoven and
is supported by a cool looking babe, which may or may not be an actual
happening. But who cares, they do a great story with gusto.
VID ALERT #2
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HUNTING THE HIDDEN DIMENSION:NOVA.
Benoit Mandlebrot discovered the glorious imagery by mathematic about
when the Psychodelic revolution occurred.
You will be blown Away,
dude !!
Strangely, it when on to influence science, medicine and art.
TIME AND MOTION
1. We’ve all hear the notion that time is a relative
term and under certain conditions, it can slow down well below our normal
perceptions of it. Example; When I was younger and swashbuckling, I (being a
left-over from the Hot-Rod generation) customized my 1965 356 Porsche, de-chroming it + 20 coats of
hand rubbed lacquer, ( The first International Orange Porsche in the US.) Anyway, I took my girlfriend out for a spin
to see how fast it would go and was passing another car when time virtually
stopped for me. I watched in fascination as a 6” section of re-inforcing (steel) walked up my hood, bounced once then
imbedded itself half way thru my windshield, this all in slow motion. Fortunately I was wearing
sunglasses and immediately pulled to the side of the road. Even in those days,
windscreens were made of laminated glass, which doesn’t shatter apart but is
held together with a plastic membrane in the center laminate. I looked at my
friend, who was spitting out bits of glass that was the consistency of sand.
But I was so stunned , sitting there, looking at this piece of steel, imbedded
half-way thru the glass, directly in front of my face, I don’t remember any
glass in my mouth. However, at some point of this narrative, time began to flow
at it’s regular speed, again.
2. N.D.E. Another example of the inconsistency of time, is
whenever I read a short story of Near Death Experiences (NDE) The person about
to die (or should during this drama) describe a very long time wandering around
in the nether world, yet, when they get beck in their body, only a few minutes
have passed, because, as we all know, the mind cannot live long without blood
and breath, maybe but a few minutes?
3. Pot,
Canabis, Grass, Weed, Marijuana;
Let’s not forget that as we make the transition from alcohol
to pot, our driving habits may undergo some serious revisions. This again is
the result that when under the influence of drugs, whether it be pot , or
peyote, our recollection of time undergoes more major revisions. Where as
alcohol makes us gregarious and we drive faster that we should, pot has the
opposite effect on us and we drive slower than we think we are going. I
recently heard we were reducing the
speed limits to 15 mph due to our new impairments. (this may not be a true
statement, but one of my on-going fantasies).(Don’t quote me on this as it not
be true,)
4 There’s another
one, I’ll think of it soon.
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WHAT IF?
Have you noticed how our wars have gotten kind of weird
lately? We sure showed ‘em in Vietnam. Those dirty little commies thought they
could get away with a government of the people, like we do.(Well, at least a
government run by Lobbyists). I guess
they must all be really sorry they have to live under a commie government, although
of friend of mine has lived there for several years and says it works
fine. But that’s impossible right? My government ,(Or my Media) said so.
That brings up a
question of has anyone written books about our wars describing how it may have
turned out if we had lost the war (Or how about if we had won, like
Vietnam). What if Germany had won? What if the South had won our
Revolution? What if we had won in Iraq?
Did we ever declare war on them? Did we. I just heard about a story that Hitler won.
I’ll try to find it.
I found it ! It’s titled ‘The Man in the High Castle’. See next post.
These new wars against a sect of Muslims, fighting them in the streets & hills with huge aircraft
carrier and super sonic fighter planes.
At least Drones can get in closer than a high altitude bomber at 30,000
feet. Our politicians still don’t admit
to why we were in ‘nam or Iraq, but don’t we all know it’s the Oil?
Destroying expensive equipment (Humvees, helicopters, etc) so our Military/Industrial folks can keep up
their living style? Is that why we keep doing all this?
