Last night I went to Eugene’s first Friday Art Walk. I had planned to read from my novel ‘The Gideon Computer’ that I began in 1985 after I visited my childhood friend, Nancy Hamren, at the Springfield Creamery. We had talked about our hippie days in San Francisco, and Nancy suggested I write the history of the hippies because I could recall so much. A year later Berkeley Bill Bolagard was born, he the last of the hippies, and homeless in the future. I sprang forward a quarter of a century in order to reveal our fate. Bill has a date with destiny he soon to be captured by a giant computer that appears to be benevolent, but, is after the Artful Dodgers of the World, those rare souls who find a way out, an escape from shame-based societies. The Gideon Computer is capturing all the Magic in the world in a monstrous GUILT TRIP.
When I was seventeen, the movie ‘The Trail’ blew me away. I had recently done a painting titled ‘The Wall’. It shows a figure walking towards a group of four figures standing at the base of this dark brown wall. They can go no further. They are loitering. They are waiting for me, the lone artist to arrive, so I can experience their despair, their Dead End. This was inspired by our move to the Land of Lost Angels when I was sixteen. Bryan Maclean saw this painting. You have seen this arched door through this blog.
When I got downtown I saw the outline of a phantom figure drawn in chalk, like the police would draw around a corpse. I read these words inside the chalk line;
“UN-HOUSED PERSON”
I found two more phantom homeless outside the No Shame Theatre where I arrived too late to read. These outlines are portals. I knew I had arrived, in the future. It is time to open THE DOOR. I am ‘The Gate Keeper’
In 1965, I opened the door to the apartment on Pine Street where I lived with Nancy Hamren and Carrol Schurter, and in walked Stanley Augustus Owsley. He took a kick at Tadger, Nancy’s little dog, which bid me to ask this asshole I never met;
“What’s the matter with you. Don’t you like dogs?”
“I hate dogs!” Bear snarled.
Owsley gave the Beatles the LSD they took when they made ‘The Magical Mystery Tour’ that Thomas Wolfe compares to Ken Kesey’s bus tours. While Owsley made love to Nancy, I am in the next room making love to Carrol. The connectedness that we orignal hippies felt, is legend. This is because we established a psychic network with one station. We could hear and feel each other. We did ur best to protect this station and keep on broadcasting. Last night Chris Wandel called me from the Village to listen to Our station that is growing fainter and fainter as the Magic Mundi is consumed by the haters of magic, who pride themselves on making people afraid and guilty of something, and any ol something will do.
I am the Destroyer of Shame. I will take no prisoners. I have come to set you free, and you know who you are! The Hippie Rapture has commenced. Be prepared. Make love not war!
Below is a video of Tracy Twyman who banned me from her yahoogroup. I had invited her to come to Eugene and try out for the SluG Queen, because I was not buying her alien reptiles of satan living underground ditty. Tracy and Stanley would have hit it off.
All four Beatles were Knighted by the Queen.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2013
“SLEEPS Action Alert!
Friday January 4, 3pm to 7pm in Downtown Eugene
Meeting 2:30pm at the Atrium, 99 W. 10th Ave.
SLEEPS is calling for a Flash Mob Die Off action & Guerrilla Street Theater. This action is being done in an effort to bring attention to the ever growing number of unhoused people who die each year in the streets and parks of Eugene Oregon.”
http://www.the-back-row.com/index.php/2011/03/16/a-tribute-to-owsley-stanley-1935-2011
In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe notes the similarity between this film and the exploits of Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters.
In September 1965, Stanley became the primary LSD supplier to Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. By this time, Sandoz LSD was hard to come by, and “Owsley Acid” had become the new standard. He was featured (most prominently his freak-out at the Muir Beach Acid Test in November 1965) in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, a book detailing the history of Kesey and the Merry Pranksters by Tom Wolfe. Stanley attended the Watts Acid Test on February 12, 1966 with his new apprentice Tim Scully, and provided the LSD.
Stanley also provided LSD to The Beatles during filming of Magical Mystery Tour.[9]
Stanley was the first private individual to manufacture mass quantities of LSD.[1][2][3] Between 1965 and 1967, Stanley produced more than 1.25 million doses of LSD.
Stanley died in an automobile accident in Australia on March 12, 2011.[3][4][5]
In The Beatles Anthology, John Lennon states that “if stage shows were to be out, we wanted something to replace them. Television was the obvious answer.”[4] Most of the band members have said that the initial idea was Paul McCartney’s, although he stated, “I’m not sure whose idea Magical Mystery Tour was. It could have been mine, but I’m not sure whether I want to take the blame for it! We were all in on it — but a lot of the material at that time could have been my idea.”[4] Prior to the movie, McCartney had been creating home movies and this was a source of inspiration for Magical Mystery Tour.[4]
The following is a partial list of people who have declined a British honour, such as a knighthood or another grade of honour. In recent times most refusals have been for appointment to the Order of the British Empire.[1]
In most cases, the offer of an honour was rejected privately; others were rejected publicly, or accepted and then returned later, as with John Lennon and Rabindranath Tagore.
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a monarch or other political leader for service to the monarch or country, especially in a military capacity. Historically, in Europe, knighthood has been conferred upon mounted warriors.[1] During the High Middle Ages, knighthood was considered a class of lower nobility. By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, a code of conduct for the perfect courtly Christian warrior. Since the Early Modern period, the title of knight is purely honorific, usually bestowed by a monarch, as in the British honours system, often for non-military service to the country.
ttp://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=115300
Celebrities will join the landed gentry as ‘Burke’s Peerage’ heads
downmarket
By David Lister, Media and Culture Editor
19 January 2002
The definition of nobility is changing. Henceforth, the British aristocracy
is to include party-political climbers, television celebrities (not always
“A-list”) and even foreign nationals.
Burke’s Peerage, the aristocracy bible, is going downmarket. For reasons
that seem more economic than genealogical, the three-volume reference book
documenting details of the hereditary nobility, including the Royal Family,
is to extend its scope. For the first time it will include knights and
dames of the realm and foreign nationals with honorary titles.
Whether their inclusion will generate more sales to the general public is
unclear. It should certainly add to sales among the knights and dames
themselves, though, and thus add to Burke’s coffers.
There are about 2,000 living knights, diverse enough to change beyond
recognition the meaning of the word “aristocrat”. The next edition of
Burke’s Peerage will have to find room for the likes of Sir Jimmy Savile
and Sir Cliff Richard, Sir Bobby Charlton and Sir Paul McCartney as well as
foreign nationals with honorary titles, such as Bob Geldof, Rudolph
Giuliani and George Bush Snr. That poses no problems for Charles Mosley,
editor of Burke’s Peerage. He said: “We are a commercial publisher. Would
that we were a charity with huge subventions from Unesco, the Government
and the taxpayer, but unfortunately we are running a business.”
Referring to the knights and dames, he said: “If they are good enough for
the Queen to honour, they are good enough for Burke’s.”
The new names will mean an increased price for the three volumes – up from
£295 to £350. Mr Mosley insists this remains “jolly good value” at £1 per
6,000 words of genealogical history.
And the knights, British and foreign, would add to the reference book’s
diversity, he promised. He said: “We will be attempting to include as much
lineage as possible. In the case of Bush we can go way, way back to the
17th century and the Red Indian princess Pocahontas.”
Burke’s Peerage is also in the process of publishing a seven-volume Landed
Gentry series for the British Isles. This offshoot will include untitled
people who are government leaders or prominent people in the establishment.
Mr Mosley shook up Burke’s tradition three years ago when he decided to
include details of illegitimate children of the aristocracy for the first
time since Burke’s was founded in 1826. He said at the time: “With so many
children now being born out of wedlock, it would be absurd to ignore the fact.”
His latest decision to include knights and dames is of quite a different
order; but to dyed-in-the-wool aristocrats it will appear almost as radical.
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