I just found this remark on FB messages from Krysta Albert. I will now be talking to my attorney. She says she-out mans me. This is discrimination and slander.
“You are a crazy man, un-medicated who harasses women and quite frankly, I out man you in every way. That being said you are a complete waste of my time, Indeed, you are a waste of anyones time you spend a breathe or stroke on the keyboard with.”
On June 22nd. I published this on my other blog ‘Bohemian Democratic Design’. I then posted it on Facebook.
After seeing eight of my fellow board members had looked at it, I was puzzled why not one of them gave me a thumbs up, or, left a positive message of approval. This is the first post Krysta Albert did not like. I believe she left messages to ‘Her People’ to take a look at it. Did she include that bogus predator site? I posted the fact Anand Holthem-Keathly is a political animal who was on the Whiteaker Community Board, and sent FOE a message that the new celebration should be held near her house, along the river, where it ended up.
At the meeting in Skinner Park I talked about Altan Baker Partk and was told that was a bad place because they have rules. Belle’s ex-boyfriend is Ambrose Holtham-Keathley, the LAWBREAKER! I will now be looking for a film maker to shoot ‘The Fight For Bohemia’. Krysta and her gang did not want this history competing with the history they are making. They want the limelight to be all on them. My history is history you want if you are running for office. Folks have suggested I run for Mayor of Springfield. Here is the proof I was a threat to folks who want to take over Eugene employing a Smear Campaign, and Anarchist Bullying.
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a cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one’s own advantage.
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On June 18, 2015 I attended my first board meeting of Festival Eugene at Skinner Butte Park in Eugene Oregon. I am on the board. I am the Benton Family Historian, and I am compelled to lend aspects of this history to this endeavor, along with the history I am doing on Bohemians and Bohemianism. For years there was a Eugene Celebration and Parade that was began in conjunction of the opening of the Hult Center For the Performing Arts that includes the Jacob’s Art Gallery. You can say Eugene was celebrating its entry onto the National Art Scene.
This blog contains my views, and are the history I would like to see other board members adopt in order to create a new Brand. The festival will be held August 21 thru the 23rd. I am not sure we have a theme. May I suggest ‘Expanding Our Horizons’ ?
http://www.festivalofeugene.com/#!schedule-of-events/cee5
http://www.festivalofeugene.com/
An hour ago I left a message with folks who put on Pasadena’s Doo-Dah Parade that gave birth to Doo-Dah Parades across America. I want them to bless our commitment to carry on our cities creative celebration that was recently abandoned by Kesey Productions. In 1987 I rode with Ken and his Merry Pranksters on the famous bus ‘Further’ in the celebration parade. My childhood friend, Nancy Hamren, had given me an invite. I got to know the Kesey family when I would visit Nancy at the Creamery when it was in Springfield. We grew up in a Oakland, and with our friends we played at being Beats. We emulated Jack London and George Sterling. In 1966, I lived with Nancy and the Zorthian sisters in a famous commune in San Francisco called the ‘Idle Hands’. Nancy still owns the carved wood shingle we hung over the entrance.
In 1965 I attended a party at the Zorthian Ranch with Nancy, whose grandmother owned the recipe for Nancy’s Yogurt. I met Barry and Seyburn Zorthian, the daughter’s of the artist, Jirayr H. Zorthian, who was influenced by Thomas Hart Benton. Thomas is the cousin of the muralist, Garth Benton who married my late sister, the world famous artist, Christine Rosamond Benton. These four women and myself would live together in a large San Fancisco house, our rent paid by Betty Zorthian, the heiress of the William’s Shave fortune. Seyburn is an artist. Zorthian and I discussed art up in his studio. We also partied at Betty’s mansion in Pasadena where she kept horses on the property. Jirayr is called ‘The Last Boemian’ in this article that looks like the sister of our WEEKLY.
http://www.laweekly.com/arts/the-last-bohemian-rip-2137664
Jirayr Zorthian was the Grand Marshall of the Doo Day Parade that may have inspired the Eugene Celebration Parade. The New Los Angeles Folk Festival reminds me of the Eugene Folk Festival. Our Mayor should declare Altadena our Sister City and conduct a culture swap. Hip folks could stay in L.A. while those folks stay in Eugene. Last year, Jirayr’s son, Alan Zorthian, was chosen to be the grand marshal of the Doo-Dah parade. I was eighteen when I talked with his mother, Dabney. As a young artist I was bedazzled by the Zorthian visions of the future, a future that has arrived, leaving in its wake truly magical moments that I want to see survive, so they can be passed down to generations to come.
With the Zorthian family history I attaché the creative visions of George and Joaquin Miller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquin_Miller
While Miller was a young boy, probably between 1850 and 1852,[8] his family moved to Oregon and settled in the Willamette Valley, establishing a farm in what would become Lane County.
Miller earned an estimated $3,000 working as a Pony Express rider, and used the money to move to Oregon. With the help of his friend, Senator Joseph Lane, he became editor of the Democratic Register in Eugene,[20] a role he held from March 15 to September 20, 1862
George Miller platted Florence, and was the promoter of this fair city by the sea. George was the promoter of the Winnemucca to the Sea highway which is connected to the famous Route 66. But, more stunning than this, there is much evidence George was inspired by his brother who had a home in the Oakland Hills he called ‘The Hights’. Here was an outdoor salon for poets and artists who came from all over the world. Joaquin Miller planted thousands of three in the bare hills from where you could see the city lights of San Francisco. There were cable cars on rails, like the rails you can still see making their way up the hills of Fairmount to Hendrick’s Park and the Rhododendron gardens.
Miller and Joaquin promoted the Rhododendron Festival in Florence. Joaquin co-founded the Bohemian Club that met in the redwood groves near the Russian River. Here famous authors and artist met once a year. Jack London and George Sterling were promoters of the Bohemian Life. They made Carmel by the Sea what it is today. My famous sister, Christine Rosamond, has a gallery here. My late sister married into the historic Benton family who fought to keep the Oregon Territory out of British hands. My grandfathers founded the city of Belmont south of San Francisco. Jessie Benton married John Fremont ‘The Trailblazer’ who secured the Oregon Territory. Jessie had a famous salon in San Francisco, and her sister Susan had a salon in Paris.
When we were children we would call Juanita Miller on the phone and pretend we were older so we could have The White Witch give us advice on our love life, that we invented. Joaquin Miller’s daughter titled herself the ‘White Witch’ and had involved her groom in a pagan ritual when they got married. She pretended she was dead, and, he brought her back to life. Sounds like Sleeping Beauty.
Several days ago I found photos of Juanita dancing. Isadora Duncan grew up in Oakland. Above is two photos of my Grandmother, Melba Broderick, with her friend, Violet, on Miller’s property. I now believe they were disciples of the White Witch, and may have danced through the forest with her. Joaquin carried my infant father on the Fruit Vale trolley. My kin owned a orchard just below the Hights, the theme park Joaquin and his daughter built. There is a monument to my kindred, John Fremont, that looks like a rook. Here poets and artists met, and lived. Artists Embassy International met here, as well as in Alameda at 532 Haight Avenue in a beautiful Victorian.
On April 17, 2014, I found a Pre-Raphaelite Grail at the Lane County Historical Society, that hopefully will change the way we look at things today, and the way we live and communicate with one another. I beheld the beautiful master plan put forth by the Miller Brother Prophets, who are right out of the Lord of the Rings.
What I discovered was a pamphlet announcing Joaquin Miller Day. A musical drama was performed at the Woodminster Amphitheater on September 24, 1944. There was going to be the planting of memorial redwood trees around the equestrian statue of Joaquin Miller. On stage was a replica of the studio and garden used by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Holman Hunt. The Poet, Christina Rossetti was played by Jeanne Jardin. Elizabeth Siddal Hunt’s model and muse is played by Helen Kraum. Carmencita Sanchez and her Mexican dancers, performed. In Scene Two we have the Bonaparte and Queen Victoria.
This afternoon I am going to visit another board member. On the way there I am going to stop and talk to the owner of John Belushi’s car. He owns other classic automobiles. I am going to ask if he would like to enter this car in the parade Trinity James organized. I suspect it is still a wreck, but, if we put on a tow-bed, then we can begin a fundraiser for the restoration of the future ride of the grand marshal of our cities parade I will leave one of Trinity’s posters that speaks of grand things to come. I see cars that have just traveled on Route 66, participating. Here is George’s Winnemucca Highway. George’s niece may have invented ‘The Free Spirit’. We should hold a contest to find her heir.
The way I see it, is, we had a lull in our parade. Now, here come the main course!
Jon Gregory Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
PASADENA – Alan
Zorthian, architect, art-lover and son of legendary bohemians Jirayr and Dabney Zorthian, has been named grand marshal of the 36th Occasional Pasadena Doo Dah Parade on April 27.
Zorthian, proprietor of the Zorthian Ranch in Altadena, has “Doo Dah in his DNA,” according to parade organizer Tom Coston, executive director of the Light Bringer Project arts group.
Both his parents were grand marshals, and his cousin Savitri D., wife and collaborator of “Reverend Billy” and the Church of Stop Shopping served in 2007.
Zorthian reacted to his selection by saying “I’m flabbergasted!” according to Doo Dah officials, adding “I am not my parents but I gladly accept the honor.”
Zorthian also hosts an annual International Folk Music Festival, and has invited the Institute for Urban Ecology to create an urban farm on 22-acres of ranch property.
Coston said Zorthian has “all the qualities a Doo Grand Marshal should possess” and has always been a friend and supporter.
The Doo Dah, an irreverent spoof of the stately Rose Parade, will head off in East Pasadena at 11 a.m.
Last year’s parade featured such first-time entries as the Moveable Feast — a dining room table on wheels — Machina Candeo, Conehead Rocket Sled, Hippie Cream, Easy Acres Chicken Sitters, Wisdom Arts Laboratory, combined bands of the 35th Dragoon Guards, Mile High Bed, Cheesus Chrust Pizza Company, 2012-13 Queen Patrizzi Intergarlactica, Balkan Brass Band, and the Ladies Auxiliary for Cultural Enrichment.
Each spring for the past decade he threw a “primavera” birthday party. He dubbed himself “Zor-Bacchus,” wore a toga over long red underwear and nibbled grapes from the hands of nude, garlanded nymphs, many of whom were his models. Zorthian joined the nymphs in dancing to the pipes of a cavorting Pan, who was garbed in furry goat leggings. Alcohol flowed freely and a roasted pig fed hundreds of guests who could include Caltech scientists, movie stars, internationally known artists, writers and musicians and ordinary folks.
The 5-foot, 3-inch Armenian American had counted among his friends jazzman Charlie Parker, artist Andy Warhol and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
Feynman met Zorthian at a party where Feynman was playing the bongo drums. “Naturally this crazy nut and I became good friends right away,” he wrote in his best-selling book, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” He added that they exchanged lessons in physics and art and sketched the same Playboy models.
In downtown Los Angeles, Zorthian was a colorful figure each spring on Olvera Street as he rode his horse and led his menagerie for the Blessing of the Animals by Cardinal Roger M. Mahony.
In 1997, he served as gleeful grand marshal of Pasadena’s alternative Doo Dah Parade. Zorthian also voluntarily played host at coronations of the Doo Dah queen, with a bonfire and lavish libations at his 45-acre hilltop ranch.
The ranch-unlike-no-other served as a haven of bohemian life and a backdrop for items of Zorthian’s artistic expression — junk he recycled into sculptures and architecture.
Zorthian called the ranch “The Center for Research and Development with an Emphasis on Aesthetics,” and fashioned rental houses out of discarded items, including telephone poles and railroad ties. He also built rock walls, towers, inlaid bridges and walkways. He painted in a studio and bred horses.
Zorthian and his wife, Dabney, lived in a small pseudo adobe house on the ranch, well-loved by friends as welcoming, although cluttered. The couple often preferred to sleep outdoors.
http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/doo_dah_dna/11956/
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http://www.hultcenter.org/venue/art-at-the-hult.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdSWOm3sDJA
EUGENE, Ore. — Organizers of the Festival of Eugene say the event will be back on this year.
After Kesey Enterprises suddenly nixed the Eugene Celebration last year, organizer Krysta Albert and others created the Festival of Eugene.
She says the Eugene Celebration Parade, which did take place last summer, may not happen this year.
Albert says the festival will be double in size compared to last year. “It’s an opportunity for people in Eugene to really be able to highlight their talents. There are so many people here with so many talents and that’s one of the core tenants of the Festival of Eugene.”
“Then he had the Japanese and Chinese artists living there. They built their beautiful little Japanese paper houses up through the woods. What beautiful country! It looks like a mess now, but it was beautiful then — a natural and wild landscape — and the Japanese had carefully created a meandering little stream, Japanese style, beautifully arranged with gardens and little rockeries near the poet’s. You know their expertness in creating beauty. They’d made this beautiful place where they had their barbecues. At that time the poet’s barbecues were always run by his Japanese friends. We’d have raw fish and soy sauce — really delicious. Then, always the particular barbecue for which the poet was famous — he had beautifully peeled willow switches on which were arranged rounds of onions and meat — which you held over the fire until cooked to your taste.
Then we’d go up to a little art colony scattered throughout the woods in their beautiful paper houses. These houses were well made, beautifully constructed, but all the doors and windows except the frames were made of paper. We’d go in, take our shoes off and sit down and we’d watch the artists work, or they’d display work to show us. Some were Chinese, most of them were Japanese.
In 1848 William Makepeace Thackeray used the word bohemianism in his novel Vanity Fair. In 1862, the Westminster Review described a Bohemian as “simply an artist or littérateur who, consciously or unconsciously, secedes from conventionality in life and in art”. During the 1860s the term was associated in particular with the pre-Raphaelite movement, the group of artists and aesthetes of which Dante Gabriel Rossetti was the most prominent:[2]
http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/doo_dah_dna/11956/
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