January 2016

  “Our first big gig was the first Trips Festival at Longshoreman’s Hall,” said Fauerso. “I don’t know how we got it. There were at least 1,000 outside trying to get in. It was the first concert where the cops were suddenly aware of how many hippies there were.” I went and got some books…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: Henry Wieneke owned Fink’s Cigar Store. Is that my kin leaning on the wooden Indian? Jon Fink’s Cigar Store next to the University Book Store Photographer: Frederick W. Kent Top Photo Source: http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ictcs/id/274 Fink’s Bazaar, Cigar, and Notion Store, Iowa City, Iowa, was in the St. James Hotel building on…

My vision-dream has come true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_Keepers   OFFICIAL CALL TO ACTION Update: January 29, 2016 In light of the events that have taken place in Harney County, Oregon over the last two days, the official Pacific Patriots Network statement is as follows: PPN condemns the violent action taken by the Harney County Sheriff’s Department along…

“It was beauty who killed the beast!” What kind of parents would take their children to a Armageddon Seige & Shootout, and bid them to sing to armed and dangerous men, Gospel Music? This would be like the Hurst family going on TV to tell the Symbonese Liberation Army they can keep Patty, and, put…

On January 25, 2016, a entertaining and dedicated group of Citizens of Eugene marched to Wayne Morris Free Speech Plaza where we signed up to speak before the Mayor and City Council. Zane Kesey made an impassioned appeal to keep the Square, and the discussion about its fate, open. I go FURTHER than that. I…

On January 25, 2016, a group of Merry Makers met in Ken Kesey Square to show there was an interest in saving Eugene’s town square from another Giant Ken, another mural put on the side of the proposed building that would take0ver this public place, that is a replica of the Ken that graces the Oddfellows…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: Right after Dan Mayland called me I had a sense that some white dudes were putting me in their cross-hairs. Does Rena Easton hang with White Supremacists? If so, the thing that could have ticked them off, was at the poetry reading, a black man invited me to come to…

On December 30th. I posted the following on Stefan Ein’s FB. He was going to have another party at his show. I wanted to be there. I was seeing signs of my impending death, and wondered if we were all going to die. After talking to my friend Amy Sargent on the phone for about…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: ifrimlc001p1 Last night, my dear friend, Marilyn Reed, told me her brother Stanley Godfroi, married Ruth Friml, whose grandfather was the Czech Composer, Rudolph Friml, who did the score for Rose-Marie. Ruthie’s sister, Diana, married the actor, John Lupton, who starred in the Bohemian movie ‘The Rebel Set’. When Stan…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) auction on October12, 2014 of 20th Century Modern Design and Fine Art Royal Rosamond Press was founded in 1997 as a newspaper dedicated to the protection, and the preservation of The Arts. The attack upon the Rosamond-Benton Creative Legacy began minutes after my late sister,…