Belle claimed downtown Eugene with the help of her thugs. I have long wondered if Donald Trump takes LSD. Last night I considered my last post being – my last! Then I read this…
“Despite incidents in downtown Eugene, locals say the area is getting safer”
Last night I concluded the world is too fucked-up for me to mend or heal. I concluded this in 1965, quit my job selling art supplies, got in my 1959 Ford, and – ended up living with Nancy in SF. Owsley gave us free LSD and we partied with the Jefferson Airplane.
I ran into Belle and her Whoville Gang in 2014. Alas, things are getting better – despite someone giving minors LSD so they can run amuck, and act crazy in Downtown Eugene.
Don’t go to Loma Linda Avenue! Have you taken……LLA? You haven’t lived until you do!
LALL
John Presco
“The EPD reports that on June 16 they responded to some calls involving minors who had apparently taken LSD and were being disruptive. Police said that at about 2 p.m., a 14-year-old girl was reported to be harassing people downtown. Police said the girl had apparently taken LSD and was running in and out of buildings and jumping in front of buses. Police say she was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.”
“I know a chap, a friend of mine, who used to paint girls for magazine covers. The best class of girls, eleven feet high with eyes as big as eggs. Well one morning he put on his best suit, called a taxi and drove to the Tower Bridge, where he tied his legs together, put ten pounds of lead in each pocket, took a pint of poison, cut his throat, shot himself through the head and jumped over the parapet. They saw through this job at once, picked him out, pumped him out, sewed him up, plugged him up, and had him back to work in six weeks.—Gulley Jimson in “The Horse’s Mouth” by Joyce Cary.
- By: Robert Desaulniers & Grace Smith
- Jun 21, 2022 Updated 12 hrs ago
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EUGENE, Ore. — As summer arrives, the Eugene Police Department is ramping up patrols in downtown Eugene to curb crime and disruptive behavior.
The EPD reports that on June 16 they responded to some calls involving minors who had apparently taken LSD and were being disruptive. Police said that at about 2 p.m., a 14-year-old girl was reported to be harassing people downtown. Police said the girl had apparently taken LSD and was running in and out of buildings and jumping in front of buses. Police say she was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
According to officials, about an hour later police responded to a report of two boys fighting on Broadway Street. The EPD says that when officers contacted the boys one ran away and the other refused to tell them anything. Officials add that when they caught the boy who fled, officers found that he was also on LSD. The 14-year-old was also taken to a nearby hospital, police say.
Some people, like Destiny Hogue, who works in the area, told KEZI she’s witnessed this kind of activity first hand.
“A lot of nudity, a lot of harassment a lot of property crime,” Hogue said. “We have people fall asleep, like randomly fall down and fall asleep and tweak out in front of our buildings.”
Hogue said this kind of activity scares customers away and disrupts sales.
“It’s hard to keep business going when we constantly have to call someone to come get them off our business, or out of our business, or to quit harassing customers,” Hogue said.
Police said they’re planning to increase their presence during the summer months. Hogue is hopeful that will help the problem, saying she’s already seen it help within the past few months.
“It’s actually helped tremendously,” Hogue said. “I’m feeling a lot safer walking in downtown than I used to.”
Eugene resident Joshua Burstein, who has lived in the area for 14 years said he’s looking forward to coming downtown more this summer. He believes the area is becoming safer and hopes more people will enjoy what downtown has to offer.
“I know there is a lot of fear around crime, especially in downtown, I know there have been incidents, but I really think we’re on an upswing,” Burstein said. “The more people come downtown and enjoy downtown, the safer we all will feel.”
Police are seeking tips on whoever is providing LSD to minors. Anyone with information on these incidents is asked to contact the EPD at their non-emergency line at 541-682-5111.
‘A dangerous cancer’: fourth hearing revealed the human cost of Trump’s delusion
David Smith in Washington – Yesterday 10:31 PM
Donald Trump was the most powerful man in the world. But he was also a paranoid fantasist who did not care how his lies destroyed people’s lives.
That was the picture of the former US president that came into focus with startling clarity at Tuesday’s hearing of the congressional committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
Related: January 6 hearings: state officials testify on Trump pressure to discredit election
Dead people, shredded ballots and a USB drive that was in fact a ginger mint were all part of the delusional narrative of election fraud peddled by Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani. They would have been as comical as flat-earthers but for the way they posed a danger to both individual citizens and American democracy.
“The president’s lie was and is a dangerous cancer on the body politic,” committee member Adam Schiff said at the hearing into how Trump pressured state officials to overturn overturn results.
It was worth remembering that Trump once boasted that he had passed a cognitive test by reciting the words, “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV,” in the right order. And that, according to the Washington Post, he made 30,573 false or misleading claims during his four-year presidency.
Even on Tuesday, he was repeating the biggest lie of all. Just before the hearing he issued a statement claiming that witness Rusty Bowers, the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, told him “the election was rigged and I won Arizona”.
Bowers, a Republican who had wanted Trump to win the election, told the committee that this was false: “Anyone, anywhere, anytime I said the election was rigged, that would not be true.”
Bowers also recalled a conversation with Giuliani and lawyer Jenna Ellis about allegations of voter fraud in Arizona. In a phrase that captured the president’s own mindset, Giuliani allegedly said: “We’ve got lots of theories but we just don’t have the evidence.”
It’s turned my life upside down. I no longer give out my business card. I don’t transfer calls … I just don’t do nothing anymore. I don’t want to go anywhere. I second-guess everything that I doWandrea ‘Shaye’ Moss
But the centerpiece of the big lie is Georgia, which Trump narrowly lost and which became his all-consuming obsession for wild conspiracy theories.
The committee heard testimony from its secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, and his deputy Gabe Sterling, who observed that competing against Trump’s false statements was like a “shovel trying to empty the ocean. I even had family members I had to argue with about some of these things.”
The Cannon Caucus Room resounded with Trump’s own voice from a 67-minute phone call with Raffensperger in which the president claimed the people of Georgia “know” he won the state by hundreds of thousands of voters.
Not true, Raffensperger told the committee definitively, explaining that Trump had “come up short”.
Related video: CNN asks die-hard Trump supporter if Jan. 6 hearings are changing his mind
One by one, Trump could be heard making ludicrous assertions without foundation. One by one, Raffensperger and Sterling calmly demolished them.
The president was heard claiming that votes were “in what looked to be suitcases or trunks, suitcases but they weren’t in voter boxes”. Schiff asked: “Were they just the ordinary containers that are used by election workers?” Sterling testified: “They’re standard ballot carriers that allow for seals to be put on them so they’re tamper proof.”
Trump went on during the call: “But they dropped a lot of votes in there late at night. You know that, Brad.” Raffensperger told the committee: “There were no additional ballots accepted after 7pm.”
The president insisted: “The other thing, dead people. So dead people voted and I think the number is close to 5,000 people. And they went to obituaries. They went to all sorts of methods to come up with an accurate number and a minimum is close to about 5,000 voters.”
Raffensperger observed: “No, it’s not accurate … We found two dead people when I wrote my letter to Congress that’s dated January 6 and subsequent to that we found two more. That’s one, two, three, four people, not 4,000.”
More sinister yet, Trump claimed that election workers had been shredding ballots, “a criminal offense” that could put Raffensperger at risk. “So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state.”
© Provided by The GuardianBrad Raffensperger, Georgia secretary of state, testifies before the committee. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Raffensperger told the hearing: “What I knew is we didn’t have any votes to find.”
Tuesday’s hearing spelled out how the big lie has caused hurt way beyond Washington on 6 January 2021. Trump told Raffensperger on the call: “When you talk about no criminality, I think it’s very dangerous for you to say that.”
The Georgia secretary of state took this as a threat. And sure enough, his family was targeted by Trump supporters.
“My email, my cell phone was doxxed and I was getting texts all over the country and then eventually my wife started getting texts. Hers typically came in as sexualized texts which were disgusting … They started going after her I think just to probably put pressure on me: ‘Why don’t you quit and walk away.’”
He was far from alone.
In a deposition, Michigan secretary of state Jocelyn Benson talked about how her “stomach sunk” when she heard the sounds of protesters outside her home one night when she was putting her child to bed. She wondered if they had guns or were going to attack her house. “That was the scariest moment,” Benson said.
But no story better illustrated the callousness of Trump’s assault than Georgia election workers Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman, two African American women described by committee chairman Bennie Thompson as “unsung heroes” of democracy.
Giuliani accused the pair of passing a USB drive to each other; Moss told the committee that her mother had actually been handing her a ginger mint. With astonishing cruelty, Trump was heard in a phone call describing Freeman as “a professional vote scammer and hustler”.
It was false but it was the cue for an onslaught of racist hatred from Trump supporters. Moss, nervous and at times shaking, recalled: “A lot of threats wishing death upon me. Telling me that, you know, I’ll be in jail with my mother and saying things like, ‘Be glad it’s 2020 and not 1920.”
Moss, who left her position, added in wrenching testimony: “It’s turned my life upside down. I no longer give out my business card. I don’t transfer calls. I don’t want anyone knowing my name. I’ve gained about 60 pounds. I just don’t do nothing anymore. I don’t want to go anywhere. I second-guess everything that I do.”
Her mother Ruby Freeman said in a deposition: “I’ve lost my name, and I’ve lost my reputation. I’ve lost my sense of security – all because a group of people … scapegoat[ed] me and my daughter, Shaye, to push their own lies about how the presidential election was stolen.”
At the end of his call to Raffensperger, Trump could be heard saying: “It takes a little while but let the truth comes out.”
Now, finally, the truth is coming out, but not the one that occupies his fantasies.
Oregon’s Own Antichrist vs. MADA
Posted on January 14, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
When I went to Wayne Morse Square dressed as The Antichrist, I did so trying to get my courage back after being threatened by the Alleybellites and Kimites. In looking at the video I took, talking to a Three-Percenter, I wondered why he made no comment about me saying – I am The Antichrist. After the Storm The Dome Day, I realized there’s eight or ten guys (and a woman?) who claim to be the Antichrist – at every event! I thought I was original! My Light Sabre did get some attention.
In the God Gun Liberty video, it appears I might get in a fight with a young man wearing a MADA cap. He got punched in the nose when the T-Mob pushed people around to get to the podium and mic – that the Gay Pride Day folks refused to hand over. A Lesbian socked him in the nose – and drew blood.
It is now being reported Lawmakers helped the T-Mob in Oregon, and at the Dome, that looks like a scene out of Gone With The Wind. As I talk to an armed man, Belle’s old boyfriend (who changed his name to Marla) danced half-naked in the background. The Crazy are legion at Trump rallies. This is what he meant by “wild time”. Consider the source. Trump is not sorry – at all! His office is just another disguise for the real Antichrist – who might start a nuclear war.
Johnny Antichrist Presco
Trump is isolated and angry at aides for failing to defend him as he is impeached again (msn.com)
“With less than seven days remaining in his presidency, Trump’s inner circle is shrinking, offices in his White House are emptying, and the president is lashing out at some of those who remain. He is angry that his allies have not mounted a more forceful defense of his incitement of the mob that stormed the Capitol last week, advisers and associates said.”
Gone With The Wind (1939) Battle of Atlanta Injuries – YouTube
(1) Return of Merlin – Antichrist – YouTube
(1) Praise Be To Zardoz – YouTube
Kim Haffner denied me my Civil Liberties. She and her Cult impeded my coming and going to my residence. They attacked my newspaper and tried to impede my right to Freedom of the Press.
“Please, go ahead and blog my threat.
You have no fucking idea what you’re getting yourself into
You also have no idea how many people are already on to you, and how many people have my back. We also have six other mutual friends who are going to learn about your behavior ASAP
And just so you know as well: if you write anything about me that could be construed as defamatory, you will be hearing from my lawyers ASAP.”
Alley Valkyrie; ” I will also say that going downtown would be a mistake, as EPD is quite aware of who and what you are, and they have nine uniformed officers downtown. But then again, you said you were going to City Council and you didn’t have the balls to do that, and…See More
Alley Valkyrie: And if you do go downtown, you will have to deal with me personally, by the way.”
Springfield Witch Hunt
Posted on October 18, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
Here is Gang of Six in action. All of them agree they have a right to harass me because I am mentally ill. Beatdown Boy, Krista’s live in lover, says I should be locked up due to being severely mentally ill. He did not come up with this – on the spot.
The first sign I had that Kim was my Pretend Friend, was when she took Cheryl Walton’s side. Kim was witness to Cheryl’s freak-out at my door, and, how she fought the ambulance crew who took her to the Johnson Unit. Kim was compiling a case file on me while pretending to be my friend. She asked to be my facebook friend. I had her look at my daughter’s facebook as my spy, but, she betrayed me and ragged on me with my daughter.
I believe because Cheryl is a Christian, they believe their Rapture Jesus wants her to be healed, and I locked up in the Johnson Unit. These are religious fanatics playing God with tenants who signed a lease with Umbrella Properties. I heard there were three arrests here last night.
Kim says there was an article about me abusing women in the Eugene Weekly. She is a liar. Alley posted for Belle in a fake abuser site where one reads evil lies made against men, not unlike the lies Lance Jacob was subjected to?
In this video Cheryl approaches me and starts touching me. Her caregiver warned her a week ago about improper touching. Victims of incest do not like unwanted touching. Cheryl is identifying me as the Trouble Maker, who should try harder to get along with my neighbors, meaning – her! She has a giant crush on me.
I do suffer from PTSD and thus, I suffer from mental illness. Kim worked at the Johnson Unit. Where does Krista work? I spend most of my time writing. When my written words were made accessible to my neighbors, and my sister’s bio, they went – HOG WILD! This is what a real Witch Hunt looks and sounds like. This is not what our Mayor had in mind. After founding the Rose City Planners I have considered moving to Portland.
In the first video I see God’s Grunts coming for me with torches and pitchforks to drive out their first Coo-Coo Artist. Consider the Kesey Mural. Some folks can’t handle even a small dose of Art and Culture. They go berserk. There is no unwritten law in Springtucky law that says………..If any two women weigh 700 pounds in combined weight, they get to rule everyone’s life within a hundred yards, and gossip all they want.
And thus ends AAP Test No. X22387. As head of the Alien Art Police I declare Springfield Oregon a hostile environment for the Cosmic Creative Class.
John Presco 007
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_Street
SPRINGFIELD — New sculptures, monuments and murals made Springfield a more vibrant and welcoming city in 2016, while hotel construction in Glenwood, a rebuild of the Swanson Group mill, and renovations to The Shoppes at Gateway added millions of dollars in economic activity to the city, Springfield Mayor Christine Lundberg said Thursday in her seventh State of the City address.
FAKE! Eugene Abuser Site
Posted on July 20, 2016by Royal Rosamond Press
Professional Victims?
Posted on December 3, 2014by Royal Rosamond Press
Alley Valkyrie is an anarchist and advocate. She and Belle Burch got arrested for trespass four days before I met Belle in Ken Kezey Square. Her lover was a leader of SLEEPS and Whoville that just got closed down. I suspect they were looking for people to help with their legal costs. When Belle sent me a poem about her sleeping downtown in a tent, and bar-hopping, I said; “You better not be using monies given to you to help the homeless!”
I have thirty years sobriety, and helped my Veteran friend find a home. When I found him dead, I held a memorial. I showed this to Belle on my blog, and she had no reaction. She did not inform me she was an advocate. I became suspicious. I asked if SLEEPS had filed a non-profit. This is when Alley sent me these threats. I own a newspaper registered in Lane County, Royal Rosamond Press. Alley is the one who made the report below. She was supposed to have Belle’s permission. But, this is the same message she posted on Mayor Kitty Piercy’s facebook, that was taken down. They had political ambitions and did not want any bad press. They tried to censor me.
Above are Alley and Belle’s homeless friends, some who defend Jeffrey Walton who molested a sixteen year old girl. These are Tribal Drug and Alcohol Abusers. The abuse of heroin that renders many homeless is a real concern. Senior Abuse – is real! I am a senior!
“I’m going to make this very simple for you. I don’t know if you know who I am, but I sure as hell know who you are, and when you fuck with my friends, you fuck with me. Stop writing about Belle or I am going to make your life very difficult. I mean it. If I see one more word about her on your blog, your FB, or anywhere else, I will make sure that you experience all the fear and discomfort that she is experiencing right now. And no, this isn’t a physical threat, so don’t try to play victim. Frankly, I encourage you to contact EPD, as they already know all about you. I will not do anything illegal, but mark my word you will regret it if you write one more word about her. I will make sure that the entire community knows exactly how much of a sick fuck you are. Your picture, your name, and “samples” of your writing will be posted on every bulletin board in town. There will not be a single person in the Eugene/Springfield area who won’t know that you’re a sick stalker who won’t leave a stalker who won’t leave a young girl alone. Cut it out. Now. This is your first, last, and only warning.”
“Please, go ahead and blog my threat.
You have no fucking idea what you’re getting yourself into
You also have no idea how many people are already on to you, and how many people have my back. We also have six other mutual friends who are going to learn about your behavior ASAP
And just so you know as well: if you write anything about me that could be construed as defamatory, you will be hearing from my lawyers ASAP.”
Alley Valkyrie; ” I will also say that going downtown would be a mistake, as EPD is quite aware of who and what you are, and they have nine uniformed officers downtown. But then again, you said you were going to City Council and you didn’t have the balls to do that, and…See More
Alley Valkyrie: And if you do go downtown, you will have to deal with me personally, by the way.”
http://eugene-abusers.tumblr.com/archive
Alley Valkyrie posted a photograph of me on this FAKE abuser site – after it was taken off Mayor Kittie Piercy’s facebook. Here is the criteria for EXPOSING someone, who has to be a man? This site was made by a woman – for other women! You got to love this one…..
“They don’t respect your privacy. For example, they insist that you share all of your thoughts or feelings with them, or expect you to let them look through your phone, email, or facebook and get upset or pout when you tell them you can’t.”
EXPOSING A MAN is supposed to be good for the community. Was SHE in a class with Wayne, or the work-place?
Abuser “Wayne”: last known location in Eugene, Oregon
“Wayne”, email used to be Sexually coercive- manipulator- creeper. Kept pushing sexual boundaries when I made it clear what I wasn’t comfortable with. Lives off Horn Lane out River Road. He was on the U of O faculty at one time, former semi-retired professional in telecommunications. By doing internet searches I’m pretty sure his full name is F. Wayne Bowen (But not positive on this!).
BIG SISTER IS WATCHING AND GOOGLING YOU!
This UN-VICTIM can’t let it go, after HE is gone. All her friends don’t want to hear her silly-ass whining. What is “victim-blamed”?
“He victim-blamed for my previous abusers. He was extremely critical of me. He would start arguments over why I wasn’t reading his blog or asking him questions about music, which chair I picked to sit in at a restaurant, how long I was upset about things, the fact that I didn’t let him yell at me while I was crying without standing up for myself because he “just needed to let his emotions out”, etc…
This is right out of Genesis…This is how the Bible starts.
“When I would tell him something he did that upset me, sometimes he would reply “No, YOU did that to ME”. And when I disputed it he told me I was a “pathological liar”. And when I disputed that he said I wouldn’t know it because I so in denial that I believed my own lies.”
What a damn shame! Try attending church!
“He frequently changed his mind about polyamory in our relationship, starting out very small and then slowly over the course of a year or so, saying he wanted a no boundaries type of polyamorous relationship, painting himself as a victim when I didn’t want that.”
I’ve invented two new words:
Occumorpheus
- a old sick dude hits on two young members of OCCUPY at the same time so he can feel like he is young again.
Witchuntress
“Many abusers do not use these behaviors because they know they couldn’t get away with it. But more subtle emotionally abusive behaviors are equally damaging, although they can sometimes be harder to define.”
So, let’s hold Extraordinary Emotional Experiments on unsuspecting men, and eventually they will allow all women to completely change them so they can tolerate them for their sexual enjoyment – only!
“Please do not submit someone else’s story unless you have permission to do so by the person who survived the abuse.”
“He grabbed me by the scruff of my neck and slammed my face into his computer screen. He did not let go of me until I read his whole blog on Divo. It was not very good.”
Mary Broadhurst questioned Alley Valkyrie about posting this FALSE CHARGE against me, citing I might get REAL ANGRY – and hurt Belle Burch. Mary asks Alley if she got Belle’s permission. She said she did. I believe she lied. What Mary is suggesting, is, Alley is SUBJECTING Belle to ABUSE, and really making her afraid, she no longer faking it for the sake of SLEEP members. Alley USED Belle as a goat tied to a stake in her ongoing Tiger Hunt, her need to BAG A MAN – for the abuse she allegedly suffered as a girl!
What this site provides s a Witch Hunt, just for women. If you feel A NEED to destroy a man, a ex-lover, or, just any man, come get with other women on the internet – and go after them. This is STALKING! Here are – THE STALKERS! You don’t need to know who these other women are. You have a common cause. This is very sexist!
What I suspect, is, all these examples of being mistreated, is the inventory of ONE DUDE – her dude – who she broke up with, and was obsessively taking his inventory – GOSSIPING LIKE CRAZY – and wanted strangers to sign off on her demonization of him without knowing they are being tricked by a clever…………you know what?
Just change the word “They” to “He”. is He…………..”Wayne”?
“ how long I was upset about things”
Jon Presco
The Downtown Dandy Club
Posted on August 3, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
I posted this before I learned my kindred, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, is in the same tree as Augustus John, and Ian Fleming. Four years ago I was preparing a presentation for Amazon Virtual Shops and Meeting places on the internet in order to perpetuate Bohemianism as put forth by Richard Florida. Amazon is going to bring Tolkien and his characters to television. I am now going to create an idea for another series………
JOAQUIN
Joaquin had dinner with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and other Pre-Raphaelites. Was William Morris present? Morris’ ‘House of Wolfings’ was a big inspiration for Tolkien. Joaquin was a member of the Bohemian Club who tried to cremate their Bohemian King on a pyre he built in the Oakland Hills, but were stopped. Because I am kin to Karl Schwarzenberg, any my great grandfather immigrated from Bohemia, I should hold the title ‘King of American Bohemians’. I hereby found ‘The Downtown Bohemian Club’.
What I would like to see is ‘The Downtown Dandy Club’ where men and women dress up like a Dandy, and stroll downtown with a newspaper under our arm. We will carry walking sticks, perhaps with a sword inside. We may be wearing Boiler hats. The Dandy Club’s mission is to keep newspapers alive. Every member must have a subscript to at least two papers. There will be a potbelly stove, and a shoeshine stand.
The Adam’s Rib theory will be discussed, along with the latest Tolkien program. All Dandy ideas are welcome, such as ‘The Dandy European Club’ where support of the European Union and Markets via a Virtual Amazon Europe Store, is established. Also, I found ‘The William Morris Society of America’ where The House of Wolfen is discussed, along with Morris’s ideas.
We Dandys will also keep a close eye on the Compost Commies and their Wiccan allies. I see the formation of Downtown Craft Guilds complete with our own Sergeants to keep the peace.
John Presco
Copyright 2018
dandy, historically, is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self.[1][2][3] A dandy could be a self-made man who strove to imitate an aristocratic lifestyle despite coming from a middle-class background, especially in late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain.
Previous manifestations of the petit-maître (French for small master) and the Muscadin have been noted by John C. Prevost,[4] but the modern practice of dandyism first appeared in the revolutionary 1790s, both in London and in Paris. The dandy cultivated cynical reserve, yet to such extremes that novelist George Meredith, himself no dandy, once defined cynicism as “intellectual dandyism”. Some took a more benign view; Thomas Carlyle wrote in Sartor Resartus that a dandy was no more than “a clothes-wearing man”. Honoré de Balzac introduced the perfectly worldly and unmoved Henri de Marsay in La fille aux yeux d’or (1835), a part of La Comédie Humaine, who fulfils at first the model of a perfect dandy, until an obsessive love-pursuit unravels him in passionate and murderous jealousy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy
The Horses’ Mouth and Newspaper Sanctuary
Posted on January 11, 2016by Royal Rosamond Press
If Ali Emami had not reacted to the rumor Ken Kesey Square would be sold to a developer, it would be a done deal. The SLEEPS anarchists would have seized the day.
“Ali Emami, owner of the two buildings that have common walls with the plaza, says that when he heard rumors the public space might be sold and developed into apartments, he came before the Eugene City Council last week to again renew his offer to open up the walls of the buildings and make the space more inviting.I am going to make some proposals for what to do with Ken Kesey Square”
How about a Newspaper Museum and Reader’s Sanctuary?
“Ken Kesey is our George Washington,” said Jennifer Barnes, a self-described modern-day Merry Prankster. “He’s our culture, our history.”
Here is a video about my and Michael’s efforts to save the cottage that Ken lived in while attending the UofO.
Augustus John was the inspiration for the artist Gulley Jimson, in ‘The Horses’ Mouth’. Gulley is in search of the perfect wall for his mural. Joaquin Miller is our Washington. He 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. a role he held from March 15 to September 20, 1862. Here is Miller’s daughter.
George Miller platted the City of Florence and Fairmont. He designed a flying machine. Ali Emami’s plan to knock down walls to save the square is right out of ‘The Horses’ Mouth’. This is high drama already in progress! Above is a photo of Augustus John with James Joyce. Get rid of the One Hook Town to hang your hat. We need a Jimson reader, there, confronting passer-byes! We only got one horse on our merry-go-round. Enough! Here’s Miller with George Sterling the co-founder of the Bohemian Club and Carmel. We can reprint old copies of ‘The Augur’.
http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=JOAQUIN_MILLER
My friends and I in Oakland were doing Miller before we heard of Kesey. You got to get over the idea folks are trying to do Ken – and move on!
The Eugene Augur was a local countercultural underground newspaper published in Eugene, Oregon, United States, from 1969 to 1974. Starting with its first issue dated October 14, 1969, the Augur, produced by a cooperative of left-wing political activists aligned with the antiwar movement, appeared twice a month, offering up a mix of New Left politics and acid rock counterculture to an audience of students, hippies, radicals and disaffected working class youth in the Eugene area. The paper’s coverage ranged from antiwar demonstrations, exposing local narcotics agents, and rock festivals, to the growth of backwoods communes in Southern Oregon and the annual Oregon Renaissance Faire.[1] In August 1972, the paper cut publication to a monthly schedule. Staffers included Peter Jensen and Jim Redden, son of a prominent Oregon politician and later a reporter for the Portland Tribune.[2][3]
“I know a chap, a friend of mine, who used to paint girls for magazine covers. The best class of girls, eleven feet high with eyes as big as eggs. Well one morning he put on his best suit, called a taxi and drove to the Tower Bridge, where he tied his legs together, put ten pounds of lead in each pocket, took a pint of poison, cut his throat, shot himself through the head and jumped over the parapet. They saw through this job at once, picked him out, pumped him out, sewed him up, plugged him up, and had him back to work in six weeks.—Gulley Jimson in “The Horse’s Mouth” by Joyce Cary.
Rosamond Press 