I lie in bed thinking about my Brother word processor tucked in my tent pitched on the private campground of a logger Michael Dundon worked for when he lived above Blue River, that burned down. After the Oakland fire, my landlord got weird with me. He suggested I, or my hippie friends, started the fire. Al was a drinking man, who told me his three sisters were seer–witches. after my prophetic dream came true. So, I fled with my Brother, and ended up back in Oregon living with Dundon until he confronted his wife about gambling another family fortune away. We stayed at the camp for two months, at least I did. She took him back and I was left out in the cold, got sick sick – and almost died. I ended up in homeless shelter with my Brother in storage. No novel witting on the ward. As I type, that private camp near Taylor Road – just escaped the Lookout Fire!
UPDATE! Folks are being evacuated again around McKenzie! The Topeke gold course is threatened. Winds from the Hillary hurricane can come in the back door, and down the McKenzie valley and bring fire into Springfield. Get your pet carriers ready. My fake friends know I claimed I was a prophet, and distanced themselves from me – after trying to destroy my credibility. They did this – for money! They have money to protect! I told Christine Wandel on the 15th. there is ‘The Butterfly Affect’.
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Run, you poor bastard. Protect your books. Make a home for awhile, type away – THEN RUN !
On the anniversary of Woodstock I talked for three hours with Felix The Cat. I told her about the second fire up Highway 126 that began when strong winds knocked down powerlines. It is suspected the same thing happened in Maui. I told Christine Wandel I feared a hurricane forming off the coast of Oregon due to the Pacific Ocean heading up. On the news las night I saw diagram of a hurricane making landfall in San Diego and Los Angeles. Please turn off the power.
Last night I went to the Prankster Ems game, and sat where my fictional characters sat. I struck up a conversation with the two gentleman next to me. One handed me his business card, He was a big blogger and said he is always looking for writers to contribute.
In an e-mail to Mark Gall I pressed him as to why he did not help his Harvard friend, Ed Corbin, after he had a stroke. Ed’s sons, Cosmos, Freeman, and Eden, did not help – because I was there, every damn day. Ed was a severe alcoholic that I drove to Serenity Lane. Because I had ten years of sobriety when I first met Ed, it was my problem that Ed relapsed. I was on SSI and poor, and this was my area of expertise. This is low-life stuff. But, Ed went to Harvard. His father was the head of the Mayo clinic who wanted his son to be the head of General Motors. Ed became an alcoholic, and was drunk with Jack Kerouac on stage at Harvard. Ed has written a biography on President Eisenhower – and was supposed to author the Great American Beat Novel. When Mark retired as the head of the Department of Education, he was supposed to write his Great Harvard Book. Well, the only one who was doing any writing, was me, the Son of Rosemary who made porno movies for Big Bones Remmer.
This morning I made a list of buddy’s, brothers, who never wanted me to be a writer, and those who did. Mark Gall and Ed Corbin – took me fucking hostage! They pretended to be my – brothers! The Corbin brothers took down all my posts on Ed’s Facebook. I think they want me to – drop dead! They got careers. These are Yuppie Brats – who hate Beatniks!.
When I went to pick up my ticket for the Ems game, the woman behind the glass noted my hat. I showed it to her. It’s an antique that i wore when Hollis and I went to a game. Hollis was not homeless when I met him. I had been homeless for three months. Hollis was Ed’s neighbor.
The top pic is of Ed Corbin (left) and Mark Gall at the machine gun firing range. Both authors were, and are, terrified I will publish a book. The photo of Peter Shapiro and Tim O’Connor was taken in Alameda in 1973. Peter is encouraging me to write, but Tim is very much against it, so I ended our friendship. Bruce Perlowin wanted me to write about – HIM – the day we met. Bruce was ‘The King of Pot’. He and Michael Harkins wanted me to act like Mr. Big to a investor from Chicago, who needed a Mafia Kingpin to be behind Bruce. She begged me to allow her to buy me a gift – to get on my good side! I think she got down on one knee?
“There! There! There! Fret no more. I am in need of a Brother typewriter. It would please me very much if it came from you!”
Years later I fled my appartment in Eugene because my neighbor was ‘The King of The anarchists” and was flipping out. I forgot to put the box containing my Brother on the truck to Springfield. Here is a pic of my ex-wife, Mary Ann Tharaldsen at our wedding. She lived with Thomas Pynchon in Mexico and Manhattan Beach. She wanted me to paint again in 1983. I was not a writer – yet! If some people can help it – I will never be a writer! NEVER!
John Presco a.k.a. The Gentle Giant
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Yet while the candidates have different positions on major issues facing the country, they broadly agree on the idea of taking a sledgehammer — not a scalpel — to the federal government.
Bedrock Fire’s slow growth leads structural crews to prepare Big Fall Creek homes
Prompting two evacuation warnings, the Bedrock Fire in the Willamette National Forest has grown to 27,226 acres. The fire’s spread is slowly creeping toward Big Fall Creek where firefighters and structural fire crews have started preparation work around homes.
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Is Anand-Holthem-Keathly ‘Mr. Big’?
Posted on May 23, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
Here is what Erin Sullivan said about her two author friends:
“Boy, could I tell you about Dan Brown . . . I am published by Penguin/Tarcher . . . I was the editor for Arkana Contemporary Astrology, Penguin UK . . . . And, he ripped off my authors and friends, Michael Baigent and Rich Leigh who are the authors of Holy Grail, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Blood_and_the_Holy_Grail
Here CBS News wanting to do a report on my work with Hollis Williams. This is an official recognition of me being an advocate of homeless veterans – at least! It is also a recognition that my blog-newspaper is performing a public service regardless of the libelous claims of Kim Haffner and Alley Valkyrie.
Here is CBS News wanting to get a story on my homeless friend.
“Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 12:28 PM
Subject: CBS News Request/VA Backlog/Hollis Williams
Hi John,
I’m a producer with the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley and I’m working on a piece about the VA backlogs and how in spite of these backlogs, and other issues some administrators were given bonuses. I ran across your blog/tribute to your friend Hollis and saw that you believe he might still be alive if he had not been denied medical help by the U.S. Government– the VA, SSI, or Medicare. I’d love to talk to you more about this. Could you please email me with your contact info, or give me a call. My contact info is below. Hope to talk to you soon.”
I talked to the FBI
Randy Cain a FB friend of Alley Valkyrie said he was glad the Mafia made threats on my life. Mr. Cain is EXTENDING a real threat that Mayor White of Boston recognized when he offered his hand to me;
“Let me shake your hand. It took a lot of guts to stand up to those people!”
Those people terrorized me! They were a terrorist organization. They cut the throat of a little puppy and smeared its blood all over the walls of the ex-mangers appartment, thinking it was my appartment. My attorney had us all move to apartments on the top floor. The last manager was paid by the Mafia to go around and smash in our doors with a baseball bat. When I heard the thugs the Mafia hired break down the door, I came rushing downstairs. They asked me to come in and save the puppy, and they had something for me. Two evil fucks came out holding bloody knives.
I suffer from PTSD over this. I tried to hang myself, over this when I was drunk. I went to the hospital. I talked to a psychiatrist. This was the first step I took in getting sober.
Here is Tera Williams who is on the board of Nightingale. So is John MaCahill. Alley and John Monroe used to be on the board. All these people have had close relations with Anand, who is Ambrose Holthem-Keathly’s father. Ambrose was Belle’s lover, and the Poster Child for SLEEPS. Anand was setting his son up to serve on the Whitaker Board, that he served on. I wondered if this why Ambrose never talked to me, or, told me to lay off Belle – who also was considering running for office. the key word is “activists”. I am not dealing with an individual. I am dealing with people who know each other and own a covert agenda. They take pride in backing each other up. I now suspect when I became Kim Hafner’s facebook friends, one of the “activists” recognized me.
All this constitutes CONSPIRACY! I am going to make a complaint to the Nursing Board about Anand who worked for OCCUPY Medical as a psychologist. When homeless people exhibited mental illness, Anand counseled them. Terra Williams know Anand and Ambrose very well. She is on the board of OC, too. These people have collective deprived me of my Civil Liberties and the enjoyment of my community, because they convinced earth other they had all the answers when established institutions – did not!
I suspect they ruled AA does not work, and the church. Many of these activists claim they are wiccans, and are an EXTENDED FAMILY. Now stir in their real threat to do me bodily harm, and you got ORGINIZED CRIMINALS. How about RACKETEERING, if THE COVEN sees me as THE COMPITION? I will show this blog to the FBI and CBS News to see if they want to do a follow up on the show they did about the Eugene Anarchists.
At our meeting I showed Belle photos of me dressed as Santa. She started to say something, and stopped. When I saw Anand dress as Santa, and, that was the only photo of him I could find, I became suspicious. He amd his son had to know Belle was going to meet with me! Anand and his wife really connect with Ken Kesey. I ran into Anand and he told me he was an old radical. When I asked for details, he shut up. The FBI will be filled in, and, they will EXPOSE the coven, beginning with Vickie Mindel Nelson who unfriended me from her facebook where she allowed meto post much of this information know I got ‘Mrs. Big’ over a barrel.
This is a hidden society with in our society that needs to be flipped like a pancake! One of the Coven, who tried to get arrested with Belle and Ambrose, is Emily Semple, who got elected to the Eugene City Council. She appears in the video I took of Belle. Her FAMILY really wanted me to TAKE DOWN that video. Why? It is utterly harmless. What does it reveal? Brave Beatrice is in MY video. They have posted their own videos. They have been on T.V. thirty times. What does MY video show? It shows that Belle Burch, and John Presco got along – FAMOUSLY! They all lied. Most of the wiccan that worked for Nightingale told evil dangerous lies – and some of then threatened me!
Follow the Money Trail! I said this in a e-mail to Belle after she sent me her poem.
“You better not be misusing monies given to you to help the homeless!”
How much money was give to Mr. and Mrs, Santa Claur, and their elf, that was not reported to the IRS………….who will get this report? Alternative Socities don’t like to pay their taxes. In this case the motive might be……..they wanted it all to go to the poor, the crippled, and the homeless. This is the biggest RACKET known to mankind. It’s in the Bible. What does Confucius say?
Anand was obligated to seek help for my because he knows the Hippocratic oath. Whey didn’t he call Cahoots and White bird. My friend in New York had two guys from White Bird come over because my phone jack came out of the wall. Why didn’t Vickie Nelson send cahoots over to see me after reading my posts on her facebook? Why? How heartless! Ambrose could have called me and asked if I needed some help.
During our meeting Belle’s cellphone rang. She looked down saw the number, and excused herself. When she came back she looked like the cat that ate the canary. I suspect Ambrose and Alley were on pins and needles waiting for the good news.
“Did you bag him?”
“Affirmative!”
Mr. Big is listening in. He congratulates Belle. She comes back to our table and their are goosebumps up and down her arm. I reach out and feel them. This is the only time we had physical contact.
Then, Belle sends me her poem. This is what our meeting was supposed to be about. When Anand reads my response to this revealing poem – he flips! He blames HER for THEIR predicament. If only she had followed Mr. Big’s precise instructions. He cast her out. Anand is a good friend of Alley Valkyrie. He praises her. Mr. Big calls in his Hit Lady. Does Anand have Mob ties in Detroit? Anand, loves playing God. He can’t believe I bagged his fat ass! When he found out Kim Haffner was my neighbor, he used her to get revenge. If you don’t like my story, tell yours to the FBI when they come knocking!
And, that is that!
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Pat, who owns Gizmo Bite, did so much of the work in finding Hollis a home. As I wrote Pat’s name, I realized I withheld it for five years, lest one of Belle’s coven go after him. After talking with the FBI, again, I have SAFE to reveal other aspects of my life, like my vegetable garden that I first planted after I received Ally Valkyries first “threat”. Tow month after I spread Hollis’s ashes on the banks of the McKenzie, Pat found Hollis two sisters. They wanted his American flag and pictures of him to see what he looked like. They last time they saw him was 1972. He came and saw him when he got out of the Army.
To all service men dead or alive, I am indebted for you efforts to sustain Freedom of the Press.
God bless you!
I have some bad news o tell my reader. Berkley Bill Bolagard, is dead. He appeared at the end of my short story ‘Old decrepit Love’ and vanished. His body will never be found.
Here is a video of my garden where I realized that I employ many disguises because I do not feel safe – being me! Springfield Johnny, being white on the outside, and black on the inside, is a way saying, it is not safe to be me. As I made this video I tried to reason there are not enough black men in Springfield. However, I realized I planted a crucifix at the head of my garden bed. Have I dug and planted my own grave?
Five years ago I assumed it was Anan who came up with the LUNATIC tactic. I suspect he read my blog when Belle told him he met a guy who knows Kesey. Anan is a Kesey-Freak. He and his wife took over the Eugene Celebration Parade. Anan booked a ride on Further. Anan checked me out. Then, he read my Biblical Words and the idea I am a prophet. Anan is a cold stone Atheist who set out to save his hero………….from me! He sent his darling Belle, who was living in his house when she came home with the blue bicycle I gave her. The Anand Coven is blown away by my ability to figure our what they are about. They thought they owned a endless supply of BULLSHIT. This, is the end of their run! The faux Santa was – protecting his son – employing his training as a Nut Doctor. Why? Because Ambrose IS GUILTY of misusing monies given to him to help the hapless of Whoville. This is what I accused Belle of.
“Every dog has their day!”
Anand Holthem-Keathly………..I rip off your mask! The producer of ‘The Authentic Human Being Show’ – has exposed you!
Here is what I told Belle in an e-mail I sent her, that I am sure Anand and Ambrose read. It was ANALIZED. The Gaslighting strategy was agreed upon. Anand could not believe Dan Brown eavesdropped on my groups. Anand had to depict ME as insane, because the truth is – he is insane! Anyone who plays these kind of games WITH CHILDREN, is abusing them. I caught the three of them! I am a newspaper reporter – who posts on my creative writing, also. They worked that. THEY could not come to grips they had VICTIMIZED the poor and homeless. They – ARE IN DENIAL!
Bellow is the article about the $400,000 dollar gift offered two days before I started exposing my experiences with Belle and SLEEPS. here is the motive of “threats” they were terrified the giver would read my bad press. Perhaps I would be chosen instead, just because I am dedicated to the homeless, and, I exposed the Bad Guys. These stories always go this way. I demand an accounting!
Anand, I am going to burry your reputation in Lane County! However, in my book you are going to be a famous villain – and mastermind! Not only did you protect you son – you convinced Belle Burch to protect your son. You had her sacrifice her life for you mentally ill laze-about! What fucking bastard. I will come visiting you at the Fed Lock-up. Belle and I will be there laughing how sick you look without your beard and Santa suit!
“Belle, I am confused. You took my number when we met after I told you I am an author out to preserve the Beat-Bohemian-Hippie culture. You said you were a radical, and I assumed you were an advocate for the homeless. Why then have you not talked about your radical homeless work with me when I shared at length my work with the homeless here in Springfield? From whom did you get an interest in Bohemians? Who is your boyfriend? Is he a radical advocate for the homeless? Has he been involved with OCCUPY?
I am trying to give YOU something very important. I know a information game when I see one. Dan Brown and his wife used to lurk on the yahoo.groups I belonged to that discussed the Templars, the Holy Grail, and the Masons. I have argued with members of the Sinclair family. The Davinci Code was a rip-off of OUR studies. Why are you examining me? Has it occurred to you that I am a Bohemian worth saving?
I married a very radical woman who was married to Thomas Pynchon. My best friend was good friends with Michael McClure and Jim Morrison. I was close with members of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.
I asked you to help me get this information in a format that can be published, so that I can own credibility to put forth my knowledge. Once I am published, I wont’ be examined by people who have a selfish interest, and thus their finding are negative. I want your positive input and help. How many questions has your boyfriend put to you about me? If he wants to know anything about me, he can give me a call! If you don’t understand why I am trying to give you something, ask and thou shall receive. I will tell you the truth – if I feel you are on my side!
The truth is, I did not like your poem, because I hate conspiracy radio. I want to do my own radio show called the Authentic Human Being Show. I did not like your poem because it says very little about YOU and your advocacy for the homeless. OCCUPY has a core group of people who want to remain anonymous. In my book they do not get to use the homeless as their human shield so they can own a cloak of invisibility in order to secretly push their ideaology. I can, and will expose that! Like the Pied Piper I will, put forth a better idea!
An article on the Beats says there is no direct connection between the Pynchon and the Beat writers. I am that connection!
I want some feedback on our movie. I want you to sign a non-disclosure contract. You may not used any information I have shared with you without my permission and for any reason I deem injurious to my preservation and cause as agreed to at our first meeting.
Jon Presco
Wow! What a Cosmic Trigger Coincidence! Erin posted this post on this Facebook and said it was an example of her ‘Retrograde of Venus’. I am changing it, but have the original. Here is what Erin wrote me – that floored me!
Eugene Donor Commits $400,000 For New Shelter Site
Article | April 17, 2014 – 1:00am | By Adrian Black
As Eugene city leaders floundered last week in relocating the former residents of the Whoville homeless camp, an anonymous benefactor took up the issue, offering a $400,000 donation to establish a sanctuary on private property.
The pledge came as a direct response to, among general grievances, the unyielding position of City Manager Jon Ruiz and others willing to leave the destitute in limbo. “I wanted to step up,” the donor tells EW, “because I saw the city making an attempt to push these people out. They’re citizens, not strangers.”
A Eugene native with capital to spare from the success of a local family business, the donor says the wealth was a matter of pure chance, adding that a privileged position in society obligates one to prevent a human rights catastrophe when no one else will.
For the donation to be seen through, the money has to be channeled properly through the fiscal sponsorship of a nonprofit organization. This would be accomplished through an existing entity with 501(c)(3) status, such as Opportunity Village Eugene or Community Alliance of Lane County. An alternative could be for SLEEPS (Safe Legally Entitled Emergency Places to Sleep) or the Nightingale Public Advocacy Collective to attain such status — the latter is already pending.
It’s now up to Mary Broadhurst, an attorney and advocate for the unhoused, and others representing the advocacy group Homeless Health Sanctuary, to coordinate sponsorship and fulfill the multiple stipulations attached to this unforeseen act of philanthropy.
“We’re looking to buy private property — a single site for something that goes beyond a 30-person rest stop,” Broadhurst says. “Initially, it would be tents on platforms, but it would transition into micro-housing.”
Semi-permanent occupants would be expected to share the space with those seeking single use overnight stays. The site would also include a health stop, where twice a week residents and passers-through could be evaluated, presumably by Occupy Medical or like volunteers. An information station would be developed to point the weary toward free meals and other community resources. The donor put a specific focus on the site needing to be self-sustaining beyond land purchase and startup costs.
The donor remains anonymous to keep the focus on the issue not the donor, and to avoid criticism from a business community where some might shame the donation: “Developers don’t want the parents of university students to see all these homeless people. It decreases the property value. They have a lot to gain from sweeping them under the rug.”
“Boy, could I tell you about Dan Brown . . . I am published by Penguin/Tarcher . . . I was the editor for Arkana Contemporary Astrology, Penguin UK . . . . And, he ripped off my authors and friends, Michael Baigent and Rich Leigh who are the authors of Holy Grail, etc.
Rich Leigh who are the authors of Holy Grail, etc. When they lost the lawsuit, Rich died of a heart attack four months later . . . Michael has since died 4 years ago from cancer . . . , When I was forced to read DaVinci, by the tine I got to page 38, I thought it was Rich Leigh under a boring pseudonym . . . AND, it is also straight out of my book on Retrograde Planets, in the VENUS chapter!!!!””
John Presco
Copyright 2019
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Predicting The Oakland Fire
Posted on December 25, 2015 by Royal Rosamond Press
Consider this my Christmas Card. Life is short. I will ignore all who disrespect me, and, those who show me no respect.
Joel 2:28
“And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
A week before the Oakland Fire I had a dream about it. I saw smoke and helicopters. I lived at 2816 London Rd below the Mormon Temple. It was a heavily wood canyon with no exit. I asked my landlord if I could clear some of the brush around his house, and remove pine needles he asked why. I told him about my dream.
The morning of October 20, 1991, Al called me up and said;
“Greg! You’re dreams on T.V. Turn on the news!”
The fire was two miles away when Al left to do errands. I asked him if hee wanted me to take his dog and family photos with me if the fire got near. He scoffed, let go a laugh.
“The fire won’t come anywhere near!”
In the dream, Al and I have manned hoses and are watering the brush around the house. Our neighbor calls and asked if I saw the flames come into our canyon.
“No! I just saw the smoke.”
Twenty minutes later, three cars were parked in her driveway loaded with her friend’s possessions. There was antique furniture tied on the roof. This was scary. These people’s homes were in flames they fleeing for safety based upon a Prophets Dream.
Suddenly, Al’s car comes barreling down the road. He jumps out and orders me to man a hose on one side of the house, while he mans another. I am in my dream. When the refuges saw that, they pulled out. We could get trapped down here. But, the flames stopped a quarter-mile away when the strong wind died down. I drove to the top of the hill and saw a huge column of smoke crossing the bay. I was in hell.
I am done trying to defended myself from family and friends who do not own the abilities I own, and have not died, and come back like Jesus who was seen by many after his resurrection. For forty days he walked around saying hello to people. I know how he felt.
Jon ‘The Nazarite’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_firestorm_of_1991
The Oakland firestorm of 1991 was a large suburban wildland-urban interface conflagration that occurred on the hillsides of northern Oakland, California, and southeastern Berkeley on October 20, 1991. The fire has also been called the Oakland hills firestorm or the East Bay Hills Fire. The fire ultimately killed 25 people and injured 150 others. The 1,520 acres (620 ha) destroyed, included 2,843 single-family dwellings and 437 apartment and condominium units. The economic loss has been estimated at $1.5 billion.[1]
A Goodbye and Arrest at Post Office
Posted on December 17, 2013by Royal Rosamond Press
Original “Florence Nightingale Pledge”
I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly to pass my life in purity and to practise my profession faithfully.
I shall abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and shall not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug.
I shall do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling.
I shall be loyal to my work and devoted towards the welfare of those committed to my care.[1
“Gwen has done no such thing. You’re making up complete lies. Quit taking footage of her and Alley and other activists and obsessively writing about them on your blog and Facebook. Go your own separate way. Seriously mods, why hasn’t this guy been removed?”
Terra Williams – Terra joined Occupy Medical in 2013 and quickly made herself indispensable. Terra has labored long hours as a community activist, IT specialist, volunteer coordinator, intake specialist and hospitality volunteer. Terra serves as and Egan Warming Center volunteer, the Secretary for Board of Directors at Nightingale Public Advocacy Collective and Volunteer Coordinator, and as a member of Board of Directors at Occupy Medical since 2015.
http://occupy-medical.org/blog/
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Alley Valkyrie If you read the rest of his blog, you’ll see why I went after him in the first place. I am making this public because this man is a sick psychopath who takes pictures all over Eugene.
Randy Cain I’m glad the mafia sent him treats.
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Mary Broadhurst yeah well…I’m a bit concerned about labels being applied to this guy. obviously he has issues. but will calling him a psychopath push him over the edge. did anyone consult with Belle before coming to her rescue? perhaps she had a plan as to how to deal with this…
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Alley Valkyrie Yes, I talked to Belle.
Glenn Combs: I’m thinkin’ concrete shoes. We got a river with deep spots… Hypothetically speaking, of course.
“Greg, Please delete your posts about Belle Burch from your FB page, your blog, and delete your videos of her from YouTube and wherever else you have posted them. To my knowledge she has not expressed any interest in you – in fact she has a wonderful boyfriend – and your public musings show no sensitivity to either one of them and border on harassment.
“Greg, Please delete your posts about Belle Burch from your FB page, your blog, and delete your videos of her from YouTube and wherever else you have posted them. To my knowledge she has not expressed any interest in you – in fact she has a wonderful boyfriend – and your public musings show no sensitivity to either one of them and border on harassment.
I would like to request that the admins of this group remove Greg Presco from this page. It is important that this page be a safe space for activists, and this man is disturbed and potentially dangerous. If anyone needs proof or justification of this belief, have a look at his blog.
“Belle Burch has very clearly told you to stop posting about and contacting her. I am asking you to back off, and very politely at this point. I’d prefer not to have to ask you again. Please stop it.”
My reply
“No she did not. She told me she did not want to talk to me when I called her. Her real distress comes from me finding out she kept information from me I solicited, that exposed her gang, and the truth Ambrose sees himself as a leader. If this was a one on one relationship, it would have been handled in a normal fashion. Now I see how she has been handling our business, she going to her gang. Stay the fuck out of my business! https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/25343/
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Well, I just picked a fight with quite the unstable psychopath. May not have been the most sensible thing to do, but it should definitely get interesting…
John McCahill just cant turn it off can you …. LOL
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Alley Valkyrie Local creeper. Delusional narcissist. Not Feri, but reminds me of a few of them. I sent him a PM firmly telling him to leave a friend of mine alone, and my “threat” will be the subject of his blog tomorrow. He has no idea who he is fucking with.
Jerry Rubin and Bruce Perlowin
Posted on June 4, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Jerry Rubin used to come to the Harkin’s home to do business with Bruce Perlowin who was living in the basement. Jerry was having a conflict of interest with Abbie Hoffman, a Jew who killed himself. Jerry believed being a Super Businessman was the best way to change the world. China and Russia just accused the U.S. of using Money and Business as a Weapon in the New Cold War.
Bruce and Jerry are Jews. I will link them with Ludwig Wittgenstein because the world’s collective information is conflicting, and often, contradicting. The world may want for a pro-active philosophy that works for everyone. For the last fifty years our Moral Compasses have been in The Hands of Radicals, Hippies, and Born Agains. With Nuclear War back in the lineup, we have to learn how not to play better guessing games. This is why I am authoring a Bond Novel. I am applying the Hippie-Radical Attack, mixed with the Christian End of Days. I have my spies become lovers in order to counter the attack on Gay and Transgender People, which is a USELESS DISTRACTION all the major players – RESORT TO – when they have no answers. I believe in FIGHTING FAIR. Who agrees?
I think my computer is handpicking what news comes up – just for me. The day after I point out the HYPOCRACY of Israel honoring Soviet Veterans who fought for Stalin, there appear an article on his purges. I’m going to try a new way to bring you the news, that replicates how we get it – IN BLOCKS. I will start my morning by posting on news items that interests me, and are revelent to my MAIN ARTICLE. Young folks may never have heard of Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman. What about Perlowin?
The greatest HYPOCRACY in the world right now, is, the Conservative’s Republican Christians REFUSAL to grant Congress permission to delve deep into the June 6th, Insurrection. Consider the Trial of the Chicago Seven.
John Presco
Pence Taken Out | Rosamond Press
Sometime in the mid-1970s, Rubin reinvented himself as a businessman. Friend and fellow Yippie Stew Albert claimed Rubin’s new ambition was giving capitalists a social consciousness. In 1980 he began a new career on Wall Street as stockbroker with the brokerage firm John Muir & Co. “I know that I can be more effective today wearing a suit and tie and working on Wall Street than I can be dancing outside the walls of power,”[1] he said.
In the 1980s, he became known for his promotion of business networking, having created Business Networking Salons, Inc., a company that organized parties at the Studio 54 and Palladium nightclubs in Manhattan, where thousands of young professionals and entrepreneurs met and shared ideas. Near the end of his life, Rubin became interested in the science of life extension and was heavily involved in multi-level marketing of health foods and nutritional supplements.[42] “In 1991, he and his family moved to Los Angeles,” according to an Observer.com profile of him,[43] “where he became a successful independent marketer for a Dallas-based firm that sold a nutritional drink called Wow!, made with kelp, ginseng, and bee pollen. Ironically, Bobby Seale became one of his salesmen.”[4
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Bruce Perlowin Fined
Posted on September 7, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Bonds With Angels
by
John Presco
My Recovery Miracle
In 1992 my best friend, Michael Harkins, took me to a large birthday meeting in Concord California to get my five year sober coin. This is in response to our mutual friend, Bruce Perlowin, misusing recovery miracles to garnish publicity after I challenged him to do a twelfth step to show he has been reformed. I talked an hour with the writer for the Oakland Tribune, who turned out to be a brother in AA. Michael and I were convinced Perlowin was going to get busted for wheeling and dealing that we rented the movie ‘The Producers’ and insisted he watch it. He was living down in Wanda’s basement for four months, it part of his patrol that he be in a halfway house situation. We had Bruce pay attention to the last scene, where more shares in the prison production, is being sold, then allowed. How prophetic. To discover my sister’s biography is full of destructive fraud, put me in therapy. The extent all members of my family – including my newfound daughter – undermined by sobriety, and sober story, is THE sober story of the century. No one has overcome such adversity. I am thirty-four years sober.
I am convinced Ken Kesey wanted what I had when we put together several times by my childhood friend, Nancy Hamren, in 1987, months after I graduated from Serenity Lane. How I view -what could have been – is important. Ken Babbs is giving the impression he is carrying-on a traditional bond – with permission from Dead Kesey. I am THE LIVING EXAMPLE of a evolution, a perfect example of what could be, because I have made astute and elaborate notes on my progress. I should be questioned and interviewed. Indeed, it occurred to me an hour ago, that I can give lectures – and get paid for imparting my valuable history.
Michael Harkins was good friends with Michael McClure and Jim Morrison. I met McCLure on two occasions. Both men had a problem with alcoholism. Add to this the fact Jack London and Jack Kerouac suffered from the same disease that I do, then my writing, my being a sober writer, needs to be studied by professionals.
I have been texting with Peter Shapiro extensively for two weeks about our history.
John
John
Posted by: HempToday® June 3, 2021
Industrial hemp company Hemp Inc. and two of its executives must pay a total of $ 10 million in fines to resolve a 2016 US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fraud allegation, a civil fine of $ 8 million; CEO Bruce Perlowin to Pay $ 1.7 Million; and the company itself pays $ 300,000.
The SEC originally accused the penny stock company Perlowin, Epling, and Bruce Perlowin’s brother, Jed M. Perlowin, of longstanding fraud and running an illegal program to sell unregistered shares in violation of US securities laws. The government did not state that Jed Perlowin had been fined. The case was settled late last year, but no fines were imposed.
Hemp Inc. has since said that Bruce Perlowin is no longer running the day-to-day business of the company, but is now acting as Chief Visionary Consultant.
Questionable offers
The SEC alleged in the original 2016 indictment that Perlowin, as CEO, transferred hundreds of millions of Hemp Inc. shares to companies controlled by his brother Jed and Epling for sale in public markets.
These companies entered into consultancy agreements with Hemp Inc. that the SEC identified as counterfeit. Some shares were given away. In 2012, for example, an Epling affiliate received 100 million shares in Hemp Inc. in recognition of “affection and appreciation for over 20 years of friendship and sincere support,” according to the SEC’s original claims filed in federal court in Nevada.
Not registered
According to the 2016 lawsuit, Epling’s companies sold the Hemp Inc. shares they received and “used a substantial portion of the proceeds for the benefit and at the direction of Bruce Perlowin and Hemp Inc.” Jed Perlowin’s companies also sold millions of Hemp Inc. shares and used a portion of the proceeds to benefit Bruce Perlowin, the commissioned securities agency.
The SEC said the shares were sold to investors as if they were restricted, but that investors buying them through market transactions would have reasonably believed that they were unrestricted shares. The SEC said Hemp Inc. never filed a registration statement with the SEC.
In late May, Hemp, Inc. and its co-principals Bruce Perlowin and Barry Keith Epling agreed to pay $10 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to resolve a suit the SEC filed against them in 2016, according to Law360.
Perlowin will pay $1.7 million, Epling will pay $8 million, and Hemp, Inc. will pay $300,000 to resolve the suit, which alleged they “used a network of shell companies to improperly sell unregistered securities,” according to the news source. However, they didn’t admit or deny the allegations, Law360 stated.
A June 7 press release from Hemp, Inc. stated that “Perlowin has transitioned from CEO to Chief Visionary Consultant (CVC) and while he no longer manages the day-to-day tasks of the company, he remains the true visionary Hemp, Inc. shareholders have come to admire and respect.
“The Company remains committed to its longstanding goals and is aggressively moving forward and continues to add new blood and new ideas to the management of the company. Hemp, Inc. has expanded its knowledge base by bringing in a new CEO and new members of its Board of Directors.”
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Bruce Perlowin and the Gentle Giant
Posted on April 11, 2012 by Royal Rosamond Press
The following is being published by Rosamond Press Co. a newspaper I founded in Lane County Oregon in 1997. Thanks to the Vincent Rice Family Trust, I have been able to upgrade my computer and purchase a scanner which allows me to publish family photographs such as the one above of Wanda Harkins home in the Oakland Hills were Bruce Perlowin lived for five months.
Wanda Harkins was my surrogate mother, and since 1968, she always gave me sanctuary from the storm, if just for one night sleeping on the couch, or staying a month or two down in the basement where the King of Pot had his headquarters. I was a good friend of Wanda’s three sons, James, Michael, and Jeffrey Harkins since 1965. I visited the Harkins home up on Skyline in 1966 with my friend, Nancy Hamren, who became a Merry Prankster. Doctor James Harkins was a well known pediatrician who experimented with LSD with his older son, James Junior. In 1969 Wanda’as home was raided by the Oakland Police, the Oakland Tribune newspaper reporting; “Wild Bongo Party Raided In Oakland Hills”. Wanda’s three sons were put in a paddy wagon and hauled off to jail.
We used to call Wanda Mr’s Cleaver, because she was stuck in 50s. She was the consummate housewife long after she and Jim were divorced. Wanda never failed to invite me to Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, she knowing my natal family were not hospitable. Some stoners of renown walked in her door, such as, Abbie Hoffman, who was in the jewelry business with Bruce Perlowin whose ex-wife was now Michael’s wife, and Bruces’ son, like a grandson to Wanda whose three sons never sired children. Bruce was married to a famous Russian Spy who was still in prison for seducing an FBI agent. Bruce put her picture on the wall. Wanda was a Republican right-winger whose boyfriend attened the hijinks at Bohemian Grove. Wanda would come down into the basement to do a load of laundry, and ask Bruce about the photo;
“That’s my wife. We got married in prison.”
“Oh, how sweet!” Wanda said, she signing parole papers that made her home a halfway house for the drug smuggler who said the rewards arent worth the risk to Junior Highschoo lkids in Oakland’s Ghetto, where Bruce had gone at my suggestion, I trying to do a 12th. Step on him, I having four years of sobriety. I challenged Bruce to give a anti-drug-profit message. Bruce saw a chance to garnish some publicity. I was angry, and called the Tribune reproter who wrote the article. Turns out he had eleven years sobriety, and, he felt guilty for getting Bruce busted because of an article he wrote that he was not aware would crack open the case that put Bruce in the Fed lockup.
“Are you kidding me!”
Bruce is the world expert on getting Sympathy for Devil. There is a third world flavor in feeling sorry for the benevolent dictator, or the Mafia chief who throws huge Columbus Day celebrations in New York. Meanwhile we addicts and drunks in recovery must remain anonymous. To go against my peers after my fall and death at McClure’s Beach, was extremely difficult – to this very day! I just revealed some information I was forbidden to reveal. Why stop now? We are doomed, we getting older and taking drugs for medical problem, and not to trip the lights fantastic, or, exchange Bohemian ideas.
Here is a video of Bruce with Reverend Doug Van Dyke “Doctor of Divinity” I doubt the Doc can quote me one verse from the Bible, but, he is next to Bruce in oder to prove he has a spritual program of some kind – that might heal you! Doug is a secular Jesus pot-head. In many ways he is – me – the me I used to be, that hippie who grew up in Oakland, and who was adopted by the Robert Hamilton, the man behind Owsely, who with his brother Tim Hamilton, sold LSD all over the world.
Below is a vdio of Buzzy Linhart who had a legal marijuana orginization years before Bruce. Buzzy is a friend of Chris Wandel, and went to this show with Joe Marra who owned the Night Owl Cafe in the village. Chris dated Peter Shapiro of the Loading Zone.
Michael became friends with Bruce when he went with his wife and Bruces son to visit The King in prison. Michael was good friends with the beat poet Michael MacClure, and Jim Morrison. He was approached by Stone’s people and asked Michael about his friendship with Jim. They wanted material for the movie The Doors.
Michael told them their movie will suck, and they can go fuck themselves. The movie sucked, as will Bruces movie, as will the movie about my famous sister, will suck, because, Rosamond’s biography sucks, and the people who want to make money – suck the most!
Michael worked as a Private Investigator, and went with me to Carmel to attend the funeral of Christine Rosamond Benton. It was Michael who alerted me to things that were – fishy! If you put Rosamond’s, Bruces’s and Jim’s story-movie together, then you might have an interesting story about folks who like money, sex, drugs, and power!
Above is the price list mu ex-brpther-in-law sent out to steady customers of Rosamond images – a week after she drowned. The probate would ot get under way until a year later due to the huge legal battle over – money – because most folks who surrounded Christine believed the price of dead artist’s work would skyrocket! Instead of the Drunken Rosemary prints being worth $250,000 dollars, they might bring in a cool million. Then there are the book and movie sales. Carrie Fisher did one screenplay.
I am good to go if the outsider get a movie contract, I already acted when it came to one of Bruce’s most famous investors in Rain Crips ceral bars. I’m talking about Victoria from Chicago, the queen of the Blue Meanies, who after a couple of freakouts at the airport and motel, became convinced the Mafia was behind Bruce, and, she would be snuffed out because she got too close to Mr. Big. That’s when I got a urgent call from Michael;
“Get up to Wandas and meet me in the backyard. I’m bringing this woman to meet you. Pretend you are the Godfather. Reasure her I am not a hit man for the Mafia.”
I got in my gold Cadillac and headed for Wanda’s Hideaway. In the backyard I found a coffee cup, and prentended it was full of coffee. There was a newspaper I pretended to read, as she came through the gate. I could hear her gentle whimpering, she believing she had minutes to live. Then she saw me.
Before I could stand up to shake her hand, she has fallen to one knee, and is grasping my hand hard. I spoke gently to her, my blues eyes, bathing her in wisdom and understanding, that, told her things do not have to go badly, and, putting my hand on her shoulder I said;
“You’re under my protection now. (and Wanda’s) You need no longer worry! Michael, make sure no harm comes to Victoria.”
Vicki broke out in tears and cried;
“Oh! You are not what I expected at all. You are a gentle giant!”
Victoria was too hysterical to get on the plane. But, after one session with the Godfather, she was good to go. She reassured Bruce there would be a check in the mail as she waved goodbye. It never arrived. However, I – Mr. Big – received an envelope, which I never told Bruce about. I purtchased a Brother word processor to work on my novel The Gideon Computer which is about the last hippie in the future who gets busted and sent to the first privately owned prison. My friend Nancy suggested I write the history of the hippies, but, how boring!
“Alls well, that ends well!”
Jon Presco
Copyright 2012
These understandings have led him to an entire “GREEN” philosophy that he shares with the world! Nothing held back, Rev. Van Dyke is motivated to bring his unique perspective on cannabis, and how to fully potentiate all aspects of the processes involved, to the world. The ever changing cannabis industry has many, many sides, which will you choose?
At the Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland yesterday, prosecutors spent the day cross-examining defense witnesses and leaders of the First Hemp Bank and its subsidiary, the Buzzy Linhart Medical Foundation.
Both organizations are licensed by the city of Oakland to issue medical marijuana to their members.
Buzzy Linhart, a founding member of the Buzzy Linhart Medical Foundation, said in his testimony that the confiscated marijuana actually belongs to him and not to the defendants.
Linhart said Felini worked for the organization as a “compassionate caregiver” who stored the drug for later distribution among the group’s 48 patients, who are suffering from cancer, AIDS and other illnesses that cause chronic pain
His prowess on the vibraphone found him performing as a session musician on recordings by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Richie Havens, Carly Simon, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, and even Jimi Hendrix (on the Cry of Love album).
It was a very unique room, a long and narrow storefront. The stage faced straight at a wall in the center with one church pew at the foot (the “crotch watchers bench”), an aisle, and then another pew against the wall. All the other seating was to the left and right of the stage, giving a side view. The PA was very trebly and faced to the sides. The music crashed into the wall and died, leaving the vocals very bare to the bulk of the crowd to each side. You had better sing on key or else it was a disaster. Good harmony went a long way at the Night Owl! The cast of characters: “Jack the Rat” at the door, a frightening cat with teeth missing and dirty clothes; Joe Marra, the owner; Annie, head waitress (very bossy)…The waitresses all used four letter words that we had never heard from girls before…shocking to four straight, naive, suburban rockers! There was Pepe, the openly gay cook (we had never seen anyone “openly gay”); and of course, all of the great bands! An interesting and happy family indeed…Joe Marra would blink the stage lights on and off, kind of a poor man’s strobe light effect…Waitress Shelly Plimpton appeared in the original cast of “Hair.” [And later had a daughter with Keith Carradine–peerlessly cool actress Martha Plimpton. -Ed.] Every Thanksgiving the Night Owl had a huge feast. Everyone was there past and present–even The Spoonful…and The Mothers of Invention served the food! Yes, we “believed in magic”!
Oakland 1968
Posted on April 10, 2012 by Royal Rosamond Press
Above is a photo of the 13th. Street Four crossing a bridge in Venice California. From left to right is: Keith Pruvis, Tim O’Connor, Peter Shapiro, and, Jon Greg Presco. In the foreground in Tim’s girlfriend whose father was a famous Hollywood agent and good friend of Lee Marvin and Marlon Brando who were at her home quite alot. Tim’s father was a famous actor of the same name.
In 1968, The Four lived in a large Victorian house on 13th. street near downtown Oakland. James Taylor, Keith and I, moved into this incredible house two weeks after my fall at McClure’s Beach. James invited the rock band ‘The Loading Zone’ to come live with us. As ‘The Marbles’ they played at the first Trips Festival at Longshoremen’s Hall in 1966.
I was given a bedroom next to the sound room. It had a beautiful carved mantel. I was the artist in residence. When the Zone came home from a gig at the Filmore they would bring home members of famous bands who wanted to see the quintessential hippie scene that had made the San Francisco bay area famous all over the world. I would get a knock on my door and some band member wanted to come in and take a peek. One young man asked if he could watch me paint. There was a fire in the hearth. I worked late at night on large canvases provided by my patron and benefactor, Bob H. who grew up with Tim Scully, and was a good friend of Owsley, he helping him build the sound system for the Grateful Dead. Bob’s brother, Tim H. was a member of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and sold LSD in Europe. Bob had worked at the Livermore Lab when he was sixteen. He was a young genius who bid me to paint again after my fall.
One day Larry Sidel came into my room in the attic, and was surprised to find me there. Larry is the father of Shannon Rosamond who inherited her famous mother’s artistic legacy that was destroyed by un-creative members of my family who wanted to go forward without my history that was symbiotic with Christine’s history, that is the subject of a show coming to the Oakland Museum, titled 1968. This show is touring America.
Bill Arnold and I used to got to the original Oakland Art Museum that was located in a small room in the Oakland Auditorium. had a Bohemian scene going on with our thirteen year old peers down by Lake Merrit. Nancy Hamren was Bill’s lover off and on for a couple of years. Nancy was the first girl I every kissed. We ended up living in a famous commune in San Francisco. Christine moved in, and went on a double date with Nick Sands, Nacny, and Owsely. Denny Dent was a part of the Oakland Scene that in many respect was mor dynamic then what was going on in SF. Two of our close friends in Oakland were members of SLA and were questioned by the FBI about the Patty Hurst kidnapping.
In 1968 my father-in-law, Robert Miles, was in Vietnam. Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panthers helped find Marilyn’slost sister in France. I was general manger of the upstairs Art Association that was located in Victorian offices on Broadway in Old Oakland. The President, Rosalie Ritz, did illustrations for Panther trials. A mutual friend, Bruce Perlowin, is coming out with a movie about his life, he the ‘King of Pot’.
My friend Michael introduce me to his good friend Michael McClure who taught at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. They were good friend of Jim Morrison. I just found a book of Jim’s poems.
I am still in touch with Tim and Peter, and Chris Wandel, who was a lover to three of the four. She lives in the Grenwhich Village and was close with Buzzy Lindhart who moved to Oakland where my ancestors had a farm in Fruit Vale. Add to all this the East Coast scene of my kindred Mel Lyman and Jessie Benton, then you could say we got it covered.
In the Victorian on 13th. was a room we could not enter that was reserved for the elderly owner who was back east being taken care of by her sister. She lived in the Victorian by herself, in a all black neighborhood. This room was part of the tour, it suspended in time, there little old lady things set out, waiting for her return, that never happened. Great expectations!
The Zone played with The Who at the Filmore. The Who sang’My Generation’ at Woodstock.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2012
They were formed in Oakland, California in 1966 by singer-keyboardist Paul Fauerso, following the dissolution of his jazz group The Tom Paul Trio. The original lineup was Fauerso, bassist Bob Kridle, drummer Ted Kozlowski (replaced by George Newcom), and guitarists Peter Shapiro and Steve Dowler,[2] both formerly of Berkeley psychedelic rock band The Marbles, who had supported Jefferson Airplane at the historic “Tribute to Dr. Strange”, the inaugural Family Dog promotion concert held at San Francisco’s Longshoreman’s Hall in October 1965.
The Loading Zone’s first major concert was the Trips Festival at the Longshoreman’s Hall in January 1966.[3]. Although primarily an R&B band, The Loading Zone added contemporary psychedelic influences and soon became a popular attraction on the burgeoning Bay Area music scene. The Loading Zone was based at the Berkeley venue The New Orleans House, but performed numerous times at major venues including the Fillmore West.
Although The Loading Zone occasionally headlined, the group is better known for supporting some of the biggest acts of the period including Cream, The Who, The Byrds, Big Brother & the Holding Company, The Grateful Dead, Country Joe & The Fish, Howlin’ Wolf, Sam & Dave, Chuck Berry and Buddy Miles.[4][5]
The Lords and the New Creatures, Morrison’s first published volume of poetry, is an uninhibited exploration of society’s dark side — drugs, sex, fame, and death — captured in sensual, seething images. Here, Morrison gives a revealing glimpse at an era and at the man whose songs and savage performances have left their indelible impression on our culture.
Scully grew up in Pleasant Hill, which was across the Bay from San Francisco. In eighth grade he won honorable mention in the 1958 Bay Area Science Fair for designing and building a small computer. During high school he spent summers working at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory on physics problems. In his junior year of high school, Scully completed a small linear accelerator in the school science lab (he was trying to make gold atoms from mercury) which was pictured in a 1961 edition of the Oakland Tribune. Scully skipped his senior year of high school and went directly to U.C. Berkeley majoring in mathematical physics. After two years at Berkeley, Scully took a leave of absence in 1964 because his services as an electronic design consultant were in high demand. Tim Scully first took LSD on April 15, 1965.
Scully knew the government would move quickly to suppress LSD distribution, and he wanted to obtain as much of the main precursor chemical, lysergic acid, as possible. Scully soon learned that Owsley Stanley possessed a large amount (440 grams) of lysergic acid monohydrate. Owsley and Scully finally met a few weeks before the Trips Festival in the fall of 1965. The 30-year-old Owsley took the 21 year old Scully as his apprentice[3] and they pursued their mutual interest in electronics and psychedelic synthesis.
Owsley took Scully to the Watts Acid Test on February 12, 1966, and they built electronic equipment for the Grateful Dead until late spring 1966. In July 1966 Owsley rented a house in Point Richmond, California and Owsley and Melissa Cargill (Owsley’s girlfriend who was a skilled chemist) set up a lab in the basement. Tim Scully worked there as Owsley’s apprentice. Owsley had developed a method of LSD synthesis which left the LSD 99.9% free of impurities. The Point Richmond lab turned out over 300,000 tablets (270 micrograms each) of LSD they dubbed “White Lightning”. LSD became illegal in California on October 6, 1966, and Scully wanted to set up a new lab in Denver, Colorado.
In 1969, Nick Sand worked with Tim Scully in Windsor, California, producing millions of doses of the Orange Sunshine LSD. Sand was also the first chemist to synthesize DMT and to suggest smoking as a method, which “came about by serendipity, when some crumbs of DMT fell onto a hotplate and vaporized, inspiring Sand to try smoking it.” [*3] This is an impressive accomplishment, because DMT is often considered among the few psychedelics exceeding LSD in the raw intensity of its experience.
Image: Photograph of Nick Sand as a young Anthropology Student,
by Gene Bernofsky, 1967,
From Erowid.org
Robert Timothy Scully, or more commonly just Tim Scully, was a co-worker with Nick Sand in the Orange Sunshine laboratory. When only 13 years old, Scully designed and built a computer in 1958 that received honorable mention at a San Francisco Bay Area science fair. [*4] A few years later, at another science fair, he attempted “to make gold from mercury by use of thermal neutrons,” whereby he would create “a neutron flux by a deuteron-deuteron interaction.” [*5]
In the 1980′s, Denny Dent invented a new form of performance-based art. No fancy props were needed. Nor was the pretense of knowing anything about art. Just an over-sized canvas, a half-dozen buckets of brightly colored paint, loud music and the rest was pure Denny Dent. The art world took notice. And for over two decades, audiences couldn’t look away.
His portraits of famous people, sports icons and historic figures captured the imagination of the art world. The efficiency with which he could fill a canvas was something no one had ever seen before. And, after Dent’s untimely death in 2004, something they thought they’d never see again.
Courtroom Art
In 1966, at the height of the Haight Ashbury counter-culture era, Ritz moved with her family to the San Francisco Bay Area. Ritz’s sketches of the street scenes were published in the City Magazine and the San Francisco Examiner. Her work in Washington DC brought her to the attention of the local public television station KQED. From there, she began a career covering trials for the local CBS outlet, (KPIX) and for the Associated Press. This included the Patty Hearst trial, the Sirhan Sirhan trial, the Charles Manson trial, the trials of the Black Panthers, including Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver and David Hilliard, the trials of Angela Davis and Ruchell Magee, and the trials of the Soledad Brothers, the San Quentin Six, Mass Murderer Juan Corona, John Linley Frazier, the Presidio Mutiny Court-Martial at Fort Ord, the Billy Dean Smith Court-Martial, Inez Garcia (second trial), Bill and Emily Harris (Symbionese Liberation Army), Russell Little and Joseph Remiro (Murder of Marcus Foster/Symbionese Liberation Army), Wendy Yoshimura, Camarillo State Hospital Grand Jury Hearings, the Hell’s Angels, Alioto-Look Magazine Libel Trial, Alioto Conflict of Interest Trial, the Bonanno Brothers, Stephanie Kline, Larry Layton, Dan White, San Francisco Proposition Hearings, Sara Jane Moore, and Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo/Pentagon Papers.
While covering these trials, Ritz worked alongside several renowned journalists, including legendary New York Daily News reporter Theo Wilson, Associated Press senior trial reporter and special correspondent, Linda Deutsch, and Associated Press chief United Nations correspondent, Edie Lederer.
Ritz continued to cover trials through the early 1980s. Then, in the 1990s, the Associated Press brought Ritz out of retirement to cover the O.J. Simpson civil trial.
Gallery of California History
Explore the New Gallery
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May 1, 2010 – December 2, 2013
The new gallery is based on the theme of Coming to California —an idea that evokes not only the arrivals and departures of people throughout human history and their interactions with the inhabitants already here, but also the notion of coming to terms with the influence of California on our individual and collective identities.
For nearly forty years, the Museum’s Gallery of California History has enabled generations of visitors to explore major events and trends that have shaped California history. It has housed thousands of historical artifacts, works of art, ethnographic materials, and original photographs from OMCA’s permanent collection—the largest, finest, and most comprehensive collection of California cultural material anywhere.
With this overarching concept, visitors explore chronologically arranged sections of the gallery presenting a variety of topics and periods in California history, as well as their continuing legacies today. Containing some 3,000 artifacts and art works, the new Gallery features sections that explore the history of California from the incredible diversity of early Native American culture, to the Gold Rush and growth of San Francisco, through the rise of Los Angeles and Hollywood, to the tumultuous decades of the 1960s and 1970. It concludes with a frequently updated and rotating gallery space that addresses current issues and contemporary perspectives.
Reinforcing the intent of the gallery to reflect multiple perspectives is a highly innovative design and interpretive approach that allows visitors’ learning experiences to be driven by their own curiosities and to engage directly with the stories of Californians—many of them largely untold in traditional histories. Elements of the new Gallery include dramatic exhibit environments and multimedia viewing and listening stations, as well as informal learning spaces that allow for more in-depth exploration and contemplation. The Gallery also features several opportunities for visitors to contribute their own stories and perspectives on the California experience.
http://museumca.org/collections/12
OAKLAND (CBS13) – The exhibit is called “1968″ and it makes an impact as soon as you enter, with a real Huey Medical helicopter in a mock middle-class living room.
“I see things from my past, my home,” said one visitor.
The Huey chopper was built this week by actual Vietnam vets, bringing back memories of their days at war.
“I was frightened the whole time, but I learned something about myself and my brothers, and that’s something you don’t learn anywhere else,” said Wayne Terry, Vietnam Vet.
And for those who didn’t go to war, different memories.
“The protests and burning my draft card, and going through all this stuff was happening,” said Victor Quintero.
There were protests against the war, shows of black power from the Black Panthers, and feminist demonstrations with a “freedom trash can” full of bras and curlers.
Then, there were the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert Kennedy.
Photographs hung that were taken from a train as Kennedy’s body travelled cross country after his death.
But 1968 wasn’t all doom and gloom.
Laugh-in was the number one show on TV, and Johnny Cash gave a performace at Folsom Prison.
There are some interactive aspects to this exhibit. You can even vote for your favorite presidential candidate, and since this exhibit has moved from Minnesota to Oakland, Robert F. Kennedy has been in the lead.
“I think 1968 impacts every living human being. Not to mention all of those who gave their lives in 1968, so, that, we could have the life we do now in 2012,” said Cynthia Taylor, Oakland Museum of California.
The Battle For Oakland
Posted on July 23, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
The Bohemian, Beat, Hippie Scene did not exist in order to make a few authors rich and famous. I can not be dismissed for owning such ambitions. It occurs to me I am the only one left. Mary Ann Tharaldsen is still alive, and I will be sad if she leaves the planet. My ex was a technical writer employed by Boing in Washington. Writers like Charles Shields and Boris Kachka will not be on the front lines protecting old Oakland Bohemian against the Fascist State of Donald Trump. Nope, they will be waiting down the line a year of so to see what they can glean from the author who wrote the book
THE BATTLE OF OAKLAND
My ex and I lived in Oakland. Mary Ann went to Cornell with Richard and Mimi Farina, as well as Thomas Pynchon. Only I saw Black Lives Matter coming, and a new Revolution that Charles and Boris sit on, like on the lid of a old trunk in the attic, they feathering their nest in those Leisure Times before the pandemic came along. This is bigger than Woodstock. Much bigger.
John Presco
Mayors of several major U.S. cities, including Oakland and San Jose, co-signed a letter condemning President Trump’s decision to deploy federal agents in Portland, Oregon, deeming it an “abuse of power” for political gain.
Last week, the Trump administration sent federal law-enforcement agents into Portland to quell protests that have been ongoing since George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police on May 25. Those agents reportedly fired projectiles into crowds and whisked demonstrators into unmarked vehicles, which “escalated events and increased the risk of violence.”
On Monday, the city’s mayor, Ted Wheeler, sent a letter co-signed by Oakland’s Libby Schaaf and San Jose’s Sam Liccardo as well as the mayors of Seattle, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington DC, Kansas City, Boston, Philadelphia, Denver, Los Angeles, Tuscon, Sacramento and Phoenix to U.S. Attorney General William Barr and Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf demanding “immediate action to withdraw your forces.”
The mayors condemned Trump, who is campaigning on the premise of law-and-order as he seeks reelection this fall, for exploiting the civil rights movement for political gain.
Lucy in the Sky with Starship
Posted onJanuary 12, 2014by Royal Rosamond Press
On December 29, 2013, I posted this on the Facebook of Charles J. Shield who wrote ‘And so it goes’ the biography of Kurk Vonnegut, my idol…..
“If Lucia had her way, she would go with a Dance Drama, a tale of how a classic Anglo-Saxon novel is assimilated into the Hippie Dance Music Culture. The Grateful Dead will do Finnagan’s Wake, and, here come the Lucettes! Turn down volume on India dance and leave Love song.”
https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/…/05/21/love-dance-6-4/
On Christmas Day, my Muse, Rena, wrote me a four page letter that she mailed on January 3rd. I opened this letter on January 9th. and wept tears of joy. I feared she might be dead. Tomorrow, the four page letter I wrote will be opened by the woman who had a profound influence on my life, and the life of my late sister, for after Christine saw a photo of the painting I did of my Muse, she took up art.
Rena studied classical ballet, jazz, modern dance, and tap. She attended the Academy of Washington Ballet, the London School of Contemporary Dance, and studied and apprenticed with Susan Alexander, former principal dancer with the Royal Ballet. If Rena would accept I would like her to be the principal choreographer for ‘Love Dance’
‘Love Dance’ was conceived while I was on the train going south to visit my daughter and grandson. I believe this was 2010. I was playing a cassette tape I had ‘The Best of Love’. All of a sudden I am a young man dancing in this musical with Rena Christensen who I learned five years earlier was a dancer and choreographer. I played this tape several times as I visualized what this tribute to Rock and Dance would look like.
This suggestion got some response that appeared to mock me. One of Charles’ friends suggested this ‘far-out’ idea be kept for the archives. When I told Marilyn about the response, and how I later found out Vonnegut met with the Jefferson Starship in 1971 to discuss incorporating Kurt’s ideas into their music project, she told me that Jeff Pasternak had given her a call, and wanted her advice. Jeff was writing a play, and his female character needed a cathartic experience. Jeff could not come up with anything. neither could Marilyn.
This was January 2. We were at the Granary where I read some of my poems, while Marilyn’s husband’s Jazz band accompanied me. The next day, Rena mailed her letter.
Marilyn’s sister co-authored ‘Fela’ that is now a hit in New York. Bryan’s song was inspired by what I said to him when he asked me for advice about the relationship he was having with Christine who had a relationship with my friend from England that resembles the movie ‘Across the Universe’. The last time I saw Rena was when we went and saw ‘Yellow Submarine’ in Lincoln Nebraska.
It appears that Vonnegut was asked to contribute to ‘Blows Against the Empire’. This Broadway Musical is writing itself. I posted the following on the 28 and 29th.
Greg Presco: Charles, I hope I am not stepping on any toes, here. Were you thinking of authoring Lucia Joyce’s biography. I just googled her and her father and his work. My grandfather, whom I never met, was a poet, and when I began authoring poetry (while in a trance) at twelve, my mother and aunts became alarmed because they were bid to loathe their father. I wrote this poem a year ago to a young woman who worked at Starbucks. I read it with an Irish brogue.
Greg Presco” Charles has lobbed some balls across my plate with his steam motorcycle and Joyce. In my un-finished novel ‘The Gideon Computer’ the last hippie of the future channels a Nazi whose love for wood-burning cars allows him to get near the hard-water German is making, and helps sabotage the plants. These A-bombs would be delivered with V2 rockets. My ex had shown my Pynchon’s books, but, I found them a hard read.
Greg Presco: My other grandmother was a friend of Joaquin Miller and lived up the road from Gertrude Stein. Her best friend was an Isadora Duncan freak. https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/…/viola-duncan-of…/
Greg Presco: Finding herself stuck between two droll and dusty bookends, two avant guard writers who expect at least one avant absurd poem from her, Lucia finds her breakout moment when she meets Antonin Artaud at the Moulin Rouge. Back at his garret they do mescaline together, in the form of Peyote buds Antonin has brought back from his trip to the States where he witnessed the Ghost Dance. Teaching her some of the moves, Lucia goes into a trance and into the future. In her vision quest she finds herself on the dance floor of the Filmore West gyrating to the Grateful Dead. The first Dead Head is born!
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/tdr/summary/v045/45.3savarese.html
http://psypressuk.com/2011/10/12/literary-review-the-peyote-dance-by-antonin-artaud/
Originally published in France under the title ‘Les Tarahumaras’ (1947), ‘The Peyote Dance’ by Antonin Artaud describes the author’s experiences with Peyote and the Tarahumara in Mexico, in 1936. Written over twelve years and covering Artaud’s stay at a psychiatric hospital in Rodez, the book is an important work of drug literature, so far as it provides an intriguing discourse on a possible essential value in psychedelic drugs.
rtaud’s assertion is so explicit that it can be taken as a veritable declaration of principles, especially when one considers the fact that his text “On the Balinese Theater” was, of all the articles collected in The Theater and Its Double, the first to be written. The last to be written, on the other hand, was the emblematically titled “Oriental and Western Theater,” written in December 1936, shortly before Artaud’s departure for Mexico. All the other texts in The Theater and Its Double fall in between, from “Metaphysics and the Mise-en-Scène” (December 1931) and “The Alchemical Theater” (September 1932) to “The Theater of Cruelty (First Manifesto)” (October 1932) and “Theater and the Plague” (April 1933).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blows_Against_the_Empire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB0GepZMzKU
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