“As a result, all residents on Brooklyn Street have to move.”
Springfield’s Glenwood riverfront development forces resident relocation© Provided by KMTR Eugene
Development on the Glenwood Riverfront is pricing out long-time residents.
STOP THEM! The City of Springfield is tearing down Mr. and Mrs Blutarsky quaint Bohemian cottage on Brooklyn Street in Glenwood. In 2009, my late friend, Kenny Reed, took me to meet his friend, Bluto, who had organized the hood in order to keep Apex of Dubai from building a fantastic Watertown – after eviting, The Beats, The Hippies, and The Bohemian Poets that Bluto gathered from all over the world. Mandy and Bluto got married after he graduated from Grad School at the University of Oregon. Bluto majored n Beat Poetry. There were no six figure jobs for Bluto and he carried his bride over the threshold of the quaint cottage you see above – that must be declared a Beat Poet National Monument. Inside is a treasure trove of sixties furniture and décor. Where Bluto is now – is a mystery. I talked to a man who says he has a box of unpublished poems that he found in the UofO archives!
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
sted on April 17, 2014 by Royal Rosamond Press
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the Lane County Historical Society & Museum, I found the car John Belishi drove at the end of the movie ‘Animal House’. It is located inside a vintage warehouse located on Franklin Street a hundred yards from where a convention center is to be built. This building and about twelve homes were under the wrecking ball ten years ago when a company owned by Dubai royalty tried to buy up this property in order to build a hotel apartment complex. Five years ago I was introduced to Jim who owned a home on Brooklyn Street that Dubai and Sid Leiken wanted to buy – and tear down. Jim is an old Bohemian who along with his neighbors, asked a million dollars for his land. This nixed the deal with Dubai.
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Dubai Deal Makers in Glenwood
Posted on December 4, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
Here are the minutes of a plan to have Apex of Dubai build a futuristic city in Glenwood. I talked to a homeowner who put a monkey-wrench in the works. Chambers Construction was going to do the work. Apex is just a shell of it original self. They are one of the suspects in crashing my last blog. Trump has/had plans to build a huge golf course resort in Dubai. How does this tie in with the murder of Kashoggi?
Above is a pic of me wearing a Communist Russian flag taken two years ago by the river. I am shouting out a warning – of bad things to come! How easy it was/is to dismiss the Mad Augur Man. But, now that Donald’s Super Hotel Deal with Russian, may get him impeached, and his sons LOCKED UP, folks will start listening to me. It looks bad that they tear down Armstrong’s KORE after considering erecting a monument to Arab Oil Sheiks. Our Mayor has been leery of me for ten years.
John Presco
Did Beatrice Blair Know Kenny Reed?
Posted on August 8, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
The Last Beatnik Movie
Posted on December 1, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
It was Angie who bid me to call Beatrice Blair to see if we could use her empty lot for celebrations. It was the Fourth of July about ten years ago when this lovely Black Woman called to me on the grass of McKenzie Meadows. She was with family and friends. She asked me to call Beatrice, understanding I had some clout. I called, but she was not open to this, then. I’m going to call her and see if she wants to get water for our community garden. I’m going to write the Mayor and Governor and see if they will buy this land for a Children’s Park, named after Kenny Reed. I want to see if Cloverleaf Loop can be named after Beatrice Blair. Angie passed two years ago. She called me “Mr. John!”
Jill Nice and I have been working on a movie script about our garden. Kenny and Izzy were in a documenary about the making of Animal House. I read poems with Izzy who was in Animal House.
John Presco
Katherine Wilson
Posted on May 11, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
BEST DOCUMENTARY BY A PACIFIC NORTHWEST FILMMAKER
The untold story of how the Merry Pranksters from Ken Kesey to Curtis Salgado and the Robert Cray Band helped create the Hollywood Blockbuster and Eugene movie icon, “Animal House.”
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Katherine Wilson invited me to her home to talk about what I was going through with my sister’s death. My story brought her to tears. She told me this was going on because most people want to be connected with something “Immortal”. To have your name alongside a famous person meant you would live forever, too. This explains why Patrice Hanson would do anything to get herself and OUR minor child in Christine Rosamond Benton’s biography – and movie! Katherine was working on Ken Kesey’s story about the Pendleton Round Up.
I thought I had a family until I was kept away from the business meeting Vicki Presco held in OUR sister’s home the day – before the funeral! A book and movie deal was discussed. An offer was made to purchase the entire estate, and pay off the creditors. My two nieces would not be getting monies from the book and movie. How about the sale of prints?
Katherine’ insight helped me immensely. I call upon it quite often. The understanding she gave me more than likely stopped me from taking another drink.
Thank you!
Jon Presco
Katherine Wilson
Springfield borrowing millions to support its Glenwood riverfront development plans
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Springfield officials have authorized at least another $5 million in borrowing to support projects in the Glenwood riverfront area.
The city’s Economic Development Agency Board voted unanimously Monday to authorize $5 million in new borrowing, a move that also could require new terms on $1.8 million in remaining balances previous debt.
A lot of the money the urban renewal agency has borrowed for the Glenwood area has gone to property acquisition, said Nathan Bell, the city’s finance director.
Read more:Springfield to purchase more land in Glenwood riverfront area as development efforts continue
“This is really the final pieces to complete that assembly,” he said.
Jazz and Poetry at Moe’s in Springfield
Posted on October 1, 2016 by Royal Rosamond Press
The owner of Moe’s asked me, and my friends, to do a night of poetry reading, only. I had read my poems at the Granary four years ago, with Kenny Reed backing me up. His wife, Marilyn sang there, as did her daughter, Nisha. Because there was so much going on in the world, I was blogging like crazy. I found no time to write poems, so I turned two of my blogs into poems and read them while Stone Cold Jazz played in the background.
The Baby-faced Rose is about the woman I interviewed at Black Lives Matter rally. Ding Dong is about Krysta Albert defaming Black Miss Oregon. She got me in a world of trouble with the Choir.
The Friggen Eye of God is about a glowing eyeball.
With no hope of ever seeing Belle Burch again, I wrote a poem she inspired. In Ken Kesey Square I told her she reminded me of Botticelli’s ‘Venus in a Half Shell’. I was not a labeled a “stalker” a sexual deviant, a sub-human, at the time. I still owned – human qualities. I sent this poem to Marilyn in a e-mail two days after I beheld Belle.
Here is Nisha, Marilyn’s daughter reading Rena’s poem.
I was confused by the FB message from the Director of the Inspirational Sounds Gospel Choir that forbid me to mention them and their “friends” in the controversy about the director of the Festival of Eugene using racist language. I was so proud of this choir when they stood up for Soromundi, a Lesbian choir, and held their event elsewhere, after the church they practice in, refused to have anything to do with a group of Lesbians, I took this video and had a spiritual experience that bid me to post on Kathy Vrzak’s facebook.
“WHITE SILENCE IS VIOLENCE”
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Turn down the sound on the Kesey Square video, and behold her, there, surrounded by the poor and homeless. It is Lucia, who is called Mimi for reasons unknown. If only I were young again! I was young again. Like a thief, she stole my old age away. Is this a crime?
Belle asks me what my blog is about. I tell her;
“I am a poet and artist, and a Bohemian. And I’m writing the history of them; why they should survive; and not be persecuted.”
“We can talk! What is your phone number?”
We did s Opera in the Square. We had music accompanying us. The muses were, and still are, with us!
Jon Presco
Copyright 2016
“My name is Mimi. I make a living making lilies and roses.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_boh%C3%A8me
Marcello is painting while Rodolfo gazes out of the window. They complain of the cold. In order to keep warm, they burn the manuscript of Rodolfo’s drama. Colline, the philosopher, enters shivering and disgruntled at not having been able to pawn some books. Schaunard, the musician of the group, arrives with food, wine and cigars. He explains the source of his riches: a job with an eccentric English gentleman, who ordered him to play his violin to a parrot until it died. The others hardly listen to his tale as they set up the table to eat and drink. Schaunard interrupts, telling them that they must save the food for the days ahead: tonight they will all celebrate his good fortune by dining at Cafe Momus, and he will pay.
Kenny Reed Passed Away
Posted on December 5, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
Kenny Reed, Rick Cobian, and myself, put on a Obama Inauguration at the One World Café when our great President won his first term in office. Kenny and I read poetry together in the basement of the Granary. There was a blank wall behind this amazing man and drummer, so we put one of my late sister’s print on it. We are beginning to fill in the empty spaces that were left behind.
John
Posted Dec 1, 2019 at 7:00 AM Updated Dec 1, 2019 at 10:48 AM
Kenny Reed lived for jazz, and after his Nov. 21 death the drummer is being remembered for his impact on local musicians.
Music touched local jazz drummer Kenny Reed at an early age, and he shared its power as a performer and a teacher for the rest of his life.
Reed, 72, died Nov. 21 from kidney failure at a Eugene hospital after more than 30 years in Oregon, much of which was spent in area clubs where he defined himself as a local music icon. Though Reed was too weak to play very much over the past decade, he remained a local jazz fixture until his death.
“He lived for jazz, and to be a mentor and a teacher to others,” said Reed’s wife, Marilyn Calkins Reed.
Reed was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on Oct. 7, 1947. It was there he had his earliest musical performances singing gospel songs with his five sisters in a traveling a cappella group called The Reed Singers, Calkins Reed said.
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Reed proved so dynamic and extroverted, his family believed he would be — and encouraged him to be — a preacher. But Reed found the music of John Coltrane and Miles Davis by the time he was a teenager, and his fate was set.
“He heard ‘A Love Supreme’ and it changed his mind,” Calkins Reed said.
Reed lived in New York City and Los Angeles and served in the U.S. Army as part of the 82nd Airborne Division before his car broke down one day in Junction City. That was in 1984, and Reed soon after met his first wife — by whom he had two children — before settling into a life in Oregon.
Public memorial jam for local jazz drummer Kenny Reed
Memorial
What: Public memorial jam for local jazz drummer Kenny Reed, local musicians and Reed’s longtime musical partners have been invited to jam together in his honor
Where: The Jazz Station, 124 W. Broadway
When: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday
Cost: Asking $10 at the door, funds go the memorial fund to help funeral expenses
He’d been playing the drums with jazz bands across the country before that mishap landed him in Oregon, and pretty soon he was playing local gigs.
“Being Kenny, he looked for the nearest club and hopped on a bus and found The Embers,” Calkins Reed said. “That was the first place he played.”
Reed’s Eugene band was Stone Cold Jazz, but the man was known for pulling musicians on stage with them and forming new groups on the spot.
“He’s taken a lot of younger musicians under his wing and mentored them,” said Eric Richardson, president of the Eugene Springfield NAACP and a sometimes-partner in Reed’s local gigs. “He’s just known as someone who was really into sharing with younger musicians and passing that torch.”
One of his students, Alex Huber, said his education under Reed revealed to him the soul of an American art form, one born of history, cooperation and the freedom of expression.
“Kenny taught me to use the high hat as a musical instrument rather than just as a timekeeper. It was all those tasty little touches that made his drumming unique,” Huber said. “He taught me jazz form and how to solo. He always reminded me that a solo isn’t just about showing off your chops, it’s to tell a story.”
Reed represented hard bop jazz, a genre that emerged in the mid-50s by incorporating blues, gospel and other traditional sounds, according to Richardson. Reed’s gospel background and a love for drummers such as Elvin Jones, who played with Coltrane in the 1960s, defined his passion.
“His family background was being raised in the church and with gospel singing,” Richardson said. “He was rooted in the African American experience.”
Richardson said Reed’s penchant for personal style went beyond the pristine suits he famously wore.
“When he dealt with younger kids it was always about being correct, dressing nice and giving yourself some dignity,” Richardson said. “It was about giving yourself some dignity and giving the music and the agency of performing and appreciating the music dignity.”
Huber said Reed’s sense of style was about much more than looking fresh. For Reed, a snappy suit was another piece of the performance.
“Kenny dressed for the gig. He always said, ‘They see you before they hear you.’ He always looked good, but more importantly, he performed,” Huber said. “He played the song with his face, his body, his soul. I couldn’t take my eyes off him.”https://www.youtube.com/embed/_fyqvmpmjyw?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent
The music was everything to Reed, and his wife said he wouldn’t have been so eager to marry her if it didn’t mean something to her, too.
“I drove him home one night and the tape I put in the tape deck was Miles Davis, and he said, ‘A woman after my own heart,’” Calkins Reed said. “For a person like him, where that music was his whole life, you needed to be a part of it and love it as much as he did.”
Reed was on dialysis for almost nine years, Calkins Reed said. His deteriorating health sapped the strength he needed to play shows the way he once had, but she said Reed was too stubborn to leave his music or his mentoring alone — he performed less often, but still was playing local gigs this year.
Richardson said his friend had no choice but to endure the pain and play. Over his last years, Richardson said Reed kept making comebacks.
“Kenny really struggled through it with a lot of power,” Richardson said. “In the last several years he was not the same cat who could play a four-hour set like he use to play. But through the last couple years, he had a couple students he was with and he’d go to a gig and play a couple tunes.”
Calkins Reed will host a public memorial for her late husband from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at The Jazz Station, 124 W. Broadway. Local musicians and Reed’s longtime musical partners have been invited to jam together in his honor.
“I want him to be remembered as a great musician, a mentor and teacher,” Calkins Reed said. “That was his contribution to this town.”
The Baby-faced Rose of White Privilege
Posted on July 10, 2016by Royal Rosamond Press
The Baby-faced Rose of White Privilege
by
Jon Presco
I chose to capture her image
because of how she looked
innocuous, vulnerable, innocent.
She was a church mouse
with a baby-face
She did not stand out.
I did not understand
that this is the face that launched a thousand ships
There are tanks, battleships, jets,
squad cars, courts of law, and SWAT teams
ready to defend her on a moments notice.
Even predictors leave her alone.
She is an untouchable.
She is the epitome of White Privilege
and tells me so.
I didn’t quite get what that meant
until I heard her say it
She brought tears to my eyes
after I watched the video of her I took.
I saw her as the cutest baby you ever saw.
I saw her as a pre-teen shopping at the mall
with her best friends and parents credit card.
I saw her at that all-white vacation spot.
I saw her straight A report card she got
I saw her letter she was accepted to the University of O
I saw her putting that ring in her nose.
I saw her carefully selecting her hat with the rose.
I saw her setting out in the world
prepared to be someone
You know how that goes!
I saw her studying what that somebody was going to be.
I saw her making adult choices all by herself.
I saw her put her childish things behind her.
I saw her heading to this rally
so she could be seen
and perhaps
heard.
What struck me, was
she was not invisible to me!
I saw her making a stand that would affect her the rest of her life.
I saw her feeling she had found her people
and was with the right crowd.
I saw that she was happy with the choices she had made – thus far.
I saw that she was proud that she cared.
I saw that she had done everything that Philando had done.
The quest to be someone
is not easy.
Why is it only white folks
are allowed to make mistakes?
Being a human being
is hard.
Being true to yourself
begins with understanding what that means.
Philando is her peer.
They are almost identical. But for one thing
the color of their skin
and, armies were sent over there,
battleships pounded the shore,
jets flew over head,
unloading their bombs
and the SWAT team poured out of their urban tanks.
All these things happened so she would feel safe
would feel protected
would know someones got her back.
who dare blame those armed men
wearing camo?
This is the beautiful baby-face that launched a thousand ships
and, she only has eyes for Philando
It is he who she identifies with.
She has empathy for him.
He is her peer.
perhaps they were destined to meet,
one day. Some day
when Justice arrives
for all
and we are all served
the promise of the gods
She had just a small rose on her plain cap.
She wore no makeup.
When did she stop looking in a mirror
while she put on her lipstick.
And that ring in her nose
Her badge of defiance.
Was it enough to get her killed?
Don’t go for your wallet, Hon
Don’t go for your gun
Don’t wear colorful clothing
Don’t have your day in the sun.
The dull baby-face rose
looks like she never gets any attention.
Baby-faced Philando got more attention then he wanted
way more attention
then he deserved!
His mother sent him out of the house warning him
giving him lessons on how be invisible,
and what he should do if he is
spotted.
Those loving lessons
were of no avail.
here come a nervous man to his window
with a loaded gun
Young people. Students of life.
I feel for them. I had to walk away.
All the lessons are hard.
But, she was allowed to blend in
into the crowd
where no one knows who she is
where she is – in the world
because no one asks
for her IDENTI-FICATION
I spotted her right off.
The pathos of it all.
This great tragedy
this modern day Western
captured with hand-held cell-phone
taken out of its holster.
Many shots rang out in Texas
over a broken red light
And it wasn’t dark, yet.
The sun was just about to set
“Why are you here?” I asked.
“People are getting killed, and nothing is happening.”
White folks expect Justice to be done
for only them.
Denying Justice to others
is their lily-white privilege
they practice
knowing
without Justice
there can be no Peace.
And when their brand of Peace breaks out
and the reports of the long-rifles
echo in their canyon of lies
they play their favored game
they play
the Baby-faced Victim
with a broken wing
Belushi’s Animal House Car
Posted on April 17, 2014 by Royal Rosamond Press
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the Lane County Historical Society & Museum, I found the car John Belishi drove at the end of the movie ‘Animal House’. It is located inside a vintage warehouse located on Franklin Street a hundred yards from where a convention center is to be built. This building and about twelve homes were under the wrecking ball ten years ago when a company owned by Dubai royalty tried to buy up this property in order to build a hotel apartment complex. Five years ago I was introduced to Jim who owned a home on Brooklyn Street that Dubai and Sid Leiken wanted to buy – and tear down. Jim is an old Bohemian who along with his neighbors, asked a million dollars for his land. This nixed the deal with Dubai.
La Belle Rose
Posted on June 26, 2015by Royal Rosamond Press
La Belle Rose
by
Jon Gregory Presco
Dedicated to my Muse, Belle Burch
Poetry is the Truth
When I was a gifted youth
I do not recall if I studied the artist Sandro Botticelli.
When a man
I wrote my version of ‘The Birth of Venus’
and did a painting of my muse
coming out of the sea.
I must have neglected this great Renaissance Artist,
and his beloved Muse – until now!
But, Since I beheld her, my Belle
and compared her to Simonetta Cattaneo de Candia Vespucci,
do I now behold all the clues of the petals
and the thread
that have brought me through the labyrinth of time,
to adore her once again.
And she recognizes me!
Centuries ago I was buried at her feet
in order to continue my long vigilance,
for she was only asleep.
One day she will awaken, and the City of Flowers
will again bask in her unparelled beauty.
Bella! Mon Belle!
Following the Renaissance of the Miller Brothers
to the top of the hill in the lost city of Fairmount,
I came to the crossroads of time.
When I saw the intersection of Flora and Fairmount,
I knew it would be a matter of days
before I was with my Sleeping Belle, once again,
once upon a time
She is the one I came here for.
After finding the lost tombstone of George Melvin Miller,
the founder of Florence,
I began to see the grand design.
When she came across the piazza de Keasy
while the minstrel sang a song by the Grateful Dead
‘Saint Stephen’
I had my rose at ready.
When I handed it to her
I heard the lovers complain
Where is my Belle Rose!
This is the Renaissance Rose
that my ancestor employed to write his name,
Rosemondt.
When I told Belle what kind of work I do,
I described my painting of a woman coming out of the sea.
Many have asked me who she is. Now, I can say;
“She is Belle, the most beautiful woman in Florence.”
We will go there, soon,
to behold the sea, a shell, and the foam
In 1475
at La Giostra
a jousting tournament was held at the Piazza Santa Croce.
The gallant knight, Giuliano
entered the field bearing a banner
on which was a picture of Simonetta as a helmeted Pallas Athene
Her image was painted by Botticelli himself.
Underneath was the French inscription
La Sans Pareille, meaning “The unparalleled one”.
From then on Simonetta became known
as the most beautiful woman in Florence,
and later
the most beautiful woman of the Renaissance.
Simonetta Vespucci
I salute thee!
Poetry and Jazz at The Granary.
The Networking Service Industry Bank
Posted on June 10, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
Back in 2008 I came up with an idea for a service industry bank that is hit hard by the coronavirus. Kenny Reed was a partner. We put on a celebration of Obama getting elected at the One World Café. That is my sister’s painting ‘Lena and Her Sister’s on the wall.
I attended a black lives matter rally a couple of years ago. I invited my former neighbor to read at our poetry and jazz show in Springfield. I am wearing a shirt Kenny gave me for my birthday that says;
“DON”T HATE ME CUZ”
Kim Haffner and her gang of haters and animal abusers have been depicting me as a insane loner and parasite on society.
Jay Koiwai was a member. Kenny’s sister-in-law co-wrote ‘Fela’ that is still running as a musical. Here I am with the son of Carlos Moore who wrote Fela and sold it to the producers. I filmed most of the Hult show put on by Marilyn Reed who is the president of Inspirational Sounds Gospel Choir. I have been a Nazarite since 1986. I do not consider myself a Christian. My friend helped bring the black culture to Springfield. My hateful neighbors are trying to drive me out.
John Presco
http://www.onlythebravemovie.com/thefilmmakers.php?jay_koiwai
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela_Kuti
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela!
John Ambrose <braskewitz@yahoo.com>
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Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 7:59 AM
| Showtime!Jon— On Tue, 1/20/09, John Ambrose <braskewitz@yahoo.com> wrote:From: John Ambrose <braskewitz@yahoo.com> Subject: A Bohemian Sunrise To: “Carlos Davis” <cdavis4989@yahoo.com>, “Cheryl Leontina” <director@emeraldartcenter.net>, “Marilyn Calkins” <calkinsm1947@yahoo.com>, “Richard Crandell” <rccrandell@gmail.com>, “Rick Cobian” <rick@cobiancontracting.com>, “Jay Koiwai” <jkoiwai@aol.com>, pv@pdxsa.com, “Bill Shreve” <bills@eugeneweekly.com>, “Cynthia Beal” <contact@naturalburialcompany.com>, “Neil Henderson” <mail@equuspro.com> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 7:36 AMThe Bohemian National Bankhttp://the-bohemian-register.blogspot.com(Images: King Wenceslas and the Sleeping Bohemian Knights of White Mountian. President Obama)On October 28, 2008 I founded the Bank of the Golden Rat that caters to the Bohemian Service Industry. This bank came about when I was helping my new friend, Rick Cobian, with his Frank Street Productions which is based upon a cartoon rat named Frankie. I told Rick a rat is a hard symbol to sell, but would do my best. After a couple of meetings it dawned on me we would be well served to found our own bank. The Year of the Golden Rat ends January 24th.“A Networking BankThe Bank of the Golden Rat is a hands on networking bank. We are a community bank that not only lends our money, but our expertise in order to insure your enterprise will be successful.Whether you are a baker looking to open a Bohemian coffee and pastry shop, or an artist asking for a loan to build a studio, or, open a gallery, our creative loan officers will put at your disposal a team of experts to make sure your dream is realized.”Due to the fall of the American Economy, Rick and I believed quick action must be taken to save the Bohemian way of life. With no money, we began to invent a Trickle-up Bohemian Economy based upon the idea that Artists and Musicians often roll up their sleeves and paint walls in a new Bohemian coffee shop knowing that when it opens their art will be on the wall, and their Jazz notes will fill the room.Yesterday, President Barack Obama rolled up his sleeves and help paint the walls at a Youth Center.Below is one of several e-mails I exchanged with Congressman Peter Defazio and Tony Corcoran in December of 2002 on the damage Deregulation was doing to our Nation’s economy. Some Americans did see the collapse coming.It is time for all good men and women of this land to roll up their sleeves and get to work, if it is only as a volunteer. Tomorrow I make a list of those who helped Rick and I celebrate the Inauguration of President Obama who promised he would create a Trickle-up economy. We Bohemians will meet our President halfway. I have renamed my bank The Bohemian National Bank.On this day I found the Bohemian Knighthood of White Mountain. In 1848, my Bohemian grandfather Wensel (Wenceslas) immigrated from Czechovakia to Connecticut. Good King Wenceslas is the ‘king under the mountain’ a common folkloric narrative, often associated with the founding of a nation. The story persists that the statue of Wenceslas will awake in Prague when the Czechs are in danger and rouse his knights who sleep under Blaník mountain to save their homeland.I bid these good knights “Arise!”Come ye to the One World New Day Bakery, and behold the Dawn of a New Bohemian Age!http://www.rachelcobian.com/heyObama/John G. PrescoCopyright 2009http://www.mp3lyrics.org/k/kim-carnes/he/http://www.springsgreetingcards.com/catalogs/store.asp?pid=232024http://archiv.radio.cz/history/blanik.htmlhttp://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/01/19/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4735002.shtmlhttp://www.eugeneweekly.com/2008/10/30/views1.htmlhttp://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A52634Fri Dec 13, 2002 5:07 pmWhile handing out tax loopholes to the very rich, and opening thelocked box of Social Security to let the Hounds of Enron have at itscontents, why not give legal shelter to Eli Lily, get them and BillGates under the umbrella, the cloud that forever rise from thecollapse of our WTC towers.Here is Tony Corcoran’s email to me linking Microsoft to Karl Rove. All that trouble Gates was in sure disappeared over night.Jon>John,>Thanks for the info. Isn’t Karl Rove also associated with Citizens for a>Sound Economy, the right wing front for Phillip Morris and Microsoft?..the>folks who want to abolish social security, etc? My Republican opponent,>incidentally, is part of CSE when they visited me during the session.>Thanks again,>Keep in touch, I’m forwarding your e-mail to Peter DeFazio as well.>take care,>tony http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rennes-le-Hoax/message/3326Write/email Tony Corcoran and tell him you want the Bush-Thatcher deregulation connection looked into – along with the EliLily Bill attachment. Making and taking covert profits during theongoing energy crisis that led to the war on terrorism, is war-profiteering!http://www.sos.state.or.us/elections/may2196/pamphlet/srep/corcrnT.htmlIn 2000, outgoing Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas) attached a 262-page rider to an appropriations bill to deregulate derivatives trading and other complicated financial instruments like collateral debt obligations.This was the effective nail in the coffin for the FDR-era Glass-Steagall Act, which put into place a number of banking regulations and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The purpose of the Glass-Steagall Act was to prevent a repeat of the crash of 1929.JonScrap the stupid, old fashioned, and greedy ‘trickle down economy’-because it does not WORK! It’s disfunctional, it the dumb pipe-dreamof a senile old fart who let our electrical grid go to hell, Reaganinstead investing billions in the Star War program – that was suposedto PROTECT our infrastructure in case of a nuclear attack!It’s time Middle America be invited to the deregulation party theBush Buddies have been holding in secret, and be allowed to buy bondsin repairing the infrastructure of America and Iraq. I think onlyAmericans with incomes under $75,000 dollars a year should be allowedto buy GUARANTEED UTILITY bonds. Because of Bush’s tax give-away tothe rich, we now know who these people are. Bush’s wealthy friends took their investments and ran after the fibre-optic scam. They don’t get another shot, another chance to cheat their share holders and the American Public.This investment will create good will between the two Democratic peoples of Iraq and America who will also be allowed to buy bonds in their infrastructure. This is the American way, where free enterpriseis practiced by all. Write Tony Cocoran and ask for an investigationinto the theft of our utitlites and get this Bond issue on the ballot.http://www.leg.state.or.us/corcoran/homepage.htmJon Presco> Write your Senator and demand public shares and bonds be made> available to the public so they can invest in repairing Iraq’s> infrastructure – and our own! Do not let Bush and his close buddies> hold a private and closed poker game with our tax money.>> Jonhttp://www.census.gov/econ/www/servmenu.htmlBank of the Golden Rat Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:47 AM From: “John Ambrose” Add sender to Contacts To: “Rick Cobian” rick@cobiancontracting.comBank of the Golden RatWith the bailout of world banks by common taxpayers, there arises a need to redefine banking as we have known it. Foreclosure signs growing like weeds in neighborhoods across America, are a blight on the common man’s dream. Discussions are taking place amongst our politicians as to how the banking industry can pay back the collective generosity of the American People. Barack Obama, who may be the next President of the United States, is talking about rebuilding the American economy from the ground up, a trickle-up system, as opposed to the trickle-down economy that favored the wealthy, but now lie in ruin, all but rendered useless for us all.There is talk about a revised Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps agency that President Franklin D. Roosevelt established during the Great Depression that put Americans back to work. These agencies were funded by the tax dollars, the same tax dollars that are being used to help banks get back on their feet. It can be said the people of the United States are un-willing partners with the banks in what some are calling Socialism. Indeed, the Free Enterprise system has experienced a massive failure, and may not survive as we know it – if it survives! Will banks become extinct?I believe some important aspects of banking can continue to exist if they take steps to become a integral partner and member of certain communities that are identified as being havens to artists, musicians, and other creative people seeking alternative solutions and lifestyles. Bankers, city managers, redevelopers, and private entrepreneurs have been looking at Bohemians as key to recovering blighted neighborhoods from urban decay that will be accelerated if we have a lasting recession or depression.Some banks have a honorable history of supporting the arts, and making loans to civic minded people who want to sustain a Bohemian lifestyle that has given much flavor to metropolitan areas across America. These areas were often founded by artists looking for studio space and places of residence they can afford as they develop their craft.Some Politicians have looked to the artists as a Trojan Horse, they at the vanguard of downtown developments. Bohemian activities have attracted banking institutions and wealthy investors, some who are looking to take advantage of these creative endeavors, they desirous to move in wealthy Bohemians wanna-bes in order to realize fantastic profits via high rents as soon as the real artists are moved out.The solution is for Artists and Bohemians to be The Bank, and employ the institution of banking to their advantage. The traditional banker role as a middleman can be reinvented, replaced by Hands on Banking that takes on new responsibilities such as maintaining acceptable levels of employment during hard times. These new banks must be willing and able to put employment and job creation before profits, because citizens with no money do not take part in what civilization has to offer. Depressions and Dark Ages go hand in hand.Bankers and city planners have looked to Bohemian to create a public draw to cultural events, music cafes, boutiques, and art galleries. Without this draw there is no capital.A study is needed to see how much capital Bohemians manage to raise, and from what sources. How many people are employed in their projects? What about the materials they purchase from other retail businesses? Do they have elaborate networks and a deep labor pools that tap into a wide range of skills?Experience tells me Bohemians are vital to the economy of many cities. How much more vital would they be if they had a bank that was a real partner, a real friend who helped supply capital to the epicenter of these enterprises and activities that attract participation on many levels. What would these Bohemian neighborhoods look like without this participation?The Bank of the Golden Rat is not looking to transform Bohemianville, but to preserve it, forever seeking to keep it an integral sanctuary for its citizens. Many Banks have thrown their integrity and reputation out the window – along with billions of dollars that was entrusted to them.Owning a good reputation was once vital to the banking business. Rebuilding this reputation from the ground up will entail gaining the trust of a group of people who traditionally don’t trust institutions, and often seek an alternative to just about every institution known to man.The BGR will be an alternative bank and a real pioneer forever seeking to invest in the visions of creative people who have a long and illustrious history of survivability. If traditional banks could live and prosper as long.A Networking BankThe Bank of the Golden Rat is a hands on networking bank. We are a community bank that not only lends our money, but our expertise in order to insure your enterprise will be successful.Whether you are a baker looking to open a Bohemian coffee and pastry shop, or an artist asking for a loan to build a studio, or, open a gallery, our creative loan officers will put at your disposal a team of experts to make sure your dream is realized.The BGR will bring private entrepreneurs and investors together with a network of artist and craftspeople in order to sustain and invest in alternative manufacturing and the Craft Culture. Restaurants and coffee houses play a big role in the Bohemian scene. The food services industry is the nation’s largest private-sector employer, providing 12.5 million jobs. With many of America’s manufacturing jobs being outsourced in order to exploit cheap labor overseas, it is vital that banks and investors provide capital to those who believe in Made in America and are willing to pay higher prices for quality goods.Our Bank will issue a Golden Rat debit card that will give a %10 percent discount to the holder at all Frank Street Enterprises which is a network of creative crafts people, artists, and musicians. The Golden Rat card is designed to keep and circulate money within the network and thus sustain creative souls that should to be considered our National Treasures.Americans need to be educated on the benefits of supporting homegrown cottage industries, rather then the plastic cut-rate products made overseas that fill our garages, and leave us in credit card debt for a decade. The Bank of the Golden Rat intends to lead the way in establishing a New American Pertinence, a New Renaissance if you will that casts off our title of Mindless Mass Consumer, and bid us to live our lives within our means – with dignity. This New Dignity should begin at the bottom, amongst the least and the disenfranchised, for I believe they will inherit the earth.What I am suggesting is that Welles Fargo and Bank of America divest itself of twenty five million dollars apiece in order to launch this visionary bank that they will ultimately meet and shake hands within this new visionary community, that will help found a new Middleclass.The Bank of the Golden Rat was founded by two native Californians who consider themselves Bohemians. This is the year of the Golden Rat. In ancient times the rat was welcomed as the protector and bringer of material prosperity. The rat is energetic and versatile, and can find their way through obstacles.Monetary obstacles like the world has never seen have been thrown in our path. The Golden Rat will find a way, for he is forever the pioneer, forever liken to Orpheus who bids the sun to rise every morning with resonating notes from his lyre.There is no time for our collective dismay. It is time to be truly inspired!John G. PrescoCo-founder of the Bank of the Golden Rathttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemianismhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khQ9BaXZAjMFool’s Gold Card Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:26 PM From: “John Ambrose” Add sender to Contacts To: director@emeraldartcenter.netDear Cheryl;I hope your roof is up, and keeping the rain out.This is John, who is still awaiting his appointment to a board. But, until that blessed day, may I introduce you to the ‘The Fool’s Gold Card’? I will invite all members of the Emerald Art Center to become members once we get off the ground – step off the cliff – in this case!John PrescoThe Fool’s Gold CardThe Fool’s Gold Card is a debit card that caters exclusively to those who support and contribute to the Bohemian Alternative life style. Citizens who are fond of Artists. Writers, Musicians, Crafts People, and others Creative Souls will be the privileged bearers of these cards that will be honored in select Bohemian establishments such as Coffee Houses, Craft Shops, Restaurants, Health Food Stores, Galleries, Fairs, Concerts, Music Stores, ect.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BohemianismIn what can be described as Reverse Elitism, it is time we Bohemians take care of one another! I the founder of the FGC, am deeply concerned about the fate of the Bohemian Capitalistic Lifestyle, that has a long history of Survivability, but may not weather the current economic downturn that is hitting the Service Industry hard. Below Main Street , at the bottom rung of the Service Industry, are what can be described as Bohemian, even Hippie establishments,. that have survived outside the mainstream capitalist institutions with very little, or no backing from the Banks. – that are now failing! What kind of fools are they?This survivability has been made possible by a pulling together of community resources and like-minded people who give their support. in a variety of ways. Quite often Musicians and Artists become carpenters and laborers with the understanding once a new coffee house is open for business, their artwork will hang on the wall, and patrons will enjoy a fresh cup of Java accompanied by some Jazz tunes.It is this Community Spirit that is needed in these hard times. This creative community service should be rewarded and supported by all its members, and their family and friends. The Fool’s Gold debit card will do just that, for every time it is used, the holder will be treated to many rewards and discounts. There will be a %10 percent discount at every place of business where you see The Fool and his white dog, in the window. I am looking into holographic technology to make my card a real standout. I want to see the little dog dance with joy!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fool_(Tarot_card)For every $10.00 dollars spent at select places, a dollar in theory goes into your account. You can setup so a $25.00 minimum can to transferred into your FGC account. If you do not use this card, but come Christmas time, you will find a fair near you that specializes in Made in America craft items, and original art!For too long, Artists and other so-called Leftists and Elitists, have been attacked by the Right-wing. With the election of Barack Obama we have seen how the computer can bring people together to contribute to our Democratic process. There is a Change coming, and you can keep it energized by backing and patronizing those who have worked hard for alternative solutions and change. There will be a Fool’s Gold Card website that will feature a cyber map of your town showing were those who honor the Fools card can be found. By clicking on the building, the doors will open and pertinent information will be revealed to you. This site will be titled ‘The Fool’s Journey’, a journey on Main Street .Each week, four establishments will be featured on this site. One can view a short video, meet the owner, and hear the history of how this place came to be. We will list workshops that will be held at some restaurants on Monday night. We have plans for live broadcasts. During hard times, the tendency is to isolate and wait for the axe to fall. But history has shown that in past Depressions, people have survived by coming together and pooling their resources – along with their Hope!. It is this Unity of Purpose that has made this Country Great. – and enjoyable – in the best of times, and in the worst of times! As my late friend Denny Dent said;“We are taking our world back!”http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=17468007http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzJ5m-O3JmgYours TrulyJohn PrescoPresident: The Fool’s Gold Card & Royal Rosamond Press Co.The Fool indicates a fresh start, new beginning, or change of direction. The Fool possesses the imagination, and creativity. He trusts his instincts.You start a new project, embark on an adventure. Travel is involved. Your enthusiasm infects everyone around you and benefits you professionally.Finances — New financial opportunities appear in your life. Expect increase.The Fool Tarot card meaning deals with that youthful exuberance we feel when starting out on a new adventure or taking a journey of faith. We feel anticipation, butterflies flutter in our stomach, and our skin prickles with excitement…our journey is underway – we’re unstoppable! However, along with this passion comes impetuousness. The Fool makes no plans, or gives no thought to possible complications along the way. Happy to be doing something different, the Fool blindly sets out where all else may fear to tread.When contemplating the Fool Tarot card meaning, I think of Joseph Campbell’s landslide statement: “Follow your bliss.” We can see this attitude in this card, which is wonderful. But, we must also note the lack of care about consequences – blind faith is the Fool’s only guide.http://www.hologramtechnology.net/Holographic_pouch.htmhttp://www.peopleschurch.net/meijer.htmlhttp://www.meijer.com/rewardsGleaners Club Card Wednesday, November 5, 2008 10:12 AM From: “John Ambrose” Add sender to Contacts To: “Rick Cobian”Gleaners Club CardGood morning Comrades. Bless this dawning of our Glorious Revolution.glean (gl n) v. gleaned, glean·ing, gleans v.intr. To gather grain left behind by reapers. v.tr. 1. To gather (grain) left behind by reapers. 2. To collect bit by bit: “records from which historians glean their knowledge” Kemp Malone. See Synonyms at reap.I was just watching Nancy Pelosi on T.V. talk about the monies that will be going to un-employment insurance and those who are hungry.Here is the Faith-Based Inititative pushed upon The People by Dick Armey in order to empower the Christian-right. However, it was ruled most any group can apply.http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/fbci/I am a wealth of Biblical information, forisintance, I alone figured out why Jesus cursed the fig tree, what he wrote in the dust, and that he was a Nationalist bent on restoring the Jubilee in order to SAVE his Nation and its people. This revelation makes Jesus a political animal – too! I have him in my back pocket! This gentleman almost got it right.http://www.cynet.com/Jesus/Prophecy/jubilee.htmI suggest we found a Gleaner’s Club and apply for a grant in order to feed the people. We will do this with a Gleaner’s Club Debit Card. Our Bohemian Agents of Mercy will go into Bohemian Alternative Neighborhoods across America looking for restaurants that cater to poor folks, people who are living in the slow alternative lane. We will register these restaurants and give poor folk a debit card like the Oregon Trail card, that will allot so much funds a month so they can remain patrons of these qualified restaurants that employ people living on the edge of poverty. This is killing two birds with one stone, and is more then a giveaway program. This is a means to subsidize small restaurant owners who have a history of relieving the hunger of their poor patrons.The Gleaner’s Club Card is the spiritual base of our Bank. After I sent you idea of our bank, the Stock Market had its second highest gain in its history. Was this a – sign?LOL!Jon PrescoCopyright 2008http://www.gcfb.org/site/PageServerhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/government/fbci/grants-catalog-document.htmlSurely Jesus must have consorted with Zealots, and defended Israel from Roman tyranny. Why was there no attempt by the Son of God to throw off the yoke of Roman slavery? Eighteen years later, I found the answer to so many riddles -hanging in a barren fig tree.“And on the morrow, when they had come out of Bethany , he [Jesus]hungered. And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if perhaps he might find anything thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for it was not the season of figs. And he answered and said unto it, `No man [will] eat fruit from you from now on – for ever.’ And his disciples heard it . . .And as they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance said unto him, `Rabbi, behold, the fig tree that you cursed is withered away’” (Mk. 11:12-14; 20-21).This is perhaps the most mysterious passage in the New Testament. One wonders at this curse, whether it was magical. Did Jesus touch the fig tree, and thus it withered and died? Surely this is sorcery. But, what is really at work here is sorcery with a quill and ink that has born naughty fruit, lies upon lies.Allow me to remove only one of these lies, and the false kingdom and Pentecost the liars made wither to its roots, and the capstone they raised up, come crashing down upon their heads.When Jesus came down from the Mount of Olives IT WAS THE SEASON OF FIGS, for this was the day of Shavuot, the Jewish Pentecost that takes place in the month of Elul, the month of gleaning, where the Jews will take nothing for themselves, and leave the last fruit to the aliens living amongst them. This is why Jesus is displeased, and why he curses those who have planted the fig tree, thus those at its root, the very sewers of the seed; for they have broken a covenant of God.24:18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt , and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing. 24:19 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.24:20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.24:21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.24:22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.”Jesus is telling the multitude that have gathered at the foot of the Mount of Olives that the wealthy Jews who make profit with the Roman slave masters, that the Jews were once gleaners of the fields of the Egyptians, and thus, even God was a gleaner, for He was taken captive with His people, and had no home, no roots. But he had made a Covenant with His Children, and he gave unto them His Word, His Torah on the Shavuot, the original Pentecost, and thus these “aliens” in a strange land were always rooted deeply in the Laws of God. To forsake these laws by not honoring the alien sojourners and gleaners, was to uproot the BRANCH that was rooted in the Promised Land.RAT Monday, October 13, 2008 4:07 PM From: “John Ambrose” Add sender to Contacts To: rick@cobiancontracting.com Dear Rick;After our meeting I went and hand lunch at the Farr Man Chinese restaurant. Here is what my fortune said;“True ideas possess greater ultimate power then physical might.”We are not talking about Big Ideas, but True Ideas.Here is an article on the hijacking of digital television. They stole the tele, but can never own the vision.http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=736&Itemid=1.Getting back our Public Vision that was once as Free as air, IS the next True Revolution!Barack Obama has instigated a Trickle-up Economy. McCain just mimicked his idea, but, it is a Big Idea from the same old Top that Bankrupt our Nation and Western Civilization!However, from the ashes of our apocalyptic despair, a survivor makes his way to a mountain top, and like Orpheus plays his stringed instrument to make the sun rise again. There will always be hopehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4niFk-Iv-oFrankie the Rat is an Archetype Survivor who has accompanied Mankind in his long journey to be Civilized. For thousands of years he was scorned, shut-out from the society of Man. But after the fall, when Man has lost all hope, Frankie takes up the slack, and becomes a GUIDE that leads all Humankind out of it latest Dark Age. He is a Pied Piper that leads humanity from the City of Ruin to the City of Hope .Most people with computers don’t know how to get started. What they are looking for is a Guide, a Aladdin. Frankie the Rat is a Guide. He is not The Destination. There is no center to the City of Hope , there are just the Citizens of Hope. Frankie helps the New Wayfarer connect the dots. Other Guides will be found along the Orpheus Network that is a Quest, a Journey in search of Grail of True Ideas.The Orpheus Network will bring U-tube and Google to high definition television. People can surf from their couch. A remote could take notes and url addresses, that can be transferred to the Internet. If one wants to get more detail on a Musician, Artist, Craftsman, they can go to their computer. Orpheus Television is a tool of Inspiration! It is the Three Muses. Orpheus’s son was Musaeus, “he of the Muses”.The Sons and Daughters of the Muses!Jon PrescoAn archetype (pronounced: /ˈɑːkɪtaɪp/ (Brit.) or /ˈɑrkɪtaɪp/ (Amer.)) is an original model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are derived, copied, patterned, or emulated. In psychology, an archetype is a model of a person, personality, or behavior. This article is about personality as described in literature analysis and the study of the psyche. In the analysis of personality, the term archetype is often broadly used to refer to a stereotype—personality type observed multiple times, especially an oversimplification of such a type; or an epitome—personality type exemplified, especially the “greatest” such example. a literary term to express details. However, in a strict linguistic sense, an archetype is merely a defining example of a personality type. The accepted use of archetype is to refer to a generic version of a personality. In this sense “mother figure” can be considered an archetype and instances can be found in various female characters with distinct (non-generic) personalities. Archetypes have been present in folklore and literature for thousands of years and appear to be present in prehistoric artwork. The use of archetypes to analyze personality was advanced by Carl Jung early in the 20th century. The value in using archetypal characters in fiction derives from the fact that a large group of people are able to unconsciously recognize the archetype, and thus the motivations, behind the character’s behavior. Archetypes can be seen in every movie made today. If the movie is good then you will see a well defined layout of a character going through the different archetypes. The hero in a movie will go through different stages. Carol S. Pearson wrote a book that is used in most english classes today. “The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By.” Starting with the Orphan. Then the Wanderer. Next will be the Warrior, and finishing with the Lover.RATRevolutionary Arts TelevisionRAT T.V. will be a new digital television station that will bring new, revolutionary art forms and media to the public.RAT will broadcast musical videos submitted by amateur and professional musicians. On Friday and Saturday night RAT will air select bands live, along with MCThe Orpheus Media Networkhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheushttp://www.mp3lyrics.org/k/kim-carnes/he/His son was Musaeus, “he of the Muses”. |
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