Greased Hole (funny business from my 1991 journal)
I laughed out loud tonight when I came across this in my 1991 journal, amid lots of poetry and some (at least for me at the time) profound philosophical reflections. I believe it's possible I'd had a few drinks before writing this - so forgive its lack of eloquence. But it's funny how some things in the world around us don't seem to change much....
Bush's Deadline
[15 January 1991]
IS Bush merely just that —
A Bush, a muff, a twat, a greased hole?
How true!
Jello Biafra's song "Attack of the Peacekeepers" is so true!
DID JOHN LENNON LIVE AND DIE IN VAIN?
Well, then "Give peace a chance!"
Stay the Fuq out of Iraq!
Is this yet another "Full Metal Jackoff"?
[If you're interested in yet another example of my bad writing from 1991, or if you'd like to see what I looked like at the time, feel free to check out my blog entitled My First Hit of Acid. Peace....]
Bush's Deadline
[15 January 1991]
IS Bush merely just that —
A Bush, a muff, a twat, a greased hole?
How true!
Jello Biafra's song "Attack of the Peacekeepers" is so true!
DID JOHN LENNON LIVE AND DIE IN VAIN?
Well, then "Give peace a chance!"
Stay the Fuq out of Iraq!
Is this yet another "Full Metal Jackoff"?
[If you're interested in yet another example of my bad writing from 1991, or if you'd like to see what I looked like at the time, feel free to check out my blog entitled My First Hit of Acid. Peace....]
full metal jackoff? i'm dying over here *laughing*
i LOVE the acid blog! it's how i became frinds with the inspiring lydia, aka leary.
love,
kesey
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Why is the Who song "Acid Queen" (from Tommy) playing in my head?
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hmmm...
My work is done now look at him
He's never been more alive.
for me? more like:
Don't cry
Don't raise your eye
It's only teenage wasteland
and...
What in the world ever became of sweet Jane?
She lost her sparkle, you know she isn't the same
and...
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
i really would have been a great prankster...
and somehow for you, this seems fitting...
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Sally-Simpson-lyrics-The-Who/60BA45393965B30048256977002C719F
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i love sing365.com for lyrics, but this makes me laugh...
Embryonic Journey Lyrics
Artist(Band):Jefferson Airplane
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Embryonic-Journey-lyrics-Jefferson-Airplane/9285363D4A4AA47D48256BF4000813B2
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I have dreams so here are the lyrics:
Imagine there's no reason
It's easy if you try
no hell below us
above us only sky
imagine all the people
living for today
Imagine there's no countries
it isn't hard to do
nothing to kill or die for
and no religion too
imagine all the people
living life in peace
You may say I'm a dreamer
but I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
and the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
no need for greed or hunger
a brotherhood of man
imagine all the people
sharing all the world
You many say I'm a dreamer
but I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
and the world will live as one
PEACE AND LOVE FROM ELENA
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Lennon's "Imagine" is perfect in every way!
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I love that Who song, too... Thanks, mb. And Jefferson Airplane has always been one of my favorite groups. Their Crown of Creation disc is one of my top ten of all time....
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that would make a perfect pic caption for you *laughing*
i'm just hang out here and leave lyrical comments all day. after watching that myspace video bulletin you posted yesterday, i don't much like hanging out there, and my personal webmaster is still working on my own site.
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MySpace - run by Rupert Murdoch's minions.
Kinda makes me think of Dr. Evil... lol
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maybe we should work undercover for them.
maybe i would have been better in the weather underground than a prankster?
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forgot to leave a song...
Crazy Miranda
lives on propaganda she believes anything she reads
it could be one side or the other
Free Press or Time Life covers
she follows newsprint anywhere it leads
but still she can't seem to read and nobody
knows nobody knows what she needs it could be love
All the pretty ladies textbooks
tell her how to have the "next look"
The Bible tells her stay as plain as you are
she wants all the pretty boys beside her
to write some pretty words to guide her
to tell her than they love her body as well as her mind
she wants some kind of sign--a sign of love
oh never mind--she's not your kind.
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7:15 am Feb 11th. This I got online
yesterday: Sept 27 2006 Marion Ohio
John Burroughs admits he was a "punk"
when he started an 11 year term at
Marion Correctional Institute.
But a faith-based program that "made me
feel like a human again" and strengthened his belief in God allowed
him to change his life when he was
released in 2004. (This was found on
googling Horizon Program Marion Ohio)
h
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Here is what I wrote in my Journal on October 11th, 2002. "It has been 13 months since 9/11 and now the Senate has voted a resolution to give Bush free hand in war with Iraq. I sort of smell a rat. How many enemies do we have that we have contained and why do we need a war? The world doesn't need this but we want to get Iraq. (It does certainly have a lot of oil and is a threat, but then what?)
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Between 1991 and 2002 we have been at was in Iraq. Clinton was elected, then Bush and now I think the world is tired of both the Bushes and the Clintons. I believe Obama is going to win the nomination. Wanna make a bet? In the meantime JC was raped by the court and there has to be some restitution. These are thoughts on a morning where the temperature is 0 degrees.
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The weapons of mass destruction argument never flew with me. North Korea was developing an atom bomb and we knew it - and their dictator is at least as "evil" as Saddam Hussein ever was. So why did we invade Iraq and not North Korea?
We as Americans expect other nations to respect our autonomy, but we don't often respect the autonomy of other nations. When I wrote this excerpt, Bush senior was threatening to begin the first Iraq war. For the record, although that one was more intelligently planned, executed and ended than Bush junior's sequel, I was against it too. We were liberating Kuwait? Sounds noble... until you realize that Kuwait wasn't a democracy, that the great majority of people there have no share of the nation's wealth, women have no say in politics, and Kuwait was an artificial creation by the West (kinda like Yugoslavia, East and West Germany, the border between Pakistan and India and between Israel and her neighbors). Before that, Kuwait and Iraq had essentially been part of the same nation. Us saying "We demand you give Kuwait back to the Kuwaitis" is similar to (hypothetically speaking) a country like Canada demanding we give Arizona back to the Mexicans, Puerto Rico back to Spain, Georgia back to the Cherokee, New York back to the Iroquois and other tribes. I'm not saying Saddam was right to invade Kuwait - but I marvel at our self-righteousness in being the "liberator of peoples" when our history shows that freedom has not always been our highest priority (to put it lightly). Japanese interment camps, creating and using the atomic bomb, casting the Geneva Convention aside, torturing detainees, enslaving Africans, counting each of them as three-fifths of a person in our original Constitution....
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The punk was just one part of me then, but it certainly seems evident in this Bush entry. I stand by my displeasure with the Bushes from that time. But the way I expressed it was totally without class and taste. I was trying to be funny. But I was also expressing my exasperation. The funny thing is this: I had actually voted for George Bush in the general election, and had felt he was a a moderate. In retrospect, he wasn't as moderate as I thought. But I think he does seem moderate when compared to George junior.
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YEEE-IKES!!!! I can think of a few songs that remind me of your 1991 entry...which, by the way, is hysterical. Thanks aka Susannah Dean for the link to sing365.com!! Oh man...I can hear a few things already getting stuck in my brain....go ask Alice. barbie
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glad to be of help barbie. sing365 almost always has the lyrics i'm looking for, and they're almost always the correct lyrics.
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LOL
I know it's associated more with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - but the Airplane also recorded the song "Wooden Ships," which for some reason comes to mind when thinking about the Iraqis:
"I can see by your coat my friend that you're from the other side
There's just one thing I got to know
Can you tell me please who won?"
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One generation got old
One generation got soul
This generation got no destination to hold
Pick up the cry
and for some reason, i'm also now thinkng about kent state...
Gotta get down to it.
Soldiers are gunning us down.
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?
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Two perfect songs...
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While thinking of war and the elections I prefer my favorite Sting lyric.
FRAGILE
If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one
Dying in the color of the evening sun,
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay
Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetime's argument
That nothing comes from violence
and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are
On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are
On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are
How fragile we are how fragile we are
HOW TRUE AND HOW BEAUTIFULLY SUNG!!
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Another perfect song!
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Yeah, finding the CORRECT lyrics can be a challenge....I'm just wondering how I didn't already know about this site. Thanks again, Susannah!!!!
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At the time I was apparently listening to the EP/CD "Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors" by D.O.A. with Jello Biafra (a great album by the way, if you like hardcore rock). Here are the lyrics for their "Attack of the Peacekeepers" song:
"Army ads looked cool-I signed right up
Besides, it was the only way could find a job
"Great place to start" and see the world
Womanize at discos
And fake going nuts
To scam infirmary drugs
So send in the clowns
The NATO circus is here to protect you
Your choice must be ours
Yankee corruption
Or the big bad Soviet threat
Don't you feel secure
Sending our Top Guns guard your sky
Flying their fighter planes upside down
Stoned out of their minds
For a real hot time
How 'bout an air show crash?
Or a G.I. riding a stolen tank
Through downtown Manhattan
And off the riverbank
Where he drowns
Fall in with the clowns
Remember-
NATO is here to protect you
With nuclear bombs
That come to visit
And decided to stay
CHORUS
Attack!
Attack!
Of the peacekeepers
Attack!
The charge of the joke brigade
In charge
We can blow up the world
More times than you
We'll show 'em
We'll show 'em
With radioactive subs
We'll show 'em
We'll show 'em
With missiles in your back yard
Guarded
By soldiers
On acid during night watch
And generals who care only
For fat pensions and bribes
If that don't scare the commies nothing will
Cept maybe our Bradley tanks tripping over themselves
Both powers have one goal in common
to keep Germany divided
Never strong enough to start another world war
Occupied by the clowns
Is it really you NATO is here to protect?
With Berlin type walls
When they came to visit
We all decided to stay"
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I must confess "Full Metal Jackoff" was not something I came up with. It was the title of another song on that D.O.A. with Jello Biafra album. Here are the lyrics to that song:
"Around our nation's capital
There's a freeway 8 lanes wide
White concrete ringed around the city
For those who want inside
Get on get off
Ignore everything to the sides
In your midst I drive
While homeboys in the back of the van make drugs
Wanna hide something like a ccrack lab
Just put it in plain sight
Only stop to refuel and unload
More poison to tear more lives apart
Gang wars like never before
Better lock your doors, buy some guns
And pray (prey?) for martial law
On the Washington D.C. Beltway
Around and around I go
In the black van with no windows
And a chimney puffing smoke
Bloody headlines in the news each day
Drug "crisis" everywhere
So much comes in so easy
It's as though someone wants it there
It would be a little obvious
To fence off all the slums
Hand out machine guns
to the poor in the projects
And watch 'em kill each other off
A more subtle genocide is when
The only hope for the young
Is to join the Army and slowly die
Wall Street or Crack Dealer Avenue
The last roads left to the American Dream
Wall Street or Crack Dealer Avenue
Wall Street or Crack Dealer Avenue
Only on road leads to this neighborhood
Little kids wanna sell drugs when they grow up
The folks might get just a little upset
If they knew where that dope comes from
Froom Columbia to the Contras
To our Air Force bases, where we trade it for guns
The moral equivilent of a serial killer
And his CIA friends
Call the shots from the White House
But now that we own the media too
Those stories just aren't run
On the Washington D.C. Beltway, 'round and 'round I go
In a black van with no windows, and a chimney puffing smoke
Some gang that ran smack in Viet Nam
Ain't got no reason to fear
Just get a Vice President so dumb
The crook at the top never gets impeached
That sure was easy wasn't it?
That sure was easy wasn't it?
More crack-more panic-moe cops-more jails
You see emergency-total war
You see emergency-total war
You see a black face-you see a crackhead
You see a black face-you see a crackhead
You see a black face-you see Willie Horton with a knife
You see Willie Horton with a knife
You see one Willie Horton you've seen them all
They're everywhere, I know
You asked for it, you've got it
Drug suspects have no rights at all
Property seized and sold before trial
Labor camps-on American soil?!?
Neo-Nazi bootboys
That the cops never seem to arrest
Prowl neighborhoods with baseball bats
Why now? Why do they get so much press...?
Mein Kampf-the mini series
Ollie North-"patriotic" hero
The leader for tomorrow is yours today
Finally gotcha psyched for a police state
On the Washington D.C. Beltway
Around and around I go
In a black van with no windows
And a chimney puffing smoke
My van's a mobile oven now
That burns the bodies you never see
Just like in Chile or Guatemala
People just seem to disappear
Just like Rome
We fell asleep when we got spoiled
Ignore human rights in the rest of the world
Ya might just lose your own
As the noose of narco-militarism
Tightens 'round your necks
We worry about burning flags
And pee in jars at work
To keep our jobs
But if someone came for you one night
And dragged you away
do you really think your neighbors
Would even care....
Ollie for president, he'll get things done!!!
Ollie for president, he'll get things done!!!
Ollie for president, he'll get things done!!!"
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i almost ran screaming from the blog at the thought of the beltway...
my proximity to the 495 freaks me out sometimes.
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War Movie Lyrics
Artist(Band):Jefferson Airplane
In nineteen hundred and seventy-five,
all the people rose from the countryside,
locked together hand in hand all through this unsteady land,
to move against you government man do ya' understand,
gonna roll roll roll the rock around roll roll roll the rock
around lift the rock out of the ground
At the Battle of Forever Plains,
all my people hand in hand in hand in the rain,
the laser way won the day without one single living soul going down.
the government troops were circled in the sun gun found themselves on the
run... from our nation, the rock is raised no need to hide from
the other side now... transformation
call high to the constellation headquarters call high to the
most high directors send out the transporting systems and
send out the sun finders
thirteen battalion of mind raiders three hundred master
computer killers from great platforms in the mountains
twenty mile lasers & great giant trackers... twenty miles
south now in 1975 all my people rose from the countryside until we
meet again and touch our hands together in another land
until we meet again & see each others minds we
three have met again and touched our hands talking of
Napoleon in the garden we will muffle the drums tomorrow
mornin gonna roll roll roll the rock around gonna roll roll
roll the rock around lift the rock out of the ground
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Dig it!
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that's a fricking eerie picture
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This is one of those cases where if there was no picture and there were no comments, there would be no blog... lol. Largely that's a result of last night's writer's block, brought on by the exquisite pain of pulling a muscle in my rib cage yesterday while carrying all those books I bought at the Westlake Library's Two-Dollars-a-Bag book sale. But the pleasure of getting over a hundred great books for only 6 bucks made it all worthwhile. Now I need more bookshelves... lol... I'm running out of space.
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100 BOOKS!! I GUESS EITHER WE HAVE A BOOK BURNING THIS SUMMER OR MAYBE YOU COULD START A BOOKSTORE AND SELL THEM ON EBAY!
ARE YOU GOING TO CALL JEFF HUNSAKER OR SHALL I SEND HIM A FORMAL INVITATION BY SNAIL MAIL?
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One of the things I'm buying with a mind for is selling them on Ebay or Amazon. Although there are many I want to keep, too. (-;
I spoke with Jeff today. He's thrilled by the idea, but Wednesday afternoons are always bad for him because key components of the program take place then. He's grateful, though, and encouraged me to do it myself. He's also sending me some resources to use, including a five-minute DVD of a documentary the NBC affiliate in Columbus did on the program when I was there... which will give everyone a chance to see it in addition to just hearing about it from me.
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Great, we have some equipment to show DVDs and slides on Power Point. I have to talk to you about this. We can also arrange to give some handouts to the group on the Horizon Program. I'll write to you about this.
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I'll have some pamphlets/brochures to distribute as well.
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bush-shit senior had half a brain and no ethics.... his mental midget me son has no brain and even less ethics. where is eugenics when we need it?
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Hahahahaha... now we know why Bush is anti-eugenics.
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