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herbert

I am here for Networking

About Me

I'm old... but I'm slow- & a divinely discontented, Tired Out Loud, unrepentant hippie who loves to breathe... & is subject to the complex multiplicity of gravitational forces beyond ego control. ^..^CURRENT MOON about the moon

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

the pope's worst nightmare... & Aung San suu Kyi... & Fidel... maybe the ghost of William Burroughs, declaiming .."Art is spilling out of its frames & into subway graffiti... Will it stop There?" (usually I don't know until it's too late...)

My Blog

a crash course

It was a rainy night in late Summer, Seattle in the late '60s- the "U" District- and I was ripped on acid (is that a legitimate idiom?.. or a euphemism for Ca-Raaa-Zee?), and had entered an empty stre...
Posted by on Fri, 29 May 2009 00:09:00 GMT

"Smokey The Bear" Sutra

From Gary Snyder... who's still alive & kickin'!Smokey the Bear SutraOnce in the Jurassic about 150 million years ago,the Great Sun Buddha in this corner of the InfiniteVoid gave a Discourse to all th...
Posted by on Wed, 27 May 2009 13:41:00 GMT

was I there?

A neighbor told me about the cat that she had been feeding for a week, for a traveling friend... and how it was totally standoffish for 6 days, & then got real friendly- almost 'needy'- the morning of...
Posted by on Mon, 25 May 2009 01:07:00 GMT

"the Edumacator's Dillenema"

My daily mail includes lists about the environment, the plant world, sustainability issues & local community affairs of all kinds. This one was quite a surprise:"Here is a link to a story in todays S...
Posted by on Sat, 23 May 2009 17:55:00 GMT

def ineff

My God is a Jealous God... and short-tempered! I'll never forget that day when my first 'older' girl-friend got a look at me, naked... and pointed, and laughed, and hollered"GOD! You've got a tiny pen...
Posted by on Thu, 21 May 2009 01:20:00 GMT

making a devil from scratch

Well well wellwhat have we heretwelve time zones from our home?some teenage laddieswho planned to rejectthe advances of latter-day Rome.well well wellwe paid our cashto the local mujahedeenlets kick '...
Posted by on Thu, 21 May 2009 00:26:00 GMT

new 'Way' veaux

The news from Swat valley this morning was extensive... and sort of predictable... at which point I began to "zone out" and drift backward... years & years, remembering band posters from the 60s with ...
Posted by on Tue, 19 May 2009 15:17:00 GMT

boycott healthcare!

For all those who wonder about the REAL REASONS that Americans should be forced to pay more, per capita, than any other people on earth, in order to see a doctor (& DON'T EVEN START TALKING ABOUT DENT...
Posted by on Mon, 18 May 2009 11:53:00 GMT

English ivy, uber alles!

OK, I'm gonna level with you, Unseen World-- count me as another raging (if generally incompetent) conservative, in at least ONE area of interest: and that'd be Ecology. I'm waaaayyy beyond pissed, mi...
Posted by on Sat, 16 May 2009 12:46:00 GMT

iB4e, xsept aftr T

I'm "olde Skool" about punctuation, spelling, grammar- the occasional dispensities of modern language- and it's habitual, at this point. I own- & consult- a dictionary on a daily basis. I listen to (&...
Posted by on Fri, 15 May 2009 10:19:00 GMT