TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2001
All in the wake (no pun intended) of Dale Earnheart's death: (I realize you don't have much
interest in racing, but . . .) In the first lap of the next race, Dale E. Jr. had a similar wreck, but limped away.
The next day, after a rainout, the race was completed. The winner was Dale Sr.'s replacement, who reported afterwards
that, as the race was winding down to the finish, & he was leading, he began to get so emotional that he feared
he would lose it; then "the spirit of Dale Earnheart" came, & sat on his shoulder, telling him to
"stand up in that seat & bend the steering wheel", giving him the emotional fire to finish &
win.
If you read & believe the near-death experience reports of how passing souls are met by friends & relatives, etc., it's easy to imagine Cassady, who was so involved with motor racing & its heroes, being among those to greet the arrival of a soul such as Earnheart's, & maybe even participate in a little ghost driving. Neal would certainly have loved to believe such was possible.
-- George Walker
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2001
NEAL CASSADY'S BIRTHDAY
FULL MOON
BOY SCOUTS FOUNDED
"The secret of the fuse is to think of the soul and not the ego. It took
the Chinese years to discover swallowing tadpoles by the dozens doesn't make for effective contraceptives."
"This Eyetalian --or was it E? --opened a pack of Camels upsidedown, impressed even me."
"I swore, for all those Saddiday nights I missed when I was in San Quentin I'd stay up every Saturday night for two full years to make up."
Mr. Kesey: I am sending this E Mail to your attention
to have you join our on line Roadside Attractions Club
and to check out our on line magazine Road Trippin
USA.. I am a free lance writer for publications here in
Missouri.The Ozark Mountaineer among others. In our
club the discussion has centered on FURTHER the Bus
and would consider it an honor if you could clarify
some questions on it. Our group is an amalgam of Road
Trippers and other types of trippers and includes
members from all 50 states and quite alot of
international members as well..all good natured and
inquisitive..Thanks for your time and look forward to
hearing from you. Roadie (Mike)
Roadies--
Whateveros are very popular the
second or third day after the main
dish that inspires them has faded
from the memory. Easiest, of course,
are the leftovers from a bulky Mexican
meal. I like to chop them all in a big, hot
skillet, along with some fresh tomatoes
and peppers, and even tortilla chunks
if there are some left over. Cook until
the tortillas are swollen and soaked, then
crack carefully about a half dozen eggs.
Top with chile sauce and chunks of cheese.
Stick in heated oven. Cook until bubbles
can be seen then turn off the bottom heat
and turn on the broiler until the eggs and
cheese are turned light brown. Serve for
lunch or supper or even breakfast.
The same thing can be done with leftover
Chinese, using noodles instead of tortillas,
or leftover corned beef, or Thai food, or
anything that was good once and still has
the body to be good again.
Best served with a cup of good Mexican
coffee....
--Kesey
Thank you for the input Mr. K..My son being a big, big
fan of yours how do you think he began his
journey of arts and letters? Anyway, he found a bumper
sticker that needed a little "doctoring" and now on
his very first piece of four wheeled machinery..the
sticker read FURTHER. I appreciate your
getting in touch..I publish the on line magazine that
is attached below.. Roadie
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Gwendolyn Davis
I shared with Gwen Brooks 10 or so
years back. I think it was at the
Algonkwen (or however it's spelled)
Hotel. She was at a table alone,
eating and drinking, while I was
being interviewd by some newspaper.
I asked the guy "Hey, isn't that
Gwendolyn Brooks?"
After a blank look he asked "Who's
Gwendolyn Brooks?" so I cut the
interview short.
When he left I ordered another drink
and went over and introduced myself.
She was delighted, and ask me to sit
down... even shared her leftovers
with me. And she knew my works better
than I knew hers by a mile!
We talked for what I remember was
an hour. I don't remember what we
talked about. But I remember what
I was thinking:
"Sometimes being famous has a nice
reward."
She'll be missed, by both the high
and the low, by both the known and
the unknown.
--Kesey
--keezer--i also knew gwendolyn brooks a little--when i was at yaddo (the artists' colony in saratoga
springs, ny) in the summer of '62, she was there for about a week--we sat together at dinner several times, and
one evening the subject of mark twain came up somehow--she said she didn't see why she should honor anybody who
could write a line such as huck's "i reckon black folks love their children as much as white folks do"--i
told her i thought she was wrong, and why, and she promised to think about it--seven or eight years later, she
came to stanford for a reading, and i was teaching a class (in the same classroom, incidentally, where you came
to see me on my birthday, when you were on the lam) and in walks gwendolyn!--she'd made a special effort to come
and see me, she said, because she wanted to tell me that she had thought about it, and had changed her mind about
twain--nice lady!--i also saw her just a couple of years ago, at the kentucky book fair (same book fair you and
i went to the last time you were here)--again, she remembered me, and was very nice--
--Ed McClanahan
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2000
Looking out over this magnificent pasture we can agree that the past is a fresh hill shining on a city and, if we set our feet to it, armadilloes can make the pie higher. A high family on the table. Billy-Joe Gibbs and the Shoeshine Boys singing about tax cuts as broad as a second dose of wind. But there's a cost to acrobatics, bud. A trillion dollars is a good round sum to add to our seniors' backaches not to mention my own mother, knee-high to a lawnmower, passing on her life's work to the great world of madmen and sharpened swords which fall on us and make sure the American dream touches every small business because she knows it and I know it and you know it: that you would rather be watching a bigger TV, bigger than you ever thought impossible.
-- Bushman, 2000