What do you get

[Stu]

when you Google yourself? I find this endlessly fascinating.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B00004CLTO/ref=dp_image_0/202-1048366-9866211?ie=UTF8&n=573398&s=video

[Pilgrim]

Reading Darlene Fife's memoir makes me think about how times have changed, and not necessarily for the better. Her moving recollection, told in a simple, down-to-earth style, brings to mind certain moments in my life when I realized things had changed. Like the time a boyfriend admonished me for buying bottled water. He thought I was trying to be chic, or something, when my real concern was with the lead pipes in the building we lived in. This may have been 1979, I don't quite remember. What I do remember was how heartsick I was at having to explain the probability that, because we were poor folks, our immediate living environment was contaminated. Such moments, in hindsight, portend what is to come. Darlene Fife's moving, sometimes funny, sometimes scary, reflections on her time as editor and publisher of the infamous underground newspaper NOLA Express is a book filled with clues and signs of what was to come.

This book is broken into four sections, and Darlene Fife tells the story of her adventures through the lives of her friends. Fife's description of beautiful Lindy Brown's credo, "the most important part I find myself playing in the revolution is to always be high," is a key moment. Evoking a time when people made it a point to pursue their bliss, it does not escape Darlene Fife that making life, work, and play an integral whole is the cornerstone to creating a truly just society.

"I have seen my neighbors...whose rhythms of planting corn, weeding the garden and sitting on the front porch make life and work indistinguishable," an observation whose simplicity and sanity may yet save the world."

The section on Women Strike For Peace is one of the most telling in the book, demonstrating that grassroots organizing and visibility was what turned the nation around on Vietnam. Imagine such brave people on the trolley on St. Charles leafleting against U.S. involvement in Vietnam in the mid-sixties in New Orleans; Louisiana speaks of a kind of bravery and commitment rare at any time or place, much like Fife's good friend Jim Degroff, who "sold marijuana and LSD not for the mundane purpose of making money but as a public service."

Allen Ginsberg makes a special guest-star appearance, suggesting people shut off their air conditioners to save the environment from further ozone depletion. Although not mentioned, as an editor of NOLA Express, Darlene published a number of beat poets including Diane di Prima, Harold Norse, and Ed Sanders. A brief correspondence with Charles Bukowski, whose stories suited the atmosphere of the French Quarter, is featured.

Of course, not all was love and light in New Orleans even in the sixties. The description of Kumi Maitreya, the acid dropping Geraldine Hooper, as "over weight, matronly, middle-aged women with brown stringy hair," known to herself and followers as an avatar, a Living Buddha, is one of the most hilarious entries in the book. It is also one of the most riveting. After all, isn't this the kind of weirdo acid logic that made for Heaven's Gate, Charlie Manson, Hare Krishna's Monkey on a Stick, and all the rest? Luckily, Kumi's final bizarre crime, driving her car in a continuous circle at a busy intersection, ends up being a case dismissed after she tells the court she was performing a religious ritual.

Police State, drug war harassment, institutionalized violence, militarism and pollution, the causes and concerns that so absorbed the lives of Darlene Fife and her friends, are as pressing as ever. Cancer is now rampant. Cops killing black men is a daily event. Kids shooting up the schoolyard seem to be a national trend. Acid festivals and pot parties gave way to crack wars and meth factories. The rich got richer, and the poor got homeless. And the U.S. continues to bomb Baghdad, Khartoum, Belgrade, Philadelphia. For a moment, a vision of something better was in the air. One can only hope that the cause for clean water, uncontaminated food, free erotic play, poetry and love, health and nutrition, peace and general goodwill, will return to stir the minds of ever dreaming humanity. In the meantime buy this book.

Honestly I've got that kind of name that just doesn't show up... mostly by my own design. I actually only show up on the internet twice by full name and not one of my handles, Once on the Old board when Forest was asking about the Western Campaign, and Once in Justin Carmichael's Ironman Costume making page... I enjoy My anonimity.

Now go to my Christian name and you get my Favorite result ever!

http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/washington/stories/NW_072006WABdoughnutjudgeEL.8404e76.html


Man once convicted for child molestation could go free because judge accepted a doughnut

06:59 PM PDT on Thursday, July 20, 2006

By PAUL AKER / KING 5 News


KING 5's Paul Aker reports
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OLYMPIA, Wash. - James Degroff, once convicted for child molestation, is getting a second chance to proving he never molested a 6-year-old girl four years ago. What’s so rare about this case is not that it's going back to court, but the reason why. The answer lies in the back halls of the Thurston County Courthouse.

In 2003, the first trial judge unwittingly unraveled the case by accepting an ordinary doughnut. The trouble is, the judge took the doughnut from a juror deciding the case.

After Degroff's conviction, his attorney accused Judge Richard Strophy of making biased comments about Degroff during sidebar conversations. The claims could not be substantiated. But because Judge Strophy took the doughnut and later had a brief conversation with a different juror about a potluck dinner, an appeals court threw out the first verdict and ordered a new trial.

That has caused a new round of pain for the victim.



James Degroff was accused of molesting a 6-year-old girl four years ago.

“It's unbelievable a child would have to testify to horrific acts of child molestation,” said deputy prosecutor Christy Peters. “I can't even imagine what is going through a child's mind when she has to testify to this on two occasions.”

Judge Strophy seems equally bothered by it all. He said the case was "technicality upon technicality...some illusion of impropriety weaved together by a defense attorney and the appeals court went for it."

Right or wrong, the second trial gives Degroff the benefit of time. The victim's memory may have faded a bit.

And for an attorney skilled enough to turn a doughnut into a new trial, turning a girl's inconsistency into an acquittal might not be so far fetched.


Hell that's got everything a google hit could wish for, sex, drugs, donuts... True Awesome... I'm kinda waiting for someone someday at some Job interview to ask me about it...

[Rorschach]

http://up.colorado.edu/CUNuclearPhysics/people.html


Theory

Faculty Emeritus
Dale Kunz NPL 220 2-3661

It must be me from the FUTURE! What are the odds of two physicists being sharing my name?

My dad always had a weird name/profession association:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,528697,00.html

Dr Helmut Kunz, described by Flegel as a dentist, injected them with poison.
Yep...Hitler's Dentist was a Kunz...

[papaThunder]

My wife found this image when she googled my name. I will NEVER hear the end of it. It is as if the google search has prophetic powers.

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/2431/sgooglevf5.jpg

[papaThunder]

Oh man, my wife must like googling me. She found this picture under "Tim Porter Colorado" I'm just hoping she doesn't come along some of my "former work"

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/8558/polygamyporteryw9.jpg

[Pilgrim]

hahaha

That's awesome!

[ColGreeley]

Wow, way too much to post for mine......

[The Watcher]

MAN! You guys are so lucky. Out of 5 pages I can't find anything NOT related to me... except this one girl (http://www.myspace.com/elizzies) who is dating another (the only other that I have been able to find) Justin Carmical.

Well, crud. You guys get all the luck.

I got a rock.

[Pilgrim]

most of the "Troy Greeley" search I did is our boy... Troy makes the Interwebs a bunch but it's mostly game related.

[Galactoates]

Hmmm not a whole lot for me...

http://130.86.80.251/~jo52/

http://voice123.com/joshoates

Yeah thats about the most exciting....and thats not saying much. I should be happy that I dont show up anywhere though...