love you madly

[Wayne Johnson]

Philip Trussell?  No way, man.  Why that Dude is probably a
Communist/Atheist/Artist/Activist Agent, maybe even...gasp...an
Episcopalean!!

On the other hand...if he would post some of his wonderful drawings from
time to time.

Heh, heh, heh.

W


Is anyone aware that the English Architect/Artist William Morris was a gd
Socialist!  Wahoo.
-----Original Message-----
From: austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net
[mailto:austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net]On Behalf Of telebob x
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 10:39 AM
To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Subject: love you madly


My Fellow Ghettans-

I am not going anywhere, Melvin Laird or no Melvin Laird.

During this latest whirl of onagain offagain ism, I realized how most of you
exist somewhere in your own little 'shrine of memory' (to use a Hickey
phrase) somewhere in my brain.  We may be a 'virtual' community, but we are
more than that...dear friends, we almost all knew each other BEFORE there
was an Internet and time and distance separated us into our own microcosms.
We were an 'actual' community at one time. That is part of why I stick
around.  At one point in my life I chose many of our membership as friends,
(or for some inexplicable reason they chose me), I still feel that way.  The
discourse we enjoy on this list each morning fills an hour almost the way
our old bullshit sessions over coffee at the Texas Union used to do. I do
miss Belmer, and wish some of our more creative and whacked out souls were
contributing, but that might make the volume almost impossible to take. Too
many of us are gone already (Joe Brown, Tony Bell, Lieuen, Byron Black, Win
Pratt, and so on), but perhaps heaven IS what survives of us in the memories
of those we've known. If that is true, then let us be careful with one
another. We are all more fragile than we think.
I do not know Don Laird, I do not know how many of us do. The world is full
of ideas, but just because I do not share many of his is no reason to boot
him.  To boot him because he does not have a cubbyhole in my memory of time
and place is another matter. If it were my decision, he would be ignored
(and booted) as easily as I pass a William F. Buckley column in the paper,
however, if Don is a friend of one of one of my friends, then I have to give
him some cachet. I respect my friends, even the ones I think are insane. So,
I put myself in neutral on the issue.  I just don't need to read what he has
to say, and he should stay. (Besides, Jon needs someone who thinks his ideas
are tenable...ooh Masked Meanie you did it again.)

And while you are up, could you bring me a cinnamon roll?

Hey look, here comes Philip Trussell, wait a minute, that's the ghost of Joe
Hill....

telebob

" i dreamed a dream and it made me sad
thinkin of myself, and the first few friends i had..."



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