lovable (also -ones

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Thorne,

as I have mike hanks email address i will subscribe him
forthwith.

I knew and know Clark Santos, Rubottom I know now through
Gale Samaraby his ex-wife. my roommate and i didnt meet
Gale and Artie Osborne until Patrick McGarigle and Genevieve
Kinney got married at the Hancock Recreation Center in
19ninety something. Rubottom lives in Houston but puts
on the annual Red River Motors yard party.

Mike

thorne dreyer wrote:

> mike,
>  
> yes I remember you... and god do I remember the chuck wagon coffee.  How 
> we could drink so much of such an awful thing for hours on end  -- all 
> jangly and hazy -- rapping and organizing and hustling and tripping and 
> seducing and otherwise coming up with excuses to skip classes.  Yeah, I 
> remember that stuff.
>  
> As for sds/the rag:  the rag office usually served as a kind of 
> organizing center, but I don't remember sds ever really having an 
> office.  Usually just a half-falling down old house a bunch of us lived 
> in with a mimeograph machine and mimeograph paper all over the floor and 
> Che and Phil Ochs posters and unwashed dishes and whatall. The Rag 
> office for a time usually sported a half-dozen bikes out front in 
> various states of repair and the likes of Rick Rubottom and Mike 
> Beaudette and Clark Santos -- and quite likely Mike Hanks -- roaming 
> among them. It seems to me that, in those early days,every rag office 
> and/or communal house we occupied was condemned and demolished soon 
> after we left (possibly in a matter of hours!).
>  
> And so on.
>  
> Thorne