[AGL] Criticizing Bush is another hazard, Say what?

[Frances Morey]

Yeah, and for the price of keeping the AC goin' I can go on a month's vacation every August.
  I remember looking at a plasma tv last summer and thinking that, hey, for the price of that tv I can go on a month's long vacation. I took the vacation. With all the reality crap I don't even have to watch. There is reality everywhere I look.
  Frances

Gerry <mesmo at gilanet.com> wrote:
          Yes Frances, $4K. Those were the good Volvos, very solid. No AC in Austin might be a bit hard to take in August??? Now Ford owns the company and they are no longer bulletproof. The old Lexus' are also a bargain, less than 5K for a good one is not unusual. But if one breaks, look out. Parts are very expensive, like $500 for a muffler!
   
  Part of the deal when driving older cars is finding an older mechanic who knows their ills and likes to work on them. I am fortunate to have Ray Hobbs, a former cowboy and oil field electrician from Odessa who is a mechanical genius living nearby. He ain't cheap but he can be bribed and he is very good.
   
  I heard about the DC doc. Maybe it will come here one day. Hey, Borat is coming next week!
   
  Bet Ol' Trotsky, given his age and physical condition, would have given many a ruble for some viagra!
  G
   
    ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Frances Morey 
  To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 8:47 PM
  Subject: Re: [AGL] Criticizing Bush is another hazard, Say what?
  

  Gerry,
  You got a great deal, presumably you meant under $4,000 and not $4. I picked up a really nice Volvo, 1987 with 180,000 on it, for $900 a few months back. It goes, stops, passed inspection and I feel really good driving it. It is the delux sedan, 740 series, has no AC, a small inconvenience the way I see it. The AC I had in the Mercedes was out of whack more than it worked. I learned to live without it.
  I just got back from a terrific documentary. "Shut Up and Sing" is about the Dixie Chicks contretemps over appologizing for Bush's being from Texas. Why, hell, I had to do that all the time in '03 when I was out in SF. It is a sweet film and made me a really big fan of the DC's, who I went to see in Chicago for political reasons. 
  Back in '01 Natalie Maines came into my son's antique shop out on Burnet Rd. and she and her husband saw a pair of chairs. They immediately said they wanted to buy them. When we went to load them into their vehicle her husband told me I would understand why they bought them so fast when I saw the set of chairs they had. My pair were the same leather upholstered style, except with armrests, like table-end chairs to a set of dining room chairs they already had. They needed two more for Thanksgiving. I didn't snap to who they were until they left and the shop owner next door told me that I had just sold those two chairs to the Dixie Chicks.
  The film is in distribution playing at the Arbor, I believe. It is nice to spend an hour and a half with three terrific women.
  Best,
  Frances


  A grisly detail that surfaced in my research on Frida: the bus she was in
was wooden and it was struck by a steel streetcar. Her body was penetrated
from the rear by a piece of wood which came out the other side through her
vagina...ouch!

There are also references to morphine addiction (probably unavoidable given
her years of pain). I believe you can see the morphine in her paintings...on
her back in bed staring at her image in a mirror above the bed and whacked
on morphine. Even without the accident her Sun/Neptune conjunction would
lead to a fondness for drugs.

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

I just returned from Phoenix where I claimed a car I won from an estate sale
on the net: '91 Cressida which looks and runs like it just came off the
showroom floor. The previous owner was an old lady, one owner machine. I
gave it a thorough run through 250 miles of back road Arizona, crossing a
couple of mountain ranges enroute, racing a cold front which is bearing down
on us at present. What a fine car! I felt like Sterling Moss at the Mille
Miglia!

A month of research has revealed dozens of great older cars for sale for a
song ($5k and less--I paid less than $4 for the Cressida)... Like Accura
Legends, late 80's Bimmers, etc. many of them well cared for and immaculate.
As for new cars, I don't even recognize them by brand any more...still
living in the past I guess. I will likely drive this Cressida for the rest
of my life or until the gas runs out, whichever comes first...
Not quite over the hill in NM,
G


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Ford" 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [AGL] Frida devotion may be a health hazard, Say what?



>

> Frances-- it's a miracle she lived at all. Most people would have died in

> that accident. I think the film shows this fairly well.

>

> Jon

>

> >From: Frances Morey 

> >Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the

> >60s

> >To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the

> >60s

> >Subject: Re: [AGL] Frida devotion may be a health hazard, Say what?

> >Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:04:32 -0800 (PST)

> >

> >I say never let facts get in the way of a good story.

> > Best,

> > Frances

> >

> >Michael Eisenstadt wrote:

> > Frances,

> >

> >not for the first time, you got the story 100% backwards.

> >

> >she had umpteen surgeries all the way to the end of

> >her life. no recovery, no poster child.

> >

> >to leave that out of the account is not untypical of

> >the Frida devotee and those who get the facts from

> >what they saw in a movie.

> >

> >Mike

> >

> >

> > > C'mon Mike,

> > > Surely you recognize that Frida was a poster child for miracle

> > > recoveries. I wasn't completely aware of the extent of her trauma from

> >the

> > > two by four until I saw Salma's movie. Wow! It made a true believer

> >outta

> > > me--how the body can recover from something like that! What does such

an

> > > awareness have that would make someone in any way vulnerable? Who do

you

> > > know that suffered from Frida worship? What happened to them that

makes

> > > you say such a thing?

> > > Best,

> > > Frances

> >

> >

> >

> >

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