[AGL] Fw: re promoting the RagBlog Web site on AGL

[Fontaine Maverick]

Oh, and I never lived in the ghetto, but I did make love there once.....
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From: "Fontaine Maverick" <fmaverick at austin.rr.com>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 
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Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: [AGL] Fw: re promoting the RagBlog Web site on AGL



> Too bad; I would think you would want to encourage converstation. I love 

> the talk of the old daze, but my own take is that Thorne represents my 

> freshman year as a wide eyed young radical just as the Vietnam war was was 

> cranking up - hey, hey LBJ, etc. - we're talking a difference of a year or 

> two......

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>

> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 

> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 7:44 PM

> Subject: Re: [AGL] Fw: re promoting the RagBlog Web site on AGL

>

>

>> thorne dreyer asks:

>>

>>> Just curious. How do you define "Ghettoite?"

>>

>> The Ghetto was an apartment house west of

>> Dirty's hamburger joint with cheap apartments.

>>

>> there were parties there every weekend at

>> the least, the peyote buttons would be cooking

>> down in a big iron pot on the stove, beer was

>> drunk, girrrls were seduced, folk music was

>> played. the other pole of this subuniverse was

>> the Chuck Wagon, 7 cents a cup of coffee and

>> not worth it.

>>

>> the austin-ghetto-list is a successor to a Yahoo

>> list set up by Connie Clark in aid of having a

>> reunion of us ghettoistas. the reunion was held

>> at Tary Owens and Mary Ann Price, there were

>> actually a number of reunions there. t-shirts

>> were printed, a ghetto Web site was set up

>> with photos and tall tales.

>>

>> as i said, as this means nothing to you, you would

>> probably be happier and better off elsewhere.

>>