[AGL] sent to Coventry and bragging

Sat Mar 25 12:13:48 EDT 2017

OFF LIST * * * EYES ONLY

while i was writing the email, Connie Clark phoned me. she wanted me to 
go bird
watching with her yesterday morning but it rained. i read her the email 
and she
said "dont put the part in about voting for the orange man". i ignored 
the advice
and im sorta glad i did. because it elicited bob simmon's rude 
denunciation of
me and, just now 2 emails, yours and Charlie Loving. you probably dont know
who Charlie Loving is. I had never heard of him until our first Austin 
Ghetto Re-onion
- mustard been 15 years ago. he had a print shop then and Karen Willis 
(Connie
Clark's roommate) arranged for a t-shirt to be printed and sold with a 
cartoon
by Gilbert Shelton on it. i wished i had bought one. fast-forward to 
nowadays:
Charlie Loving shows up again as a perennial attendee at Dave Moriaty's 
parties
at his wonderful party house on a bluff overlooking the Colorado River. 
Actually
he is co-host of Dave's current skein of parties which they call the 
"Not Dead
Yet" parties. He is a tall Texas countryboy type who lives not in Austin 
but
somewhere in the country south of here i don't know where. i have had but
one single conversation with him - he is a dour type and we don't know one
another from Charley - he opined to me that he didn't hold with this 
Internet
stuff (whatever that actually means in real life). Now i got an email 
from him.
SFAIK, he wasn't one of our 25 or so subscribers but he mustard be so i will
look up the list of our current subscribers.

here's what he wrote

In the new world of 2017 people can't trust each other any more. They are
as polarized as anyone can be. Used to be the good guys and the bad guys
would take a break to light up, and lighten up. We could argue without
pulling a gun and shooting each other. No one carried a gun. Now my
mechanic who fixed my 1964 Ford Bronco packs a Glock. I am afraid to ask
him why he needs a gun to fix cars and trucks.

-- Charlie Loving so he drives a 64 Ford Bronco. do you & John still 
have the red mercedes coupe? no shadetree mechanic can even work on a 
Mercedes since it is designed to be worked on by unique Mercedes tools 
which the manufacturer will only sell to Mercedes dealerships. how do 
you like them apples? back to your email

On 3/25/2017 10:25 AM, Globe at zipcon.com wrote:
> There is an interesting book out 'Strangers in their own land' about the extreme right in America. You might be interested in looking it over. The author did travel through the states which 'the orange man won'‎ her premise is people ignore facts if it conflicts with the 'narrative or stories they believe in even if the stories are not factual.
>   It was nice to think about Gerry and hear about your ca
> Carolyn
>
What do you mean by extreme right? Survivalist types living in the woods 
in Montana?
Neo-Nazis? bike gangs? skinheads?

We watch the national news every night from ABC/NBC/CBS and then a full 
hour of PBS

I akse you 1 question and 1 question only. it is a diagnostic. Do you 
believe that Putin/Russia
interfered in the recent election? If you do believe that, how does that 
fit into your own
poisonal internal narrative about the world?

thanx for writing

mike

thanks for writing.

> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>    Original Message
> From: Michael Eisenstadt
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 6:48 AM
> To: austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net
> Reply To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s
> Subject: [AGL] sent to Coventry and bragging
>
> some friends not talking to me because i voted for the orange man.
>
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>
> not having had a vast circle of friends beginning in childhood and
> throughout a longish life, i dont notice any personal distress
>
> OTOH, after screwing up my courage, i fixed our car, a 1998 Merc
> Grand Marquis. specifically i R&R'ed (removed and replaced) the
> ignition set and sparkplug of cylinder number 5. and afterwards,
> i erased the trouble code (305) with the computer reader and
> got the Check Engine light to go off.
>
> i should mention that i just deleted some thousands of backup emails
> stored by Google. as i deleted i fleetingly saw an email by Gerry
> Storm flash by. Gerry deceased used to be wildly entertaining
> with his posts from rural New Mexico where he astrologized,
> drummed in the woods, and drove long drives to his doctor to
> treat his disease. Gerry had a good job in Austin. he was the
> president of the musicians union, but after unions were abolished,
> he turned to fixing BMWs. and wound up in rural New Mexico.
>
> i sorta knew him from Fletcher's Raw Deal bar(s).
>
> i remember that i turned on the archive option and off and
> on based on our collective wisdom back in the days. but
> it has been turned on for a long time now, and with my
> access to it i see that it's there day by day whether the
> trafic is active or non-existent. so maybe Gerry's wildly
> funny postings live on there if anyone cared to look.
>
> Karen Willis at the beginning of our operation undertook
> to poisonally archive the AGL flow on her home machine
> but as we now know that is not feasible. home machines
> come and go, but we didnt have as firm a grasp on the
> limits of the technology as we do now.
>
> Karen has changed email providers so she got automatically
> unsubscribed by the maillist's software which also
> automatically informs me by email. we have about 25
> subscribers. i used to list them with their email addresses
> from time to time - which reached a peak of about 70 - but
> there again as we morphed into the security state, that
> became a no-no. - i just thought naively at that pre-historic
> time that as we were all reasonably known to one another
> in real life, that a list of one another's emails would be
> usedful like a list of phone numbers.
>
> those of us that are still around must be struck by
> the enormous social changes since 2001. now we
> are increasingly living in a world where less and
> less of our fellows were of age in 2001. a clerk
> at the DPS when i renewed my drivers license
> was too young but apparently had informed himself
> retrospectively of what life was like in the US
> before 2001. no, he said with a laugh, a DNA
> sample was not required - yet - for a driver's license. -
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