Jig Saw Puzzle

“Me I’m trying to do this jig saw puzzle - - before it rains any more”

“And the guitar players look damaged - - they’ve been outcasts all their lives”

“But when it comes to the nitty gritty - - - “  (oh shit I forget the words)

“Are You Undamaged?”  -Commander Data TNG

“Something Happened To Me Yesterday”

Four of the five quotes from Manuel Diaz in a previous life, according to our source - - but if you must, they're usually attributed to Jagger-Richards.

Tomorrow is April 3, 2013 and it’s the 45^th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis at around six in the evening.  We were talking about this at the breakfast table, me and John and Jay.  And Robert Kennedy’s name came up and I mentioned that my Dad used to have the book “To Seek A Newer World’ but I didn’t see it in his book collection when I looked through it in February of 2008 after he died.  I said my sister in law, Marie, must of snatched it up and I’ll have to look through her collection for it.  I mentioned that it was late March 1968 when we went to see Robert Kennedy at the Airport in LA and my Dad took movies.  And I mentioned that my Dad subsequently got the date wrong saying that this was Kennedy’s visit to Los Angeles a couple of days before he died.  And this is incorrect.  It was the same day that he bought “To Seek A Newer World’ and maybe it was right there at a store at the Airport.  And I read the thing from cover to cover.  And I mentioned to Jay that they rushed released this edition into print because it has an update on the Tet Offensive.  Then Jay went on to talk about some experience he had in the psyche ward where he went to Hell and then he went up to Heaven and he met God- - and then he was returned to his normal state.  Then I mentioned that the number One is the number you can’t divide by when you’re talking about logarithms and exponents.  I was happy we’d gotten two big pancakes each taking up the whole plate, because it’s more generous than they usually serve around here- - plus the two sausages.  But I wanted to talk about Angela Davis and the Decades of Protest.  You kind of have to start each decade off at the two level.  For instance Franklin Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 - - and people decided to get more involved in government again and got the constitutional amendment passed repealing prohibition- - and at last we decided we could crack down on Organized Crime.  And this era went right up to Pearl Harbor because prior to that event our economy was still to one degree or another in a state of slumber.  So 1942 – 1952 was kind of a block of time.  Then when Ike came to power we overthrew the governments of Guatamala and Iran, and messed up the free election in Viet Nam, and even as late as early 1961 we were still nurturing hopes of a military invasion of Cuba- to take back that country.  Also the economy was still sputtering in 1962.

Really it was events of 1963 that kind of Woke Up the majority of sleeping Americans.  You had the Cuban Missile crisis and its aftermath and the whole topic of Nuke danger and WW III kind of occupied the general conversational politic throughout the nation, and not just here behind the Orange Curtain in California where we have always been paranoid.  The whole Civil Rights bill was highlighted by George Wallace’s “Segregation now- segregation tomorrow – Segregation Forever” speech delivered at the school house door.  You had the test ban treaty and Kennedy in Berlin saying “Ish bin ein Berliner”.  You had your Bhuddist priests in Viet Nam setting themselves on fire and the whole Diem government that wasn’t long for this world.  I guess we took care of them ourselves.  But this only pushed the whole Viet Nam question into the limelight like never before.  You had Malcolm X and the “Chickens coming home to roost” speech after Kennedy’s assignation, and the Malcolm X himself being gunned down so shortly after.  You had the whole Vatican II thing and the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Right’s laws, and the repuliation of the Extremist Right with the defeat of Barry Goldwater.  Then you had what you called the Free Speech movement starting in late 1964 on College Campuses.  And then we come to Angela Davis, and I guess one of the lady talk show hosts of KTLK was talking about the upcoming movie “Free Angela’ or something, that will be out in a week or two.  And apparently people have the wrong idea about Angela Davis and that was not just some other communist extremist.  Some say she picked up her communist philosophy while spending time in Germany.  Well, you know what those Germans are like.  They’ll try anything – once.  I was not really a follower of hers.  But when we had that left wing pastor of our church, Stanley George, Tim’s favorite pastor- - and during one sermon he gave a black power fist salute, and some hot head from the audience blurts out “That’s a communist salute!”   And then John Lennon and Yoco Ono had that song “Angela- they put you in prison – but you’re one of a million political prisoners of the land” and another line that goes “They gave you coffee- and they gave you tea - - They gave you everything but the jail house key”.  I don’t know how closely she was related to the Solidad brothers George and Johnathin Jackson - - where one was gunned down and then the other one was.  But like I say where was some kind of a strange silent coup in America after 1972 because you will not an enormous change in the tone and lyrics of popular songs on the radio just between 1971 and 1973, like if you listen to DRIVE radio like I used to do, you hear it laid out plain as day.  I don’t know what it was- - but suddenly someone rang a bell and “we weren’t in the sixties any more’ and I don’t know what happened.  It's interesting to speculate what course another term with Jerald Ford as President might take what with Rumsfeld and Dick Chaney in his cabinet back then.  Obviously a bad precedent was set with the Pardoning of President Nixon, that was only added to when the Clinton administration dropped all charges against Iran-Contra, after most of the individual cases had been already pardoned or something.  And then it was in September of 2007 that I did that posting called "The patient is dead" refering to the corpse of liberal thought in the land.  Oppressed people have a funny way of getting used to a progressively worse and more restrictive "Normal"  (Selah)

You may have all heard that radio commercial where a man’s voice comes on and says ‘My doctor wanted me to have a hysterectomy” and you’re scratching your head.  Well on Bob’s Burger Tina’s mother suggests that her teenage daughter would be slightly less repulsive if she’d shave her legs, and she heard about this place that did waxing jobs.  But she insisted that her father come with her to have his legs shaved at the same time for moral support.  And the Dad remarks to the attendant there “Remember, I don’t want a scrotal wax job- just the legs” and then when the Attendant gets a look at the daughter (and I’m speculating now) he says - - with a bit of hesitancy - - “Actually, I think your daughter is in more in need of a scrotal wax job than you are’.    OK, and don’t everybody cause an internet crash E mailing your protests all at once.

Now we come to last Monday’s conversations with dead people, which is something else I’m doing with a bit of hesitancy.  Stu seemed definitely rattled by something Monday morning and was in one of these “tell all” moods certain authors get in now and then when they rat out famous people they’ve been close to.  Stewart is tired of hearing these roomers that after he was dead that he was still alive and managed to (this is cosmic stuff) get the Beatles away from Vee Jay records (alias the near Reigelians) and hooked up with Capital (the Romulan vehicle)  Of course as you know Stewart was in Torranto and disappeared the last few days of December of 1962 and was not accounted for for a period of nearly nine years.  There are roomers going around that Stu was alive and active and not dead or "in abstentia" as the case may be" and hooked up with the Vancouver Romulans- - to jump start the Beatles’ carrier here in America, and that Stu hated everything the Neir Reigelians stood for and was all pro Vancouver Romulan- - thus causing his Torranto Romulan bretherin to feel slighted by him.  When in reality he was - - - did not exist - - and Stu never claims to have existed during that period.  He is now in fact saying that Capital hijacked the Beatles from Vee Jay records.  But he’s also expressing his views on other stuff.  He went on to mention that “Brian matched the criteria John Lennon was looking for as someone who would earn them lots of money and he presented them well.  But in reality he did next to nothing to help their carriers because were it not for the Neir Reigellians - -the Beatles could have kept on drifting nowhere.  It was George Martin who was responsible for their big break and not all Brian’s posturing.  And “I don’t have anything against Brian being gay.  He can be what he wants.  I know in some circles it’s actually shiek to be gay”.  But Brian was weak and when the Beatles actually needed him in 1967 Brian was too wasted on drugs to be of any help. “ He also said that in fairness he was the Fifth Beatle that should have gotten a vote as to whether to get rid of Pete Best or not- - and that Brian took this power to get rid of Pete unto himself kind of without anyone’s permission.  George and Paul conspired to get rid of Pete while John was all tied up with nuptials with Cynthia”.   But the strange thing Stu was tricked into saying other stuff about me because he’d been given mis or partial information - - but I’m not going to get into the how’s and why’s of that.    Later in the day another dead person came to me who didn’t identify himself at first.  But he said that Stewart had a highly distorted view of the circumstances of how Pete Best was let go, and Stu wasn’t there but he was there and he actually talked to Pete during this period.  He then told me how Stu had been tricked into saying other stuff- - probably by stealth Alcyonne agents on Sirius A.  But from the frequent references he made to George Harrison- - it became apparent that it was Neil Asphenal I was speaking to.  He then made reference to The Yellow Planet (2^nd star of Orion’s belt) as the place where I was destined to go when I died according to Bo.  This was probably the first time anyone from The Other Side had made mentioned of my Own death and I wondered whether it was some kind of Omen, sort of a “dying grace’ or something.  Things have been going so well for me lately maybe some power is giving me positive karmic credits owed to me before I did.  I admit, I’m paranoid that way a little.  As you know the only other time I talked to Neil Asphenol was after he died he paid me the courtesy of informing me “He was with George” when George himself I did not hear from after he died.  Neil had talked with Bo.  (who is an old SC Romulan friend from my past) At the time I asked him if it’s true that Bo - - as a Dylan avatar- - wrote a lot of songs.  Neil said he would check and get the information back to me.  Then we have this morning when Stewart says he got the information that Neil left off for him but “Neil was obviously not interested in having any extended conversation – at least with me”.  Stu went on to say “And you know something- - I’m right about the circumstances of Pete Best’s sacking- and if you doubt my word- - ask Pete.  He’s still around.  He’ll be glad to tell you.”

The following is a pretty complete list of songs “Bo” claims to have written while Avatared as Bob Dylan.   This is the list Neil Asphenol gave to Stewart Sutcliffe he passed on to me.

All Over You (see *)

Ballad of Hollis Brown

Ballad of the House Carpenter

Bear Mountain Picnic

Boots of Spanish Leather

Bound to Lose – Bound To Win

Clothesline Saga

Fair Thee Well (We’ll Meet Again)

Girl from the North Country (North Country Fair)

Going Down the Highway

Gypsey Lou

Hard Times in New York City

Hear Me Cryin’ mmm-hummm

I Shall Be Free (orig. “Stay Young – Stay Free”)

I’d Hate To be You on that Dreadful Day

I’m In The Mood For You

John Birch Society Blues (minus the Hitler verse)

Knocking on Heaven’s Door

Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie

Left Him on a Utah Road

Let Me Die in my Footsteps

Long Time Gone

Men in the Street

North Country Blues

Open the Door, Rachael

Opperator

Oxford Town
Quit Your Low-down Ways

Ranbling, Gambling Willie

Seven Curses (orig. Ballad of O Riley)

Talking New York Blues

Talking World War III Blues

Tell Me What – You’re Gona Do

The Lone Ranger and Tonto

Things Like That Don’t Happen Nowadays

Trying To Flag A Ride

Walking Down the Line

You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere

*This song Bo admits to be musically lifted a lot from an early Elvis song he heard off of Elvis’ very first album called “Just Because”.  He wanted to do a song along the same vein- - but just for a lyrical twist he decided to make a “prequel” of that song.  An advanced  concept them.