In the Year 2027

What will life be like twenty years from now? If there is one thing we know it’s that we can’t predict the future. There is no anti gravity potion. We aren’t planting colonies on other planets. We haven’t exceeded the speed of light. Twenty years ago scientists could talk about the “strings” theory of matter that had recently been mathematically proven with a scientific formula. But what has come of it? I’d like to have as a goal in my life to study sub atomic particles such as leptons, pions, and mesons. Back in the seventies they were constantly discovering new subatomic particles. But what has become of them. I think I’d like to study genetics more completely. I know the genes are in a double helix and that there are four connecting letters between the strands standing for four compounds labeled A T C G - - I think and these four letters appear in different combinations along the two helix strands and that’s how we get our “genetic code”. I kind of think I’d like to study foreign languages. Thomas Jefferson was fluent in French and I think other languages. A lot of the famous men of that era were multi lingual. I’d like to study calculus after watching Nick and Chelsea yesterday. I know very little about calculus. I never took it. Two members of my family have taken probability and statistics. I’d done some “study” on my own and even done computer programming on the subject but I’d like to get into it officially. Someday I’ll probably become a computer chat room junkey, but it hasn’t happened yet. I just don’t have that much confidence in myself. As far as Match.com and all of those- - I guess if it’s in the stars it will happen but at this point I don’t see anything on the horizon.

Thirty years ago Anita Bryant brought up the topic of homosexuality for debate, and we are still debating it. We aren’t sure whether or not we accept it. Eugenics is not yet dead and when it comes to guessing which bad traits will be elected to be bred out, don't speak too soon, for the roulette wheel is still in spin and there's no telling who that it's naming. Twenty years ago we had never elected a Black president or a woman president or a Jewish or Athiest, or for that matter, Gay president. Guess what? We still haven’t. Those adept at scientific trends will say “If something has never happened, it’s unlikely that it’s going to happen tomorrow or any time soon. " Twenty years ago – it was Christmas 1986 Parents made announcements about their Will when they die that I was not pleased with. When I'm old and gray and want to call someone for the latest anti aging therapy- simple, I'll just call my parents. Their deaths could be a long ways off. Twenty years ago we thought Billy Graham was getting to be old. We’re still talking about Billy Graham crusades as the quintessential crusades. They used to say that computer speed would double every year and a half. When this computer came out in 2003 the going speed was about 2.4 gigahertz. Given the projected doubling rates the average computer should be operating at twelve or thirteen gigahertz by now. But it isn’t. Thirty years ago we were talking about improved gas mileage for cars. We’re still “talking” about it. Gas mileage has not improved. People back then talked about high speed bullet trains that would go two hundred miles per hour. We still don’t have them. Back then there was the Concord supersonic jet that had entered commercial use. Guess what? Not only don’t we have a lot more of them even the ones there were are taken out of circulation. Back in early 1987 when Iran-congragate broke and then Oliver North was held as a near hero for stabbing President Reagan in the back and saying “I was only following orders” there dress before congress in his military uniform, we hailed him as a hero. Even at that time it was clear to the perception that Ronald Reagan was already going senile. He had Nancy make all the important decisions for him such as schedule a press conference when the stars were auspitious. Of course now we have a one govt. branch dictatorship so it doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks. That’s how far we’ve progressed. I don’t think the US congress has the balls to tell the President that we are not a fascist military state. Back then I looked at the lives of other Born Again Christians. They all seemed to be prospering and mine was not. It’s still that way. The “Faith of our Fathers” is still pretty much alive and well, and there are still an awful lot of Red states out there.

So what will life be like in the year 2027? You know something? The way things have changed were not the ways people would have predicted they’d change. Of course our phones are vastly different now and our kids are tethered to their parents by cell phones and survailed in their driving by the latest spy equipment. We are much more afraid now in general. George Bush gets an A plus at fostering a climate of fear. I find that the way things the most quickly are the immediate people we surround ourselves with in our personal lives. I know it’s that way with me. Look at the vast turnover of people in this place in just the five & a half years I have lived here. You could almost guess which year it was at my old apartment by looking at a roster of the residents. The idea of a twenty year relation in a neighborhood or a job or a marriage seems pretty far fetched to me at this point. Of course in soap land they can do anything. They brought back Frankie and Jennifer and Jack and Austin and Carrie and Patch and Kayla and Benji. All from twenty years ago. I wonder if they’re going to bring them all back again twenty years from now. Eileen that therapist said something I guess she thought would be encouraging to me but was anything but. She said “When you’re seventy you just might get into a discussion group that you really find fulfilling and stimulating”. If that’s all I have to look forward to I just better off myself right now. There are possible good things. Medical discoveries are being made all the time. Perhaps I could get my eyes rewired to see with superior vision to even a normal person now. I have a feeling this “Baby Boom generation” is going out the way they came in, as a real pain in the ass to all concerned. They will probably be headlined as “The generation that refuses to die” as government goes bankrupt trying to support them. And the thing is 75 is not all that old now. Even then our generation won’t be close to the end of our lives. We’ll probably live to be a hundred. What will we be able to say in the year 2027? Will we have had our first woman president or Black president? Will the Catholic Pope in that era be talking about the same tired topics they’re talking about today? What will the music be like then? Will be still be listening to “Satisfaction” as I am right now on KRTH at 4:02 in the afternoon? Is Leo Le Port right. Will all our playback and storage devices of today we just invented be laughingly out of date in the year 2027? My guess is that our generation won’t regard 75 is all that old and will still be quite active. Back when I was a kid 75 was pretty much considered having one foot in the grave already. Will we solve our medical crisis? Will be solve this whole Al Qaida crisis that seems so important to us right now? One thing we know is that in politics things that seem important right now seem to fade away in time. But no matter what we’ll have the same two crusty democratic and republican parties and traditions in congress will probably be virtually identical to what they are today and all this talk about “reform” will be barely a blip in the radar screen twenty years from now. And we know this about tomorrow. It won’t feel like “The future”. In fact were you to take a camera there there would be just as much squallar and poverty and pot holes in the road and pealing paint as there is today. Nobody will be “flying around” then either, as John and Yoco talked about in their 1969 Christmas Message. It will be pretty much the same old same old it has always been.

Epilog: Just between you and me and the grand piano I'm predicting Vice President Dick Chaney will be impeached by congress. This snowball still has a lot more downhill course to roll. In Berok Obama's words I am daring to Hope. When the stars are auspitious one should act. Other quales still remain to be flushed from the bush. All the rates have not yet emerged from their hiding place upon news of the sinking ship. The fuse to the dynamite has not yet been quenched. Karma is less a hurricane than it is an earthquake- - and a resulting Tidal Wave.

And behold the New Messiah stood on the grassy mount and opened his mouth and told this parable against certain asshole Born Again pastors he’d known in his youth. “once there was a town where there were but two barber shops. One shop was emaculately neat with every bottle of hair spray lined up perfectly and not a speck of loose hair on the floor. That barber had an emaculate haircut. The other barber shop was in constant disarray and there was hair and dust and dirt on the floor and that barber looked as if his hair had been cut by a pair of hedge clippers. Now which one would you go to?” “Yes you in the front row. Your name please.” “Bart Simpson. I’d go to the barber with the messy shop”. “Why?” “Well- - - who do you think gave that barber his emaculately neat haircut?” “Thou hast spoken wisely my son”

Swift and Certain Exicution of the Law

Clearly impeachment of the President and Vice President should be the next thing on the congressional agenda. They talked about the “100 hours” but I’d like to have my memory refreshed just what was passed during that period. Clearly it had nothing to do with safeguarding our civil rights or limiting the abuses of power of President Bush and his co president, Dick Chaney. I know the media has it’s biases. Listening to Mr. KFI this afternoon one becomes painfully aware of the desire for sheer fluff from the consumer. That’s why we get it in the news. Mr. K even is promacing a segment called “All the news you don’t want” or something. Now they announce ahead of time when they’re going to bore you so you can change the station, preferably off. Thom Hartman had a new story this morning. He of course reminded us that Cindy Shehan said that as far back as 1999 that Bush had it as his goal to finish the war his father started and go ahead and take out Saddam Hussein. To accomplish this goal the administration got some Italian cleaning lady (?) to steal some stationery to fake documents of W M D sales from Niger that you’ve heard so much about. The documents were faked and then peddeled to the British and have them make the “discovery” so that Bush could say that Iraq was obtaining weapons of mass destruction. This isn’t the first time Republicans have tried to fake something. Back in the Ford administration, with Chaney and Rumsfeld in it, they were talking about the discovery of a secret submarine the Soviets had unleashed. The CIA checked it out and said there was no such thing and Rumseld quipped, “You See, I Told You So” (which also happens to be a famous book title. They were desperate then to scuttle the SALT II talks and this time, above taking vengeance on Joe Wilson for exposing the lie about the yellow cake uranium from Niger, they were out to cover up the whole idea of fraud leading us to eventual war. Taken as a whole, these acts would seem to most people to be an Impeachable offence, not just of Dick Chaney, as I said yesterday, but of George Bush as well. Of course the media is owned by the big corporations such as G E as in the case of NBC, and they and all other of the big four will thus be biased. Sixty Minutes still tries at times to get out the truth. They had that article about the government going bankrupt with Health Care expenses and how we pay 40% more than other nations for inferior health care, as I mentioned the other day. Ross Perot is the only guy who gave us the straight economic skinny in the election of 1992. Mr. KFI voted for Ross Perot as did I. That’s one thing good about him. Ross Perot told the truth about the way things are in this country economically. He was kind of a prophet, and he was smeared for it. Of course now we hear that the internet is in wide use in the Arab world and that Al Qaida makes liberal use of it. There was an old show about the Black Muslems in 1960 or so called “The Hate that Hate Created”. It sure does seem that we are feeding Al Qaida with our hatreds. I said there was still hope for a favorable outcome in Iraq and I’m sticking by that. But there will come a time when there is absolutely nothing we can do. How will George Bush feel when we’re there?

Of course today they announced they had discovered one of the prisons in northern Poland where the CIA sent prisoners to be tortured. I knew we were using Serbia but I didn’t know about Poland. Apparently Poland is reverting to its NAZI past or something. Apparently the prisons are so makeshift they arise spontaneously created out of buildings that originally were meant for other things. It would seem that some of these ex communists nations such as Poland and Serbia haven’t made a clean break with their totalitarian pasts. We constantly hear Bush is on friendly terms with Vladimir Putin. I wonder just what that means. Are fresh atrocities waiting to be discovered?

Last night on KABC prime time or whatever they had Jesus of Suburbia, who wears a pink shirt. Of course Bernie from 1993 used to wear pink shorts, and he had the nerve to call other people queer. Jesus is from Puerto Rico but has now settled in the furtile soil of Miami, Florida and hopes his winning ways will entice the rest of this nation. I hope he isn’t malicious the way Jim Jones turned out to be. As for having kids call themselves the Super Race, there may be no evil intent behind it. Perhaps he’s just trying to build their self esteem like “Black is beautiful”. As to his contention that there is no sin and no Hell let me deal with that. The book I was reading when I first started blogging and commented upon at that time said the same thing. You don’t necessarily have to be a nut to believe that and you can make a Biblical case for it such as St. Paul’s statement of “There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” or the line “All things are lawful to me”. I personally in my own ethics have a problem with the assertion that there is no Devil, no sin, and no Hell. I believe we can all think of sins that are Bigger than the man committing them. Sins that transcend man’s ability to reep reciprocity for them such as mass murderors and serial rapists and NAZIS such as Eichman and Mengele. Some arguments of Christians admittedly just don’t make any sense. You hear things like “If you continue to sin (drinking, carowsing ect.) you will just be driving the nails deeper into Christ on the cross”, but at the same time imply that if you don’t stop, you’ll be going to hell. If Jesus really saved you from your sins, you should be sin free and forgiven, “no matter what”. In the book of Daniel one of the things it says you’ll know the Messiah by is “He will make an end to Sin”. If that’s true than Jesus of suburbia is more of a prophet than these hand wringers in the pulpet. But you hear other things. Other things come with a “no matter what”. Jesus in the Bible plainly said, “For if you do not forgive sins against you from man, neither will your father in heaven forgive you”. In theological code what this means if you have a beef with someone who owes you money and on the way to his house throw a cigarette butt in the gutter, you are guilty of eternal Hell Fire. There seems to be nothing short of eternal burning in Hell for the “unforgiven”. There is no lesser penalty such as being locked in a room with a bunch of old ladies listening to Laurence Welk music viewing slides of the family vacation. If you refuse to forgive your brother, or “resist the evil one” when it plainly says NOT to resist the evil one, then you are recompensed by being Denied Forgiveness by your heavenly father. I cannot accept this premise and since Jesus taught it, it means I cannot accept Christianity and for the sin of “rejecting” it, I too am sentenced to exist in eternal hell fire. But there is one atrocity beyond this that really raises my hackles. David once prayed “Against thee Lord, and thee ONLY have I sinned”. I say, “No, you idiot, you sinned against that woman’s husband”. There is kind of a view that sins against men are OK; it’s only sins against God you have to worry about. Their argument totally breaks down though when you think I have to forgive a sin that might be against God rather than me, so it isn’t my fight after all, one way or the other. That Jessica Lunstrum girl or whatever from Florida was raped and murdered two years ago and her killer was just convicted for it today. It seems like we’ve had “Jessica’s laws” for child preditors for at least two years. The killer might well say to the victum, “Don’t bark at me with your problem. I didn’t sin against you. This is strictly between me and God so bug out!”. There is one more sick game Christians play. Jesus of K K K F I has stated “Well, evil can be a good thing because it brings out the actions of good men”. So the GPS ankle bracelets are a good thing and therefore the rape and murder was a good thing. No. This does not follow. Any more than these compact discs with copy protection that have “root kits” and sink their tentacles deep into your computer system and screw you up so that not even an antivirus can rid them. If we were to undergo a global ice age and thousands of people died from the cold would THAT be a good thing simply because some bright inventor came up with some new faboric to put in jackets to keep you warmer during those cold spells? Remedial is fine but preventative is much better. And the same things go for our ailing governmental processes.

THE REALITY AND NON REALITY OF MARCUS ARELIUS

There's a story, I thought it was in the "Black" file that I couldn't find. In it I offer an alternate version of events of late 1977 referred to in the last file. Oliver Stone, I hope you're taking notes. In this version I met a girl named Jenny at Cal St. Fullerton the first day of school or perhaps even during registration. We were both mutually attracted to each other. Jenny had long red hair and well shaped large breasts and loved psychedelic music of the sixties. We went to the beach that weekend and she introduced me to Jim Morrison who announced that from now on he'd be known as Mark Campbell. This is before his plastic surgery so I saw what he really looked like. We got married and moved into the Pinewood house. (which my parents would not own for another four years) Henry then tried to get me to agree to a divorce, and he moved in with me and I feared if I turned him down I'd be guilty of a non Christian act. But Henry, a so called friend of mine, for unknown reasons gave me a drug that caused me to have amnesia. Meanwhile Mark Campbell moved in with Pete Richards in the Palm Street house, which apparently I never visited. When Jenny learned I had amnesia Henry convinced her to move out and to "disappear" but later that winter I ran into her as if we met for the first time and I invited her to go on a retreat with the college fellowship group. We ended up having sex in the cabin, which should have been OK because we were married but Henry convinced me I had sinned and he would tell the others who didn't already know and I'd be disfellowshipped and end up in Hell.

Guilty As Charged

It’s a rather warm, dry, sunny day today, not too unlike that day in early October 1995 when the OJ verdict came in. Today the Sudder Libby verdict came in. Guilty as charged. A jury voted twelve to nothing to convict Libby on four of the five counts against him including obstruction of justice. The other four counts were two of purgery and two of giving false statements to the FBI. The vote for the one acquittal verdict was eleven to one in favor of conviction. Just to recap- - Joe Wilson went to Nigeria to investigate weapons of mass destructions and when the administration was told by Joe Wilson that there were none the President ignored the report and Dick Chaney ordered a smear campaign against Joe and his wife Valerie, who was outed as a CIA agent assigned to investigating Nuclear weapons in Iran. Scudder wasn’t charged directly with the crime as Patrick Fitzgerald explains because it was like a baseball umpire getting sand kicked in his face so that he wouldn’t make the correct calls. Unable to make the correct calls he went after the guy who was kicking up the most sand. The foreman of the jury was interviewed on 1150 today and he said they wanted to convict Dick Chaney but he wasn’t on trial. It’s likened to indicting the guy in the bank robberey that drove the get away car and the jury had a “finding of guilt” about everybody else but they were only able to convict Joe because Joe was the only person charged. Apparently Patrick Fitzgerald is no longer going to be special prosecutor because they did away with the position and now it’s up to Alberto Gonsolez the AG to do other investigation, which of course he won’t. But Fitzpatrick did say he would cooperate with congress if they wanted to bring impeachment charges against Dick Chaney. This seems to be our best bet at the moment. Getting rid of Dick Chaney would be like in Julius Caesar where they decided not to slay Mark Antony but only Julius because “Mark Antony is but an arm, who can’t function once the head is cut off”. I’ll be frank. I was starting to have grave doubts whether Libby would ever be convicted because the jury had taken ten days and now they were asking questions about “reasonable doubt”.

They are making medical advances all the time. Now they have discovered the LKCI bacteria in the intestine that constitutes seventy percent of the body’s immune system. They should have discovered that a long time ago if finding one thing would account for 70% of all immunity. Now they are saying that plump girls enter puberty sooner and are more plagued with promiscuity and other jouvenile delinquent offences. In 1970 they said there was a link between homosexuality and child molestation but they were using faulty research because most of the gays they interviewed were in police station jails. Further the act of molestation itself was considered an answer to the question “Have you ever participated in a homosexual act?” so obviously they found a link that may not be there. The latest study says that 45% percent of the 18 to 24 year old women have that papaloma virus in their system and most women naturally build up a defence to it. Further it is stated that 30% of cervical cancers are not linked to this papaloma virus.

Now they are selling Holy Water. They warn on the bottle that it may cause burning and itching to the unsaved, and not to drink alcohol with it.

There is apparently some guy called “Jesus of suburbia”, who wears pink and teaches that there is no Devil and that there is no Sin. Sounds like one hell of a church. When I first heard about it I thought it was the plot of a movie.

"Mr. KFI" ect. is on KTLK now. The Federation doesn't trust him and says he has some bad karma to deal with (notibly from July 1995) and if this fact is ignored his bad karma will end up jinxing the whole station such that the rest of Air America, not to mention the many new fans of the station, will come to mistrust both him and by extension the entire station. This line about "Now we're main stream" may be just a line, or it could be a troubling Omen.

The following was typed July 2004 when a lot of stuff was typed. The original file is called "Venture" and we might call this one "Venture into the Too Well Known". I'm going to post this right now before dinner and later on we can retire to the drawing room around a cozy fire with cigars and brandy and I can make the concluding remarks I was planning.

[three paragraphs at the beginning of this article have been removed]

It was the last Wednesday in August and [Pete Richards] and I were at a St. James Episcopal prayer meeting when word came Chuck Smith was doing a special on the End Times. He was interrupting his study on the Beattitudes to do it. On Thursday September 1^st. we went to Calvary Chapel. It was crowded so we had to sit outside. Chuck was talking about the European money system and these little chips they were using on cattle that they could put under the skin of humans. He said something drastic was happening on September 24^th. in a couple weeks. The next week, September 8^th. he held the meeting at the Anaheim Convention Center. In early August I had bought the Dylan album with “Masters of War”, “Hard Rain”, and “Talkin’ World War III Blues” on it. In this message Chuck Smith talked about the coming Holocaust in the Mideast and of the “Sampson option” by which Isriali officials would prefer to commit suicide but this time they would take the whole area with them. Chuck spoke of “their flesh shall consume away” from radiation, and people’s eyeballs melting and running down their face. And almost mockingly he said, “If you don’t like this message then Go to Hell”. I was disturbed by the group I was with liking this message and not being bothered by it. Right there it was showing a fundamental difference between me and other Born Again Christians. Later on Chuck made this message into a film.

The next weekend we had another swimming party at the Snows. I remember giving airplane rides to [name withheld] and [name withheld]. I lost a white comb I had had for five years and some-odd months, and I considered it a bad omen. Since my Suicide attempt my life had generally been on an upward course till now.

I started attending CSUF at the beginning of September. I took “Literature of the Middle Ages”, a class on Prisons, a Philosophy of Religion class taught by a teacher [Pete Richards] knew, and an Oriental philosophy class. At this time I changed my number one prayer to God from getting a girlfriend to - nothing going wrong in getting my transcripts from Cypress. I knew I finally had the required 56 units to transfer. It turns out that’s exactly what happened and after four weeks I was fourced to withdraw from all the classes. Mike Bowman was doing a study on Hebrews during that period and one of the scriptures was “Let us fear lest we miss a promise of God by failing to enter in”. I got prayer for my situation and considered it a test of faith. But I lost. About this time Rev. Mike canceled the volleyball games we used to have before the Bible Study nearby. It was just another symptom of that ultra spiritual quality [Mike] has. One time [Rev. Mike] gave thumbs down to a car rally to be held at the church. I guess they didn’t mix.

In September there was some big meeting at St. James Episcipal that had taken place. There were a lot of conflicts between the left and the right wing. But then Paul [last name withheld] stands up and reports “We thought we were facing conflicts, but by the end of the meeting we couldn’t remember what any of the conflicts were” and the congregation burst out in applause. Rev. Eagleson was the only glue that was holding left and right together. We home at parents I remarked “I don’t know, it looks like the church has to deal with some serious problems” and [someone] got mad and burst out that I was being negative. But of course in the end I was more than proven right.

[One paragraph was removed here].

In October, having to withdraw from school when some office list of “official students” failed to have my name on it, I was feeling a little dejected. On TV there was Transendental Meditation stuff on channel 18 with the “Seti” program. They said if they could get one percent of people meditating crime would drop and wonderful things would begin happening. They always ended with “Jay Guru Dev”. Also on TV was Chuck Smith’s program on the book of Revelation that had that catchy theme song, “I feel like we’re at the end of Time”. Also at that time Gene Scott was on the air.

Sometime around this period I attended some function at John Hmlin’s house from John’s group. His group was more caring and involved with people’s lives than was Mike. It’s kind of like comparing a dry gin to sweet vermouth. [added] : John Hamlin told me that he had something really profound to say to me, but that I “Wasn’t ready to hear it yet”. I’m naturally suspicious of lines like this.

Don Lies’ health had become a crisis issue at St. James’. Week after week Rev. [Eagleson] would be leading prayers for him. It was the last Saturday in October and we were at the [Bowman’s] house when word came that Don Lies had died of a heart attack. In retrospect I feel guilty for not praying fervently enough. Of course maybe God wanted her to be married to an “unbeliever” like Elliot. Something to complain about.

It was some time in the fall of 1977 I began to feel like I was spiritually stagnating. I said “I’m not growing” and people insisted that I was. One night in early November Mike Bowman didn’t lead the Bible Study. Vince and Debby did. We talked about this a few files back. Somehow I got into an argument with Vince about something and he said “I would be Biblically correct in cutting off fellowship with you” or ruling me out of the Faith or something. I was thinking in my mind, “this bullshit wouldn’t be happening of [Mike Bowman] were here”. Later on he said, “Call me anytime you need to talk”. But I didn’t. This offer seemed out of place. Debby was a little incensed. She protested, “Every morning at breakfast I pray for you”.

About this time [Pete Richards]l and I went to a meeting to have prayer for three women who were pregnant at the time. This seemed to me a super spiritual act. It was Robin, [name withheld], and some other woman. [Robin] gave birth to a girl with no right hand. [Pete] said it was because [Richard] had taken LSD. What surprised me was the air of calm resignation with which they took the news. It’s been 52 years since doctors told my parents [material withheld here]. You know, “Can’t we take this one back to the maker and get another one?”

It seems as if I was waiting forever for “News of the World” by Queen to come out. Meanwhile I bought “Ziggy Stardust”, which had the song “Five Years” on it. According to this song the end should be this year. It was at this time I launched the concept of the Z A C to the media. Ziggy’s Air Command”. It was kind of a quantum leep in delusion.

Like "All the Presidents" men this narritive extended on for several more months past November but for audience purposes we decided to conclude it here. How many of you can guess what I had for dinner tonight? How many of you think it was spaghetti? Well, you win the E J Wells door prize and I'll ship it to you as soon as I can contact E J Wells to find out what it is. Wally was going from table to table with some green leafy stuff he says was oregano, saying for people to use it on their spaghetti. I declined. It looked a little too organic. I trust it was really oregano. There's a guy named Marcus who lives here now. I thought of passing myself off as him making some kind of public appearence. I'd let him talk for a half hour, ponthicating the way he does, and then I'd have someone bring me out for real. Of course I'm sure Chelsea would be jumping up and down saying, "I knew he wasn't the guy all along".

I would now like to offer two narritives. Perhaps you can tell how they are connected.

There's a shot of a back yard and a bunch of cats, about five or six in a yard kind of looking at each other and sending each other tail signals and such. Then another cat bounds over the fence. Most of the other cats hide, at least a little. The new cat strides accross the yard and begins meowing and arching his back, rubbing his back up against a patio cover post.

Jesus taught a parable about a dishonist manager who robbed his boss by writing markedly reduced ammounts for the receipts that were debts the owners creditors owed. Instead of getting mad, when the head of the business found out he praised the employee for his stealth. For when the employee got fired, as he surely was, he found safty in the shelter of one of those other creditors, on who's half he swindled his boss. Jesus concludes "Thus the sons of light shall be cast out and mankind will find everlasting habitation in the gates of their new master".

Here is the moral of the tale. Both stories are playing to an audience unseen. The cat was "playing" to the human being taking the movies, and not for the other cats. As such one would obtain a distorted view were he to assume there were no human beings in the picture. In like manner it's dubious Jesus ever told this parable - - particularly to a Jewish audience. The Jews hate crooks just like anybody else and faithfullness is a highly prized trait. What we see could well a post Marcionization trate, after the Church came under the sway of Marcion and became anti semetic. The apostle Paul lived around the turn of the century and as we have said both Ignatious and the "Pauline" letters are derivitives of his life. Paul lived in pre Marcion times when the anti semitisum hadn't developed so far. If Jesus really was Philo of Alexandria, perhaps then he was referring to himself, knowing his movement would begin in Egypt but soon take shelter under Roman wings. It is said the Bible is inerrant and that the Bible is and has always been a fixed cannon of scripture. Yet one needn't look far to find errant prophecy. Let me give you a few examples. Jesus himself tought that "You will see the Abomination of Desolation standing in the Holy Place". This referrs to the Jewish Temple, that was still standing in Jesus's time. Zachariah says there would be "blood rising up to the horses' bridals" at the battle of Armageddon. We're going back to horses? Also it is written that if Egypt would not bring the anual sacrifice to the Temple that Jehovah would not send rain on them. Some times the obvious needs to be given a second look. It's obvious that Dick Chaney and Karl Rove are guilty along with Libby in this whole Wilson-gate affair. Yet it looks as if these two will never be brought to justice and nevertheless Bush will end up pardoning Libby anyhow. This is what we have sunk to. Any God worth worshipping should value things like faithfullness and justice and truth, as well as sober, coherent logic. We are a long way from this. It's clear we are going to one day have a government credibility crisis in this nation. Are we up for that challenge? "Tag, you're it!"

Run, Devil, Run!

There is new hope in the Mideast picture these days. It seems Dick Chaney's influence has been "put away" for a while and George Bush is listening to other people, or else he wouldn't have agreed to peace talks with Iran and Syria, which appearently he has. We're all hoping that it will lead to success. Lindsey Grahm was on Meet the Press today and he was saying that in Iraq the common people dislike the extremists on both sides, both Shiite and Suni. We sure know they didn't have the divisions during Suddam's reign. As a person who has never been to Iraq personally it's hard to fathom just how important these religious differences are. As Lindsey says, the Shiite on the street would probably be happier knowing he's the majority in a growing and peaceful democracy, rather than as a pawn in someone elses' gigantic Civil War. I guess the thing is the US never seems to work for Peace abroad but to get their own private deals done. We wern't for Peace when we had the United Fruit company take over in Guatamaula in 1954 or when Pinochet took over from Allende in Chile in 1970 or when Ho Chi Min was denied the election he rightfully deserved to have held in 1954 after the French left Viet Nam. I think most experts see the Shiite victory as some unanticipated "accident" rather than the fulfillment of any of Bush's foreign policy aims. In other news I hope they straighten out the Walter Reed hospital mess. This is an issue that has gain "traction" in the past couple weeks.

Juliani is running away in the polls with the Republican nomination despite his stands on Gays, Guns, and Abortion. I didn't mention any of these things in my last blog and perhaps some of you were wondering why not? That's because "Christian values" are constantly changing. Rather than have faith in any one person or event or idea, Christians not to put too fine a point on it pride themselves on "Faith in Faith". Whatever their little minds dream up as an ideal they will make it God and insist that everyone else worship it. Juliani is approaching this God maker status now appealing to the Larry Elder fanatical "Securety is Everything - Throw out the Constitution" ploy. These are the same people who say there IS no Right to Habious Corpus or other rights such as trial of a jury of our piers in our constitution. These "Neo Cons" as they are called have "Updated" that Old Time Religion into an image they consider relivant to today and if that means embracing Juliani, they'll do it. As I've said I'd trust John Mc Cain any day of the week over Juliani because at least I consider him a man of conscience. I believe he will do his honist best to bring about a successful conclusion to the Iraq War even if I disaggree with his strategy. I don't think it's a lost cause even at this date. I think there are times when you listen to someone like Randy Rhodes and think her little "skits" that she has are reality, but they are not tablets written in stone. People like Rush Limbaugh are worse, though. Rush won't even call a senator by his proper name. I think at this point we need to look at the opposition as they really are and not how our practiced production staff paints them. (Selah)

Leo Le Port says they aren't teaching handwriting in the grammar schools now. I don't know if he's right or not. He does have two kids. They call it "keyboarding" and not "typing" of cource. I think we need to teach penmanship. I try to keep mine at least passibly neat because it is the first impression a lot of people have of you in cases of writing checks or filling out applications, or taking SAT tests. Were this two hundred years ago I might be advocating good swordsmanship and require that all my college students take fencing, and not to rely on these new fangled guns that could misfire. Penmanship is good for developing manual dexterity. As a former alcoholic I know something about that. I'm a sufferer of B E T or benign essential tremmors. Lots of B Vitamines helped me out consiterably. I would also expect our Police to be well taught in the Martial arts and not just to rely on their guns when they get in a tough situation. In terms of spelling the Federation has their own way of spelling certain words. "Word" has their own varient ways for a lot of words that were alien to me. I write "Marithon" as well as "Seccond" and "Cassino" and "Shaddow" and "Streach" and "Defence" and "Judgement" and "Securety" and "Rareties". I think my spellings make more sense than Word's do.

Some may ask why I make reference to the Federation if I'm "really a Christian". Last week the Federation endourced Joel Olsteins sermon on "Not letting the criticisum of others get to you". You are to be true to your own values. The trouble is you really don't JOIN Christianity today the way, for instance a husband and wife join together. You JOIN more in the sense of a "Limited Partnership" to use a legal term. This means that you give them all your money and they'll tell you at the end of the quarter whether you made any back or not. The thing is with a limited partnership (as opposed to a General Partnership) there's this Head Hauncho that holds all the cards and makes all the decisions. But in your favor he also assumes all of the liability, which you as a limited partner, are protected from. Really it isn't YOUR religion that you embrace but rather THEIR religion. You are in a sense just "borrowing" it, so to speak. So when you have an idea, it better be because THEY thought of it first and you're just a conduit or pawn of theirs because if it's your OWN idea it's worthless. It's "an act of the Flesh". I hope I clarified that for you. Some might ask me "If you were really a Christian you'd delete all your other blogs and just go with the latest one". There was a song they were singing on channel 40 yesterday called "Opperate on me, Lord, and remove what should not Be". I think you know where I'm going with this. Using their logic for me to repent of sex I'd have to castrate myself in their presence so they would know I was sincere. Since there is virtually Nothing that Christians have valued about my whole life perhaps it was just some "mistake"God made. They'll say God makes mistakes when they're cornered and panicked. Perhaps we should just hire Shem and Jafath to slay me and then cover over my dead carcus with a sheet being careful not to even look on my person as they creep from the tent. You know, there was a guy on today who talked about the three heavens. Once again there was almost (almost!) a hint of Federation theology in his words. There is a first heaven with the earth and planets and stars in. There is a third heaven where God and only His Holiness dwells. Then there is a Second heaven where the Angels and Demons dwell, with good and evil interacting freely. Of course your body relates to the first heaven. Your Soul relates to the Second heaven. This is the "Personality" part of you that relates to other "Personalities" such as the Angels. The reason why I say "Being born of the Flesh is a mistake" is because this "part" of you is also going to be done away with. The only thing left is the "Spirit" or Holy Spirit part of you that isn't really you but God anyhow. So it isn't you that survives death but only what God implanted to begin with. (Selah)

We have a letter here from Point Place, Wisconsin asking "How come you referred to that one poor minister as the Asshole from El Paso? Shouldn't a Christian be more charitable than that in referring to his Enemies". You know, that's a good question and I'll answer it. Calling this guy that is the most Charitable thing I could come up with. I could identify him by name and tell what church he's the pastor of and all about his past and how he came to the position he now holds, and all of his interraction tword me. But in doing this I'd be making him look far worse than he looks now. He's a man who has trashed my Christian faith and said that whether Jesus rose from the dead doesn't matter. We're hardly talking about a Saint. One time Marge Simpson was asked to do a drawing or sculpture to honor Montgomary Burnes. She was perplexed because everying from the git-go with this man was so utterly Evil. At last she decided on a statue of his emaciated nude body. It was an ugly thing. But if Monty is ever going to get to heaven this is most likely how he'll enter the Kingdom. You Can't Take It With You, as the saying goes. Of course I recommend last Saturday's Simpson's episode and just think of Homer Simpson as a Christian pastor and that new plant Employee as Me. This is most likely how I might react. Pastors, like Homor Simpson have this "aura" about them, the stupider they act the more they are defended and covered up for. Homer is anything but gracious when it comes to criticizing others but excepts absolutely no correction from others. The smartest thing you can do is just Ignore the Elephant in the Room. With the Asshole from El Paso it's more cinnister. First of all "El Paso" has a "shoot the wounded" philosophy, much as Gene Scott had. One time I was in a jacuzzi and I was looking at all the signs of the pool area and saw one that said "In case of Accident call 911". I happened to think that a good cartoon to show is one of being at the swimming pool of the Pastor's house and depicting a sign there, "In case of Emergency, call an undertaker", because that's how he thinks. Captain Piccard of Star Trek has encoutered a number of Sadists in his time. There was that one Cardassian who strung him up nude under bright lights and tortured him with these space devices. Then the man invited his seven year old daughter to come in. Captain Piccard asked the man who he'd expose his daughter to such a horrible sight and the Captor said,"She has to learn that earthlings are sub-human sometime". There is another creature that Captain Piccard encountered that was that "oil sludge" being of blackness, called the "Skin of Evil". Piccard tried to reason with it and "understand" it using therapy. But to no success. Each attempt was only answered by more shocking events such as Deaths of others. And the only disappointment this Being showed was when the Death wasn't Painful enough. I'll stop this dissertation now before I get on a real roll. With some people the best thing you can do with them is to Avoid them. Because they will only suck you into a hole if you let them. (Selah)

Hillary Clinton is doing her "Me, too" routine. She looks to others to figure out how to respond. She won't come out against the Iraq War unless she sticks her finger to the wind first. She won't go down to Selma to commemorate that incident on the Bridge. This is an event, according to the Federation where Martin Luther King was "turned back" and the whole Civil Rights movement kind of ground to a halt and was unable to move further. Hillary saw Berock Obama going to Selma so she decided to come, too. I guess they say any Democrat is better than any Republican. I'm not so sure about that. Hillary has so much "baggage" and I confess I am partially brainwashed by listening to Rush Limbaugh all those years. Slick Willy was called "The first Black president". I guess Blacks really like him. Will the popularity transfer over?

"Behold, it is the Empty Can that Rattles the Loudest"

"I look from the wings at the play you are staging
While I'm sitting here doing nothing but aging"

"No he doesn't eat like a Pig - -
Pigs usually chew their food first"

Jesus's Advocate

FOR A professing Christian, which I claim to be, certain obligations are incumbent upon me. You’ve heard the expression Semper Fideles. Well, as a Christian it is my obligation to be faithful to what is referred to as the Holy Spirit. Interpreting the Bible is not to be of one’s own private interperation but rather one is to recognize the fact that since it is through the grace of God that I have been saved in the first place, it is also His sovereignty that places me on whatever “conveyor belt” God wants to use to refine and perfect me into His image. As such the Lord brings pastors and teachers my way that I may learn from them, ad well as learn from other Saints whom God may use to correct me. We are all of our own selves “totally depraved” apart from the grace shown to us by God. According to Jesus Christ on the KFI show (since he is in my path at the Lord’s bidding, I am obligated to at listen to him and weigh his words) we are to submit to our pastors and not rebel in word or deed, inwardly or outwardly from their teachings. I cannot use the excuse “Jesus is my model and you are not” because Jesus was God and as such anything he did was Perfect. Since it would be blasphamus for me to equate myself, too with God, my life by definition can never be perfect, no matter how hard I try to emulate the works of Jesus. In this way I am to learn humility, which is never to take pride in one’s own rightiousness. On the other hand if others appear to at times be “caught in a fault” and appear to be sinning against me, then I am to forgive them, both for now and in eternity. I am even to forgive “The Asshole from El Paso”. It’s not for me to judge him. That’s up to God and God works through my pastor. This is the reality of what is required to live a Christian life.

Christians are taught to distrust the Media. Clearly media productions such as “Jesus Camp” are bad characterizations of the Christian faith. This is not how it is being among Christians. The things portrayed are crass distortions. We are always to provide a good “witness” to Jesus, and are mandated by the Bible to lead souls to him, “in season and out of season”, whether we “feel like it” or not.

In terms of these discoveries such as the Bones of Jesus, all such discoveries are inherently bogus, but the Lord teaches that Faith is something that is from God and is devoid of physical evidence, for evidence of this world is evil, and Satan tempts us with it. Therefore we are to deny the Di Vinci codes and this latest so called discovery as snares of Satan to seduce the weak through vanity of knowledge. Once we die all our questions will be answered by God but until them we are to “wait on the Lord” and to live not in doubt but in faith. We are in other words to “Believe our beliefs” and inversely “Doubt our doubts”.

Global warming is not what it appears to be. It is actually the sun that is causing global warming because the planet Mars is also being warmed, so that earth and Mars appear to be warmed by a common source. The polar ice caps of Mars are also melting, at times more dramatically than earth’s. There is a simple explanation for all these tornadoes we are having. As you know there is a common trend in a tornado season for them to start in the South early in the year and as the spring progresses, the tornadoes work their way north, so that it is in Minisota that we see tornadoes in late May and early June. May I remind you that people complain about the cold one minute and the heat another. Most of the incidences of global warming we see on the planet have other explanations other than what we hear from Al Gore. We are reminded that in the book of revelation that the sun is appointed to burn people with seiring heat. And so it will be.

As a Christian we are never to presume that God will heal us. But neither are we to try and come up with means to do an “end run around God” by trying to devise ways to evade his will for us with ungodly experiments such as stem cell research. Rush Limbaugh says that stem cell research is destined to produce no fruits, and Dr. Dean Edell reminds us that roomers of the latest cancer drug that’s supposed to dry up tomers by cutting off blood vessles is bogus and “people come up with these sorts of snake oil cures every day, but we are just to ignore them.

It is said that the Christian is to work for peace. But Romans 13 plainly teaches us that governments are instituted of God, and if your government tells you to go to war than to War you are bound and obligated to go. We are to trust Godly men such as George Bush and we are to Pray for our President and to think positive thoughts about him. If we all trusted him more there would be a lot fewer problems in America. If we all would just live Godly lives, crime rates would drop dramatically. The only time we are to be hostile to religion is if it is a known Cult.

In terms of my life as I look at it in the spirit of Christ I must confess I don’t know what to make of it. We are all to be perfect and yet if we claim perfection we are trusting in the Flesh. We must at all times proclaim our unworthyness. If God never did another thing for us, we should be eternally grateful for his mighty works in what he has already done. We are not to complain about our problems. We are as Caroline Brady says, “to just Suck it Up” and anoint our heads with oil and wear a smile. By doing this we glorify God, to whom we owe our lives.

Hillary Clinton is a radical who followed the teachings of Sol Allinsky in her youth and wrote a college thesis on it as World Net Daily reports. The Clinton white house, ashamed of the truth, ordered the University records sealed. But Jesus Christ teaches that every ungodly deed by the unsaved will be revealed when he returns to set up his Kingdom when the power of Satan is removed from the earth.

(March 2nd. 2007) - - - - It’s depressing news no matter how you slice it. I guess she could have written me except I never asked for her address. We had BBQ chicken and it was good – not excessively greasy as it sometimes is, but the coloflour was naturally overdone.

In terms of yesterday’s blog if you ask if I have any thing to add I’ll just say it was based loosely on the “Mythic” file from May 1996 when my memory was at least a little fresher. I used it as a rough outline from Sept. 1986 on. Obviously I left out stuff because (a) I got tired of typing and (b) I had other things to do yesterday, as you well know. I’ve been reading the O Bama book today. I left out where parents swarmed over the Bosc house in the stultifying heat on a day in early September 1987 doing yard work and again spawning the question from Frank, “Are your parents selling the house?” I also left out where Frank had cut his work hours in May and thus had more time on his hands he’d have to fill with one activity or another. I also left out Frank letting me borrow his guitar and my playing got pretty damn decent for a while. I borrowed his guitar and he borrowed my - - - no it doesn’t work that way. I didn’t include the time we went over to “Bobby Hayden”s apartment on a Saturday night in late September to watch “Top Gun” or why that’s relivant. Many events I didn’t include because I thought they were repeatitive. I didn’t mention two events that took place non related on an especially glum, overcast day in mid November 1986. I didn’t bring up the triple birthday surprise party thrown by “Henry” in late February 1987 for Allan, Jack, and Debby. And lastly I didn’t mention anything about Iran-Contra. According to Randy Rhodes they used the money first to put drugs into the inner city and then bought and sold drugs and used the profits from that amount to give to the Contras. Of course I didn’t mention anything that occurred in the past week notably, to be exact, from the evening of Wednesday September 30^th. to the morning of October 8^th. Of course the book of Acts doesn’t mention anything about the myrterdoms of either Paul, James of Jerusalem, or Peter, or the fire at Rome of Nero’s throwing Christians to the lions and torthing others for his garden parties. I guess that stuff just wasn’t “relivant” to the purpose of the writer of Acts, alledgedly in the year AD 85. In both cases of my blog and the book of Acts if you’re missing “the end of the story” you’re missing a whole lot.

Now they have a web site you can go to of Discovery.com / tomb you can go to to find out more on the graves they discovered 27 years ago. They can hardly accuse anyone of exploitation on this one since it took so long.

Randy Rhodes will be going LIVE on KTLK come Monday, which means she will be on from noon to three. They are still talking about that daylight savings time “virus” or whatever. I think the whole idea of daylight savings time this early is a little looney myself. According to Randy there’s no news on the national front except for one telling story. The head of the Army has resigned as sort of a sacrificial lamb for the Walter Reed hospital disaster. The real guy behind it and who covered it up who was there for three years - - he is being promoted to take his place. That’s the way the Bush administration work. You have to select the right sociopaths for advancement.

In soap land Belle and Sean had a “marital spat” when all Sean wanted to do was kiss her out there in the middle of nowhere, through all the stuff they’ve been through together, and she’s acting if it’s their first date. On Passions Teresa once again has decided to marry Jered right after making love to Ethan. There is a shoot to kill order out on Luis and Sheridan wants Fancy to lie because Sheridan wants to get her in trouble. I don’t think there words obscene enough to tell Sheridan off at this point.

For lunch we had cheeseburgers and waiting for seconds finally paid off. I wasn’t going to wait for seconds for dinner because sometimes it’s twenty minutes. I guess Ed Schults is getting Das Boot. (OK I know that’s wrong) Ed Schultz tries to get all haughty and claim he’s better than everyone else and now he may be nowhere.

Bats in the Belfrey

Welcome to the updated version with a few extra "bits" and corrections. The stock market isn't looking very healthy the past few days. According to Thom Hartman it's because the Chinese may be deciding it's not worth their investment capital to keep the United States afloat.

This blog came up automatically without my having to enter the password. I better change that quick because someone else could get in here and start messing with the content of my blogs.

This is the quote of the day:

"You are guilty of meddeling with the primal forces
of nature- - - And You Will Atone!"

The distribution of information contained in this file is not
a necessary evil; it's just Necessary"
-Malcolm Evans

Dr. Phil said "I'd rather be happy than right". As a Christian I've always believed the opposit, that it was better to be Right than to always get your way. But I appear to be outvoted by public oppinion, so in that spirit today you can Have It Your Way. We might as well just declare today National Burger King Day. - - and now on with the Blog.

One day Bart Simpson was cutting class. He was scheduled to take a big test that would determine whether he graduated from the fifth grade. He had seen a Texan burry some gold in a cave so he thought he'd investigate for himself. I ventured into the cave and saw a long hanging stelagtite and figured he'd chip off a small piece for his collection. But in doing so he set up a geological instability and the whole stelagtite crashed and made a big hole in the ground, which opened up and Bart Simpson fell into an underground cavern. Bart looked around and from around the bend came a black guy who introduced himself as Chad. They got to talking and Chad showed him a computer CD he'd found but he'd been afraid to play it. Actually there was no electricity to run the computer that was down there but Chad was al electronic's wizzard and Bart wanted to see and hear what was on the CD. "Come on" Bart chided "I know you can do something to make it work. You're smart". Actually Chad knew of a way. There was some bubbling hydrogen sulphide acid on one part of the cave and various metaloids of various atomic veilance and Chad believe if you strung up a wire from the acid to the metaloids he could generate enough current to make the computer work. And it was so. Bart looked at the twelve strange cryptic symbols on the CD and developed a puzzled expression. Chad said, "I don't know what those symbols mean, either". Bart said, "Oh I know what it says. It's semaphore flag symbols and it reads DARK HALF JOHN but I don't know the signifigance of that, do you?" The plaued the CD and the computer was actually running- so here we go.

It was June of 1981 and Laura had recently gotten back from her time in a mental hospital. David Stanley wasn't sure if Laura were still his girlfriend. He wasn't even sure he wanted her as his girlfriend any more. She seemed for her experiance somehow tireder and older, and she had developed a hard, jaded personality she never had before. One day at the Bosc house Laura had a conversation with David's friend, Jim Cooper about "finding true love" and Jim echoed that current Tom Petti song, "The waiting is the hardest part". David was listening to this conversation and didn't like the fact that (a) she was talking with Jim and not him and (b) that she saw herself as not having found her true love. On July 3rd. 1981 a group of the Bosc mates and assorted friends went to the Carona Del Mar baptisum, and they picked up two girls, Susan and Karen, who were sisters. Laura was jealous of the attention Susan and David were showing to each other. In fact later that night David and Susan had sex. It happened only once. In November after David was married he came accross Susan in Church one day and she acted like perhaps they ought to pick up where they left off but David said he was married now.

Around July 18th. 1981 David began having sexual relations with another girl named Delores. She had an older sister, Gina, who was more prudish, the way older sisters are wont to be. This relation lasted only a week or two. Because in the last weekend of July Laura turned around on a dime and now decided she wanted to get married to David. (detales in another file) For David's part he was distressed that he had now turned thirty and was not yet married. And he thought if his Book ever caught on sales wise, it would help his imag if he were pitching it, if he were married. After all it was a Christian book. In August David and Laura got married.

Laura and David moved into the Pinewood house, which his mother had justr bought as an investment, in north Anaheim in a Chicano neighborhood. Wedded life was blissful for a while but after a while Laura began porking out. She began putting on weight. Laura was also bi-polar and was prescribed lithium. But occasionally she would overdose and turn beet red as a side effect. As 1982 progressed Laura also began developing Bullimia. In early December David wanted to go to a welcoming home party for Michelle Greenville, a girl he'd had an attraction to for some time now. (see elsewhere) Laura didn't want to go so David went along. He again ran into Delores, who seemed quite chummy, like she wanted to take up a relationship with David. David was tempted but announced that he was married now and it would be inappropiate. Mark Campbell, David's friend, and who had taken over his room at the Bosc house when David was married, always referred to Delores disparagingly as "the cocker spaniel". It turned out that in early 1983 that Delores was pregnent. It was David's understanding that it was some other guy who neither David or Mark knew. But on February 28th. 2007 in a phone conversation in the morning, David's brother Phill, called and it came up that Phill said that Mark had claimed when he was alive that he was the father of the baby and that he wanted it aborted. This didn't jive with what David knew about Mark. At the time both Mark and David had developed the feeling that Delores's unborn child was none other than the reincarneted soul of John Lennon. Phil Stanley, David's brother, was rather instremental in arranging for Delores to have an abortion in late February of 1983. At the time Phill was working for pastor Mike Bowman of Orangewood Community Church. Mike was a strong fundamentalist who was against abortion. Phill had to hide the fact from Mike that he was involved in any way with arranging the abortion. Mike often called him "Dr Phill" because Phill had a batchelors degree from CSUF whereas Mike had dropped out of seminary, a prestigious east coast Ivey League school his denomination had sent him to for education. Mike said the school had "incorrect theology" and dropped out, but still fancied himself a pastor.

In late March 1983 around the 24th. an incident occurred between Mark and Zachery, who was seven & a half at the time, where Zachery and his mother, Robin couldn't trust Mark. Mark at the same time moved out of the Bosc house, where he was living, and on Easter, a guy named Frank moved in, who had all manner of sports equipment and boxes and boxes of college text books. You might say that David kind of fell into a depression in the spring of 1983. Mark was in the habbit of "dissappearing" for often months at a time. David had felt connected to Delores's baby even though it wasn't his. But now his wife, Laura was in a therapy group for her bullemia and she had developed a rather close relationship with a fellow patient named Brian. Brian was a younger guy. It turned out that both Laura and Brian had the same birth date of August 16th. 1959, which they both felt was "significant", being fellow Leo's and all. David was getting a little pissed but in early June David went to a birthday party (?) for Michelle held at the house of Shane Patton and his wife, Teresa. Michelle wasn't interested in David but Teresa clearly was and was flirtatious. Shane's chief physical attribute was that he was short, and that his wife, Teresa was taller than he was. Shane was kind of a technical nerd at an electronics corporation. One night in early August 1983 on an especially hot summer evening a group of people were having pizza and playing cards into the night. The others finally left but Teresa and David ended up having sex together. The next morning there was this really LOUD lightning back at his house and he thought that perhaps God was expressing his displeasure. Their affair would continue for almost two months or just about the first of October. The date would be significant because Teresa announced she was pregnent a few days after Christmas 1983 and David was (correctly, it turns out) pretty sure the child wasn't his. Later on David developed this fixation that Teresa was actually his sister in a previous life as Roberto Gonselez. But I guess that even would make it sicker, wouldn't it?

In early October Mark Campbell returned to the Bosc house. Jim Cooper got married to Shelly in early October 1983 but none of the photos of their wedding came out. Something got screwed up. But there was one Monday Night that they were showing color slides of their honeymoon in Can Coon, Mexico. David was working in in accounts receivable in one of these buildings with a technical sounding abbreviation in southeast Anaheim. It was roomered he'd have a new supervisor come the first of the year. It was roomered that the new guy was a real hard-ass with a lot of new stickler regulations. David initially got combative with him, as if his territory was threatened, but in the end it amounted to nothing. About this time in early January Mark Campbell began talking about "shitters". He'd gotten this phrase from the Christeen movie. But Mark suggested that David read the book first. Mark trurned David into a Stephen King junkie. Pet Cemetary was out but David didn't actually buy that untill it came out in paperback. It was in early May and Ron had moved into the Bosc house in February. Mark liked to play vidio games on Ron's Atari and he would invite David over to play. One time David was playing Asteroids and ran up a really high score as was his pattern and then the joy stick broke. "That's a bad omen" Mark said rather seriously. It turned out it was a bad Omen for Mark because he learned he had a termanal disease from which he would not recover.

moving right along - - - in the spring of 1985 David experianced a strange event in the Pinewood neighborhood that affected him. We're not giving detales here (it'll be on the quiz) but David was almost certain his Mother was somehow behind it. Also in the spring of 1985 David's cat of some thirteen years, Bo died, being found under a bush one sunny Sunday afternoon. In July 1985 Henry moved into the Bosc house. Unlike Ron who when he moved in got a major grilling from David's mother (who owned that place too) Henry got a virtual free pass. David began to wonder whether there was some "mystory link" between Henry and his mother. In late October David saw Mark alive for perhaps the last time when he appeared outside the kitchen window of the Bosc house while others were congragating there to watch the Rams - '49ers game. David went outside to talk to Mark and Mark told him that he'd been given a dyspensation to grant David a wish and that whoever David wanted to win the game he could bet that team and they'd win. Strangely enough David believed Mark and chose the '49ers "to blow their minds since they were all for the Rams" and won a lot of money. On March 18th. 1986 somewhere in the LA West Side, a funeral was held for Mark Campbell, who had died. There was no casket and Mark had willed that he be cremated and the ashes scattered at sea, in Navy tradition. Around Memorial day 1986 David was at the Bosc house and his mother called up there to announce they were now leaving for Vancouver. But his mother was much more interested in talking to Henry than she was talking to her own son.

One day in mid September 1986 David was just standing in his back yard there on Pinewood. He was depressed and restless. "This isn't really my life. Who's life is it?" He had these feelings his whole life had gone somehow wrong. Relations with his wife had gone stagnent. They talked about having kids but now was glad they hadn't had any because they wern't ready. He thought about Toby, the dog he owned years earlier. (see other file) He thought about the cat that had died. He thought about Bones, the Bosc pet that had "run away" Newyears of 1984-85.

One day at the Bosc house watching a San Francisco Giants game gone into extra innings David thought he'd get a bite at the local Burger King. This is the night of the alledged UFO obduction, and "missing time". There were 45 minutes to an hour David could not account for. (see other file) David thinks "Tommy" was on Seventh Day that night but he's not positive. It's worth noting that if the space aliens were giving David an "oppertunity" to leave, that David should have taken it because things were to get worse. David did not have the good sense to.

In mid September of 19886 David attended a Bible Study held at the church and tought by a Louie Martin. David already had a negitive impression of Louie from a party that was held at the Bosc house in February 1986 where Louie "cut him off" during a casual reference to a problem with pastors being bad communacation. Now this night Louie would again cut David off every time he tried to open his mouth. Both men had an inherent dislike of each other. He thought Louie treated the students like a bunch of little kids that had to be talked down to. Afterward David and Frank were standing outside in the dark, waiting for I'm not sure, and there were all these birds flying and Frank said they were bats, but David concluded, after a little research of his own, that the birds were swifts.

One day in early December 1986, or one week we might say, Henry borrowed David's car. But David grew restless and wanted to get out somewhere, like to the Mall of Orange. So he took the bus, which was partially on strike. He took rout 38, which went out of the way way down to far east Anaheim before it made a U turn. During this period David bought "Beat Crazy" by Joe Jackson, "Buddy Holly Lives", and "Point of Entry" by Judas Priest. Other omens were negative. In October in the middle of the world searies David's TV had gone on the fritz. He got a black and white one from parents. In late fall his dryer began smoking and became inopperable and in January of 1987 the oven door just "fell off". He said Laura must have done something to it. In other news at the Bosc house in January parents had four trees removed including the two large pepper trees on the south side. This made the Bosc mates "restless" and them blaimed David and let him know they were unhappy with his mother. "I don't live there any more. It's not my problem". But Frank would ask repeatedly, "Are your parents selling the house?" "I haven't heard". Also in January David bought the albums "Master of Puppets" by Matellica, and "Slippery when wet". Also in early 1987 David strove to be "more social" and be involved in more things with Christians. He came over to the Bosc house where Henry invited scads of people to watch "Amerika" that movie series where the Russians take over and everyone wears drab clothes. Laura came to these gatherings. Laura was cold to David in public, which David didn't like and played up to Frank, who developed an almost flirtatious banter with her. There were girls around but David's labido wasn't what it used to be.

In March there was a St. Patrick's day party at the Bosc house with Screwey Louie hosting, and he taught the group some really dumb songs to sing. It was April David now believes that Henry decided to quit his job and "rest" because of epstein barr virus or something. David would sometime see Henry's car outside the Pinewood house and Henry would say "I thought we were going shopping today". One day in mid May just before the Preakness, Henry knocked on the door. David had a splitting headache this day and Henry "wanted to talk" and David just wanted to lie down for his headache to vanish and then watch the Preakness. At other times Henry would come over and comment on the new "Goddess" Marolyn Monroe book David had baught. Henry would speak of unleashing uncontrolable lusts. Henry spoke of cancling his subscription to the OC Register because of the "indecent" Personal Adds. The solution is obvious. Just don't read them. David also didn't like how distant his wife had now become.

In June in an effort to be more social David went to the Beach Party like the one they had in 1986, and a Pool Party, also at the same house they had in 1986, and also attended the Birthday Party of "Pike" a former Bosc mate, held at a nice Mexican resturant. In July David sought to borrow money from his brother, Phill to go to Magic Mountain. Phill refused. David was having money problems because of expences mounting. David saved money for a Retreat he ended up not going on. In August on "harmonic convergance" weekend, there was a gathering at Carrie's, which was Pike's future wife, where they watched vidios of the retreat. He didn't miss much apparently. A few days later (?) they went to "Cat's" house watching vidios of the pool party. David also went to a baseball game in late August played in Long Beach. It was here that he learned that Shane Patton and his wife, Teresa (remember them?) were afficianados of this right wing evangelist named Hunt or Hunter, and loved his book. David never viewed either of them the same again because he'd read Hunt's book and hated every page of it.

David would during this period write letters to a pastor of a church his parents attended and would often go in person to get feedback from the pastor. But although these letters now look like "cries for help" they were roundly ignored. There was some potluck around the fall equinox in September 1987 where David went over to the Bosc house intending to go. The Bosc house was a "staging area" where the cars would go to the place. But David felt he was being ying-yanged as to just what would be going on at this potluck and decided not to go. Instead he got into his car and drove back home. This was the start of that oppressive heat wave that would last all the way into early October. Once home David watched an archology program on channel 40, which he found enlightening. Archiologists are discovering stuff all the time, aren't they? Oddly there was a line in David's book that said something like "To establish your faith you have to dig down and dig deep and root yourselves in the truth". Oh yeah!

Produced by Malcolm Evans
Directed by MR MOJO RISIN
Art and Set Direction: Elvis J. Wells