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back again for the tenth time. the 3rd son is coming alive wet with sublime fortitude.
ok... ok.
thanksgiving was good. went to delaware. drank at the beach. ate turkey. played football... i caught a touchdown pass... ok ...sure it was over the head of an 10 year old... but a score is a score!!!
back now.
hello.
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READING
Guitar Army: Rock & Revolution With MC5 And The White Panther Party
Guitar Army is the incendiary book that proclaimed "Rock and Roll is a Weapon of Cultural Revolution" for young, revved-up readers in 1972. Author John Sinclair spearheaded the leftist revolutionary vanguard White Panther Party and managed the Detroit rock band MC5, leading them from the ferment of the Detroit riots to the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968, where the band played minutes before police clubbed antiwar demonstrators. In October of 1970, the FBI referred to the White Panthers as "potentially the largest and most dangerous of revolutionary organizations in the United States." However, just three years earlier, the group's leaders hosted a "Love-In" on Detroit's Belle Isle, presided over by Sinclair, whom the Detroit News proclaimed "High Priest of the Detroit hippies." In 1970 he was arrested and sentenced to 9 12 to 10 years for giving an undercover officer two marijuana joints. After 18 months in prison, John Lennon, Allen Ginsberg, Stevie Wonder, Phil Ochs, and others demanded his freedom with a televised benefit concert attended by 15,000 people. Three days later, Sinclair was released.
Guitar Army chronicles these years of revolution through Sinclair's "street writings" and prison writings, with over 80 photographs, illustrations, concert flyers and comics from the period. This 35th anniversary edition of Guitar Army includes two dozen previously unpublished period photographs, recent writings from John Sinclair, and an introduction from Michael Simmons that leads the reader through the revolutionary times to Sinclair's life today. Author John Sinclair is the still-charging embodiment of a dazzlingly optimistic time in which change felt necessary and possible. A bonus CD contains rare recordings of MC5 and other Detroit-area revolutionary bands, Allen Ginsberg, Black Panther Bobby Seale on the White Panthers, and original White Panther Party meetings.
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DRINKING
The Mad Elf Holiday Ale
Alcohol by Volume: 11% alcohol by volume
Hop Bitterness (IBU's) : 15
Color (SRM) : Ruby Red
Availability: Seasonal, 12 oz. bottles, 1/2 and 1/6 kegs (contact your local retailer to pre-order)
Malts: Pilsner, Munich, Chocolate
Hops: Saaz, Hallertau
Yeast: Spicy Yeast
Pennsylvania Honey West Coast Cherries
The Mad Elf, a cheerful creation to warm your heart and enlighten your tongue. The combination of Cherries, Honey, and Chocolate Malts delivers gentle fruits and subtle spices. Fermented and aged with a unique yeast, this ruby red beer has significant warming strength that underlies the pleasant character of this intriguing yet delicious Ale. The Mad Elf, a jolly and delicious beer for the Holidays.
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LEGACY
QUIET RIOT "Metal Health"
Kevin DuBrow is dead. man... thanks for 1982. what a set of pipes!
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HOPING FOR SEX WITH
amy adams... from ENCHANTED. enchant this! whoo hoo!
VIEW 25 of 28 COMMENTS
i need to find that book!
so now, my old lady memory is pretty hazy...
but wasnt Patti Smith married to one of the members?