Stew Albert 1939 - 2006

Berkley 1968 - Portland 2002
Stew Albert a prominent anti-Vietnam war activist, an early supporter of the Black Panthers and a founder of the Yippie radical protest group, died Monday at age 66 in Portland, Oregon.

Initially diagnosed with Hepatitis C, he spent a whole year enduring grueling chemotherapy. He spoke openly about it on his website, documenting each day and each weekly shot. He was finally declared free of the disease only to be diagnosed with liver cancer this past December. The ultimate Fuck You. (My sister passed away this past Thanksgiving also from liver cancer from Hep C.) We spoke thru email about Hep C, how it sucked and how the treatment felt worse than the disease. I was always inspired by his spirit. From 1968 in Chicago throughout his life. People with true 60s ideals are a rare breed. Tom Robbins said, Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. Stew certainly believed in magic.

On his website...from Judy
"Stew will be buried tomorrow (Wednesday) in Jones Pioneer Cemetery in Portland. He will be wrapped in a tallis (Jewish prayer shaw), holding a stuffed flower from the Haight and wearing his kick-ass Frye boots and our wedding ring."

There are beautiful sentiments expressed on his website, Bay Area Indymedia, Infoshop News, SFGate, and on Counterpunch.


More On Hepatitis C
Allen Ginsberg died from complications of it. Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead, and David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, & Nash, both had liver transplants and still suffer from it. Ken Kesey, author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, suffered from it and died of liver cancer in 2001. Penny Arcade, the 55-year-old performance artist for the East Village avant-garde art scene since Andy Warhol roamed the city, also suffers from it.

Miles Keaton Andrew, a 52-year-old author who contracted it when he experimented with intravenous drugs as a teenager, has kept a blog, www.mkandrew.com, since 2001 about his experiences battling H.C.V. His blog has received a million hits in the past year. “I understand the whole stigma thing,” he told The Villager. "There are a lot of people like me who might have experimented with drugs. Some of us got sick from it and it isn’t anything to be ashamed about."

Hep C Life After Interferon is another blogger who documents his experience with it.

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Quote Of The Week: "It's gotten to the point where I can't listen to anything; it's trashy. It's just a hundred channels of garbage all over. It's almost like a global effort to knock the sense out of you ..." — Jeff Beck

Performance
Carefully coached
Mr. Roberts won't tell us
a damn thing about his plans,
just humbly assuring you
he's a modest guy
who loves the law.

Images but no ideas,
a dagger is not pulled
an ironic villain goes unscathed.

The Democrats huff and puff
but this isn't New Orleans
andnobody's house is falling in.
--Stew Albert

Who was the first person to say "See that chicken there-- I’m gonna eat the next thing that comes out of it’s butt."

ME: sitting at my desk, paying bills: "Hi, sweetie!" I say to my 17 yo daughter as she returns home from a sleepover.
DAUGHTER: "ughhhh", she replies with a pained look on her face.
ME: "Don't you feel well?"
DAUGHTER: "Mom, we ate at this vegan restaurant in the mall last night.
ME: "Nice."
DAUGHTER: "No, not nice. I had this atrocious tofu crap and it made me sick and I haven't eaten anything since."
ME: "Can I fix you something?'' How about some quesadillas?''
ME: Stir fry some veggies & rice?"
DAUGHTER: "No!" she yells. "You trying to make me hurl?"
HUSBAND, overhearing and entering the dining room: "Don't yell at your Mother."
ME: "Want a Pepcid tablet? It's good for upset stomachs."
DAUGHTER: "No!", she's still yelling.

I get up and do the dance through the cupboards tango, looking for something that might interest her that would also be mild on her tummy.

She spies a bag of Doritos, grabs it; opens the refrigerator and retrieves a 2 liter Diet Pepsi and disappears into her bedroom.

Where, I might add, it will go unnoticed if she hurls.

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* "I also received copies of some FOIA obtained FBI files on Lennon, Yoko, Jerry Rubin and me and they are dumb to the max. In fact I've never read more misinformed FBI files -- their "informants" must have included The Stooges." (via Stew Albert)

* Anne, previously from Fishbucket, is back online with her usual style and wit with Antiquainted. Stop by and give her some love.

* "I Chain Scarf Brownies In The Dark", "Took My Brother To The Prom", "Emotionally Unavailable Men Rock" -- Neuroses T-Shirt Designs.

* Nice artwork - Murals on buildings. See the before and after.

It's always darkest before the dawn. so if you're going to swipe your neighbor's newspaper, you better get going.

Visualize Kerry & Fast For Bush

[1] Light a candle. Gaze at the flame. Get calm.

[2] Slowly repeat the intentions, or listen to the audio version. See the visualization ideas as very real.

Give a spiritual component to this Presidential election. Because visualization has great power to do good, here are some ways to promote, spread, and multiply Kerry Visualiation to help change the American consciousness.

Ok. It's an unorthodox campaign approach. With so much at stake, you should use every tool at your disposal, right? (via: Asheville Magazine)

Fast For George W - Don't eat for Bush. Hundreds are fasting today for Dubya.

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Attention: Starbucks! Another freethinker on the loose. He only asked to have his Cappuccino Grande made with Fair Trade coffee and "...they both glanced across at me, making me feel like I'd asked her for a sexual favour rather than a cup of coffee." Link

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Freakshow Art

Flashback - Welcome to Camp DNC. Video stills from 'Save Our Civil Liberties' "Is this what democracy looks like?" protest of the so-called "free speech zone." Every time a convention rolls around I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Stew Albert can tell you what it looked like in 1968 at the Chicago Convention, with Jerry and Abbie and all the rest. For those too young to remember, this is a fine account you probably didn't cover in History class. Another participant in '68, Tom Hayden, will speak tonight at the Convention.

Don't expect any drama at the DNC; protesters are saving their fire for New York.

"Dee Rimbaud is the Siddhartha of the Chemical Generation. 'Dropping Ecstasy With The Angels' is a testament to those who have taken the narrow path through the highest mountains: to those who fell off; and to those who flew away with the angels." (Poetry collection)

'Stealing Heaven From The Lips Of God' which should be released around September 2004, is Dee Rimbaud's first novel. It's a drug-fuelled, roller coaster ride through heaven and hell, a modern-day love story, and a fairy tale for people who don't believe in fairy tales. While you wait, you can read it online. Click on the book graphic. Stroll through her site for her artwork and much more from her. Link

via: Stew Albert

Does Birth Order make sense?

Strengths and Weaknesses of The First Borns.
Good Team Player, Organized, List Maker, Leadership Ability.
Strengths and Weaknesses of The Middle Child.
Peacemakers, Independent Thinker, Unspoiled, Realistic.
Strengths and Weaknesses of The Last Born Child.
Charming, Likable, Manipulative, People Oriented.

I am a first born and I gotta agree with being a 'list maker'. In fact, I'm compulsive about it and have been since I was a little girl. Before bed I'd lay out everything for the next morning. Then get out my notebook and write: 7:00am--wake up. 7:05am--brush teeth, 7:08am--have breakfast, 7:23am--fix hair, and so on for the whole day. I began this at about 9 years old. I also kept a notebook on theYankees, and all their stats. Pretty weird.