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WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2005 Skypilot Ian has completed a CD and is anxious for the other skypilots to check it out. Here's the blurb:
Death Valley Pizza's brand of arabicountryfunkNroll is a studio five piece band built to showcase the songwriting of Ian Zalewski. He enlisted the talents of Billy Lee Lewis, (ex-of Tommy Castro Band), on drums and Bruce Kaphan on pedal steel guitar. Bruce has played with the Black Crowes, Jewel and also scoring Bob Dylan's movie "Masked and Anonymous."
The CD has rock, blues, toe tappers and cowboy prayers.
The touring line up will change but with
Paul Castellanos on violin Ian will be playing various West coast shows this summer."Hey Ian,
...But i just got home from Arizona and i popped in
your CD. Sounds great...good arrangements, vocals are
cool, drums etc...great sounding CD...
I could hear some of the songs on a movie soundtrack.
Good luck with it...Cougar" (Estrada of Los Lobos)To get the CD, go to:
http://www.deathvalleypizza.com MONDAY, MAY 23, 2005 Someone asked me once what I made of Kesey transitioning on the Marine Corp birthday?
I asked him was it Kesey who said there are no coincidences or was that Yogi Berra? Then I told him I don't know what to make of it except it makes it easy to remember and also the next day is veteran's day.
A hymn to the Marines?
I musta mis-read that one
I thought it was homage
to the ancient marine, er,
something like that.
somethin' about Monte Zuma
and the Halls in Tripoli
oh those daggone rednecks
and their casinos, they are everywhere
so what's with the Calapooyas
they don't have one on Lake Dexter?One time were going down to his swamp to split some wood. We arrived at the pile we'd bucked up the day before. Kesey used a wedge and sledge. I was a maul man. He set the wedge and pecked at it with his sledge until the round of wood split down the middle.
I set a round up and lifted the maul high over my head and brought it down hard enough to split the round with one whack.
He said, "You know, you'd save a lot of energy using a wedge and sledge instead of that maul."
"Yeah, but it would take twice as long."
"Twice as long as what? You're not going any faster than I am."
"You kidding me? There's no way you can split wood with a wedge and sledge faster than I can with a maul."
"You want to bet?"
"Does a fox suck eggs? Name your wager and make it easy on yourself."
"I'll go twenty bucks for twenty minutes."
"You're on."
He nodded and we set in. I grabbed those rounds and started whacking for all I was worth. I could hear him hitting at a steady beat. This was going to be a cinch. After a while I had to take off my sweat shirt. His forehead wasn't even damp.
"That's it," I said. "Time's up."
He stepped back and surveyed the pile. "Well," he said. "I guess you hornswoggled me this time."
You bet I had. It wasn't even close. We'd split that whole pile and he hadn't done piddling.
The flush of victory lasted about two minutes. It took me that long to realize I'd been hornswoggled. He didn't rub it in though. We took the twenty bucks to Jim's Landing and drank gin and tonics.Next day I made a phone call.
"Hello, is this the Sheriff's Office?"
"Yes. What can I do for you?"
"I'm calling to report Ken Kesey is hiding marijuana inside his firewood!"
"Thank you very much for the call, sir, we'll look into it."
The next day, the Sheriff's Deputies descend on Kesey's woodpile.
They bust open every piece of wood, but find no marijuana.
They sneer at Kesey and leave.
The phone rings at Kesey's house.
"Hey, Kesey. Did the Sheriffs come?"
"Yeah!"
"Did they chop your firewood?"
"Yep!"
"Happy Birthday, buddy!"
-- Ken Babbs
"Celtic farmers were careful to leave a bowl of clean water, new milk or beer outside each night for the 'Good People.' Elves, Brownies, Manx Bugganes and Scottish Trows were notoriously spiteful creatures. If neglected, they exacted revenge by casting an evil eye on the herd, bringing bitter milk, or no milk at all."
FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2005 Riding mower went crazy. won't turn to the left, just to the right. is this the trend of america? I won't have any of it and have torn the mower apart. Rasstification of the entire nation fixed the mower but left out a spacer and now every once in a while the steering gear slips out of its housing and the mower takes off in its own direction straight into the pear tree, clunk. dreams of home runs, throwing out the runner, kissing the girl with ice cream on her lips, ah sweet bird of youth. I was tired of hitting my head while mowing is the repeated refrain from the seat of the machine back in the fields toiling and the shops open for the machines oiling the bald guy when he died didn't have an heir he could call his own.
What was the purpose of the porpoise?
to pass his piss test
where did Vincent's van go?
to the lost ear rodeo.
in for a pound cake in for a penny whistle
vee must bee model students or vee vill be harshly treated for behavior is the model for following, bleet bleet bleet . . . but as the old saw ripped: don't break the cool. Don't bug the fuzz.
understand the power of this education,
restore the goal of universal literacy
Oh , have you two had brunch ?
Neigh. we put on the feedbag any old time--Capn Skyp
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