[Vision2020] The Auntie Establishment and Brother Carl Show forJanuary 30, 2

[Joan Opyr]

Oh, come on, Tom -- weren't you even remotely interested in my theory that Colfax doesn't actually exist?  It's a Potemkin Village made entirely of cardboard; just two miles of empty, pointless road with a cop stationed at either end.  The speed limit is 25 for no reason other than to enrich the Whitman County coffers at the expense of drivers who happen to have Idaho plates.

BTW, I would like to take this opportunity to thank those listeners who bore with us tonight during our plague of technical difficulties.  Nothing was working right -- for the first five minutes, neither Carl's mic nor his headphones were functional -- and later, well, I wasn't functional.  We had a run of CD screw-ups, all of which were entirely my fault.  Carl is hereby completely exonerated.  He had nothing to do with it; in fact, he was in Colfax.

We're still ironing out the wrinkles on the show, but it's getting to be quite fun.  For me, and Carl, and Tom, anyway.  Viva Intoleristas!   

(Intolerista.  Why does that word make me want to sing the Nicaraguan national anthem?  Does anybody here know the lyrics?  Doug, Stigmatta -- do one you have a copy of the 'Little Red Songbook?'  I feel sure you must; so many of your public pronouncements of late seem to have "borrowed" from it freely.  That and 'Civilization and Its Discontents.')  

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.auntie-establishment.com
  
PS: Let me explain what I mean by "borrowed."  To quote from the great Tom Lehrer, "Plagiarize, plagiarize, let no one's work escape your eyes, but please . . . call it research."

----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Hansen
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 7:56 PM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] The Auntie Establishment and Brother Carl Show forJanuary 30, 2005

Greetings Visionaires -

If you were unable to tune in to the "Auntie Establishment and Brother Carl
Show" today, you missed out on a major treat.

Although it may have started out somewhat slow, centering on a discussion
concerning Auntie Establishment's (mis)adventures in Spokane on Saturday
night, it quickly go into gear as they blasted away at:

1)  Our two new trolls on the V2020 listserve (Faul Ottomaticks and
Stigmatta X)

2)  Ben Merkle and his article in Volume 16, Issue 2 of the Credenda Agenda,
"Arrows in the Hand of a Limp-Wristed Man"
(http://www.credenda.org/issues/16-2recipio.php)

3)  The religious right's attack on the cartoon series "Sponge Bob Square
Pants".

One item of interest that caught my attention was that Carl Westberg Jr. was
a DJ in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the summer of
'69.

So, in closing I would like to state that although this group that I am
proud to call friends may be referred to as Intoleristas, liberal elitists,
and wackos (among a multitude of other labels) we have all come from a
rather diverse range of backgrounds and have experienced an even more
diverse range of cultures, more so than the dark corners of Moscow, Idaho
and the dark underbelly of Monroe, Louisiana.

Take care, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Just Doing What Comes Natural

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are
dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
exist very nicely in the same box.  


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