A poem by marco

(and also the title poem of a brand new chap book…)

Peanut Butter prohibited.
Protein, fat.
Meat is best, better than
Butter.
Better, not bitter.
Meat, eat. Gnash-Gulash.

Spinach.
Yum.
Spinach and peanut butter.
Why cringe?
Spinach and PB - PB & S.
Peanut butter and spinach???
Hmm…..
Mmm…
Cottage cheese, please.
Loud raucous rock-n-roll music.

Tastes good.
Taste better than the plasma and
Saline I ate yesterday afternoon.
$15.
Mooncheese.
Meunster.
Fun with food/
Rock-n-roll.

Pete Seeger called SOA Watch “the singingest movement in the USA”

In that spirit we are sponsoring a song / poetry writing contest. For information about the SOA, SOA Watch and prisoners of conscience see http://soaw.org/ or for information about local SOAW Austin POC see http://soaw-austin.org/pocalbum_2009.php. You can also check out The Father Roy Waffle House SOA Protest Song Part 1 of 2 and The Father Roy Waffle House SOA Protest Song Part 2 of 2 on You Tube for a musical history of the SOA, SOA Watch and POC’s. The songs and poems will be sent to SOA Watch prisoners of conscience for their enjoyment while doing their prison witness. The winner will receive $300.00 and will be determined by a vote of SOA Watch supporters. There will be a “coming home” party for the POC’s so there will be opportunities to perform songs and read the poems. Deadline for submissions is the release date. That date depends upon the Bureau of Prisons since they set the “report date”. That date is at least six months from 2/8/2010 and could be several weeks later depending on the BOP. To submit a songs or poem send a CD to SOA Watch Austin, 500 E Riverside Dr #258, Austin, TX 78704 or email a link to an mp3 to soaw_austin@yahoo.com. Lyrics or poems may also be submitted as plain text to the same address.

http://www.soaw-austin.org

@BPGulfLeak The jellyfish bloom this july/august is going to be overwhelming I think. 8:53 PM Jun 10th via web in reply to BPGulfLeak

This year’s Atlantic jellyfish bloom is fixing to be INSANE! http://soundcloud.com/atizine/my-quahog-is-hoggin-the-beach 2:11 PM Jun 20th via web

@ricklondon 5 kinds of SeaTurtle use Gulf 2 feast on ginormous jellyfish. BP confusion NOT appreciated. Dorks! http://tinyurl.com/namapahh 10:32 PM Jul 5th via web in reply to ricklondon

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Have you seen a jellyfish, red tide, a squid, or other unusual marine life recently? If so, tell us about it! Marine biologists need your help to develop a better understanding of the ocean. If you’ve been on the beach or in the ocean lately, you can contribute to a long-term dataset by telling us about the animals you saw or the conditions of the beach. You can help us even more by submitting a picture of what you saw!

http://www.jellywatch.org

Happy Birthday Olivia!

Bio and CV.

COMMUNIQUE FROM THE CAR: It’s prolly gotta be me to remind youall that this is too difficult a time for *some* veterans and I recommend not just thanking them, but welcoming them home even if they’ve BEEN home, and trying to be “presente,” by at least grunting non-commitally if they need to tell you stuff.

Thank you, have a nice day.

Hi there,
Could you pass this along to NLON Coast Guard, or perhaps get me the address for the suggestions? My idea is to dump many sunflower seeds onto the biggest pudding textures of the oil on the surface of the water. They’re likely to soak up not just the surface oils but also soak up a whole bunch from underneath until  complete saturation.

Then use technologies you already have to scoop up tons of the filled up sunflower seeds.

And lastly you cold-press the little buggers like they were so many olives and the juice you’ll have will be a new invention of bio-diesel you’ll have helped me invent. A hybrid half “dino-diesel” half veggie oil that won’t blow up engines, never needs a preheat, and doesn’t pollute too much.

Trademark it before me just because I’m middle-class and I’ll kick your ass.

J/K, you can have it Pro-Bono as my next gift to society.

Sincerely,
Marco

Woody (I Hate A Song) by atizine

Whalie winners:

Incomplete listing from last night, minute by minute:

· Congrats 2 the following #Whalies winners last nite: Matt Gouette, Fatal Film, Weird Beards, Reducers. Many more coming up 2nite! about 18 hours ago via web

· Get Haunted wins a Whalie Award. Not sure what category. about 12 hours ago via txt

· Above Below wins a Whalie for the HipHop category about 12 hours ago via txt

· Sue Menhart wins a Whalie about 12 hours ago via txt

· Hempsteadys take best Punk/Ska at the new london Whalies. about 10 hours ago via txt

· Matt Gouette wins Song of the Year at the first annual Whalies about 10 hours ago via txt

· Striaght to VHS wins rekkid of the year at new london’s first annual Whalies award ceremony about 10 hours ago via txt

· Low Beam wins Album of the Year at the New London Whalies about 10 hours ago via txt

· Matt Gouette gave a performance as closing act at the first annual Whalies that cannot be described in words about 9 hours ago via txt

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Better list from New London Day.

• Album of the Year: Low-Beam - “Charge Of the Light Brigade”

• Record of the Year: Straight to VHS - “Self Titled”

• Song of the Year: Matt Gouette - “Opinion”

• Breakthrough Artist Of the Year: Get Haunted

• Best Alternative Artist: Fatal Film

• Best Alternative Performance: Straight To VHS - “Hey”

• Best Americana Artist: Paul Brockett Roadshow

• Best Americana Performance: Sue Menhart Band - “Why You Love Me”

• Best DJ: Chumzilla

• Best Hardcore / Metal Artist: Amido Black

• Best Hardcore / Metal Performance: Black Water Blessing - “Chainsaw Hands”

• Best Hip Hop Artist: Above / Below

• Best Hip Hop Performance: N.M.E. - “Thank You”

• Best Indie / Experimental Artist: The Weird Beards

• Best Indie / Experimental Performance: Brava Spectre - “The Lioness Eye Tamed My Open Palm”

• Best Music Series: Sinners Circle

• Best Music Video: The Weird Beards - “Willow Tree Express”

• Best Punk / Ska Artist: The Hempsteadys

• Best Punk / Ska Performance: Stressbomb - “No Time For This”

• Best Rock Artist: Gone For Good

• Best Rock Performance: The Reducers - “Tokyo Bay”

• Best Solo Artist: Matt Gouette

• Best Solo Performance: Brad Bensko - “Why Do You Do That”

Tribal Elder and Medicine Person, Oliver Sounsoci.

I was looking him up on the net just now to retell a story I know about him to a friend of mine and I see that his daughter Mary passed away last month. I met her but didn’t know her really really well. but I knew Oliver really well. I’ll reprint the obit I read on the internet here too, and then I’ll retell my story.

So here I will retell my story about Mary’s father Oliver. I was at an 8door sweat near Omaha NE around 1994.  Oliver Saunsoci was leading it. It was 8 doors because a friend was over who had kicked diabetes a long time ago but had started drinking heavily again and was terrified his diabetes might come back if he keeps drinking and eating and stuff. So Oliver was healing him from that and any of us who wanted to could be in the first 4 doors and any others we wanted.

Afterwards we were all eating with him and his family, including Moves Camps from both sides of the Canadian border. It was a great day. I had my 64 Epiphone Caballero out and was singing folksongs and my wacky punkrock stuff with a crowd of mostly the little kids around me. At one point Oliver came up and said, “hey, mind if I play some songs too? I haven’t played guitar in a while.”

Of course I said sure.

He proceeded to play 20 minutes or so of jazz, Flamenco, and bluesy stuff that would knock both your socks off and everything else you might have on.

“Wow, you really haven’t been playing for a long time? I’m impressed.”

He explained that a long time ago Jose Feliciano came to him for help weaning himself off Ultra-Lente insulin and taking back his life. Sometimes he donated money to Oliver’s family, and sometimes he just taught him guitar lessons. That’s how Oliver learned so many great styles to weave into something phenomenal he can play whenever he wants to, even many years after not playing at all!

Now here’s the story I want to tell you.

Why hasn’t he played any guitar for the past 3 or 4 years?

That man saw a kid who was getting really good at guitar and was taking lessons by just going and learning and didn’t have a guitar at home to practice with. So he did what any man would do. (well, any man worth his salt dammit!) He handed the kid his very expensive guitar and said to use it for his lessons. And he never asked for it back. Three years later, he still hadn’t gotten around to getting another guitar, and he told us owning a new one was just less important than helping people with alcohol and illness, and making sure the children get everything they need.