Jesse Colin Young Makes the Sun Come Out

Jesse Colin Young was on the stage and he said, "Man, it looks like rain coming!"

It sure did look like rain as it was starting to get dark and you know how that goes.  And it's a real drag when it's an outdoor concert for the World Series of Rock in the Cleveland Stadium with a hundred thousand rock monsters about to get quite wet.

So he sez to us, "Man, we need to call on the music to make the rain go away.  I tell you what.  I'll play this song and if we all get behind it then I believe we can make the sun come back out again."

Sure as hell, he did it.

At the end of the song, the sun sure did start beaming again and all the people in the audience who were trippin' (i.e. many) called out in their passion, "Jesse Colin is God!"

(Ed:  did that really happen?)

The sun did but the spiritual vision didn't.  They're trippin', they're not stupid!  (larfs)


The story is cool for its own sake but there's more as Cadillac Man and I were talking and he brought up the idea of the story but it was someone else on the stage.  After a while I started thinking, uh oh, and asked, don't you mean??

He was startled for a moment and then realized as of course he was there too.  So there you have the proof the ganja helps yer memory and sobriety eats it up!  (larfs)


The conversations roam about for a while and may go a couple of hours because we don't do it all that often and it's cool just to explore about kind of like when people would say, I'm going to drop some Orange Sunshine because I want to see what I'll think about.

It's not a fascination with self but rather with exploration and one of the courses was through Alexander Hamilton vs Harriet Tubman on a ten-dollar bill.

That ex-controversy was already settled but the fundamental is what constitutes a good head to put on currency.  Cadillac Man knows Alexander Hamilton and I mean deeply.  He's been reading a reference text of a million pages and says he reads slowly but anyone will seem to read slowly with a volume that size.  There's nothing patronizing in that as I read a lot as well but reading sci-fi and reading history need hugely different types of attention.

So Cadillac Man has strong expertise in the history of Alexander Hamilton and can state categorically the merits of why he should be recognized and even proclaimed due to his fundamental contributions to the nature and structure of America.

My argument in favor of Harriet Tubman is from the perspective of who best represents what America means, represents, etc.  Her courage and selflessness are exceptional attributes and she was assiduous in keeping to them despite the heaviest opposition.

The purpose of raising the matter here isn't to re-ignite the discussion but rather it shows the type of discussion which may take place and it's unresolved as to what is the best representation of America on currency but we're highly sure Andrew Jackson, Indian Killer, is not it.  Back in his time, it was highly-fashionable to waste American Indians just as ruthlessly as they shot buffaloes from trains but this is decidedly not that time and his representation on a twenty-dollar bill is offensive.


The coolness in the trip is I've been in freefall for years as in I don't have any particular reason to do anything if I don't feel like it.  Cadillac Man hit that about six or eight months ago and he's getting acclimatized to it.  Lotho still has many mortal obligations but he squeezes as much freefall into that as he can.

That's where a lot of discussion goes as now you're in freefall and you don't have to do anything ... but what will you do.

Note:  you need this as much as you need exercise, a good helping of fiber in yer diet, and a warm place to crash.  That's why freefall can come hard to some people and it can get highly confusing even though it's a gas when you get the hang of it.


When you do something because you want to do it and you're aware no-one else on the planet may give a rat's ass about it then you're on top of it.  Doing it because you want to do it is enough but that seems so dayum selfish at first.  You really mean this is alright??  I don't have to be this or have to be that??

Nope, you really don't.  Expectations from others drop substantially and that's a fine thing because you probably can't deliver on them anyway but your own expectations on yourself go up and that aspect is grand.


(Ed:  Dagwood, this just ain't funny)

Well, no, I would not have expected anything with a discussion of Alexander Hamilton to be all that comical.

(Ed:  and the Zen in retirement is basically you are until you're not, right?)

Yah, and what a killin' CD title:  I Am Until I'm Not!

(Ed:  what does that mean?)

No idea.  Probably it's better than Silver Squirrel and the Moth Demons Attack New York, tho.

(Ed:  dunno.  I kind of like the Silver Squirrel!)

Well, I'm sure the Silver Squirrel likes you too, boobie.