tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post3010040612525046067..comments2024-01-31T11:37:10.331-06:00Comments on Born-Again Hippies: Cyber Self-GratificationRandy Haspelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15371114789022032381noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-44752269750529430922009-04-21T18:11:00.000-05:002009-04-21T18:11:00.000-05:00The truth about Obama is that he is a LEFTY! Hell!...The truth about Obama is that he is a LEFTY! Hell! There have only been 6 left-handers in the White House...if you don't count James Garfield. He was BI...uh I mean ambidextrous. However The Big O is the 4th lefty to occupy the White House since 1981! Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush Sr., and Ronald Reagan were all lefties! By the way! Al Gore was a lefty. Still is. If Al had won that would have been 5 in a row! It was Karl, who said, "It is inevitable that the oppressed classes will rise up & throw off their chains." And Groucho, who said, "Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog? It's too dark to read!" Who was the real anarchist? The Peace of the Lord! 'Father Farkenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00571295113979156361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-44886371502874644952009-02-10T10:44:00.000-06:002009-02-10T10:44:00.000-06:00The cops walked on stage and unplugged Johnny Wint...The cops walked on stage and unplugged Johnny Winter when he was playing at the Overton Park Shell in the summer of '69, because someone had complained of noise. He was the headline act and if I remember correctly he had only been playing a few minutes before that happened. It was a horrific bummer, because most people had paid to see him. Was anyone else there?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-4639413565478877602009-02-05T20:47:00.000-06:002009-02-05T20:47:00.000-06:00At that 1970 Dead concert the Coliseum folks just ...At that 1970 Dead concert the Coliseum folks just placed these thin panels over the ice for the hockey team so if one was on acid it seemed like Siberia.<BR/><BR/>And supposedly the police made them stick to the exact wording of their contract, they had the place for that day only so at exactly 12 midnight they had to shut down.<BR/><BR/>Thus at exactly 12 midnight all the house suddenly came while the band was mid-song and they just walked off with Lesh quickly saying, "Sorry folks, the law says we gotta go."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-79963113502495593862009-02-05T19:02:00.000-06:002009-02-05T19:02:00.000-06:00I meant to make an allusion to 'the emperor's new ...I meant to make an allusion to 'the emperor's new clothes, not 'the emperor has no clothes'. I was momentarily non compis mentis.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-61487372117583846942009-02-05T16:40:00.000-06:002009-02-05T16:40:00.000-06:00Good writing, this.Good writing, this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-30157562039516721252009-02-05T13:13:00.000-06:002009-02-05T13:13:00.000-06:00Randy, you are the first person from our generatio...Randy, you are the first person from our generation who has had the courage to publicly reveal the fact that 'The emperor has no clothes' in regard to the Grateful Dead. I have never heard an old hippie tell the truth about them. I thought that I was the only one in the world who thought this, but I never had the courage to admit it publicly...too much like blasphemy. Now I feel that I can. Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-48950690958046165472009-02-04T21:31:00.000-06:002009-02-04T21:31:00.000-06:00You are correct sir! A band can not live on influe...You are correct sir! A band can not live on influence alone. How ever isn't it amazing that they were able to take it as far as they did? Jerry Garcia said on the old Letterman Show that they didn't want to end up like Elvis in Vegas! Though I know where he was coming from...they could only wish! Sireen! Randy has spoken! You are going to Hollywood! <BR/>On another note I was glad that no one made fun of Aretha's Ignaugaral singing as if she was little Miss Piggy & not one of the greatest singers that has ever lived known better as the Queen of Soul & ....did the Boss of the Super Bowl freeze his groin some where between 10th Ave. & Thunder Road? Damn! I sure wish I had his energy! Oh well! God loves you know matter what! Love your neighbor no matter what! The Peace of the Lord! FrFerghusFarkenFather Farkenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00571295113979156361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-40222529196415749882009-02-04T17:44:00.000-06:002009-02-04T17:44:00.000-06:00Let's face it. Jerry Garcia aside, the Dead weren'...Let's face it. Jerry Garcia aside, the Dead weren't that good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-11165840615581772382009-02-04T16:28:00.000-06:002009-02-04T16:28:00.000-06:00Is any one coming to the Grateful Deads defence? T...Is any one coming to the Grateful Deads defence? They were influenced by Coltrane, Haggard, bluegrass, Elvis on Sun, early r&b, folk...roots as well as Alice in Wonderland. When they were singing LOVE LIGHT they were drawing on Kerouac as well Bobby Blue Bland. They took it ON THE ROAD! It kind of worked for them...don't you think?Father Farkenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00571295113979156361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-43438082126632557352009-01-31T21:31:00.000-06:002009-01-31T21:31:00.000-06:00Dear Mr. Haspel! I am sorry that the Memphis tribe...Dear Mr. Haspel! I am sorry that the Memphis tribe didn't show up for the 1970 Dead concert...but you tell that Phil Lesh that some of us "souless" Memphians are still pissed with what they did to Bobby "Blue" Bland's TURN ON YOUR LOVE LIGHT! Talking about souless! That was just caucasoidal-suicide. Maybe you had to be mad with refruh! Not that Caucasian's shouldn't give it a shot... the song not the refruh...the Radiants turned it into a garage rock classic...but that's not what I want to talk about. I know that you are from the New Orlean's fashionable Haspels & that your dear wife Muddy is a Fashion consultant...I wonder what y'all thought of the ignaugural fashions!? I thought the Obamas were just beautiful...but how about Jill Biden sporten those smoken' skeletto boots by Boinkme'.<BR/>AND! Did you hear that the Smithsonian Institute has requested for Aretha Franklin's hat? I guess that Bow was so enormous that it did make her body seem just a wee bit smaller in comparison! NAHHH! I guess the Smithsonian like things Humongus!Though Snopes denies it... it has been claimed for years that ganstah John Dillenger's exeptionally large portion of his anatomy was removed post-mortem & was put on display, housed or left hangen' in one of the Smithonian museums. I guess in Washington D.C. they like ENORMOUS STIMULUS PACKAGES! TURN ON YOUR LOVE LIGHT! Yours Truly! SIREENAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-25795023723312160292009-01-31T13:05:00.000-06:002009-01-31T13:05:00.000-06:00R.J. I actually found one of our New Orleans cousi...R.J. I actually found one of our New Orleans cousins, Susan Haspel, whom I had met as an adult. She and her husband reopened Haspel suits, and we had a great email exchange. Remember, politicians say that even if what the media says about you is uncomplimentary, at least they're talking about you. Love, Your SisterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-3722791372926207842009-01-31T11:24:00.000-06:002009-01-31T11:24:00.000-06:00Off the topic at hand...I cheered when Obama put h...Off the topic at hand...I cheered when Obama put his finger in the face of the Wall St. capitalist pigs and scolded them for misusing the public bail-out money to line their own pockets. I only wish that he had ordered public floggings. The lowest welfare cheat is more honorable that these reprehensible creatures. I wish that I could beat them with my own fists. That being said, here is where I need some help. Why didn't Obama tell his party that every penny of the stimulus package is to be used to save the economy? Why didn't he tell them to forget about their pork programs and other bullshit items until later? There seems to be an inconsistency here. Someone help me to understand. I am trying not to slide back into the slough of cynicism. Randy, I asked you to help me understand your position on the use of miltary force and you graciously complied and I was very happy to see the I agree with you 100% on that issue. I guess that I am asking for tutoring from a liberal rather than Rush Limbaugh. Can you help me to understand what is going on here?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-49914863961914231962009-01-31T11:10:00.000-06:002009-01-31T11:10:00.000-06:00'Masturbating with steel wool'...the mental image ...'Masturbating with steel wool'...the mental image of you sitting at your computer doing that made me laugh out loud. I am the guy who feels that you deserve one of those musical note thingies on Beale St. As a local musician you were enough of an influence on the Memphis music scene to deserve one. I hope that that is done before you are posthumous. I'll bet that you have more name recognition than many who are enshrined there. Googling youself is a natural impulse to see if your existence has mattered. I don't see it as vanity so much as a natural desire to see that you counted for something. I still say that you were one of the best disc jockey/musical lorist/commentators of all time in the Memphis area. And that includes the venerable and perhaps psychotic Dewey Phillips.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-80188614676107586142009-01-31T10:32:00.000-06:002009-01-31T10:32:00.000-06:00Thanks Sputnik! Just discovered my new vocation: ...Thanks Sputnik! Just discovered my new vocation: I'll be a Google critic, historian and denier!<BR/><BR/>zephyrmanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-30473497726860289052009-01-31T08:35:00.001-06:002009-01-31T08:35:00.001-06:00I did the google on my name, and nothing came up. ...I did the google on my name, and nothing came up. Does this mean I don't exist? Interesting, and yet not very funny.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-63004612564139537602009-01-31T08:35:00.000-06:002009-01-31T08:35:00.000-06:00I don't know, but to me this particular piece of R...I don't know, but to me this particular piece of RJH that has collected itself and found voice after coursing down your fingers onto a keyboard has tones that resonate somewhere in my memory bank. Oh yes. Andy Rooney.<BR/><BR/>Read the cadence of the last couple of paragraphs. Rooneyesque, yes?<BR/><BR/><BR/>Stay healthy, old man.<BR/>Smooch to your girl.<BR/><BR/>Hi, Nancy Jean.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12901178.post-88998491656436585052009-01-31T06:51:00.000-06:002009-01-31T06:51:00.000-06:00Raspule:Call Kirkpatrick re: Bader, Doctor Molecul...Raspule:<BR/><BR/>Call Kirkpatrick re: Bader, Doctor Molecule, and Madame SkeetroAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com