My First Six Months As A Bosc

Jesus Christ told a lady caller today that
She needed to give up her Idol (in this case alcohol)
My definition of an Idol is anything that shields you
against total insanity & completely losing your mind.

-Guy Owens

There are detales of the Beatles's break-up even a few of the well informed don't know. For instance John met with Paul about the 21st. of September of 1969 and Paul suggested to John that perhaps the Beatles could now begin playing in small clubs under another name. John thought this suggestion was "Daft". But what you don't know is that the Beatles had to have decided before this already to break up and after Abbey Road they were "done". We know this because Allan Klein had told the Beatles he was about to negotiate a bigger bonus on their Royalties with EMK and that any break up of the band would scuttle the whole thing- - and that the deal would be happening about September 23rd. or so. It would seem to me that Paul was rather taken off guard by John's "Daft" reply, as though previously he'd gotten a different vibe from him, or else Paul would not have even raised the idea in the first place.

I fantacized years ago that what if St. Paul or someone came down from heaven and announced that "Christianity is over". It has been decreed from On High to be rules out of Existance. And the reasons were that I, Paul no believed all that crock, and nobody else seemed to believe in it either so what's the point?" Oh well, it was just a passing thought...

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It was in November a few days before Thanksgiving and it was a cold day. Bobby Hayden and Pike and me were watching TV. Jim Cooper was out. The two of them mentioned how cold it was getting in here and maybe we'd better build a fire or something. I told Bobby that we had a central heater and showed him where it was. I was surprized that neither he nor Pike know about it, but neither had lived here through a winter, but I knew where it was, and I had just moved in here. Jim Cooper used to use the term "Bosc" at first only to refer to the dog, (now departed) but then he began to refer to People as Boscs. One time when we had gone to see "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in early December we were on our way home and someone mentioned the idea of having shirts made that said "Bosc" on them. I said we should all have individual shirts with a single letter on the shirt. Bobby and Pike didn't go for that idea.

There was a Christmas party that the other three Boscs went to that I didn't. But I felt I had missed something because they kept talking about all these single girls like Tina and Gina. It turned out most of the girls they were referring to were real dogs and not worth bothering with. It was mid December and the last season football game. The Raiders and Chargers were playing and the TV went out - - poof! like that. I called Guy Owens living over on Pinewood whether we could borrow his. He said "My TV had been acting all weird since mid November. I think the thing is posessed. Every time I take it to the shop the guy says it's fine but when I take it home it's all screwy. I was going to take the bus down there because as you know I no longer have a car". In fact you're lucky you caught me home. Guy told Jim Cooper that his parents had another TV they could borrow at the Bosc house, and Guy and Jim rode in Jim's car to Guy's parents. Jim asked me if I wanted to come, but I think I was working on a Rubic's Cube that evening or something. I don't even remember who won the game.

I went to a Christmas gathering at Guy Owen's cousins house. I remember after dinner we took a walk and there was this couple David and Rose, who had a little girl. Pete Richards had announced he wasn't going because these people bored him. I happened to have left my jacket other there and years later Guy Owens gained posession of it, but I'm not suppose to know about that. Newyears eve in a spirit of "fitting in" everybody went to this party at Roger's house, but there was a guy named Ron there who turned the evening into some sort of religious dirge and bummed me and Guy out. I told him I was never going to another Newyear Eve party with this group. They had this little custum of "praying in the New Year", in this case 1982. Laura didn't come to this. But then Laura didn't come to a lot of things that I dragged myself to.

It was one Saturday late afternoon and the outside of the house flooded due to a leaky pipe or something. There was this sound of rushing water and a lake was fast forming around the house. Guy Owens came by and turned a valve and said that should do it- - and I don't think it should affect water pressure inside. It was early January and me and the other three Boscs, Jim, Bobby Hayden and Pike went to see some movie called "Modern Problems".

In early January I bought three record albums, "Animals" by Pink Floyd, "Secret Treaties" by BOC and "Re-Act-or" by Neil Young. In mid January in response to some Dr. Demento song about Jack Johnson not being allowed on the Titanic, I, with a few suggestions from Owens, sent the media a snail mail story about a ship sailing for somewhere which was headed for disaster. A lot of my stories in those days featured suddenly appearing on a vast, windy desert plain, and often at night. Then a UFO comes down and teleports you into another dimension, often through some portal that just opened up. Around the turn of 1981-1982 we also sent one of our famous rock compilations to the media- -and this one was heavy on punk groups like the Clash.

It was around January 20th. or something and there was a snow trip to Wrightwood. Bobby Haden drove his Olds Cutlass of course, and all of the usual people went including people from Jim's new Fullerton Church group, where I never attended and am glad I didn't. The next weekend was the end of January and there was a potluck gathering at the Bosc house. Guy Owens brought spaghetti. I guess Tina liked it, but Owens in general was dissatisfied with the lack of praise for his cooking. Owens decided to go to Pete Richard's bible study that night because he hadn't been in a long time, and he asked me if I wanted to go and I said "No. I'm on a low religion diet". Apparently he didn't enjoy the evening out much.

Both Guy Owens and I had a thing for this girl Michelle, who came to the Wednesday Bible Study at the church. In those days they were still meeting in the smaller room, and they were still serving coffee, a practice they soon abandoned. There was this girl named Rose whose dog had had puppies and Jim was arranging with her for a replacement for Toby, the dog. But nothing ever worked out. It was around mid February when there was another putluck dinner at Ron's house. I was hesitant to go but Guy talked me into it. This is where Jim developed romantic attraction tword his future wife Shelly. Guy told me she reminds him of "someone in a previous life that he knew". I tend tword belief in reincarnation myself.

Laura these days was in her "Pink" mode. We went through her Black phase, her Blue phase, her White phase, and now she was in her Pink phase. She was becoming anerexic, after previously developing a bit of an overweight problem. Also she had a bad reaction to her manic depression medication, lithium - - and I guess her skin turned all red or something. At this time we (Owens and myself) re-issued this album "The Late Great State of Pink" to the snail mail media. We both thought it was a great compilation and deserved another gander at.

During late February and early March- - Guy's parents paid to have the Pinewood house kitchen redone. So things were kind of chaotic there for a while, and they were happy to have their kitchen back in mid March. In early March I sent a thing to the media about a Nuclear Haulocost in the 2030's where the afternath was a government dictatorship and permission to travel from one zone to another- - and the sky was a ghastly shade of green. The air hung heavy and the wind never seemed to blow. There are references to "Pinewood Elementry", taken from Guy Owen's resident- - where the local Calvary Chappel met. During this time I was into "Days of our Lives" and Bobby Hayden would often come home lunch breaks and watch it. This girl Mary Anderson had just been murdered by the Salem Strangler, Jake Cosecheck, who must have killed ten women before he was caught. That's the way those things work.

We were great StarTrek fans. The program came on at eleven every evening. Jim Cooper thought we all ought to have names. He was Captain Kirk, of course, and Pike got his name from that one episode with a captain Pike in it. I think Bobby was Scotty and I don't remember who I was. I think Owens was Dr. Spock, and this is back before they had Black Valcans. This was around February as I recall. In mid March I bought three more record albums. I purchassed "Agents of Fortune" and "Carress of Steel" and also "Between the Buttons". But in early March I also purchassed "Hemispheres" by Rush, and "Highway to Hell", which Owens had been talking about getting. The very last meeting of Pete Richard's Bible Study was mid March 1982. It was a week or so later that yet another suggest Rock Compilation was sent to the media. This was "Paint It Black" in its first incarnation. Owens had tried to come up with a list in February but I "fixed it" and included the songs that need to be included and excluded the other ones.

We were always great fans of the Freeway Series between the Dodgers and Angels, and this game around April first was at Angel stadium, a day game. I rode in the green van and got to talk to Michelle the whole trip. For obvious reasons I had a decided atvantage over Guy Owens in this area. Owens even then was becomming restless and dissatisfied with you know who. It was the night before Easter and once again Jim Cooper talked me into going to some Saturday night Church service. It was a week later that there was a potluck at Michelle's house. What I remember was the bonatical setting and the natural wood framed house. It kind of reminded me of the lyrics to "Love Street". It was around April 20th. when there was a major power failure at least on the street of the Bosc house. This is the day of the Anaheim Fire caused by a palm tree igniting or a "bustle in your hedge row" to distort a lyric. Jim Cooper climbed the telephone pole to see if he could fix the problem himself and almost got killed. The electric surge blew out the TV somehow and there was the smell of smoke when everyone return to the house.

There was another single record compilation sent to the media containing sixties songs, that featured a pig with Hawaiian laes around its neck- - and something was dripping blood. It was late April and I called Guy Owens one evening about going to the beach with some single girls, even if they were Christian. I guess this like trying to tempt a diabetic with sugar. He was supposed to be in a state of matrimonia bliss with Laura. We talked about it a while- - - -

- - - at this point there was a fade-out in the transmission- - -

In early May there was a roller skating night. Guy said he had a cold or something but I urged him to come anyhow and he did. He started off a bit rusty. There were two more significant media mailings. One involved the "2112" prediction of the future out to that date. Two more world wars were predicted, one around 2012 and the other about twenty years later, that is worse. Also a spiritual revival in the 'fourties. The other media mailing was the "Guy Owens is dead" trial, in which Zachery appears in court and dazzles everybody with his whitiness. In this story Guy Owens committed suicide on the rail road track around mid November of 1981.

On May 13th. 1982, Guy's parents were at it again. This time his mother had people over at the Bosc house to remove the Ash tree in the back yard. It was a beautiful tree and its loss would be noticed for a long time. In its place- - frawns sprouted up but they wern't Ash tree frawns, but palm frawns. I was trying to come up with some sort of symbolism for this from books I had read about- - - - at this point the transmission feded out.
OK we didn't quite make six months

It's a thousand pages can you take a few?
I'll be writing more in a week or two.