V. C. -Slight Return

This is Saturday morning September 7, 2013 and according to the KNX guy it’s the anniversary of Keith Moon’s death.  I knew it was around this period somewhere.  Of course when that happened I was still living at the Palm Street house with Pete Richards and Bill T.  I was going to mention on the last posting that one of the hottest years with a long, sustained heat wave I cam remember is that summer of 1978.  The winter had been rainy but it was almost to the day at the start of May of 1978 the weather turned sunny and hot and stayed that way till early October, which is about the first day that it was even breathable.  I cannot remember such a sustained period of being hot literally all the time.  Of course the thing going on in the news then was the whole bit with the Popes.  First they pick John Paul I around the first of September I guess, and then he died late in the month- - of what some say suspicious circumstances.  I just checked now and “In God’s Name” is still in the bookcase.  Nobody stole it.  I was thinking of rereading it.

Since I didn’t have coffee before breakfast - - I was eager to get it.  Nowadays it’s Sarah rather than Denise helping out [name withheld].  I’m not sure why the switcheroo.  We had Cheerios and after a protracted period of time we got out fried egg and toast.  People were arguing with [same name] about whether he had passed out the butter and jelly and the fact is he never did, and we ate our toast dry.  But lo and behold David Shaner announces that Dr. Levy is here and a few minutes later he said to me “You don’t seem happy about it” and - - I guess I’m just completely perplexed, like as to why he shows up with people waiting at the table and they aren’t just whistling Dixie, they haven’t gotten their food yet.  Bruce was around saying this - - stuff he says about Dr Levy planning to murder certain people.  Bruce is like Syd Barret.  Sometimes you actually do get useful information out of him- - but there is no telling in advance just what that will be.   As far as knowing him as a person- - I actually know very little about him, and I don’t think he knows anything about me- - unless he’s got some kind of secret pipeline.   As you know the Romulan and Reigelian spelling of “Al Qaida” is just as I have it here, with an I.  In Reigelian they pronounce the long A- - so it’s definitely Al Kayda, so to speak.  But in Romulan, who spell it the same way- - it should be pronounced with the long “I” sound, but they aren’t consistent.  Sometimes it’s an A and sometimes it’s an I.   One variant Romulan spelling not consistent is the word “rogan” for strenuous or rigorous - - or possibly “rough”.  The traditional Romulan spelling is ROGIN, but in the past several decades they’ve gradually been switching over to the more logical R O G A N.

Dr. Levy held “court’ today (my term) and I suppose we need some high ecclesiastical sounding title for him.  Obviously not Vicar of Christ- - because he’ll be celebrating Yom Kippur next Saturday and won’t be here then and he’ll “try and make it some other time”.   Well let’s not give up - - how about Vicar of Chaos - - Vicar of Confusion - - or here’s the best one - - Vicar of Condescension.    Of course we know Dr. Levy has this extensive background in other professions like plumbing, podiatry, and dentistry, so perhaps we could give him a name like DDS - - Doctor of Deranged Sermonizing.  As I came in the room Dr. Levy was explaining that his college class ran eight weeks, (so maybe he and Jack JR had the same teacher)  But not to get our hopes up too high because he’s starting up another such Saturday teaching job around the first of October for another two months.  But he hopes to squeeze in before then a trip to El Dorado park, which he says is “better than Seal Beach” where the majority of the class wanted to go, because they’ve had good times there in the past.  If you’re a Romulan- - El Dorado Park is definitely the better choice.  Of course you don’t want to go to Belmont Shores unless you plan to mess around with Runaround Sue and stay out till a Quarter to Three.  (There’s your cosmic New York connection)  Once again he mentioned doing a really high class barbecue- - and “we’d be there in the later part of the afternoon and there’s a lot of grassy area and a lake and everything”.   Dr. Levy also made passing reference to all the good, inexpensive small restaurants in Long Beach.  Dr. Levy wants to print out “his new book” and make it available to us on “Balanced living”.  I complained again about that strange Safari format that Vince uses in his class.  Dr. Levy was getting some sort of reception today.  The internet gods were kind, and he was able to look up for Joe the “Hebrew New Testament”.  Yeah, like the Jerusalem Bible I have- - that’s translated directly out of the - - - French.  Joe says that his father was Jewish, which I guess explains his obsession with anything Hebrew.  Speaking of France, Dr. Levy was among the majority of nay sayers and gloomsters out there who are against going to was with Syria and Russia, but did hint about maybe sometime in the next couple years getting together a party to take out Iran’s nuclear reactors.  Only James Fisher and I were still gung ho on this whole War thing but even I admitted “I’ve been waffling a bit lately on my former enthusiasm”.  I still think it would be a good idea- for both this country’s morale, and also the President’s popularity- - I just don’t think President Obama is man enough to pull it off.  There are a lot of Dardanians in the Federation- - with friendly ties to Al Qaeda, and I’d trust them over Hez Ballah any day.  Dr. Levy wants to throw a party for Arleen when she turns eighty in mid November.  OK, I’m “down with that”.   Most of the class period was just people “checking in” and catching Dr. Levy up on things.  I complained about that farce of a resident’s council meeting eight days ago- - and mentioned this heat wave- - and complained about meal promptness for the millionth time.  James has a new bike and of course we know anybody with a bike around here is likely to have it stolen before much time passes at all.  Silva says that Lisha is with her family.  Steve Young has been in the hospital for weeks.  Steve Carone- - is now in the hospital because David said he was vomiting violently last night.   Even Bruce is able to pull his act together enough to give Dr Levy rational responses to questions.   Owen Martin came in and sat on the glass table- - and we were all afraid he’s break it.   Class broke up about ten after nine.  Attendance this day was excellent.

Just to give you ONE answer to the questions of the previous posting- - guitarist Randy Rhodes is the one person whom I have never met personally - - obviously either before or after his death.  The word is he did not die a "good death" referring to his afterlife, or the Entity responsible for his untimely death.   Remember we told you about those Big Three Punk groups that wen on to the biggest Fame.  One of the groups was really popular into the nineties, and perhaps even now.  For the other two groups - - 1984 was kind of a- - - (Orwelian, shall we say) sign their run of popularity was about done.  One of these two groups - - (and NOT the Who)  - - who lost two of their founding members - - the Lead Singer of that group is someone Mal Evans has been cool tword, even though the Federation once had hopes of acquiring this group.   Actually the Lead Singer - - could have made use of a ploy to ingratiate themselves with the Federation - - the Adonijah ploy - - but perhaps not- - it didn't work for Adonijah either, and he ended up getting killed for it.

Janet read my mind and had a large coffee and a blueberry muffin for me.  Bill is off visiting his wife.  Cue up the Otis Redding song, “I’m about to give you all my money - - and all I’m asking in return, honey, is for you to give it to me when I come home”.  For his sake I hope Bill “gets some” today.  They are mopping the halls now.  I have Melinda Lee on.  The President’s morning address on KNX was pretty short today.  I got up at a few minutes before six.   The Republicans said that “The American People are going to have sticker shock, when they get a look at the prices of Obama Care”.  But again I’d like to quote from another song “It took me soo - - long to find out - - I found out”.  The Obama administration has been carrying out a massive fraud on every Americans daring to say that all these jobs have been added to the economy.  We added 169,000 jobs to the economy in their eyes, but it over 300,000 people leave the work force- - then Newt Gingrich and the others are completely right when they say- - “The employment picture is actually getting Worse every month” and not better.  Maybe I’ll do a posting is Chris Matthews says anything interesting- - when I do my weekly check out of things on line.

They had that quartette of herbs of Rotiola, Iluthero, Shazandra, and Maca.  And one of these is also known as Syberian Ginseng.  And “You’ll really feel the energy from this “Vital Balance’ formula.  Of course as you know you can get “Vital Maca” from your local Apple Corps Store- - and while you’re there be sure to get John Lennon’s latest release, “Unfinished Music No 2”.   Oh, don’t you know- - those four are the names of the brides maids at my Greek wedding.  Then they had Creatine with coffee berry extract, and they’ll throw in a bottle of B 12, too.   Hell, just haul off and order the whole hour’s worth of implements and walk around wired for the next couple of weeks.  They say “a cup of coffee is fine- - but this stuff picks up where caffeine leaves off”.

I dedicate this paragraph to "Quarto Martinez", or what might be the Romulan name of the final survivor of the band before he too was publicly executed by the despotic Vladimir Putin.  As I read about this band's "lead singer" I see how despotic a personality can be "moving around people like checkers" like Stephano Di Mira.   By the way what does that public execution video of those Syrian soldiers by their rebel captors have in common with a bowl of Raspberry sherbit- - simple, there are what I'd call "just deserts".  Aren't I a stinker?  We've got more grizzly videos for you courtesy John Kerry shown on the Nightly News, of dead and dying victims of seran gas.  These are new ones.  Meanwhile the nay sayers are right outside the gates.  "Barbarians at the gates!  Man the battlements!"  I hope and pray that President Obama gives the best darn speech of his life Tuesday evening.  And I agree that the House of Representatives is the most appropriate place to make this speech because of all of its "theater" and anticipation.   "Keep the Faith" - - I guess in Spanish it would be "Mantanar el credo" or something.