April 4, 2008
by Mike Palecek
MOTEL 6, Olympia, WA - Today I met with a few of the high priests of the Bigfoot research community.
Joe Beelart took me to Ray Crowe's house in Portland, and we had lunch with M.K. Davis and Don Monroe. Davis has done some extensive research on the Patterson-Gimlin film. He believes that not only is the film authentic, the creature is human, not ape.
Davis, from Mississippi, was in the area to speak at a meeting of the Western Bigfoot Society. While he was here, he also visited with Roger Patterson's widow in Yakima and Bob Gimlin, who lives south of Portland.
If you have not seen the video of the Winter Soldier hearings, here they are.
How can we go another day without having a national discussion about this? Discussion is not quite the word I'm looking for. How about screaming fucking cage match?
You ever hear those professional football announcers talking about how this team or that team plays "smash-mouth" football?
Oh, yeah? Really?
They must be tough mo-fo's.
Wonder what those smash-mouth guys are doing about standing nose to nose with those who are lying to them, killing in their name, stealing from them?
What sense does it make to fill out the day's To-Do list without putting "What About This Sending Our Kids To Murder People In Other Countries Thing?" in there somewhere between "Pick Up Milk," and "Drop Off Big Lebowski/OVERDUE!"
It makes no sense.
Shock & Awe.
They Shocked & Awed US with 9/11, then they bombed Iraq, and now, and now .... and now.
Geezuz.
I've had a few days to hang. Yesterday I drove south to Salem, Oregon, from Portland, then east to Mill City for the afternoon.
Another old-home experience. Roger and Bob and I came out there in the '70s for our big adventure. We met the Huckabees. They fed us fresh-caught salmon and we smelled the wood that Lester was cutting in his shed to make shakes for his son's new home.
I then came out again later by myself in my dad's '59 Chevy with the wings, and with my dog, and a new cowboy hat I bought in Fort Collins on the way.
I worked for a few days in the hills, on a core-drilling team, me and another guy. We saw a mountain lion up close one morning on the drive up to work.
I saw the exit sign for Mt. Angel on the way. There is a monastery there, I know.
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I went there on that second trip, with my dog, thought this is pretty cool, the big stone edifice. They said I couldn't keep my dog if I joined up, so I went home and joined the seminary in Saint Paul.
The North Santiam River flows through Mill City. You cross over an old steel bridge.
The town is small, about 1,500 population. It smells like rain and wood. I found a walking path up close to the mountains and took it, beating my sticks against the trees and howling, in order to call the Bigfoot to me.
That must not be how you do it.
I didn't see anything, but it was cool to finally be up there in the big woods where something actually might happen.
Bush was booed, loudly, as he threw out the first pitch at the Nationals game the other day.
That's effing-great.
"I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out."
- Bill Hicks
Next time, get security to tackle him and handcuff him.
He is a criminal, a murderer.
Really.
He is.
He and his crew did 9/11. They lied in order to start a war and got young Americans killed and traumatized and turned into murderers as well.
The only way we stop the war, the coming war, and start to bring this country around, away from the waterfall, is to march George W. Bush into court.
And put the cuffs on behind his back. He is an asshole.
If there is a hell, George W. Bush will have his own box seat in one of the highest rings.
Burn Dubya burn.
seeya
- Mike
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Mike Palecek [send him email] is an activist for peace and social justice. He served time in federal prison for civil disobedience and has run for US Congress. He has authored a number of books [click here to view] on behalf of the cause.
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