Harry Monroe and Allan Cohen, SF Oracle, Underground Press meeting 1967.
Marin Headlands, photo by Ralph Ackerman, 1941-2008
poets, writers, artists, musicians, love magicians, givers...up all nighters, sad, lonely, lonesome.
"There's More Powerful Solutions Than War" --Heart, SF, 2002
in my ideal world there would be no word for war there would be no need for such a word, but what to call what exists all around everywhere in my ideal world would it be something like the word peace, but then the word needed for this ideal world exists as a word unto itself, not as a word gathering strength from the meaning of its opposite
Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870, by Julia Ward Howe
Pink Door, Black Sneakers (copyright P. Freed, SF 97)
Merry X-mess, copyright 2007 thinicepress 2007
Night of the Towers, copyright 2007 thinicepress "Out of war a few people make huge fortunes...How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?" --Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC
SMOKE SIGNALS Online Volume 4 excerpts from bart plantenga's Confessions of a Beer Mystic intro by Mike Golden
see Thin Ice Press's Anthology George Tsongas San Francisco poet Eve Gilbert "...If you put Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski and Kathy Acker in a blender and added the ratty, unadorned drawing style of Charles Rodriguez, you'd have some idea of just how hot and incendiary a brew this is..."
