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spike jones
spike jones's Journal
spike jones's Journal
May 12, 2024
In the army at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama in 1967, I met a guy during the few months I was there for advance training on the Nike-Hercules missile launcher. He was training on the Hawk missile and we met on the wooded trails near the base. He had weed and I did not. He was stationed there before me, and had made local contacts. John was a funny guy and we had good times hiking the trails, playing in the woods, rock climbing, caving the local holes, smoking weed after classes, and going to the cafe to drink coffee and play the jute box. I always played A Whiter Shade Of Pale when we went in. It was the army and we only knew each other for a few months. After he was transferred, I did not hear from him. It was the army and that is the way it is. Later in February 1968, I was at Fort Bliss in El Paso Texas and I was reading the army paper and Johns name jumps off the page that list the guys killed in Viet Nam that week. I had a portable record player and played this song that day. It took a long time to hear this song without thinking about John. And not today.
on this day May 12, 1967 A Whiter Shade of Pale.
In the army at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama in 1967, I met a guy during the few months I was there for advance training on the Nike-Hercules missile launcher. He was training on the Hawk missile and we met on the wooded trails near the base. He had weed and I did not. He was stationed there before me, and had made local contacts. John was a funny guy and we had good times hiking the trails, playing in the woods, rock climbing, caving the local holes, smoking weed after classes, and going to the cafe to drink coffee and play the jute box. I always played A Whiter Shade Of Pale when we went in. It was the army and we only knew each other for a few months. After he was transferred, I did not hear from him. It was the army and that is the way it is. Later in February 1968, I was at Fort Bliss in El Paso Texas and I was reading the army paper and Johns name jumps off the page that list the guys killed in Viet Nam that week. I had a portable record player and played this song that day. It took a long time to hear this song without thinking about John. And not today.
April 10, 2024
CSA = Chicken Shit Assholes
On this day 1865 CSA surrenders. Civil War ends.?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conclusion_of_the_American_Civil_WarCSA = Chicken Shit Assholes
April 8, 2024
Pink Floyd "Eclipse." someone had to do this.
March 12, 2024
Sally Grossman died March 11, 21
https://bestclassicbands.com/sally-grossman-obituary-widow-albert-grossman-3-12-2111/#google_vignette
January 3, 2024
Greta Thunberg 21st birthday January 3, 2024.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Greta-Thunberg
October 16, 2023
John Brown's raid October 16, 1859
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown%27s_raid_on_Harpers_Ferry
September 14, 2023
Re: ships that have already left the dock:
The station said Auderer reported himself to the accountability office after realizing his comments had been recorded, because he realized their publicity could harm community trust in the Seattle Police Department.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/investigation-launched-into-tape-of-seattle-police-guild-leaders-downplaying-death-of-woman-struck-by-officer/
September 12, 2023
Dylan 9-11-2001 released "Love and Theft" album.
"Sky full of fire, pain pouring down."
"Coffins dropping in the street
Like ballons made of lead."
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