tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post8957125958743111310..comments2024-03-11T05:03:14.020-07:00Comments on Ernie's Place: One man's hero is another mans pariahErnie Branscombhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06391160783604462511noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-68261207967857362482011-02-22T21:39:44.723-08:002011-02-22T21:39:44.723-08:00i just saw the movie nowhere boy about john lennon...i just saw the movie nowhere boy about john lennon's early life. its a oretty good portrayal of what i've already read about his early life. the guy was copying elvis. he's from my sister and ernie's generation. plenty of cigarettes and booze. and a bad attitude.spyrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03685726716755909658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-80098102703402900862011-01-31T20:59:01.185-08:002011-01-31T20:59:01.185-08:00They killed John!<a href="http://www.john-lennon.net/whoauthorizedtheassassinationofjohnlennon.htm" rel="nofollow">They</a> killed John!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-82745509640033790012011-01-30T16:35:05.021-08:002011-01-30T16:35:05.021-08:00"Is every reference to Mary also a reference ...<i>"Is every reference to Mary also a reference to Marijuana?"</i><br /><br />Nope! Only when it was in a Beatles song, or anytime that it was uttered in the '60s.Ernie Branscombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06391160783604462511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-31468398283294268542011-01-30T12:37:46.380-08:002011-01-30T12:37:46.380-08:00When I recently replayed "Let it Be," I ...When I recently replayed "Let it Be," I took "Mother Mary" to be Mary, the mother of Jesus, or as the Catholics say, "Mary Mother of God." <br /><br />Another thing, Ernie, Mary is an extremely common name not only in America and Europe but all through the Middle East. <br /><br />Is every reference to Mary also a reference to Marijuana?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-66034998680094203482011-01-30T12:18:22.212-08:002011-01-30T12:18:22.212-08:00suzy blah blah said...
Yep you got me alright Erni...suzy blah blah said...<br />Yep you got me alright Ernie. Sure you saw it. I believe that one just like I believe the one you made up about the Beatle's song Sweet Mary. LOL! but that's okay, I accept that that's just the way these things go around here, someone says that they should have put up a banner telling the hippys to go home, "that woulda showed em". LOL! Then every year at the Rotarian's potluck the story gets embellished til before you know it they're saying it really happened. And I'm sure there's some old-timers that have told it so many times that they probably believe it did. December 20, 2010 9:57 AM<br /><br />YES, Suzy! Just like the story that every Vietnam Veteran tells about having some long-haired hippie spit on him when he came back home. They all believe it and swear it's true, but it's a crock. <br /><br />Anti-war protestors were trying to save those soldiers from dying in a pointless war. We respected them. It was the national policy-makers we despised. <br /><br />At the same time, the military was telling the soldiers lies about the anti-war demonstrators. Maybe that's where the stories about spitting hippies began. Probably. We got lied into the Vietnam War just like we got lied onto the Iraq War. Lying about spitting hippies seems par for the course.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-84764937723065237922011-01-30T12:01:34.236-08:002011-01-30T12:01:34.236-08:00Thank you, Spyrock, for the information you offere...Thank you, Spyrock, for the information you offered on December 15, 2010 at 9:19 PM. <br /><br />The haunting beauty of John Lennon's song "Julia" now has a context. I had always heard it was "about his mother" but your account of her role in his life cemented his capacity for translating love into art into my heart. <br /><br />John Lennon was more than just a Beatle. Look to the music he produced after leaving the Beatles. Consider his song "Starting Over." What other popular musician would write and perform a song that exposed himself with the lines, "One thing you can't hide, is when you're crippled inside." <br /><br />Ernie, if you must judge the man as immature when he was young, at a time when the world treated the Beatles as if they were gods, you might also be big-hearted enough to acknowledge the transformation of the child into the man he was becoming when he was cut down. <br /><br />By the way, it wouldn't hurt you to listen to his music again with an ear tuned not to drug references, but to references to Christian and humanitarian values. <br /><br />Now that I think of it, The Beatles produced a great many really great songs that were completely untainted by drug references. Listen to them. Read the lyrics. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, Ernie. You might learn something from John Lennon even at this late date that would enhance your life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-68098278708617087282011-01-30T11:28:38.842-08:002011-01-30T11:28:38.842-08:00Even if marijuana is the only illegal drug a kid u...Even if marijuana is the only illegal drug a kid uses, it can still cause a lot of harm to the growing brain. Marijuana all by itself is enough to screw up the minds of many people. We all know it can have unpredictable consequences. It really is too bad that kids are so rebellious and that certain adults are so willing to make money at their expense. Here in Humboldt County we are surrounded that kind of adult. In fact, they run the place now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-69924998963275157522011-01-14T15:48:32.790-08:002011-01-14T15:48:32.790-08:00thanks, river, i like good sufi stories. but my a...thanks, river, i like good sufi stories. but my aunt joy told me that when i heard the snake rattle to just freeze and he wouldn't bite me. so i just froze and pretended i was a statue and she was right. it didn't bite me, but i remembered this story for the rest of my life so it amounted to the same thing. a snake is a snake and he is going to bite you either way. the rattle is the same as a bite. manson did the same thing to me. called me a buuwazee pig. at 5 foot 5 inches, that was his way of biting.spyrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03685726716755909658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-49459564623377676862011-01-14T00:19:09.251-08:002011-01-14T00:19:09.251-08:00Spy, A man on a horse came to a desert and a rattl...Spy, A man on a horse came to a desert and a rattle snake asked if the man if he could ride to the other side of the desert in his saddle bag. The man said no you'll bite me. The snake said I promise I won't. So the man put the snake in the saddle bag and crossed the hot desert. When he pulled the snake out he bit the man. He asked the snake why he bit him. The snake replied, I HAD TO, I'm a SNAKE! See the dirt?charlie two crowsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-91771153609866269222011-01-13T21:39:17.124-08:002011-01-13T21:39:17.124-08:00GROSS: Now, let me get back to an incident in 1968...GROSS: Now, let me get back to an incident in 1968 when members of the Grateful Dead came up with this mission to send you and some other people to England to scope out - I think to scope out how serious the Beatles were about -- about what?<br /><br />COYOTE: Well, they wanted to know if the Beatles were as socially adventurous as they were musically adventurous. And The Diggers were kind of like the conscience of the underground, or pretty much universally recognized as the guys who knew what was happening.<br /><br />So, the Grateful Dead put together a group of emissaries, including The Diggers and Ken Kesey and some of his people, and some of the Hell's Angels, and sent us over to check them out and also to represent our California culture in swinging '60s London.<br /><br />GROSS: And did you get to meet the Beatles?<br /><br />COYOTE: Well, we met some of them. I met Ringo and I met George and I met John Lennon, certainly - saved John Lennon from getting his teeth knocked in by the Hell's Angels.<br /><br />GROSS: What happened? What happened?<br /><br />COYOTE: Oh, we were at a Christmas party one time and the Beatles were kind of frightened of us. We all descended on their office and George came out and told us that he knew a good hotel where they'd take anybody. And Ringo was just kind of looping around. Paul was out of town. And the Beatles' publicist was a guy named Derek Taylor - lovely man, who just died -- and he kind of took us under his wing and we rented a big flat in Battersea.<br /><br />And we were invited to the Beatles' Christmas party. And we were there and we were walking around and there was no food. And we had no money and we were hungry. And Pete Nell, who was the president of the Hell's Angels, San Francisco Chapter, started complaining: "well, where's the food? You know, we've been invited to eat.<br /><br />Where's the food? I'm hungry." And some English twit in an ascot turned around and said: "oh, really? It's uncool to be hungry." And Pete flattened him - just decked him right there in this big Christmas party. And John Lennon jumped up and said: "what's the matter with him then?" And he - Pete turned around and pointed to me and said: "tell him he's next." And I just sat John down right away and explained the situation from a diplomatic perspective; that we'd been invited. We were guests. We'd been there five hours. We hadn't had anything to eat. And Pete was a little cranky.<br /><br />And John got the picture and dummied up and food was there in about 15 minutes.<br /><br />GROSS: Hmm. Must have been - so how did you scope out how serious the Beatles were about being socially adventurous? I mean, how did you measure this for the Grateful Dead?<br /><br />COYOTE: Well, John had an adviser. I can't remember his name now, but some American cat from Kansas. And he - I don't know - he just wasn't into too much. He had John's ear and we just were not so interested in what the Beatles were doing. I mean, we liked their music. They were really good musicians. But they were not paradigms of anything. I mean, their band wasn't organized. Let's say, the Grateful Dead's band was organized like a family. The Beatles were not organized like that. They were a big-time rock and roll business.<br /><br />And while their style was certainly exemplary of the new age, they were all millionaires, you know, buying into the aristocracy in big homes. And we didn't really see them taking care of other people or using their power and access to create new models of anything. So we just listened to their records, but we were not looking to them for advice.<br /><br />this is an interview of peter coyote, actor and former digger in the haight.<br />ernies article just illustrates what effect the fox channel, rush limbaugh and hannity and colmes have on our perception of history. throw enough dirt at something and it starts looking dirty.spyrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03685726716755909658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-31358662434352812802010-12-31T16:23:36.703-08:002010-12-31T16:23:36.703-08:00I would like to add a little Pre-Beatle LSD histor...I would like to add a little Pre-Beatle LSD history 'cause I know not everyone has a subscription to Vanity Fair.<br /><br />Everybody has heard about 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', but how many know there was a <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2010/08/drugs-in-hollywood-201008?currentPage=all" rel="nofollow">Cary</a> in the Sky with Diamonds first? <br />As I shared before, it was TV actors and actresses who led me down the path of desire, drugs and alcohol. There was "a group of more than 100 Hollywood-establishment types began ingesting little azure pills".. well before Timothy Leary and the Beatles. You may enjoy reading about their therapeutic experiences.<br />The use of psychedelics for therapy is actually experiencing a revival amongst researchers, with the permission of the Feds.olmanrivernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-84610951853117813772010-12-24T21:29:35.869-08:002010-12-24T21:29:35.869-08:00Thanks for all of the poetry River.
And, great ne...Thanks for all of the poetry River.<br /><br />And, great news Two Crows! Keep checking.Ernie Branscombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06391160783604462511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-81612574829574170202010-12-24T17:43:13.329-08:002010-12-24T17:43:13.329-08:00ps. Google Lennon's song Sweet Mary and there ...ps. Google Lennon's song Sweet Mary and there we are, No. 1.<br /><br />Now I don't mean to put words in someone else's mouth, or thoughts in another's head, but maybe Ernie was remembering sideways the Beatles song "What's the new <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mcymZqfpKo" rel="nofollow">Mary</a> Jane".<br />It almost made the White Album, but got scratched was released in a later anthology...<br /><br />"She looks as an African queen,<br />She eating twelve chapattis and cream,<br />She tastes as Mongolian lamb,<br />She coming from out of Bahrain.<br />What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party<br />What a shame Mary Jane<br />What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party<br /><br />She like to be married with Yeti,<br />He grooving such cooky spaghetti,<br />She jumping as Mexican bean<br />To make that her body more thin<br />What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party<br />What a shame Mary Jane<br />What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party<br /><br />She catch Patagonian pancake<br />With that one a gin party makes.<br />She having all the ways good contacts,<br />She making with apple a contract<br />What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party<br />What a shame Mary Jane<br />What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party<br />(the chorus continues)<br /><br />To each their own, good eggnog, or eggnug, to all this holiday season.olmanrivernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-22900097880965324922010-12-24T16:54:59.430-08:002010-12-24T16:54:59.430-08:00Really wonderful news Charlie 2 crows! A specially...Really wonderful news Charlie 2 crows! A specially joyous Xmas to you. Congratulations.olmanrivernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-71891798673963279432010-12-24T15:38:27.362-08:002010-12-24T15:38:27.362-08:00Ernie...... My PSA is <0.1. Merry Christmas to ...Ernie...... My PSA is <0.1. Merry Christmas to all!!!!!!charlie two crowsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-28056430983230393812010-12-24T15:15:29.801-08:002010-12-24T15:15:29.801-08:00but Suzy is much smarter than all of us.
-another...<i>but Suzy is much smarter than all of us.</i><br /><br />-another example of the flippant and sarcastic sick humor that comes from the dark and threatening subjective delusions of uncle Ernie's hallucin&tory/fantasy world.\https://www.blogger.com/profile/01423262259410754388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-32265093617712781382010-12-24T14:38:57.346-08:002010-12-24T14:38:57.346-08:00Charlie
Suzy has been known to like to stir things...Charlie<br />Suzy has been known to like to stir things up sometimes. I dabble in controversy, but Suzy is much smarter than all of us. I try not to flinch too fast when she makes a comment. Sometimes I bite hook-line-and-sinker, then I wish I had just been quite.<br /><br />Warning, I bet she also knows what 50cal ammo is!<br /><br />The thing that most people don't realize is the emotional tension between the Hippie free love and peace crowd, and the high moral standard redneck crowd. It was a time of much tension. We had the Viet Nam war, peace marches, and they had just mowed down a student riot in Mexico with 50cal guns and ammo. Some of the U.S.citizens proclaimed that was they way to handle a riot. It was also a time when the military actually did fire on a crowd of students at Kent State in Ohio.<br /><br />I think that you had to have been there to understand the tension.Ernie Branscombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06391160783604462511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-63846717022366853422010-12-24T12:15:40.143-08:002010-12-24T12:15:40.143-08:00Charlie, I was just joking about not believing the...Charlie, I was just joking about not believing there were anti hippy banners in Gville, just trying to tease Ernie a little about his memory of John Lennon's song <i>Sweet Mary</i>. Forgive me if Suzy nudged your button. Of course I believe there were banners of that sort, why shouldn't I? LOL! I never heard the one about the National Guard though. Thanks for telling it. btw, what's 50cal ammo? <br /><br /><a href="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS3zWuFHr4FwshAHw-2grMAs8fHrbQuaU67nx1odMgYRx0mVgVZTc0Kvyi1qQ" rel="nofollow">sorry,</a><br />s\https://www.blogger.com/profile/01423262259410754388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-44876279639081066472010-12-23T23:13:27.007-08:002010-12-23T23:13:27.007-08:00Ernie, This goes along with the banner story. Do y...Ernie, This goes along with the banner story. Do you remember when the national guard used live 50cal ammo to scare off hippies at the old stop light on 101 by HSU? Suzy won't believe that story either. And all the stores downtown that would let hippies in there stores. True I was there and saw it. Much worse than a banner. Ernie don't you remember? Tell suzy how it really was!!!!!!!charlie two crowsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-81051005634590023912010-12-23T13:36:54.575-08:002010-12-23T13:36:54.575-08:00Thanks CeeDub
I always thought that there would be...Thanks CeeDub<br />I always thought that there would be a wide open opportunity for a comedian to do an act where he was totally stoned and tried to pretend that he was functional. Kinda' like a stoner twist on Foster Brooks' drunk act.<br /><br />Usually just asking a stoner what his name is will hang him up for a few minutes. You can see him wonder, "why do they want my name? should I tell them? Don't I have a right to privacy? Should I make one up? Usually they get tired of thinking and just tell you their name.Ernie Branscombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06391160783604462511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-58198851004445644952010-12-23T13:26:30.827-08:002010-12-23T13:26:30.827-08:00Last Quote-
"We are all a little weird and l...Last Quote-<br /><br />"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”<br /><br />When The Beatles came out it was like a bullhorn calling out to all those kids living in that time of oppression, segregation, and hate to WAKE UP! You don't have to be your parents. You can be someone different. You don't always have to live by the rules. They were wild, DIFFERENT than the norm and non-apologetic about it. <br /><br />That's why those parents, religious freaks, and the hierarchy were so offended by them. It was CHANGE! People....especially old people can't stand change, and it was a huge one, back then. I imagine it was a lot like when Hippies came to Garberville, or when Growers started outnumbering Old-Timers. "damn stupid monster truck!"<br /><br />I believe The Beatles/John Lennon were bigger than the whole drug situation. That was just the negative spin put on them by right wing crackpots who just wanted to tear them down to keep change from happening.<br /><br />There was a force behind them. A spiritual force in them and their music. Pot was and is an enhancer of the feeling of the message in their music, which was LOVE. Something this world needs now. We need another change of that magnitude now John willing.CeeDubnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-82894426923102475332010-12-23T12:49:08.994-08:002010-12-23T12:49:08.994-08:00“They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking ma...“They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do, just as well. You just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference.”<br />Bill HicksCeeDubnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-28333669131614179072010-12-23T12:47:05.364-08:002010-12-23T12:47:05.364-08:00“Researchers have discovered that chocolate produc...“Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are.”<br />Matt LauerCeeDubnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-87161527653542858452010-12-22T13:54:37.564-08:002010-12-22T13:54:37.564-08:00I knew this guy that had a big, lifted pick-up in ...I knew this guy that had a big, lifted pick-up in Laytonville and his mom told me that he really loved that truck, she could tell because he would clean on it for days without stopping. I think he spent over 24 hours just cleaning the starter with a tooth brush one time.<br />I was talking to the owner of the bar in Greenville one time about detailing cars and this guy sitting down the way a bit said he used to be good at detailing then he was sent to rehab.<br /><br />OregonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-64919048907437748822010-12-22T13:38:44.566-08:002010-12-22T13:38:44.566-08:00Ernie, have you checked out what that decadent Fra...Ernie, have you checked out what that decadent Frank Zappa had to say about <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX1uBcMfBl8" rel="nofollow">drugs</a>. I would've liked to be a fly on the wall listening to a conversation between you two over coffee. <br /><br /><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Zappamoney2.jpg" rel="nofollow">huggles </a>,<br />s\https://www.blogger.com/profile/01423262259410754388noreply@blogger.com