Birthday Greetings

[bunkerfan]

Going down The Royal Oak for a couple later".

I wish I could join you especially if you're paying.

BTW I hope you kooked at the previous page!

[tullist]

Ears of Tin, Happy Birthday, great health in your next year!

[tullist]

Big Happy Birthday One White Duck, and thank you for your contributions here!

[bunkerfan]

Happy Birthday Bernie.

Take it easy, put your feet up and listen to Tull.

Best wishes
John

[maddogfagin]

Bernie,

Many Happy Returns Of The Day



Graham

[steelmonkey]

Birthday? No birthday here...move along...nothing to see...just a guy not getting older...

[Tull50]

Happy Birthday Steelmonkey, the young rockers never age

Have a great day!

[Deleted]

Oct 31, 2012 15:18:54 GMT Tull50 said:

Happy Birthday Steelmonkey, the young rockers never age

Have a great day!

Best post EVER! haha too true. I'll drink to that. ;D


Drive on the young side of life



Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now. - Bob Dylan

[maddogfagin]

Oct 31, 2012 13:30:15 GMT steelmonkey said:

Birthday? No birthday here...move along...nothing to see...just a guy not getting older...

"I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

[tullist]

A VERY good day, this one. Happy Birthday Bernie! Love you buddy!

[steelmonkey]

Awaiting your brick reviews, Ray....

[nonrabbit]

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BERNIE BOY !!!!!!!!!!!!



Another year wiser - as if you need it!

Love
Patti nonrabbit

[tullist]

Definitely going to Chicago! The tickets sit not five feet from me. Milwaukee I may have to be on hold, as the car chose now, probably a good thing, (as opposed to midway between here and Milwaukee on 94 careening to an uncertain destiny) to have the front axle break, largely from having sat outside through the last 8 Chicago winters and driven through the sometimes gaping pothole laced corridors of Chicagoland. Probably would be appropriate, insofar as you have to leave this world one way or another, for me to go careening into eternity in route to a Tull or IA show.
Although I was not close to any of them, I do think a bit of Wenny in New Orleans, that German guy Michael, and that lady Pam re the somewhat cruel twists of fate that those three ardent fans are recently not here to witness this current spectacle of import.
Happy BERNIE day everybody! Bernie, the Giants, seriously, what a trip. Those are good boys, the lot of them. A young buddy of mine, ace athlete, was captain and center fielder of that Florida State baseball team that your catcher Buster Posey was on a few years back. Frankly, as good as Posey is, I would hardly think major league catcher to look at him, more likely corner shop operator, rural Georgia, about 1965. Now those Molina brothers, 3 of them, all major league catchers, they look the part, hardened criminals.

[steelmonkey]

My ex-roomate, cable car driver buddy passed away in Madison Sunday....hwe was the real thing...a geography professor at Wisconsin in 1966 who heeded the call to tune in, turn on and drop out...came to SF...was roomies with Robert Crumb, co-founded Morningstar commune...retired from driving cable cars a few years back and moved back to Madison where his childhood home awaited him...took me to Grateful Dead New Year's Eve 75/76....memorial service planned for his next birthday...5-13-13...so hope to see you then, Ray...dunno yet if we'll fly RT to CHI, Mil, or Mad...but probably midway is the most judaic for fares, right?

[tullist]

really seems to be but probably depends on point of departure. (midway is some kind of hub for southwest) from the bay area i imagine good deals to either place come up regularly.
what a remarkable guy, seems like a job i would like too, although maybe it is possible to get those things to careen out of control, on the right Powell st corridor, that could be truly hideous. connected to the cable i am pretty sure it has never happened, but there always is a first time.
I would hope to be in on that, last I knew very fond of Madison, have not been in awhile. The drive between Madison and La Crosse is a beauty, similar to sw England, has to be some of the most fertile farmland on the earth, and it rolls along real pretty all the way to the mighty Missisippi. And on a Halloween note it passes the home of that Ed guy from the 50's who made lampshades out of his neighbors, somethin like that.

[nonrabbit]

That's great news the two of you catching up !!
Keep us up to date - you two travellers through this fertile place

[steelmonkey]

Dunno any details yet but will for sure build a 3-4 day trip to Chicago/Madison for the guy's memorial...you saw this guy a thousand times...the archetype cable car driver: multi-color suspenders, huge gut, Green beret, Lennon glasses, and huge smile 24/7...cuz you know what? Cable car drivers got a lot of....uh...action in the mid-seventies...they ate free and drank free in bars and restauraunts along the Powell and Hyde lines....in hopes they would herd tourists into places...that only includes 'God' status in North Beach, Wharf, Union Square and Chinatown'...he had it made...years after the fact he admitted throwing away a letter that came to me in SF in 1979 when we shared a Potrero hill apartment...an offer for a job in Midland, texas as an apprentice geologist...he said he was afraid I would take it and he saw i was so happy riding a bike for a living that he wanted to make sure I didn't opt for the adult path....I owe him sooooo much. oddly enough...my firned who used to work for Schwab and also lived with this guy....is visiting...we're going to the Mission Rock tonite to toast the guy's life and throw empty irish coffee glasses into the bay...a bike messenger tradition when someone croaks.

[nonrabbit]

Sorry to hear about the death of your friend Bernie.

[steelmonkey]

I'm a creep....when I heard that his MD gave him slim chances to finish out the year alive i told him the kid and I would come visit on the weekend of december 8th...but I never bought airline tickets or got the time off work...i just bet he'd die first....I'm a very bad man....

[tullist]

Midland, Texas? From my perception, not from reality, omg did that guy do u a favor. I admit to having a built in resentment and some part loathing for Texas and most of what I perceive it to represent. I do understand Austin, El Paso and San Antonio all can have their charms. Seems like I have a mental picture of Midlands, maybe because decades ago it was a low minor leagues (back when teams had several layers of minor league operations)outpost for the Cubs, as being one of those towns like maybe in the Panhandle of Texas, with the exception of some parts of Oklahoma, eastern New Mexico, the least appealing areas of the USA I have seen, near slag heaps, sort of like the USA coughed somethin up there before returning to the Grand Canyon. Can you recall if he was a Packer fan? lol. Probably was. No need to answer that. Sorry I did not get a chance to try that guy out in real time, though maybe on his car a time or two, some of those guys got damn good at ringing that bell.

[tullist]

absoLUTEly dear non rabbit.

[steelmonkey]

One thing all Europeans understand is that Texas is the Bavaria of the United States...or vice versa. I lived in El Paso for almost a year ( 1994-95) very odd, unique, not mainstream Texas place. El Paso is the REAL border town...I mean...Tijuana is a 20 mile trip from san diego but downtown El Paso and downtown Juarez are separated by a 150 yard bridge....both sides pretty depressing and typical of border towns...drawing scum from the interiors.

[tullist]

I had no idea such a correlation could be made between Texas and Bavaria, or Texas and pretty much anywhere else in Europe. Maybe Belorussia? lol. Frankly, a little disapointed to hear it, one thinks of beautiful mountains and castles in Bavaria, but maybe where wealthy Germans go, dunno.
Doin a wiki on Midlands of course pretty near dead wrong, at least as to its map placement, gettin toward west Texas, Woody Harrelson and a bunch of ballplayers are from there. Surprised Harrelson is from there, I do know Texas turns out ballplayers like mofos, in some respects, sort of how I perceive the Ukraine! I do remember their scary weightlifters. Midlands is also considered the home of GWB and his wife Laura. The nicest things I can say is merely another President I was not pleased with, (there's sort of FDR and everybody else, maybe JFK)though if I met either of them without knowing who tf they were I suspect I would like them, kind of like everybody you see, hate most of them too, particularly when they are driving in cities. True human characteristics shown, I hope in the next world there is some sort of mirage of a golden trough that these folks zoom towards, only to find out it is otherwise. Follow the sheeps head, it knows the way!

[steelmonkey]

trust me...texas=bavaria...not the geography but the politics, ostentation and uber, uberness of everything and self assuredness.....bavarians think they are the real germans just as texans think they are the most american americans. A texan visiting israel told a jew that it took a train two days to cross the state...the jew says ' yeah, our trains break down all the time as well'.

[tullist]

O well. Love both of them anyway. Its not really any of the cultural stuff that bothers me about Texas, even while I occasionally wish they would secede, maybe take about 8 others with them. Its for crimes against race, culture in excess of that which the Nation as a whole is already guilty of. Maybe starting with the amount of innocent people who have been executed in that state. I finally do not believe their "heaping helping" mentality affords them a balanced platform with which to deal with the rest of the world. Cannot imagine an American city with less appeal to me than Dallas, I mean, I'll take Hoboken. Ok I'm done. I might be going to see IA today after all, going to get the car now. This was a financial hit to take that may preclude my gorging on both tonight and tomorrow. I don't even know. But I look at our buddies back east and immediately cease any thoughts of complaint. Looks like a good old sideshow amusement park in Jersey is now in the ocean, along with some of the town. New York and New Jersey will rise up fast...likely with some help from Texas.

[nonrabbit]

This is all making fascinating reading
The things you learn on a Tull forum.

[steelmonkey]

Dallas, along with Houston, San Antonio and Phoenix, are by far my least favorite American dorfs and sad signposts to the future as more and more cities: orlando, jacksonville and, saddest of all for me, denver, start to look the same.....Travelling with my kid...it's so sad how utterly simlar everywhere is...the same Mcdonalds, targets, Subway, taco bell, home depot and, of course Starf**ks on every corner...geez...when i was 6 years old, Cheyenne...a mere 90 miles north of denver...seemed as exotic as mars...different stores, different gas stations, different everything, it seemed....now from san jose to Uzbekistan it's all the same...

[nonrabbit]

Nov 1, 2012 16:33:34 GMT steelmonkey said:

Dallas, along with Houston, San Antonio and Phoenix, are by far my least favorite American dorfs and sad signposts to the future as more and more cities: orlando, jacksonville and, saddest of all for me, denver, start to look the same.....Travelling with my kid...it's so sad how utterly simlar everywhere is...the same Mcdonalds, targets, Subway, taco bell, home depot and, of course Starf**ks on every corner...geez...when i was 6 years old, Cheyenne...a mere 90 miles north of denver...seemed as exotic as mars...different stores, different gas stations, different everything, it seemed....now from san jose to Uzbekistan it's all the same...

I know it's the same all over - well all over the Western world - I bet the rest can't wait to "catch up"

I am with Michael Palin on this - he said that he wished he could have done his exploring thing back in the 1800's.
How exotic,different and magical the different countries and cultures of the world were then!

[nonrabbit]

Nov 1, 2012 16:10:59 GMT tullist said:

.... But I look at our buddies back east and immediately cease any thoughts of complaint. Looks like a good old sideshow amusement park in Jersey is now in the ocean, along with some of the town. New York and New Jersey will rise up fast...likely with some help from Texas.

and Obama and his team must feel the eyes of the world not just Romney on him to sweep in and clear up the mess.......

www.reuters.com/video/2012/11/01/reuters-tv-obama-christie-tour-storm-ravaged-nj-coa?videoId=238801573&videoChannel=117850

[steelmonkey]

I feel lucky to have traveled all over the fast-fading '2nd world' when i was in my teens and twenties...Poland, Czeckoslovakia, hungary and the USSR in the late 70'ies was like a magical trip into the thirties or earlier...horse drawn carts, cities that smelled like coal and especially the creepy WWII rooted border routines....looking out a stationary train window for hours while armed soldiers went through their scary routines where eastern steel was separated from western gold gave me a real taste of how the first 50 years of the twentieth century felt.