Great Books: The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey - Illustrated by Robert Crumb - The Classic Novel That Inspired People to Form the Earth First! Ecology Group...

Read it and be inspired too. 

http://www.earthfirst.org/

Here is an Excerpt from the Book... as they look at the Peabody Open Pit Coal Mine in Utah.

"Parking in the shade and concealment of a group of pinyon pines, the gang took a walk up the nearest knoll, armed with field glasses.

Their view from the knoll would be difficult to describe in any known terrestrial language. Bonnie thought of something like a Martian invasion, the War of the Worlds. Captain Smith was reminded of Kennecott's open-pit mine ("world's largest") near Magma, Utah. Dr. Sarvis thought of the plain of fire and of the oligarchs and oligopoly beyond: Peabody Coal only one arm of Anaconda Copper; Anaconda only a limb of United States Steel; U.S. Steel intertwined in incestuous embrace with the Pentagon, TVA, Standard Oil, General Dynamics, Dutch Shell, I. G. Farben-industrie; the whole conglomerated cartel spread out upon half the planet Earth like a global kraken, pan-tentacled, wall eyed and parrot beaked, its brain a bank of computer data centers, its blood the flow of money, its heart a radioactive dynamo, its language the technetronic monologue of numbers printed on magnetic tape.

But George Washington Hayduke, his thought was the clearest and simplest: Hayduke thought of Vietnam.

Peering thru the dust, the uproar, the movement, they could make out a pit two hundred feet deep, four hundred feet wide, a mile long, walled on one side by a seam of coal, where power shovels, ten stories high, as Smith had said, gouged at the earth, ripped the fossil rock from its matrix of soil and sandstone, dumped it in ten ton bites into the beds of haulers. Beyond the first machine, in a farther pit, they saw the top of a boom, the cables and pulley wheel of another alien invader at work, digging itself in deep, almost out of view. To the south they saw a third machine, bigger yet: it did not roll on wheels like a truck, or on endless treads like a tractor, but "walked" one foot at a time, towards its goal. The feet were a pair of steel base plates resembling pontoons, each as big as a boat, lifted first one, then the other, on eccentric gears, rotated forward, placed down and the cycle repeated. Waddling forward, ducklike, the enormous structure of powerhouse, control chassis, superstructure, crane, cables and ore bucket yawed from side to side. Like a factory walking. The machine was electrically powered; as it proceeded a seperate crew of men handled its umbilicus the power line, an "extension cord" thick as a man's thigh through which throbbed the voltage driving the engines in the powerhouse - enough juice, its builders liked to boast, to light a city of 90,000 humans. The cable crew, four men with truck, kept the line clear and also towed the transformer unit, mounted on an iron sledge, keeping pace with the dragline machine. Giant Earth Mover: the GEM of Arizona.

We are so small thought Bonnie. They are so huge. "

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The Kennecott Copper Mine Seldom Seen Smith speaks of

as viewed from space... easily twice as big as the Salt Lake City Airport.

Landslides have closed the mine for tourists but you may take a virtual tour at their website: http://www.kennecott.com/visitors-center and print the ever popular coloring book... of giant earth moving machines... 

Link to a Google Image Search for all the illustrations by Robert Crumb:
http://tinyurl.com/k9ahu2e

Dr Sarvis and Bonnie Abzug torch a billboard

Links to Earth First! http://www.earthfirst.org/ and http://efhumboldt.org/

Rock Sculptures on Mount Shasta

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Did you ever Notice Arcata, California? It's Simply Wonderful. Here is A Collection of My Best Photographs and Links to Cultural Happenings... MANY FREE EVENTS!

Arcata is a Lovely town on California's North Coast

about Halfway between San Francisco and Seattle

Very Close to the Oregon Border in the State Of "Jefferson"

Click on the Pictures to See Them Bigger!

Doing Engineering Design was a High Point of My Life... I remember laying out a Circuit Card and the Sun was shining thru the window and I felt BLESSED... Programmers call it "The Zone"... another time I was doing 3D graphics on a Computer at School and DING! 4 Hours had passed... Here is the picture I was Drawing... Homework For Statistics Class At Humboldt State University...

And That's what we do here...
Why not come and Visit?

U2 can Bliss Out, Now

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX2utDYfzCY&feature=youtu.be

Music Video: Blue Rhythm Revue.

"With a little help from my friends" by The Beatles

What if you wanted to know More about this GEM of a Town?

Click on the Links:
http://www.humboldt.edu/

http://humboldt.edu/clubs/club_sites/ccat

http://www.schatzlab.org/

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/

http://lostcoastoutpost.com/

http://www.darrylcherney.com/
"I see by Your T-Shirt That You are an FBI Agent,
You see by my T-Shirt that I'm an FBI Agent, Too..
If you get a T-Shirt then You could be an FBI Agent,
Mumble mumble mumble I forgot the last Line..."
Sung to the tune "Streets of Laredo"

However, all the accurate Lyrics are on Darryl's website.

http://www.jailhurwitz.com/
Sadly, This Contest is Over and it is TOO LATE to Enter.

http://www.jailhurwitz.com/pdfs/hfcb_cover.html
But You Can Still Download the Headwaters Forest Coloring Book!

http://www.humboldt.edu/music/
You could learn to play a musical instrument.

http://www.humboldt.edu/music/calypso-band
For Example: The Steel Pans

http://www.humboldt.edu/music/dan-aldag
Dan Aldag teaches a fine General Education Course
"The History of Rock and Roll."
I took it and Had a Great Time...

Dan has been seen playing Trombone in The Fortuna Bandemonium.
http://fortunaconcertseries.com/history/2006/greg-moore-bandemodium.htm

http://www.humboldtfolklife.org/node/2
at the Humboldt Folklife Festival in Blue Lake.

http://lilanelson.org/
Singer Wrong Righter, Lila Nelson. Righting Wrong Thru Song.

https://www.facebook.com/tofumike
and Lila's brother "Tofu" Mike Schwartz
Who will do the Sound Mixing For and Event
http://www.absynthquintet.com/
or Play the Drums.

http://humboldtgov.org/1346/Public-Library/
You Could Read a Good Book at the Humboldt County Library.

http://www.humboldtmusic.com/webpage/index.cfm?id=282
Mr. Bill plays the drums for Vintage Rock and Soul.

http://www.mtsmusic.com/
Two Street Music is on Second Street in Eureka! I have Found It, CA

http://www.humboldt.edu/centennial/
100 Year Party Celebrating Alexander Humboldt,
The Last Man who Knew Everything There Was to Know.

http://www.humboldtmusic.com/webpage/index.cfm?id=883
Tim Day slappa da Bass.
Tim Day is an electric bass player, drummer, and composer based out of Eureka, CA. Originally from Los Angeles, CA, he picked up the guitar at the age of 5 and began playing. Over the years Tim also picked up the drums and bass and continues to develop as a musician.

Currently, Tim has been playing drums for local group Vintage Soul for 11 years, and he plays bass for local group
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Blue-Rhythm-Revue/94493887977
 Blue Rhythm Revue now in their 4th year. He has played at local bars, clubs, private shows, and festivals in and around Humboldt county.

http://lostcoastoutpost.com/HumboldtApproved/
Winner Best Singer Award: Samantha Toste
of the Blue Rhythm Review.

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And, Now for something Completely Different:
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http://www.derrickjensen.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNqlhPFc4Y
Firesign Theater Temporary Humbolt County
No it's not Permanently Humboldt County,
It's THC.

http://www.yuroktribe.org/
Supposedly Named by A Yurok Tribal member.

https://www.caljobs.ca.gov/vosnet/Default.aspx
Looking for a Job? Search CALJOBS by Zip Code

http://www.mss.ca.gov/
Or Find a Job anywhere in California

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THE UMMAGUMMA OF CAMBRIDGE [fiction] - MKULTRA [fact]

When the aliens found out that their spaceship was infested with Ummagumma they stopped at the first planet (eARTh) and dumped them. The place was called Stonehenge. The Ummagumma are an annoying life form that supports themselves by petty thievery. They were first reported in Dickens books...you know... Oliver Twist...Pickpockets...They also have an annoying habit of taking things apart and not putting them back. Have you ever noticed that for some unknown reason things just "go on the blink" ? That's the work of the Ummagumma. For centuries they lived in the swamps near Oxford (Cambridge, England - the land of Eng) but one day they walked down to the docks and snuck aboard a boat. When the captain found out that his boat was infested with Ummagumma he stopped in the first port and dumped them. He threw them right overboard and into the San Francisco bay. They swam to shore and quickly blended into the population. You see, they are short and brown and could be mistaken for Chinamen...............................Stay tuned... next time they disassemble Sutro tower in a futile attempt to "call an intergalactic taxi". ............................And then they wander down the coast and climb... Mount UMUNHUM... The giant box on the mountain overlooking the city of Saint Joe. ...................................................The Ummagumma always stowaway and they just had to get off the planet eARTh. This planet's just too boring. Got to get back to the Swinging Planets in the Crab Nebula...That's where all the Fun Is. and so, gentle reader Ta Ta For Now... Read another story? Click Here!

Idea by Arthur C Clarke - Book "Sunstorm"
Instead of Complaining about Global Warming,
Why Knot Actually Do Something?
Ya Think?

bathroom closed to tourists
only open to card holding members
woodley island marina eureka ca
photo by gregory vanderlaan 420
Gee, I have a Great Desire to Piss on the Sign.
And then smoke a cigarette...

So, Only the Rich have to take a piss?
UckFay OUYay
Is Woodley Island the new INGOMAR CLUB?

MKULTRA CIA/LSD * - American History
(Official Verification that MKULTRA was real)

Source: "Studies in Intelligence DCI first 100 days."
web.archive.org/web/19991008114355/http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/95unclas/100.html

After his reelection in 1972, President Richard Nixon fired Richard Helms, who had led the CIA throughout his first term. Intent on reforming the Agency, he appointed James Schlesinger, 43, as DCI on 21 December 1972.

The Office of the Inspector General gave Schlesinger a 693-page list of "potential flap activities," which detailed Agency involvement in MHCHAOS, mail-opening programs, the Huston Plan, MKULTRA and drug testing, and the training of local police. Other revelations included details of CIA's attempts to assassinate foreign leaders. This is the list that became known as the "family jewels."

Video Cameras on the Bus to make sure no one sprays graffiti...
or something... are they fake? Who is Watching You?
Big Brother? Is the Book "1984" a Blueprint for the
Violet Overgrow of the GubbermintyFRESH!
Why to the poLICE fear Citizens with Cameras?
Because they feel ashamed of what they do.

Off by 22 Years... Sigh... 1984 became true when the USA passed the Patriot Act

Coral Sea Research Vessel, Arcata CA in the Humboldt Bay.

Oceanography 109 HSU photo by Gregory Vanderlaan 420

Coral Sea Research Vessel Arcata CA in the Humboldt Bay Oceanography 109 HSU photo by Gregory Vanderlaan 420

Man sitting with a giant Cannabis rug in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse and Jail.
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