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Photographs of a Sunset in Eureka, CA - Hammond Trail overlooking the Mad River - Views of Trinidad from the Trail - DOLOS - Beautiful Humboldt County California... on the Ocean Near Oregon... and a List of My Favorite Books.


Sunset over Humboldt Bay near Eureka
Sunset over the Humboldt Bay

Sunset over Humboldt Bay
Sunset over Field's Landing,  
a Fishing Village South of Eureka


Sunset in Eureka, CA

Hammond Trail Sign
Hammond Coastal Trail in McKinleyville, CA
a paved trail along the tops of the cliffs 
overlooking the Pacific Ocean

Mouth of the Mad river as it enters the Pacific Ocean, McKinleyville, CA
Mouth of the Mad River near 
McKinleyville and Arcata CA

Trinidad, CA as viewed from McKinleyville
Trinidad, CA

Trinidad, CA as viewed from McKinleyville
Trinidad, CA

Dolos in Eureka on the North Jetty - Photographs of Humboldt County, CA by gvan42
Looking at Eureka in the Distance

Dolos are Giant Concrete Objects that are used to Build Breakwaters... The ODD SHAPE prevents Ocean Waves from Washing them Away... Originally, The Jetties Were Built using Giant Rocks but... Storms Washed them Away... 
 They are about TEN Feet from End to End... 

Dolos on Eureka's North Jetty -
Pulp Mill Working in the Distance


Dolos in Eureka on the North Jetty - Photographs of Humboldt County, CA by gvan42

Dolos in Eureka on the North Jetty - Photographs of Humboldt County, CA by gvan42

Looking at the Harbor's South Jetty - also built using Dolos!

Drummers in Arcata, CA - in The Center of Town on the Plaza



Drummers in Arcata, CA - in The Center of Town on the Plaza



I have to write my own list!

The Monkeywrench Gang by Edward Abbey,
1984 by George Orwell,
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate by John Marks,
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe,
The Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand,
One Flew Over The Coo Coo's Nest by Ken Kesey,
My Problem Child by Dr Albert Hofmann,
Remember, Be Here Now by Ram Dass,
The Psychedelic Experience by Dr Timothy Leary and Dr Richard Alpert,
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence by Robert Pirsig,
America's Bogus Wars by Gregory Vanderlaan,
Island by Aldous Huxley,
Foundation by Isaac Asimov,
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein,
You are not the Target by Laura Huxley,
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley,
The Time Machine by HG Wells,
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne,
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol,
Thru the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol,
The Wizard of OZ by Frank Baum,
Tom Sawyer - Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain,
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe (and Everything else he wrote),
The Call of Cthulu by HP Lovecraft,
The Teachings of don Juan by Carlos Castaneda,
The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz,
The Art of the Failed Deal by don Trump,
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay,
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
2001 by Arthur C. Clarke,
Dune by Frank Herbert,
The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle,
The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien,
The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien,
#France1789 by Gregory Vanderlaan,
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card,
The Bible by Various Authors (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Ezekiel, Enoch, Peter, Paul and Mary),
Still Here by Ram Dass,
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov,
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov,
Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley,
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda,
Alcoholics Anonymous by Bill W.
My Bookshelf drawing - gvan42

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AmerIndian robot with a headdress - free coloring book by gvan42
Robot Wearing an Amerindian Headdress
Part of My Free Coloring Book
Feel Free To Print as many Copies as You Like
and Color with Felt Pens or Pencils


Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - #Purple64ets - zazzle/gregvan

3200 Flying Saucer With a Friendly Alien by gvan42



Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - #Purple64ets - zazzle/gregvan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - #Purple64ets - zazzle/gregvan


Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - #Purple64ets - zazzle/gregvan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - #Purple64ets - zazzle/gregvan


Peace and Love - Free Coloring Book Art... Print as Many Copies as You Want and Share With Your Friends... I'm Looking for a Publisher to Print My Book, Sell Copies and Pay Me Royalties... OR... Just Pirate The Images and Keep the Royalties... FREE ART!


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Slide Projectors Setup with a Rotating Strobe Wheel - part of a Rock Concert Light Show
This is a Drawing of the Forbes Mill Slide Projectors Setup with a Rotating Strobe Wheel - part of a Rock Concert Light Show... It Caused Images to Briefly Flash on the Wall behind the Band. The Motor was Variable Speed. Forbes Mill was a Teen Club I Worked at In High School.

#BubbleUP Economics Works! Raise the Minimum Wage to 15 Dollars an Hour - Raise All Social Security Checks 15% - WE PROMISE TO SPEND THE EXTRA MONEY. Increasing Sales, Increasing Profits... EVERYBODY WINS!


Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Like and Share, Copy and Paste, Make as many Prints as You Like... Gregory Vanderlaan Color With Felt Pens, Pencils, Crayons or Potatoshop

What IS Bubble UP Economics and How Does it Work? Simply Raise the Minimum Wage to Fifteen Dollars an Hour and Raise all Social Security Checks 15%. Then all Those people will spend the extra money in their paychecks at American Businesses. Increasing Profits. Making Stockholders Happy! Then those businesses will have to hire more people to handle the extra Customers. Decreasing Unemployment Insurance Payments. Everybody WINS! With EMPLOYMENT AT A JOB becoming a Viable Alternative to Selling Drugs for a Street Gang, Some teenagers will choose Employment... Reducing CRIME... Reducing Costs for Prisons... Reducing Costs for Law Enforcement... People will buy more food for their Children. Causing Better Health and Smarter Kids... Starvation is Not Good for Children's Brains... Farmers will sell More. Truckers will move more merchandise to stores. Increased Competition for Workers will cause Everybody's Wages to Go Up. All those Workers will pay more in Income Taxes... That would make the Government happy... Right NOW, we are having a National Debt Ceiling Crisis because the Government is Spending More that it Takes in with Taxes... Bubble UP Economics would reverse that trend... The Money Bubbles UP Through Every Layer of Society... With a rising tide, every boat floats! We Tried Ronald Reagan's "Voodoo" Economics and It Has Failed... "People" Say That Bubble UP! Economics WILL MAKE Employers LAY OFF Workers... However... Employers HAVE ALREADY LAID OFF EVERYONE THEY POSSIBLY CAN... Have you Ever Seen a Business where People Work There but Have Nothing To DO? Never! 

Who Could Possibly be Opposed to the JOY of Bubble UP! Economics? Well, there are people in this world that have COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME. It's a Mental Health Disease just Like The Crazy Cat Lady...


Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Like and Share, Copy and Paste, Make as many Prints as You Like... Gregory Vanderlaan Color With Felt Pens, Pencils, Crayons or Potatoshop

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Like and Share, Copy and Paste, Make as many Prints as You Like... Gregory Vanderlaan Color With Felt Pens, Pencils, Crayons or Potatoshop

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Like and Share, Copy and Paste, Make as many Prints as You Like... Gregory Vanderlaan Color With Felt Pens, Pencils, Crayons or Potatoshop


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and then They legalized Marijuana in Oregon...

My Experience With Smoking Marijuana was that I Stayed High for ONE MONTH after Smoking a Pound of Oregon Legal over an Eight month period. Then I Quit entirely because I Wanted to Go on a Driving Vacation in California and Nevada where Weed is Illegal... and I Remembered to NOT Possess Illegal Drugs in My Van While Touring... I Meet a Lot of COPS while Sleeping in the Van... and then I went to the Hospital for an Infected Blister on my Foot and they Tested My Blood for THC... and I Still Tested Positive a MONTH Later! AmaZING!
During that Month I Experienced Events That Did Not Happen... It's Called Cannabis Psychosis... and It's Interesting!

Marijuana Tourism - my trip to Washington State, The Space Needle, The Experience Music Pavilion and then Oregon. As legalization spread across the USA I wanted to experience LEGAL weed as soon as possible. When I retired from work I did a lot of driving around sleeping in the back of my VAN... I was like a turtle with my home on my back. First I drove to Utah with my friend Mike Jensen to attend the Rainbow Gathering... After we were done with that I took a drive to Washington State to experience the Legal Weed. On the first visit I was unable to find any... I asked some local kids and asked for directions but there were very few stores and they were often closed... On the Second Trip I picked up a hitchhiker who had some hash oil and he gave me some as a thank you gift for picking him up in the rain... Later I decided to go home and attend the Kinetic Sculpture Race at home but... and this is a big but... I smoked some hash oil... then I got onto Highway #5 and I accidentally put the van into gear #2 and turned on the radio... When I hit 70 miles per hour the transmission exploded and then the engine caught fire... OOPS! I pulled over to the side of the freeway and said the Serenity prayer... I walked down the freeway and over to a Lumber Mill. The security guard called me a tow truck and I was towed to a motel... I had the van towed to an auto repair place where they said it would cost $8,000 to repair my Ford Windstar. I paid $3,000 to buy it used so I decided it was Uneconomical to repair... Eventually I gave it to the Humane Society as a donation to help animals. I did not allow this disaster to interfere with my vacation. I rode the AMTRAK to Seattle, Bought and ate TWO Marijuana Cookies, drank some of that rocket fuel coffee and rode the Monorail to the Space Needle and the Jimi Hendrix Experience Music Pavilion. (also a Nirvana Museum) Both musicians lived near Seattle. They had a musical instrument for tourists to play... It was 20 Tubular Bells that random people could whack with pool balls hung from a wire. VERY popular with children. I loved it too. Then I rode the Monorail to downtown Seattle Business District and arrived at Quitting Time on a Sunny Friday afternoon. The first big weekend of Spring. I was impressed with the JOY of the office workers and the BEAUTY of the Secretaries. One effect of a heavy Cannabis Dose is that it makes women appear more beautiful... I really had to piss and was in the center of the city with no public bathrooms... so I peed my pants... I didn't care. I stayed at motels for a few weeks and walked, rode the train, rode the bus and taxi and eventually got home. Quite a tricky walkabout. I enjoyed the friendship of kids in Centrailia, Washington... Great People! Then I bought another Van for $3,000... I wanted to not only experience LEGAL WEED but I wanted to Vote with my Money and reward Washington State politicians who voted for Legal weed. The next year Oregon legalized Marijuana, Then Nevada and California... Soon... the entire USA.

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Governor Newsom is Doing a Great Job... Remember to Reject the Republicriminal Recall Effort... They are Just Sore Losers... https://news.yahoo.com/california-recall-enough-signatures-ballot-222405217.html 

Photo of Roses in My Garden - an alternative to The Crazy happening in Cities Far away from me - That's What They Publish in newspapers and on TV News Stations... FACTS That Have No Importance to My Life... gvan42
Photo of Roses in My Garden - an Alternative to The Crazy Happening in Cities Far Away From Me - That's What They Publish in Newspapers and on TV News Stations... FACTS That Have No Importance to My Life... gvan42


HEADLINE: Effort To Remove Calif. Gov. Newsom Collects Enough Signatures To Force Recall Vote... The announcement kicks off a 30-business-day period in which those who signed the recall petition may withdraw their names. County election officials will then have 10 business days to report how many signatures have been withdrawn. If the threshold is still met, a recall election would take place after a budgetary review and scheduling process expected to last several months.

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Photo of Roses in My Garden - an Alternative to The Crazy Happening in Cities Far Away From Me - That's What They Publish in Newspapers and on TV News Stations... FACTS That Have No Importance to My Life... gvan42

Hate Freaks are Using "Humor" Websites to Broadcast Insane Concepts while Basking in the Protection of Plausible Deniability... Like "The Turner Diaries" are Just Fiction Not a Plan for the Overthrow of the US Government... Really... It's a Joke! Similarly, the far-right, pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is often so over the top on his InfoWars broadcasts that his own attorney likened him to a "performance artist" during a court hearing about Jones' divorce. https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/990274685/how-extremists-weaponize-irony-to-spread-hate

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HEADLINE: 1st-Time Gun Buyers Help Push Record U.S. Gun Sales Amid String Of Mass Shootings... Setting the Stage for a Massive increase in Gun Accidents, Suicides and Family Members Shooting Each other During Arguments... 

First-time gun owners, young and old from across the country, are helping to push record levels of gun sales for what looks like the second year in a row. "My gun store has had a run like I've never seen before," said Todd Cotta, the owner of Kings Gun Center in Hanford, Calif., in the state's agriculturally rich Central Valley. "It was just an avalanche of new gun buyers for the first time." These buyers are white, Black, Asian and Latino and come from all political beliefs. And they're being driven by uncertainty, fear and a need to feel safe. A FALSE BELIEF - OWNING A GUN MAKES YOUR FAMILY LESS SAFE.

  https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/989699122/1st-time-gun-buyers-help-push-record-u-s-gun-sales-amid-string-of-mass-shootings

Photo of Pretty Clouds at Home - an Alternative to The Crazy Happening in Cities Far Away From Me - That's What They Publish in Newspapers and on TV News Stations... FACTS That Have No Importance to My Life... gvan42
Photo of Pretty Clouds at Home

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More Pretty Clouds at Home

HEADLINE: Ex-Trump adviser Larry Kudlow mocked for claiming Biden's Agenda is pushing ‘plant-based beer’ - Just another Example of an Idiot TrumpNik® Doing the CrazyTalk® on Fox News... Larry got a Job doing Economic Advise on TV... Only a Total Idiot Would Listen but... We Have Millions of Total Idiots Alive Today in the USA...  Remember: Mockery of Larry ALWAYS NEEDS to include an Explanation that All Beer is Plant Based... Because TrumpNiks® are Often so Freaking Stupid that They Just Wouldn't Know... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/26/trump-larry-kudlow-biden-plant-based-beer

Photo of Pretty Clouds at Home - an Alternative to The Crazy Happening in Cities Far Away From Me - That's What They Publish in Newspapers and on TV News Stations... FACTS That Have No Importance to My Life... gvan42
Even More Pretty Clouds at Home

Photo of Pretty Clouds at Home - an Alternative to The Crazy Happening in Cities Far Away From Me - That's What They Publish in Newspapers and on TV News Stations... FACTS That Have No Importance to My Life... gvan42
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No Rain But an Epic Sunset...
Remember: Intentionally Seek Beauty. 

420 Here is that Turtle on the Grateful Dead Record Cover - with a Cactus - gvan42
420 Here is that Turtle on the
Grateful Dead Record Cover
with a Cactus - gvan42

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics



Legalize Marijuana Nationwide, Tax It and Free All the Cannabis Prisoners. A Dramatic Savings of Government Spending CURRENTLY WASTED On Incarceration and a MASSIVE INCREASE IN VOLUNTARY TAXES! Everybody Wins! We Could Use the Extra Money to Pay for Education and Healthcare for All.

If you don't smoke you wouldn't pay a cent. We could also cut Taxpayer expenses currently wasted on Law Enforcement. It's a Win-Win situation. More money going into the Treasury and Less going out.  In addition, states that have legal medical marijuana have fewer deaths due to opioid addiction. Some people simply choose the safer drug... DUH...


MEME - Legalize Marijuana - gvan42



Peace and Love: 
Not Just a Good Idea but 
a Practical Way of Life...
Peace Sign Two-Tone Coffee Mug


I'm a Big Fan of the First Amendment... Free Speech, Right to Assemble... Great Ideas! Headline: Florida Passes "Anti-Riot" Law. Would This Law Have Stopped the 1/6/2021 Riot at the US Capitol? REALLY? They Didn't OBEY LAWS... Did They?

An Often Overlooked Blessing of the First Amendment is The Rainbow Gathering. Every July Fourth 10,000 Hippies Go Backpacking in a National Forest... The Locals always try to Shut Down The Gathering but they always Fail... Because the First Amendment Guarantees the Right to Assemble Peacefully... READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/10/my-journey-to-rainbow-gathering-in.html 

What IS the Rainbow Gathering? To me, it is Woodstock with amateur musicians and I’m in the band…


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Please Let Your Elected Officials Know That You are a Fan of the First Amendment... 



I Said: "I'm in favor of the First Amendment to The Constitution. Today in Florida They Signed a Law That Makes Assembly Illegal. I Believe that This Law is Designed to Be SELECTIVELY Enforced... PRO GOP Groups Allowed and The Rest of Us Arrested... Would This Law Have been of any Value at the RIOT on 1/6/2021 at the US Capitol? NO... Those People Didn't Obey LAWS... The Only People This Would Prevent from Assembling Would Be BLM, Peace Marchers and Anti-Gun Activists. 

Thanks for Doing Such a Great Job as President... 

DON'T LET THEM TAKE AWAY OUR FREEDOM!

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