and Then I was Instantly Hired at a Government Job Working for the County of Humboldt. At The Highest Rate of Pay I Ever Earned. I Put my Student Loans on Automatic Pay from my Paychecks and Was All Paid Off in Six Years... Yep... I Got a Clean Safe Job working in the Welfare Department Determining IF People Should be Paid Welfare, Food Stamps and Medical Benefits...
Of Course, This Entire System Depends on Graduating in a Practical Major... I Studied Computer Information Systems and There is Plenty of Work for US... I Made Sure that I Didn't Smoke any Marijuana because Doing Homework and Attending Class is Impossible While Stoned.
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I was Lucky Enough to Live in Chico, California for about Six Years... 1973-74 I went to college... and then DREAMED of Returning During the Eighties and Nineties... and then Moved Back in 1998-2001... But Then We Escaped the HEAT for Fifteen Years in Eureka and Arcata... Now THAT'S An EPIC Place to Live... After I Graduated, I Immediately Got a Job With The County of Humboldt Government. They Had a Tendency to Hire All HSU Graduates. "Hey, If You Can Put Up With The University Education System for Four Years... We Have a Place for You at Our Office!" was the Slogan.
I took Journalism at HSU. I was a Computer Science Major and as an Elective I Worked on the Lumberjack Newspaper. I Wrote Seven Articles and Uploaded a Hundred Photographs for Everyone to Use in Their Articles. My Guidance Councilor, Dr. Harold Campbell, Recommended That I Take That Class Because They Were Creating the Very First Online Edition of the Newspaper. The Class Had 20 Journalism Majors and Five Computer Science Majors. We Were There to Help Them Accomplish Their Mission. Dr. Campbell Said That This Would be Good Work Experience to Help Non- Computer People Get Stuff Done...
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Writings of Justin Duff Vanderlaan - My Father - How the Airplane got to Oak Meadow Park Los Gatos California...
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/01/writings-of-justin-duff-vanderlaan-my.htmlI Took My Parents to the Iran-Contra Hearings at the US Capital. General Secord Testifying. Exciting! I was really glad to take Mom and Dad to a place that they had fun at.
Dad's 90th Birthday Party in Los Gatos, California - Justin Duff Vanderlaan Family Photographs
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/dads-90th-birthday-party-in-los-gatos.htmlVanderlaan Family Photographs from Our Book - "Ancestors Memories and Simple Gifts" - The History of the Vanderlaan Family - and Many Many More Pictures I Found Online!
Here is an Article from the Lumberjack Newspaper Today: Written by a Student...
HEADLINE: Unless you spent the past five years in a coma, blissfully unaware of the world around you, you know the news has been deeply weird and distressing.
I genuinely believe that the past four years have left a profound impact on my mental health, and that of many people across the nation. I have friends who have stopped reading the news entirely so they can go about their day without feeling hopeless. I’ve read articles about the Biden administration by journalists that seem positively shocked at how boring the policy details are. These past four years have left this country traumatized, a trauma we only now can begin to reckon with.
I was still in high school when Trump was elected. I vividly recall my blind confidence the weeks before the 2016 election, when my young, dumb, optimistic self bet my best friend ten dollars Trump would never be president. Fast forward to that infamous night. I was crying as I stared at the television screen, watching the electoral votes tick upwards as I envisioned the worst. That night I contemplated walking into traffic to spare myself the agony that awaited a mixed-race queer in the new America.
Time passed. I handed over the money. I went to the Women’s March. I learned that democracy was a sham. For the next four years, I checked the news, I opened social media, I watched television and every single day it was something new.
and the Article Goes on from there...
https://thelumberjack.org/2021/03/05/four-years-of-handling-headlines/
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| INCA Sun God - FREE Coloring Book Art by gvan42 |
When I was a Teenager, My Goal in Life was to Become an UNDERGROUND CARTOONIST Like Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton. Sadly, No Talent Drawing or Writing Jokes... So I Became an Electronics Draftsman... and Drew Drawings of Computer Circuit Cards & Mechanical Engineering... and After 11 Years of Drawing with a Pencil, I Learned CAD... and Now that I'm Retired I Still Love Drawing Using My CAD Program! Feel Free to Print these Drawings and Color using felt pens or pencils... OR POTATOSHOP... More Drawings on Google using the Search Term "gvan42"
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| Connect the Dots at the Sanders Institute - free coloring book by gvan42 - greg vanderlaan |
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| Classic Time Tunnel - Drawn in Paint Dot Net |
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| Bullseye 60 degree Red Colorwheel by gvan42 Free Coloring Book Art |
So, Trump Wants Republican Fundraisers To Stop Using His Likeness... NO MENTION Of Democratic Fundraisers! Do This Just To Piss Off Trump! Help a Retired Lady Living on Social Security Make Ends Meet. The Rent on Her Trailer Space Just Increased Again... For No Reason... Greedy Landlords... Share this meme AND LINK Worldwide. https://www.gofundme.com/f/cxfg3f-1000
One Thing They Don't Tell You... It's Really INTERESTING To Play Improvisational Music with Friends... I Had to THINK Constantly for Hours... FOCUS My Attention and ask Difficult Questions. like: What Note Should I Play Next? - Just Repeat what I Played the last Bar or Modify it to Guide the Group in a Different Direction? Play NOTHING? and Let the other Guys Have some space? Turn up the ECHO on the Guitar? ... Step on the Phaser? Distortion? - and then when I was Playing the Analog Synthesizer... the CHOICES were Endless... and When You Do That for Hours... It's a Form of Guided Meditation... and a WORTHY USE OF MY TIME. It Causes a Trance!
"They" Keep on Releasing Interesting Recording of Live Concerts... For Example: The Grateful Dead Have 211 Albums... Two Hundred and Eleven! and there are THE OWSLEY TAPES that are still in the Vault... Owsley Made a Tape every time he worked as The Sound Man for a Dozen San Francisco Rock Groups. NRPS, Airplane, Quicksilver etc etc etc... https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/owsley-stanley-archive-new-riders-of-the-purple-sage-920234/
Subject: Human Be-In... (Someone Online Posted)
I noticed yesterday that a color video of the Dead at the Human Be-in on 1-14-67 has been posted on Voodoonola. Some have remarked that Pigpen is not on stage at the Be-in, but there he is, although, like Phil, low in the audio. This is definitely the Be-in of 1-14 with Rosie McGee dancing on stage, the kid waving the flag, and many iconic images from still photographs. Tim Leary grinning. Ferlinghetti (I think). I wonder if the 1-14-67 audio is a new source? I prefer it slightly. I am now convinced that the VLB on the archive as 1-14-67 is from the Be-in. Cheers. https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/grateful-dead-golden-gate-park-1-14-1967/
and A sound recording from the Human Be-In ... Including The Grateful Dead Playing Good Morning Little Schoolgirl With a FLUTE SOLO and Random RAP...
https://archive.org/details/gd67-01-14.sbd.vernon.9108.sbeok.shnf/gd67-01-14d1t03.shn
Interview: Jerry Garcia's acid story. "I Had To Play For My Life! and They Let Me Live."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grQ8f5oOcY4
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Republicans are the Obvious Puppets of The Super Rich... The 1% - Let's Start a CLASS WAR NOW!
Why is it so Windy at Candlestick Park? All Those Giant Fans.
I Drew this Art on a Map of Utah after Coming Home from the Rainbow Gathering... I Did My First "Tapping" Guided Meditation There with Sonya Sophia... I Still Do That online...
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| another Pen Drawing on a Map. |
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| Colored Felt Pen Drawing on a Map of San Francisco |
One thing that Kinda Pissed me off was... When I Went to to the Mental Hospital The Psychiatrist was UNFAMILIAR With Cannabis Psychosis... He Kept on Trying to Treat SOME DIFFERENT Problem... With Lithium... and I Had a Bad Reaction to THAT... I Told Him that I Smoked a Pound of Oregon Legal Weed over an Eight Month Period... and Experienced Events That Did Not Happen... but the OBVIOUS CURE is to Stop Smoking... Nothing Else Is Needed! He Did Not Know That! OR... The Other Alternative Is TO JUST ENJOY THE MADNESS... I DID See an Imaginary Cat about the Size of a German Shephard Dog... on my Front Porch...
Links to My Music Videos on Youtube... gregvanderlaan - singing and playing Guitar... Original Protest Songs --- Plus Four Kinetic Sculpture Race Art Bicycle Videos - Arcata, CA
Main Videos Page: Chords and Lyrics Provided so You Can Learn Them and Make a Hit Record!
https://www.youtube.com/user/gregvanderlaan/videos
Currents of the Sound: https://youtu.be/FFBQMhBJihk
Ted Cruz Abandoned Texas: https://youtu.be/RHHFnBrd2CQ
Kama La La La - La La - La La: https://youtu.be/6DAv1xTCGT4
Jingle Bells: https://youtu.be/cJQBQ4_oE1U
Rudolph The Red Knows Rain Dear: https://youtu.be/cKCNaM7zqyI
We are Coming Into Alignment: https://youtu.be/s7FQGtr-GOE
Everybody's Laughing at Trump: https://youtu.be/fz4Q3CYYHaA
Did You Ever Notice Reality? https://youtu.be/nPthFNI07Qo
The Lock Him Up And Throw Away the Key Blues: https://youtu.be/lS1v90vwlSo
Vote For Joe. He's Not Insane: https://youtu.be/qcUJm5N8Cjw
City of the Future: https://youtu.be/x8nqMq05V8U
I Like Trees, Big Old Trees: https://youtu.be/K40_CrkjLjs
I'm Feeling Optimistic: https://youtu.be/XGomyskdw0k
Trump's Giving Away Free Money: https://youtu.be/qCzDiuNQvG4
Say Their Name and they Live Forever. My Ancestors. https://youtu.be/YzbljIKw1_4
Happy Tune: No words, Just a Positive Emotion. Chords: G, D and C: https://youtu.be/tEQliEZRXKI
What is Bubble Up Economics? Speech: https://youtu.be/3kSBGRM3d2s
California Is Burning: https://youtu.be/HwRgS4i-9qg
Free All The Cannabis Prisoners: https://youtu.be/7Z7C0t31hww
Chernobyl, F*ck You! Shima and Three Mile Island: https://youtu.be/vDInJ3gdwsY
tRUMP'S A Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: https://youtu.be/GclJBZgxhhU
Support the Troops. Bring 'em Home: https://youtu.be/V7_jZfFElH4
MELT the GUNS: https://youtu.be/ml5ziDRoqcc
Teenage Alien Dance Party: https://youtu.be/YaXgAAl3bAE
Television is a mirror (with a feedback loop): https://youtu.be/--HfGCqCxT8
GLOBAL ECONOMIC COLLAPSE (Genre:Bubble Gum Techno-Pop): https://youtu.be/9sP7wGwfGdw
Mescalita: https://youtu.be/yxOCAbaaVmg
Wilson Bridge: https://youtu.be/cDAE0H0tGhg
Big Medicine Song: https://youtu.be/u7uD_aWmymg
eARThsong: https://youtu.be/tERVWVZUNyw
I'm a Vidiot: https://youtu.be/GY8CmLL5vwU
Simple Treasures: https://youtu.be/CLWIRyF0YnQ
Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 Shark:https://youtu.be/EMV6_iVsC90
Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 Wild West Wagon: https://youtu.be/1QWIh98dYs0
Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 Star Ship Enterprise: https://youtu.be/IquyAQNupWI
Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 Pirate Ship: https://youtu.be/wP6pCgEw_P8
St Francis song: https://youtu.be/0FUueoT9ym8
Shasta The Cat Running: https://youtu.be/pQUHWAVDTv0
Barn Jam 2 - 1 Hour Forty Four Minutes of a Supergroup Made Up of Cipollina, Garcia, Crosby, Frieberg, Lesh, Hopkins, Saunders, Weir and Hart... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxwFqaodwsI
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| The Grateful Dead at Mickey Hart's Barn |
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| The Grateful Dead and The New Riders of the Purple Sage at Mickey Hart's Barn |
While Listening to the "American Beauty" Album I Wrote...
Originally the Song "Box of Rain" was Called "Ball of Rain" because Robert Hunter saw a Photograph of the Earth from Space and It LOOKED Looked Like A BALL of OCEANS... There was a Typographical Error in the Recording Studio... and Someone Accidentally Changed the Name... (according to Bob Weir in an Interview) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGJnrVUF5qY
Sugar Magnolia is My Favorite Song. Because It Reminds Me of Dancing with my Wife at Concerts... AND EVERY WORD WAS TRUE... and then Ripple is Her Favorite Song... The Album American Beauty Has Both...
The Interview with Phil Lesh in the Documentary "Classic Albums: From Anthem to Beauty" Talking about Practicing Singing "Box of Rain" while Driving to Visit his Dying Father in the Hospital is Heartfelt... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259336/
The Chord Progression in "Till the Morning Comes" is Especially Wonderful... Complex, Difficult to Learn BUT Ultimately Very Satisfying to Play on Guitar... It's Just INTERESTING! I Can't Play the Chords AND SING at the same time so... It's an Instrumental song for me... https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/grateful-dead/till-the-morning-comes-chords-69200
Youtube Automatically selected VOLUNTEERS by the Jefferson Airplane after I Finished Listening to American Beauty by the Grateful Dead... "We are Forces of Chaos and Anarchy... Everything They Say We are We are... and We Are Very Proud of Ourselves... Tear Down the Wall... Up Against The Wall M*THERF*CKER" - Lyric by Paul Kantner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmvskHZc8b0
"Up Against the Wall Motherfucker", often shortened as The Motherfuckers or UAW/MF, was a Dadaist and Situationist anarchist affinity group based in New York City. This "street gang with analysis" was famous for its Lower East Side direct action and is said to have inspired members of the Weather Underground and the Yippies.[by whom?] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Against_the_Wall_Motherfucker
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| A Digital Rainbow Spiral drawn by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan |
In 1972 We Made a Rock and Roll Teen Club at Forbes Mill in Los Gatos, CA... I was a Part of "Youth Unlimited" and Worked as The Security Guard Making Sure No One Broke Any Laws on Our Property. I Said: "Go Thru That Hole in the Fence to Little Vietnam to Smoke Your Weed and Drink Alcohol." --- I also Talked to The Police Whenever They Visited... Just to Tell Them We were Not Breaking Any Laws... and Everything Was OK... and One Night They Arrived WHILE I WAS HIGH ON LSD... and I was Able to "Maintain" Enough to Hold a Conversation and Get them to Leave... Just Like a Real Boy! EPIC PRANKSTER ADVENTURES!
Here is a LINK to Everything About
"The Path Forward" - 20 Simple Suggestions for Making the World a Better Place to Live... #1. Tax the Rich, Cut Taxes for the 99%. All that Extra Money in People's Paychecks Will Bubble UP Thru The Entire Economy; Increasing Sales, Increasing Profits...EVERYBODY WINS!
Ham Radio... Selling Equipment at Radio Shack in the 1990s - I Met a Lot of Interesting and Obsessive People who were Amateurs.
Dot Dot Dot DASH DASH DASH Dot Dot Dot (SOS - Save Our Ship)
One Man Had a "Mobile Command Center" Built into an Old School Bus. His Plan was that When All Communication Failed During an Earthquake, He and His Ham Radio Friends Could Help Firemen, Policemen and the National Guard... A Pretty Likely Occurrence in San Jose, CA... There Have Been Major Earthquakes in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Gatos... or... Maybe this Old Hippie Just wanted a Valid Excuse for Living in a BUS... With a Sure Fire Way to Avoid Police Harassment was to BE Part of the Law Enforcement TEAM...
We DID Sell Amateur Radios that Require a Licence from the FCC to Operate. We DID NOT Check to see if the Customer HAD a License... or Planned to Have a License... However we Did Inform Every Customer of the NEED for Them to GET a License to Operate the Radio Legally... But anything that Happens OUTSIDE The Store Was NOT Our Responsibility...
Many Ham Radio Operators Who DO Have a License Say That They HUNT DOWN ILLEGAL OPERATORS as a Fun Hobby... Using Triangulation to Locate the Bogus Radio Operator... and Reporting Then to "Friendly Cousin Charlie." Maybe this is a False Story but... Who Knows!
I do know that Getting a License is Difficult. They require that you understand Electrical Engineering and The Basic Physics of How RADIO WORKS... and They also Test Your Speed and Accuracy in Morse Code... I knew a Ham Radio Operator who said the Morse Code Training Helped Him with his Piano Playing... a Deep Understanding of Rhythm...
A Bigger Problem was Citizens Band Radios with an Illegal Linear Amplifier. CB Radios May Operate without any License BUT there is a Maximum Power Output for legal Radios... Well, People DO Sell Illegal BOOSTERS that allow a CB Radio to Work over VAST Distances... One Customer said he could talk to Guatemala on his CB... It Saved him a LOT of Money on his Telephone Bill... BUT... That much Power Interferes With... TV Reception, AM and FM Radio Reception, Police Band Reception and Fire Truck Communications... THAT'S WHY There is a Limit to the Power Output... FCC Laws... So Everyone Can Play Nice and Share the Airwaves... Those FCC Laws are also the Reason That WOLFMAN JACK Had His Radio Station in Mexico... No Laws to Limit His Broadcast Range.
One Blessing of Working at Radio Shack was the Requirement That I Learn Electronics Theory... and How things Work. The Corporation Found out that More Products GET SOLD and STAY SOLD if the Clerks Understand Electronics. Selling Someone the Wrong Part Does NOT Make a Profit... It only wastes the Customer's Time and Patience... SO... We Were Required to Study and Pass Tests in 14 Different Subjects... I Learned the Physics of Antenna Design... How A VCR Works... How a TV Works... Etc Etc Etc... FREE COLLEGE ON THE TIMECLOCK...
Amateur Radio Operators Collect Cards from Each Other Proving that they were able to Contact People Far Away. When they are Chatting, they ask for a Name and Street Address and then Mail a Postcard with the Other Person's Call Sign on it. Then they POST those Cards on the Wall of Their SHACK...
My Friend Had a card from a Man named Fletcher on Pitcarin Island... a Descendant of the Mutiny on the Bounty... I guess if You Live on an Island in the Middle of the Ocean a Radio would be handy for Contacting People On Different Islands or The Mainland...
Two Way Radios Either TALK or LISTEN. But Not Both at The Same Time, Like a Telephone. That's Why People say "Over" when they have finished Talking... and they release the BUTTON... People say "10-4" to tell the other person they Heard What their Friend Had to Say and Understood the Words...
We sold a Lot of Personal Communicators that had a Short Range but 49 MHz FM Quality... They Were Small and Trendy... People Bought them for Communication While Skiing... or Going to The Mall... or Organizing a Stage Show... You Could Wear the Microphone and Speaker on Your Head, and have the Radio Clipped to Your Belt... a Really Trendy High Tech LOOK...
I remember the Watergate Burglars Used Radio Shack CB Radios to Orchestrate Their Crime... Those Radios DO NOT WORK WELL INSIDE BUILDINGS... In G Gordon Liddy's Book "Will" he complained about the Quality of the Radios... HOWEVER... He Simply Did Not Buy The Right Product... a 49 MHz FM Radio would Have been Wonderful For Their Job... BUT... I Bet Liddy Did Not Explain His Intended USE to The Clerk... Being all HUSH HUSH and Clandestine... Dumbf*ck! His EGO caused His Failure...
Of Course, all this is Ancient History because Cellphones are What People Use Now...
HEADLINE: Best Music Playlists For Psychedelic Therapy Are Explored In New Johns Hopkins Study....
Examples of Psychedelic Music ignored by the Johns Hopkins Study: The Beatles, Grateful Dead, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane, Rolling Stones, Country Joe and the Fish, Jimi Hendrix, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Buffalo Springfield, Donovan... None of these were Included in the Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Therapy Music Study... deadheads: stories from fellow artists
Psychedelic therapy sessions often incorporate music—and typically that music is of the classical genre. But new research out of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine suggests there may in fact be no special value in playing a Mozart concerto or Chopin étude for tripping patients.
Gongs could work just as well, if not better, the study found.
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| Escalator to Heaven Consider This: How is it Possible to PURCHASE a Stairway to Heaven When The Stores are all Closed? |
FREE Chart of Where the Notes Are on the Guitar and Piano. Print As Many Copies as You Like and Give 'em to Friends... or Strangers That Are About to Become Friends!
A Brief History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" - During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world.
The main reason we ended the Vietnam War was the huge protest movement against the war. Lead by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin of the Yippies, The Students for a Democratic Society and The Weatherman staged immense protest marches expressing the desire of the American People to end the war. Eventually the US government got the message...