"Make America Groovy Again" Bumper Stickers... Also "GDTRFB" an Acronym Referencing a Song called "Going Down The Road Feeling Bad"... A Concert favorite of the Grateful Dead and Andy Griffith

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Andy sings "Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad" | The Andy Griffith Show S1E17 (1961)

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A Friend Said: Hi Greg, Not sure if your local news covered a fire in downtown Weed. Apparently several old buildings on main street burned. Downtown was evacuated temporarily, but it was quite smokey. Got to be joke in there somewhere about Smoke in Weed.

And I replied:
I was buying gas in Weed, California... And I asked the guy working there if there was a good place to camp nearby... And he asked me: "What do you want? Like, a KOA with hookups or plain dirt camping?

And I responded: "I don't care! I'm a turtle!" Because I was driving around in my Ford Windstar Van with the mattress in the back... Just like a turtle, I carried my home on my back...

After I retired I drove 4,000 miles exploring the West... California, Nevada, Utah, Oregon and Washington State...

It gives me some insight into what's going on in Portland, Oregon... I've been there... And the thing I remember most was: I was trying to drive over the river to get to the State of Washington where marijuana was legal... and there was a huge traffic jam at the bridge going over the Columbia River... So when I finally made it to the weed store, I was still hyper and anxious... And I told the clerk that I really thought that the bridges over the Columbia Rivers sucked and traffic was a mess... And he said: "Oh yeah... We certainly know that... We live here!"

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A little insight into the concept of Doom Scrolling... I find that the Faceborg algorithm delivers posts that always agree with my opinions... Zuckerberg has proved mathematically that people stay on Faceborg longer when they read messages that make it appear like the whole world agrees with me... The other thing I do with my computer is email my friends and family... We live far away from each other and it's really good to have daily contact with my brother... And to have a written record... I still have emails that my father sent me before he died and those are precious...

It creeps me out that twice this week I've been offered the opportunity to take a close-up picture of my face to accomplish a goal on the internet. I can tell that I made an obvious mistake back in the late 1990s by using my real name on the internet. Who knew that in 2025 the Secret Service would come around and interview me about things that I posted on Twitter... A friend of mine sells wrinkle remover cream for your face online and as part of the package you can scan your face and do a before and after comparison... Well I don't care about buying anti-aging wrinkle cream so I did not participate in this thing... The other wonderful opportunity is that instead of using a mouse to point and click on a website my Google Chromebook now has the ability to use my face to navigate... Well that seems like a total waste... And I wonder why do they want to know what I look like? Is facial recognition a new law enforcement tool? A way to find out if I'm a "enemy" of Donald Trump and a member of ANTIFA?

Recently in Europe, students have found a clever way to fight back against facial recognition cameras.
Not with hacking. Not with tech.
But with simple face paint and strands of hair.

By shading or covering the points AI uses to identify faces, they make billion-dollar surveillance systems go blind.

Authorities say it’s not allowed. Students call it self-expression. Either way, it’s proof that human creativity can outsmart artificial intelligence.

#AI #FacialRecognition #Privacy #DigitalRebellion #Europe

For Halloween This year I'm going to dress up as an ICE agent. So I can commit crimes without any fear of getting caught... A little armed robbery perhaps?

Photo of what the plants look like FIVE Years after a Redwood Forest CLEARCUT near Eureka, California... MAXXAM SUXX - Earth First! Treesit Eviction Documented...

Taken on Greenwood Heights Road in Freshwater, California... The Pampas Grass THRIVES on all that brand new SUNSHINE... after MAXXAM cut down the Old Growth Redwoods, this hillside became Sunny and Warm.

It is easy to find this Location to see what it's like today... Simply Turn into the Freshwater Valley from Old Arcata Road and Take the First LEFT at the School... Drive up the hill in the Dark Forest... When it gets Sunny All of a Sudden, Park... That's the Location of the Clearcut...

Tree Sit Ecology Protest at Freshwater, near Eureka, CA 2003 - Earth First! - Complete Text of a Newspaper Article I wrote for the Humboldt State University Lumberjack. and Photographs...

HEADLINE: 8 arrested March 18th in Freshwater tree-sit. Trees chainsawed to death.

Freshwater Clearcut Logging near Eureka, CA

This morning I drove to Beautiful Freshwater (near Eureka, California) to visit the Tree Sitters. There were 10 sheriff's cars and 5 highway patrol cars. I saw 3 people handcuffed and then put in a sheriff's van. One person down the road was handcuffed and in the custody of a different sheriff. This lady was wearing "press" dogtags and was complaining that all she was doing was taking photographs. There were about 40 people standing around, talking on cell phones and playing drums. I could hear the sound of chainsawing. Then a large tree fell over. It makes a tearing sound then a big thump and a wail arose from the people. When four highway patrol cars stopped in the middle of the crowd and turned on their spinning lights, I left.(I was afraid of the police...protect and serve...corporations) As I was walking to my truck I noticed another highway patrolman writing tickets. I asked a citizen what that was all about and he said "don't worry about getting a parking ticket, none of these people will pay them anyway". I am concerned about the highway patrol being there. THERE CLEARLY WERE NO HIGHWAY RELATED PROBLEMS THERE. What's up with parking tickets? We were in the middle of the forest.

...this part written later that night...
We went to a protest to defend redwood trees today. There are 8 people that are camping at the top of redwood trees to prevent loggers from chainsawing the trees. The owners of the forest (Palco/MAXXAM) hired a guy (eric schatz)to climb up the trees and forcibly evict the trespassers. Then the Humboldt county sheriff's arrest the tree-sitters and send them to jail. Yesterday, there were 7 tree sitters and the police arrested 3 people. Then, during the night, 4 people went up. The grand total of people INCREASED. The loggers started chainsawing at the bottom of a tree that had people camping in it. This action enraged the crowd. We feel that if a logger cuts down a tree with a person in it that it is dangerous to that person. The loggers cut away a 2 foot circle of bark all the way around the tree. Someone said that was called "girthing" and the purpose was to kill the tree. My wife decided that some medicine was needed for the tree, so we went to the hardware store and bought a bucket of "tree wound" compound. It is used to seal the bare wood after pruning. We drove back to the ecology protest and she (with help from others) spread the healing compound on the bare wood. I got to spend a lot of time talking to a knowledgeable fellow named "Atilla". He said that the MAXXAM corporation has to cut down redwood trees in order to pay the interest on a giant "junk bond" debt. MAXXAM, a texas corporation, purchased the Pacific Lumber Company about 10 years ago in a hostile takeover financed by "junk bonds" that they got from Mike Milken. (remember, Ivan Boesky and Mike went to jail for wall street fraud) I saw on the News tonight that our governor, Gray Davis, has ordered the highway patrol to work 12 hour shifts to help defend the state of California from "terrorist" attacks. GEE, WHY WERE ALL THOSE CHPs OUT IN THE FOREST TODAY ? WHAT TERRORIST ATTACKS WERE THEY DEFENDING US FROM ? Atilla also told me why there were large trucks that look like they carry sand. They are used to haul gravel to build logging roads. After I left the protest in the morning, I drove way back into the woods and noticed large orange trucks with PALCO on the doors. The reason Palco hired a subcontractor (eric schatz)to do "tree service" is to protect themselves from lawsuits in case anyone gets hurt.
How to get there: From highway 101 traveling North, Take the Myrtle ave exit in Eureka and drive to Freshwater road. Take a right and then an IMMEDIATE left onto Greenwood Heights road. Drive 2 miles. When you see all the sheriff cars, you are there. From Arcata, travel south on 101 to Indianola cutoff. Take a left and drive to Myrtle ave. Take a right on Myrtle. Left on Freshwater road.

Pile of Wasted Trees

Logging Road near Eureka, CA

View of Humboldt Bay from Greenwood Heights Road, Freshwater, CA

Great Books: The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey Illustrated by Robert Crumb

This Book Inspired the Ecology Organization Earth First!

Read it and be inspired too. 

http://www.earthfirst.org/

Two members of the Ecology Group Earth First! were bombed by the FBI in Oakland. There was a Trial and the FBI agreed to award the Survivor a large cash settlement but denied doing anything wrong. Judi Beri died and  Darryl Cherney Survived. He has retired from Activism but still performs as the leader of a musical group. They sing satire protest songs...

Interesting Movie: Who Bombed Judi Bari? 

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi742497305?ref_=tt_pv_vi_aiv_1

Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 while on an Earth First! musical organizing tour for Redwood Summer. They sued the FBI for violations of the First Amendment, claiming the FBI knew they were innocent but arrested them to try to silence them. Having survived the bomb but now stricken by cancer, Judi Bari, a leader of the movement to save California's old growth redwoods, gives her on-camera, deathbed testimony about the attempt on her life and her colorful organizing history with the radical environmental movement Earth First.

—Anonymous

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1754621/

Who Bombed Judi Bari? is an American historical documentary about an assassination attempt on the life of Judi Bari, an American environmental and labor activist, which occurred on May 24, 1990.^[1]

While driving through Oakland, California on their way to a benefit concert for the Redwood Summer campaign to save California's coast redwood trees, Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were injured when a pipe bomb detonated under the driver's seat of their car.^[2] Bari, who was driving, was critically injured. Oakland police and the FBI approached the explosion as a terrorist incident, arrested Bari and Cherney, and tried to prove that they were transporting their own explosive device which accidentally detonated. The two were never charged with a crime. In 2002 they won a lawsuit and were awarded $4.4 million for civil rights violations by the FBI and Oakland Police Department.^[3] The authorities allegedly did not investigate any other suspects.^[1] Discovery during the lawsuit revealed crime scene photos that clearly showed the bomb was located under Bari's seat, not in the back seat as investigators had alleged.^[1]

In 2012, a federal judge ordered the FBI not to destroy another pipe bomb that had only partially detonated at a lumber mill about a week before the car bombing, which investigators agreed had been built by the same bomber. Attorney for Darryl Cherney, Ben Rosenfeld, had requested that an outside lab perform DNA testing on the Cloverdale bomb, which the FBI claimed it had never performed, a request which the judge upheld.^[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Bombed_Judi_Bari

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Pot Pipe made out of an Empty Tobacco Can, a Standard Tobacco Pipe and Duct Tape... MASSIVE HITS POSSIBLE... always sit down when smoking because... That way there is a shorter distance to fall down... Oddly, I don't remember making this pipe... must have been stoned at the time... But I Do recognize my can of American Spirit, My Duct Tape and My Tobacco pipe... I made a better pipe later using a GALLON orange juice container as a cooling chamber...

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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life. A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there. The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially. We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really. Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen. I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time. To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe. What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had. - Jerry Garcia

Kinetic Sculpture Race Photographs - Bicycle Powered Art Vehicles - They Travel Over Roads, Sand and Water From Arcata to Ferndale, CA

Banana Split 

More Art At:
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=gvan42&form=HDRSC2&first=1&cw=1584&ch=787

Big Bug

Chain Gang

Odd Elf

Pandamonium

Flatmo Dragon

Silver Monster

Taxi

Sculpture of David

Big Wheel

Lobster

Horse by June Moxon

Lobster

Pirate Ship

Horse

Visit Beautiful Northern California! Not Only Do We Have Yosemite, The Giant Redwood Trees and Surfer Girls BUT We Have LEGAL MARIJUANA! Try riding the open air bus around Yosemite Valley HIGH AS A KITE... Big Fun! Visit Arcata, in the Heart of the Emerald Triangle, and Go to a Dance or a Parade around the Plaza... Almost Every weekend in the Summer there is Live Music for Free... Because we Love to Play Music... and we Love to Dance... On Memorial Day Weekend there is the Kinetic Sculpture Race featuring Cosmic ART Bicycles that Travel Over Roads, Sand and In the Water of Humboldt Bay. If you can't come here in person, use this blog to see photographs and movies of Fabulous Northern California... and We Have Surfer Boys TOO! 

California, Arcata, Yosemite, Surf, beach, dance, music, fun, tourist, visit, redwood, tree, weed, marijuana, grass, kinetic, sculpture, race, art, bicycle, 

Besuchen Sie das wunderschöne Nordkalifornien! Wir haben nicht nur Yosemite, The Giant Redwood Trees und Surfer Girls, sondern auch LEGAL MARIJUANA! Fahren Sie mit dem Open-Air-Bus durch das Yosemite-Tal. HIGH AS A KITE ... Viel Spaß! Besuchen Sie Arcata, im Herzen des Emerald Triangle, und gehen Sie zu einem Tanz oder einer Parade rund um die Plaza ... Fast jedes Wochenende im Sommer gibt es Live-Musik kostenlos ... Weil wir es lieben, Musik zu spielen ... und wir lieben es zu tanzen ... Am Memorial Day Weekend gibt es das Kinetic Sculpture Race mit Cosmic ART-Fahrrädern, die über Straßen, Sand und im Wasser der Humboldt Bay fahren. Wenn Sie nicht persönlich hierher kommen können, nutzen Sie diesen Blog, um Fotos und Filme von Fabulous Northern California ... und We Have Surfer Boys TOO zu sehen!

Kalifornien, Arcata, Yosemite, Brandung, Strand, Tanz, Musik, Spaß, Tourist, Besuch, Rotholz, Baum, Unkraut, Marihuana, Gras, kinetisch, Skulptur, Rennen, Kunst, Fahrrad, 


girls = Mädchen
giant = Riese
trees = Bäume


Visita la hermosa California del norte! No solo tenemos Yosemite, los secuoyas gigantes y las chicas surfistas, sino que tenemos MARIJUANA LEGAL. Intente viajar en el autobús al aire libre alrededor del valle de Yosemite. ALTO COMO UNA KITE ... ¡Gran diversión! Visite Arcata, en el corazón del triángulo esmeralda, y vaya a un baile o desfile por la Plaza ... Casi todos los fines de semana en el verano hay música en vivo gratis ... porque nos encanta tocar música ... y amamos bailar ... En el fin de semana del Día de los Caídos se celebra la Carrera de Escultura Cinética con bicicletas ART cósmicas que viajan por caminos, arena y en el agua de la bahía de Humboldt. Si no puedes venir aquí en persona, usa este blog para ver fotografías y películas de Fabulous Northern California ... y We Have Surfer Boys TOO!

California, Arcata, Yosemite, Surf, playa, danza, música, diversión, turista, visita, secoya, árbol, maleza, marihuana, hierba, cinética, escultura, raza, arte, bicicleta,

Photographs of Clearcut Logging in Arcata CA on Fickle Hill Road - and Horses, Goats and Redwood Park - an interesting Drive Up The Mountain...

Drive up 11th street past the Arcata Community Forest about 4 miles.

If you ever want to have a private conversation, meet your friend at a campfire in the woods. No cellphone surveillance, No email hacking, No spy cameras, No secret microphones... The Campfire is not absolutely required... but FUN! This also works at the Office. Outside there is usually a smoking area near the dumpster, just ask a friend to ‘step into my office’ and go outside for a private conversation. #ELF #EarthFirst! #deepecology #violet #overgrow #purple64ets

Goofy Text Art Man Bicycle Playing Cards FOR SALE.

MirrorFun Cartoon of a Text Art Man on a Lightning Bolt Background...

Goofy Text Art Man Bicycle Playing Cards

by gregvan

Successful Logging Protest in Los Gatos, California... Neighbors Against Irresponsible Logging Used Google Earth to Raise Awareness of Logging Plan. From Lexington Reservoir to Lake Ellsman on Los Gatos Creek. 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/03/logging-protest-in-los-gatos-california.html

Redwood Park in Arcata, CA

NOT Logged

inside Redwood Park looking at a HSU office building

Tree Sit Ecology Protest at Freshwater, near Eureka, CA 2003 - Earth First! - Complete Text of a Newspaper Article I wrote for the Humboldt State University Lumberjack. and Photographs...

HEADLINE: 8 arrested March 18th in Freshwater tree-sit. Trees chainsawed to death.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/freshwater-tree-sit-near-eureka-ca-2003.html

Goats on Fickle Hill Road - Arcata, CA

Horses on Fickle Hill Road - Arcata, CA

It's a Sunny and Warm Climate up there on the Mountain. These pictures were taken on a day that was Foggy and Cool down here in the Tsunami Zone.

self-portrait at the Schatz Energy Research Center Humboldt State University Arcata CA. Double Pane Windows cause a Visual Echo.

Looking at the greenhouse and dome from the top of the hill behind CCAT on HSU campus in Arcata CA

Campus Center for Appropriate Technology at Humboldt State University in Arcata CA

CCAT HSU

Beautiful Houses in Arcata CA

Tree Sitters Protest Lignite Coal Mine in Germany - German Energy Giant RWE Agrees to Halt Logging in Hambach Forest... The Protests Worked!

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/tree-sitters-protest-lignite-coal-mine.html

Photo of a Truck hauling a Big Grey Box at PGE Atomic Power Plant on the Humboldt Bay, Eureka, CA - It's Decommissioned

I wonder where they are taking the atomic waste in those Big Grey Boxes...
They move about six boxes a day...

While decommissioning the building they have to dispose of the materials that they built the power plant with... Concrete, steel and plastic...

That's what's in the big grey boxes that travel North from Eureka

Seven Explosions Happened near the Transformers at the Top Right of the Photo late one night.
I checked with PG&E via Email and they said that there was NO LEAK of Radioactive material.
They store spent fuel rods in a pool.

Parked there for an Hour on 4/6/2016. About 12 trucks a day leave King Salmon, CA

In my opinion... The power plant gets overloaded whenever people start up a Marijuana Grow House. The farmers steal electricity for their grow lights and that unregulated surge blows up the transformers.

PG&E Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant after 7 Explosions 4/12/2016

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