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FREE COLORING BOOK: Print The Drawings and Color Using Felt Pens, Pencils or Potatoshop... Make as Many Copies as You Like... Even More Art at Google Image Search = gvan42 Art

American Indian with Headdress - FREE Coloring Book by Greg Vanderlaan
American Indian with Headdress


Flying Saucer With a Friendly Alien by gvan42

Flower Power Bus - FREE Coloring Book by Greg Vanderlaan
Flower Power Bus


That Creepy Eye from the Back of the Dollar Bill - and Pink Floyd's Wall - Dark Side of the Moon Prism

2400 pink floyd gvan42 free coloring book

another text art guy with a spiral lightning bolt background - free coloring book by greg vanderlaan - Blog Labels:  Trump, art, evil, California, protest, idiot, war, disaster, fail, psychedelic, freedom, free, question authority, book, cosmic, fraud, music, ecology, question, global, failure, magic, election, insane, crazy, trippy, mushroom, liar, Donald, quest, #DumpTrump, Eureka, republican, Impeach, visions, vote, GOP, people, video, power, gvan42, loser, corruption, lsd, authority, #ImpeachTrump, Russia, corporate, fire, reality, climate, white, 2020, CIA, EPA, great, President, murder, vanderlaan, money, peace, USA, change, rainbow, campaign, marijuana, NRA, humboldt, American, fake, #BogusPotus, news, arcata, brainwashing, coronavirus, fun, liberty, nuclear, pollution, song, Putin, hippie, house, warming, madness, TV, death, history, guns, love, NSA, revolution, Family, facebook, guitar, #DitchMitch, FBI, corrupt, Congress, bogus sanity, Sanders, Chico, hippy, police, #runaway, absurd, economy, waste, legalize, solar, Republicans, Russian, World, life, coloring, mkultra, obama, rich satire, senate, wall, crime, lie, #MAGAKiller, America, March, cannabis 
text art guy with a spiral lightning bolt background

UFO - Ezekiel's Wheel - Aliens in the Bible


Inca Sun God - free coloring book by gvan42
Burning Man Drawing - Free Coloring Book art by gvan42 purple64ets
Burning Man 


I Saw this Image on the Ancient Aliens TV Show


Bubble UP! Economics


2400 marijuana leaf free coloring book art gvan42
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Extinction Rebellion Logo


Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan



green new deal art by gvan42

Butterfly trees by gvan42



Where the Notes are On the Guitar and Piano - gvan42 - Blog Labels:  Trump, art, evil, California, protest, idiot, war, disaster, fail, psychedelic, freedom, free, question authority, book, cosmic, fraud, music, ecology, question, global, failure, magic, election, insane, crazy, trippy, mushroom, liar, Donald, quest, #DumpTrump, Eureka, republican, Impeach, visions, vote, GOP, people, video, power, gvan42, loser, corruption, lsd, authority, #ImpeachTrump, Russia, corporate, fire, reality, climate, white, 2020, CIA, EPA, great, President, murder, vanderlaan, money, peace, USA, change, rainbow, campaign, marijuana, NRA, humboldt, American, fake, #BogusPotus, news, arcata, brainwashing, coronavirus, fun, liberty, nuclear, pollution, song, Putin, hippie, house, warming, madness, TV, death, history, guns, love, NSA, revolution, Family, facebook, guitar, #DitchMitch, FBI, corrupt, Congress, bogus sanity, Sanders, Chico, hippy, police, #runaway, absurd, economy, waste, legalize, solar, Republicans, Russian, World, life, coloring, mkultra, obama, rich satire, senate, wall, crime, lie, #MAGAKiller, America, March, cannabis
Where the Notes are On the Guitar and Piano.
a handy chart for Your Musician Friends.


free coloring book art by gvan42

free coloring book art by gvan42

free coloring book art by gvan42





My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

Flower Power Beetle - FREE Coloring Book by Greg Vanderlaan
Flower Power Beetle
Think for Yourself and Question Reality - free coloring book art by gvan42
Think for Yourself and Question Reality
free coloring book art by gvan42


Bubble UP! Economics - $15 per Hour - FREE Coloring Book by Greg Vanderlaan
Bubble UP! Economics - $15 per Hour

Ezekiel's Wheel on a Cloudy Day by gvan42

My Digital Paintings of Ezekiel's Wheel - Was it a UFO or Did He Eat Magic Mushrooms? The Bible Has Quite a Few Mentions of Aliens...and Flying Saucers... ExtraTerrestrials... Like: The Book of Enoch, Where "Angels" Mated with Humans and Created Giants...


Flying Saucer With a Friendly Alien by gvan42

Repeal and Replace tRUMP'S Tax Cut for the Rich Law. It's Bankrupting America. Tax Cuts for the 99% would Stimulate Our Economy. BUBBLE UP ECONOMICS WOULD WORK


If the Majority of people paid less taxes, we would spend that Extra Money at American Businesses... Increasing Profits for the Stockholders, Creating Jobs, Cutting Unemployment Payments, Cutting Welfare Payments... Everybody Wins. 


It's Called BUBBLE UP ECONOMICS and a Proven Success. 



See? There IS a Cure for Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome... 



save the whales - free coloring book by greg vanderlaan
Save the Whales -
Free Artwork for You to Print and Color...
Six Dolphins Swimming in a Circle and a Man Looking at You... Free Coloring Book Art by Greg Vanderlaan
Six Dolphins Swimming in a Circle
and a Man Looking at You...
Spotted OWL - FREE Coloring Book by Greg Vanderlaan
Spotted OWL

UFO Markings on the Flying Saucer at Roswell NM - free coloring book by greg vanderlaan
UFO Markings on the Flying Saucer
FREE Beatles Coloring Book by Gregory Vanderlaan pen drawings done by hand
Part of the Beatles Coloring Book Page...
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/02/free-beatles-coloring-book-family-fun.html



Raise the Minimum Wage to $15 per Hour Coloring Book Page
Raise the Minimum Wage to $15 per Hour

Part of the Bernie Sanders Coloring Book Page...

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/12/bernie-sanders-has-built-sanders.html


Impeach tRUMP - FREE Coloring Book by Greg Vanderlaan
Why Don't We See any
Promises Made Promises Broken SIGNS
at Trump Campaign Rallies?
Because Even the Most Brainwashed TrumpNiks
Have Realized that Trump
HAS FAILED ON EVERYTHING!
Free Coloring Book by gvan42 - Black Cat Looking at You

Free Coloring Book by gvan42 - MELT GUNS MEME

Music Video: "MELT the GUNS" - by Greg Vanderlaan - Feel Free To Record This and Make a Top Ten Record. Pass this On to a Friend... Chords and Lyrics Provided.


MEME - gvan42 - How can we NOT SEE that Guns are Evil?

FREE COLORING BOOK by gvan42 - Butterfly Freakout

FREE COLORING BOOK by gvan42 - QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT

FREE COLORING BOOK by gvan42 - Peace Sign and Karma Wheel

FREE COLORING BOOK by gvan42 - Mushroom Visions

FREE COLORING BOOK by gvan42 - Skyline on Trantor
Skyline on Trantor
a World in the Book Foundation by Asimov
The Entire Planet is Covered By One Giant City
FREE COLORING BOOK by gvan42 - Three Crosses on a Hill



Freedom Quest by gvan42


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"Do the Math" a silly Science Fiction story... 

During the early 1970's a gentleman and his wife were working in Palo Alto, California and he discovered the key to enlightenment. He published it as a book and became a leader of a religious group very popular with the high tech crowd surrounding Apple and HP. To put it briefly, the key is 01101011001110110100010001... and it went on like that for a hundred pages finally ending with the amazing conclusion that astonished the world and allowed the couple to earn a million dollars from royalties... 11010011100001110101100110.

A few years passed and the wife made a public statement: "While my husband is a fine fellow and a wonderful father to our children, I sadly must inform you that he is almost entirely wrong about the key to enlightenment. I have been doing the math and can state that there is a missing part... it is:10010100110001001011101110... and it went on like that for a hundred pages finally ending with the amazing conclusion that astonished the world and allowed the couple to earn another million dollars from royalties... 00101100011110001010011001.

And the people of the world did the math... and she was right... while each of the strings of zeros and ones by themselves showed part of the key to true enlightenment, if you add the two numbers together, they equal:1111111111111111111111111.... and it goes on for a hundred pages finally ending as you would expect... 111111111111111111111111111.

And THAT is how you "become one" with the universe. 

Links to FREE Coloring Book

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. 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 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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My Store Where I Sell Art:

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Free Coloring Book Art. Find MORE at Google Image Search using the Words: "gvan42 Coloring Book" - Print as Many Copies as You Want and Share With Friends... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/04/peace-and-love-free-coloring-book-art.html <--- Click Here


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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

Selfie - Music Video - Greg Vanderlaan Youtube

Currents of the Sound: 
https://youtu.be/FFBQMhBJihk

Ted Cruz Abandoned Texas: 

Kama La La La - La La - La La: 

Jingle Bells: 

Rudolph The Red Knows Rain Dear: 

We are Coming Into Alignment: 

Everybody's Laughing at Trump: 

Did You Ever Notice Reality? 

The Lock Him Up And Throw Away the Key Blues: 

Vote For Joe. He's Not Insane: 

City of the Future: 

I Like Trees, Big Old Trees: 

I'm Feeling Optimistic: 

Trump's Giving Away Free Money: 

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

Teenage Alien Dance Party: https://youtu.be/YaXgAAl3bAE

Television is a mirror (with a feedback loop):

GLOBAL ECONOMIC COLLAPSE (Genre:Bubble Gum Techno-Pop): https://youtu.be/9sP7wGwfGdw

Big Medicine Song: https://youtu.be/u7uD_aWmymg

Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 Shark:

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

Shasta The Cat Running: https://youtu.be/pQUHWAVDTv0

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and then I Read... 
A List of the Top 15 Bands of All Time... 
One Joker's Opinion! 
  • 1. The Beatles
  • 2. Prince And The Revolution
  • 3. Pink Floyd
  • 4. The Kinks
  • 5. Nirvana
  • 6. Beach Boys
  • 7. The Police
  • 8. The Clash
  • 9. Queen
  • 10. Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band
  • 11. Rolling Stones
  • 12. Grateful Dead
  • 13. The Doors
  • 14. Pearl Jam
  • 15. R.E.M.
  • that list made me want to write my own list!
  • 1. Beatles
  • 2. Grateful Dead
  • 3. Pink Floyd
  • 4. Led Zeppelin
  • 5. Jefferson Airplane
  • 6. Moody Blues
  • 7. Country Joe and the Fish
  • 8. Canned Heat
  • 9. Jimi Hendrix
  • 10. The Who
  • 11. Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • 12. The Eagles
  • 13. Crosby Stills Nash and Young
  • 14. Willie Nelson
  • 15. Santana
  • extra... 
  • 16. Journey
  • 17. Emerson Lake and Palmer
  • 18. Kraftwerk
  • 19. It's a Beautiful Day
  • 20. Quicksilver Messenger Service
  • 21. Bob Dylan and The Band
  • 22. Peter, Paul and Mary
  • 23. Janis Joplin
  • 24. The Mamas and the Papas
  • 25. Traffic
  • 26. Cream
  • 27. Lothar and the Hand People
  • 28. Beach Boys
  • 29. Allman Brothers
  • 30. Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • 31. Fleetwood Mac
  • 32. YES
  • 33. Steve Miller
  • 34. Tangerine Dream
  • 35. The Doors
  • 36. The Kinks
  • 37. Frank Zappa
  • 38. Rolling Stones
  • 39. Enya
  • 40. Johnny Winter And
  • 41. Edgar Winter
  • 42. ZZ Top
  • and the beat goes on and on and on... Sonny & Cher, Smothers Brothers, Biff Rose... 


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and Now a Preview of my Novel... 

"The Violet Overgrow - An Eco-Warrior's Journey" by Gregory Vanderlaan


Chapter Zero: 

"tRUMP's EPA=Enable Polluters Agency." Shouted Suzy into the Megaphone. "Let's Flip The Mission! Bring Back Protection of the Environment#FRANCE1789 #FRANCE1789
and Everybody Chanted Along... 
"#FRANCE1789... #FRANCE1789..."

They Were at a Protest March in Arcata, CA... Disrupting the Military Industrial Complex... 

Billy Replied: "Oh Susan, You Are Just Preaching to The Choir Here... All These Earth First! People ALREADY Agree With You... Let's Take Our Message to Washington DC and Speak Truth To Power! Let's Go To The Actual EPA and Raise a Ruckus!"

"The Time Has Come for the Violet Overgrow of the Government!" Shouted Suzy into the Megaphone.

"Will You Shut The F*CK UP?" said Billy "Don't You See That Short Haired Guy Wearing a Wig? He's an Obvious NARC! We Will Get More Done IF We are a Bit More Clandestine from Here on OUT. "

"OK... I'll Take a Break... I Won't Say a Thing..." Whispered Suzy into the Megaphone... With the Switch ON... and Everybody Heard Her...

The Violet Overgrow - An Eco-Warriors Journey by Gregory Vanderlaan - cover art - gvan42

Billy Started Making Plans for "Storming The Castle" and In His Mind He Remembered Exactly What it Looked Like... He Started Daydreaming... Floating Off Into a Trance... ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM


Editor's Note: Remember, Secret Messages are Revealed By Hovering on an Image: Move Your Mouse Onto the Picture and Like Magic, Words Appear!

EPA building in Washington DC - Smithsonian Museum of American History - Washington Monument
The EPA Building on the Right
The Smithsonian on the Left.

When He Awoke, He Noticed That Susan Had That Faraway Look in Her Eyes... 

He Said: "Susan, You Have That Faraway Look in Your Eyes... What's Troubling You?"

"Did You Ever Notice That tRUMP'S 'Boogaloo' and Charles Manson's 'Helter Skelter' are THE SAME PLAN? Start a Race War by Having White People Commit Insane Murders and Provide CLUES That Make The Crime Look Like Black People Did It." 

"Well, Yes Susan... There are MANY Similarities Between tRUMP and Manson." Said Billy "Thankfully We Have an Alternative Plan... 'The Violet Overgrow' --- But I Sense That Something Else is Troubling You."

and It goes on and on and on...

and another Novel... 

"Doing Evil for Money - a Novel" by Gregory Vanderlaan [another NSA Kiss and Tell Book]

Book Title Image - Doing Evil for Money - a Novel --- creepy eye on the back of the dollar bill - gvan42


Preface: I Have Had Personal Experience Working as a Defense Contractor Designing Equipment for the Air Force. By Accident I Got Laid off and the Next Job was for the United States Postal Service... Designing Machines for Sorting Mail and Vending Stamps... I Felt a Lot Happier DOING GOOD WITH MY LIFE instead of DOING EVIL. Making Weapons is Fundamentally Unsatisfying... What if My Stuff Actually Got Used? HOWEVER... It Was High Pay and so I Gladly Did Evil for Money... Most People Would... I Had a Wife and a Mortgage and was what was Called a Yuppie... Soon to Be Divorced and We Sold the House and That was Freeing... Believe it or Not, During the Late 1970s I Had DOUBTS About My Hippie Values... What IF We Were Wrong During the Sixties? 

and I Was a Stranger in a Strange Land. The Only Californian Living and Working in McLean, Virginia... Everyone Else I Knew Had No Doubt At All about Working for the Military Industrial Complex... They Were All "East Coast" People... Even that Math Wizard that Seemed to Have No Tasks at Work... He Had a Decorative Box on His Coffee Table at Home Filled With Marijuana... Even He Was Not Concerned With War and Peace... 

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Chapter Zero: A Continuation of "The Violet Overgrow: An Eco-Warrior's Journey" 

"Check This Out" Said Suzan "I'm Reading this Website and The Guy Says: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,[Except Blacks and Women] that they are endowed by their Creator [Named Jesus, Allah, Yahweh, Odin, Thor, KRSNA, Buddha or a Thousand Other Names] with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”[Unless your Pursuit uses Marijuana or Psychedelics as a Sacrament] - DANG... So Many Disclaimers... Was This Written by a Freaking Lawyer? Pretty Damn Insightful... Ya Think?"

Billy Answered: " I Don't Worry About Stuff Like That. Being a White Male, All That Discrimination Talk is Not Interesting to Me. It's Like Rap Music... Endless Complaining About How Life SUCKS For Black People... Valid, True, Accurate BUT... I Just Couldn't Care Less..."

and they Eased on Down the Road...  

"You Know What I'd Like to Do? Asked Billy "I'd Like to Feed the CEO of Dow Chemical a Couple of Cannabis Cookies and See if It's Possible to FLIP THE SCRIPT of His Life from DOING EVIL FOR MONEY to Doing Good For The Planet!"

"Ok" Said Susan... His House is Right on the Way... about a Thousand Miles Ahead... 

and they Eased on Down the Road... 

"Since You've Got Google on that Phone... Find out Who It Is..."

"It's Jim Fitterling.." Said Susan... "and Here are Directions To His Country Club... The Midland Country Club at 1120 W St Andrews Rd, Midland, Michigan... Thank You Google maps..."

"Next Stop, Where the Thumb Meets the Index Finger in It's a Mitten, Michigan!" Said Billy.

Location of the Midland Country Club in "It's a Mitten Michigan" - Google Maps - gvan42
and It Goes on and on and on....

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Working at Domino's Pizza as a Delivery Driver for five years in Fort Washington, Maryland and Mount Vernon, Virginia.

One time when I was laid off from a Drafting Job, I was Loafing around the Condo in Oxon Hill, Maryland and Eating a Lot of Domino's Pizza. The Guy Delivering the Pizza offered me a Job as a Driver. When Unemployed, The Correct answer to that question is Yes... 

I worked there for 5 years at The Fort Washington Store run by a Black woman, Angela Powell. An Air Force Brat that Lived on Andrews Air Force Base with Her Sister and another Black Lady. There were other Store Managers... for example: Stosh, a Russian Immigrant. 

There was a Giant Map of our delivery area on the Wall so We Could Find the Exact Location we were driving TO. We wrote instructions about how to find houses that were tricky... For Example, Many Houses Had no House Numbers on them or some people wanted you to go around back and knock on the basement door... Because the Landlord Lived in the Upstairs House and they were renting out the basement. We had a Rule that the Pizza had to be Delivered within 30 Minutes or the Customer Got $3.00 Off. The Delivery area was designed so every home was within 20 Minutes of the Store. There were some areas in the Forbidden Zone... Places we would NOT deliver to because of the Danger from Armed Robbery. We Would meet those customers in front of the 7/11 on the corner... 

In General, it was a High Pay Job. We Got Minimum Wage, 18 cents per Mile and Tips. That added up to about $15.00 an Hour. What the flaw with this way of earning a living is... You Wear Out Your Car and Can't Work Anymore after it Breaks Down... The 18 cents a mile is supposed to pay for Gasoline and Repairs... But it Does not Pay for replacing the entire Car...  OR... If you get in a Car Wreck, You Can't Work Anymore because Your Car is wrecked... and you are Unemployed, in the Hospital and in General... F*CKED... All these UBER Drivers Nowadays are in the Same Boat. 

We had Two Armed Robberies When I Worked There. One Trouble with That Business is PILES OF CASH! Maybe $3,000 a Night. The Drivers were all given a Locked Box on the Wall of the Pizza Parlor for us to Drop any Extra Cash after a Delivery. Supposedly, We were Never to Have more than $20.00 in our pocket during a delivery... to make Change from a Cash Sale. Everything was Cash at that time... Late 1980s... No Cellphones, No GPS. 

One Night, When I was NOT There, A Man Came Up to the Front of the Pizza Parlor Waving a Pistol. The Manager Quickly Locked the Front Glass Door. The Robber Fired the Gun and the Glass VANISHED! into a Pile of Broken Glass on the Floor. The Robber asked for Money and the Manager Gave Him Everything in the Cash Register... Help Yourself! What the Robber Did not Know was the Vast Majority of the Cash was still in our individual lock boxes... SO, Obviously, The Robber was NOT a Former Employee... 

Another Night, The Manager took ALL the Money and Drove it to The Bank where he Planned to Put it in the Wall... a Masked Man with a Gun said... Give me that Bag... and Took Off... Every Night at about 3:00 AM the manager Drove the Deposit one Block to the Bank... That robbery was Probably Committed by a Former Employee... Because He Knew The System. 

On a delivery I Met a woman named Betty-Lou and She Moved Into my Condo and we lived together raising her daughter. She was an Obese White Woman with a Half Black Child. 

Eventually I quit that job due to Murders of Delivery Drivers at the Capitol Hill Pizza Parlor... I delivered in a suburb that is populated by Black Government Workers and other Black Professionals. We Did Have a Yacht Club. Many of the Homes Had Waterfront Access on the Potomac River. Vast Wealth. G Gordon Liddy (of Watergate Fame) Lived in Our Delivery Area but Always Came Into the Store to Pick up his Pizzas. We were all warned to Never Accidentally Get lost and Turn down the Long Driveway to His Home. 

On Most Mornings I Smoked Marijuana before Going to Work. I did win a Safe Driver Award. $500.00 for No Accidents, No Tickets... On Friday and Saturday Nights I Would Often Work 13 Hours... Lunch, Dinner and Past Midnight... 


After the first Murder I switched to delivering in Mount Vernon, Virginia and Fort Belvoir. A Safer (Whiter) Neighborhood. 

Delivering to the Secret Army base was interesting. On sunny days they enforced security protocol and I was not allowed into certain buildings. However, if it was snowing, the guards just ignored security because it was cold outside... After the Second Murder I drove to California... Crack Cocaine caused insanity among the residents of Washington DC and there was a lot of Gun Violence. I abandoned the Condo and the Mortgage company foreclosed.


READ MORE of my Autobiography at:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html


"The Path Forward" - Simple Suggestions for Making the World a Better Place to Live... Hey Joe! Ya Listening?

BRIEFLY: Tax the Rich, Cut Taxes for the 99%. All that Extra Money in People's Paychecks Will Bubble UP Thru The Entire Economy; The EPA=Enable Polluters Agency. Let's FLIP The Mission to Protecting the Environment; Legalize Marijuana Nationwide, Tax It and Free All Cannabis Prisoners; Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics; End The Electoral College; Overturn Citizens United; Cut Pentagon Spending in Half; Build Solar Powered Desalination Plants - We Need Fresh Drinking Water!

If YOU Have Any Ideas, Tell Me and I'll Include them in this eBook. gregvan[at]yahoo[dot]com


A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow. He passed Away on 2/9/2018. Co-Founder of EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation. Lyrics for The Grateful Dead.

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.

It must be Horrible to Work at a Climate Change Denier Think Tank. Imagine going to work and writing false studies designed to make the world a worse place to live.

Headline: A MAJOR COAL COMPANY WENT BUST. ITS BANKRUPTCY FILING SHOWS THAT IT WAS FUNDING CLIMATE CHANGE DENIALISM. The documents in the court docket show that the coal giant gave contributions to leading think tanks that have attacked the link between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change, as well as to several conservative advocacy groups that have attempted to undermine policies intended to shift the economy toward renewable energy. 

Grateful Dead... My Story... American History... and Original Deadhead ART...


My Sugar Cube Painting...
like the cover of 
"The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test" 
by Tom Wolfe.

~~~~~~~~~~my  Gr8ful  story~~~~~~~~~

 I first noticed the Grateful Dead in 1968 in English class at junior high school. Our teacher had put up posters on the wall of the classroom and we wrote essays about them. He was attempting to stimulate creative WRITING but more importantly, creative THINKING.

One was an American flag made out of swastikas and another was a solarized/negative photo of 5 hairy men standing in front of "LITTLE BOXES" type suburban tract homes.

Our English teacher stopped working for the school system that year and has never been heard of since. That has happened often to people that go to see the Dead... They change their lifestyle and start associating with a different set of people...

Grateful Dead Photo by Seidelman

Grateful Deadhead Tribute Webpage. Pictures and Tall Tales. Many thanks to all that made the Grateful Dead an American Miracle... Just remember, if our lives together were written as a fiction story, everyone would dismiss it as being unbelievable ... Yet it all really happened! ART, Poetry and MyStory... I'm Gr8ful




Grateful Dead psychedelic art files for your viewing pleasure...
The wonderful Winterland Arena in San Francisco was the home to many Grateful Dead Concerts... It was the ONE PLACE where the Wall of Sound really worked! They had days to set up the equipment and tweak it to perfection... The Movie with the cartoon at the beginning was filmed there... and it was a fine show! They included fire on stage and ladies dancing with silk scarves...

Golden Gate Park, site of the Human Be In


One thing that happened surrounding the Gr8ful Dead was an Intentional Community of people that followed the band around... They earned a living by selling things in the parking lot of the show during the daytime... There were vendors selling tie-dye shirts, bumperstickers, illegal drugs, legal drugs and food...

But it was not all capitalism for currency...

A group called the Diggers founded a free store/free meal in the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco and many of their IDEAS were carried along with the Deadheads on tour. Somehow, just giving away gifts to friends is a practical alternative to cash retail sales... If everyone just shares, we can all just bliss out and have a fine time... So, I tried to bring things to give away... and miraculously, people gave me stuff too! and we didn't worry about keeping score with money.

At RFK stadium in Washington DC, I was showing a person some rainbow glasses that I had made. The Air and Space Museum sold diffraction grating by the sheet and I would cut out small pieces and scotch tape them to paper eyeglass frames... this caused the viewer to see rainbows surrounding every light... quite magical... so this fellow asked me  "Would you like to break bread brother?"  I said yes and he gave me the center square off of a round loaf of Sourdough French bread...  I let him keep the glasses and we parted ways... about an hour later I realized that I was tripping on acid... I guess the bread was dosed! That show involved a terrific thunder and lightning storm and dancing in the mud on the football field. Near the end of the evening I decided to practice a Carlos Casteneda type POWER WALK. I took a step and then waited a moment to thoroughly experience that precise location and then I took another step. Then I waited until I had "GROKED" fully that location and took another step... So the ultimate effect was extremely slow walking in a crowd of dancing people... I walked like that for an hour... all the way out to the parking lot where I left my car... This caused some fellow Deadheads to satirize me by making mocking statements... "Watch out for that guy! He's moving so fast he might run you over" I often found a feeling of family at these events... that guy could make fun of me because he was a relative of mine... and after all... "We are all one beneath the Infinite Sun"


Dead Related Events...
Since many people who like the band have learned to play musical instruments, quite often they feel like being IN the BAND instead of being in the AUDIENCE.
In 1972, a friend of mine went to San Francisco and went to the Fillmore West and came back to our high school and said... LET"S BUILD OUR OWN.

I Believe that The Internet Has Allowed Me to Live Longer. Traditionally, Men Would Retire From Work, Fail to Find anything to Occupy their Time and Die... Boredom is a Killer...

However... NOW, I Can Chat with People... Debate Important Issues... Publish my Words of Wisdom, My Songs and My Artwork...

and RESEARCH Forbidden topics... The very first thing I Looked up online was the CIA Project MKULTRA... I Have Since Concluded that I WAS A PARTICIPANT in that Mind Control Experiment...

The CIA Wanted to Find Out IF Drugs Could Be Used as Weapons of War... Could Enemy Soldiers be Convinced to Talk when under the Influence?

Would Enemy Soldiers Simply Surrender When Dosed With LSD? Lay Down Their Guns Voluntarily Quit Fighting?

Well, There is only One Way to Find Out... Dose a Million People and Watch the Results... and That's How "Conveniently" Ken Kesey was able to Steal LSD from the Storage Locker at the Stanford University MKULTRA Testing Facility He Was Participating In... Really... How was It Possible that the Doctors FAILED TO LOCK THE MEDICINE CHEST?

I Believe it was Intentional... The CIA Just wanted to See What Happened if LSD was Distributed in an Uncontrolled Manner... WHAT IF?

and then Kesey Hired the Grateful Dead to Play at the Acid Tests... and Then the Grateful Dead went on tour for 50 years and "Magically" People Drove around with them selling T-Shirts, Veggie Burritos and LSD... Somehow, LAW ENFORCEMENT Failed to Notice the Trend and Did Not Have Mass Arrests... Even though there was Mass Law Breaking...

Was That all Part of the CIA MKULTRA Mind Control Experiment?

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-cia-project-mkultra-was-wildly.html

CIA LSD MKULTRA meme - gvan42 - Psychedelic Art
CIA LSD MKULTRA meme - gvan42 - Psychedelic Art

My Logo Designs: Many Worlds for Ram Dass, Heart Art for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Rainbow Spiral Diamond in the Forest for "Out in the Redwoods" TV Show...

many worlds - my entry for the Ram Dass Logo Contest gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan
Many Worlds - my entry for the Ram Dass Logo Contest

Heart Art - October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month - logo by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan
Heart Art - October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month - logo

Out in the Redwoods Logo Contest - my entry -  Rainbow Spiral Diamond and Trees - gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan
"Out in the Redwoods" TV Show Logo Contest -
my entry -  Rainbow Spiral Diamond and Trees


My Logo for My Own Business - gvan42 - zazzle/gregvan - It's A Visual Mantra
My Logo for My Own Business
 gvan42 - zazzle/gregvan - It's A Visual Mantra
Just Looking at it Causes Peace... 

Peace Thru Art Logo by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
Peace Thru Art Logo

The Eye of the Donut Logo by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan
The Eye of the Donut Logo

Fun Things to do in Eureka and Arcata California - The Tallest Trees, The Finest Weed and SIX, Count 'em SIX Rivers... On Highway 101 Near Oregon. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/things-to-do-in-eureka-and-arcata.html

Humboldt State University Samba Parade Band performing Live On Campus in Arcata, California


Where Are the Really Great Parties? Free and Wonderful Events. The Date and Location is Provided for Fun, Fun, Fun for the Whole Family... Please Add Your Favorites in the Comments Section...

I like to Promote Worthy Events. For Example: The Rainbow Gathering, Kinetic Sculpture Race, North Country Fair and Humboldt Folklife Festival. Please Share Info and I'll Blog Your Suggestions. Email me... gregvan[at]yahoo[dot]com Thanks....
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"Lessons Learned" by Gregory Vanderlaan. A Lifetime of Trial, Error and Survival Yielded These Words of Wisdom... For Maximum Effect, Don't Read This Book. Write Your Own!


Orange Rose at Home
Intentionally Seek Beauty.
I Like to Take a Walk In the Garden
and Photograph Wonderful Things...
That Focuses My Attention on The Positive... 


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"Live Your Life as If Every Action Was Going to Be Published on the Front Page of the Newspaper." - J. D. Vanderlaan


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Refuse to Believe Lies.
Did You Ever Notice That The US Government
Has Been Lying Our Entire Lives?
Starting With "The Domino Theory" and
Continuing with "The War on Drugs"
and Finally... Every Word Trump Said...
Well...
"Think for Yourself and Question Authority."
Dr. Timothy Leary Quote


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I found out That When I Make a Mistake, I Say "I Made a Mistake" and then I Do Not Repeat the Same Error. So Many People Refuse to Admit Ever Having Been Wrong and They End Up Twisting Themselves in a Pretzel to Justify Insane Behavior...



One Thing I Learned is Do Not Drink Coca Cola. Yes, the Sugar and Caffeine is a Great High BUT... It Dissolved my Teeth... I have 5 Implants... and That's Enough to Eat Food... I Never wear my Dentures... too painful... a Better Way to Get That Caffeine High is The Excedrin Migraine Formula Pills. 60 Mg Caffeine, Aspirin and Acetaminophen... A Similar Jolt but Does not Dissolve Teeth... REMEMBER: Avoid Taking Too Many Pills... that Leads to Paranoia and Heart Attacks... One at a Time is Plenty... and then another one Four Hours Later...

For Decades I Loved to Drink Coca Cola and Drive a Car... Sometimes, I'd get a Two Liter Bottle and End Up a Thousand Miles from Home... Those were EPIC TRIPS! Especially the Time I went To Seattle and Ate Two Marijuana Cookies, Drank a Cup Of Strong Coffee and Rode the Monorail to The Experience Music Pavilion... a World's Fair Type Exhibit Honoring Jimi Hendrix near the Space Needle...

NOW I'm on a Sugar Free Diet and I'm Avoiding Diabetes... Test My Blood Sugar Every Day and It's NORMAL!

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Another Secret Trick to Life: Learn How To Do a FACT CHECK on Google. That Way People CAN'T Lie to You. Because You Refuse To Believe Their Lies...Simply Type the Words "Fact Check" and the Statement You Want to Verify... Read the Results... It Can Be Quite Eye Opening!

WAKE UP meme gvan42


Music Video: Did You Ever Notice Reality? by Greg Vanderlaan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPthFNI07Qo

The Main Lesson Learned is Don't Smoke Tobacco. It Doesn't Really Get Me Very High and It Makes me Cough and Wheeze... I Smoked for 40 Years and Quit 5 Years ago. Glad I Shook That Addiction. I Started at Age 19 When I Found out That a Half and Half Blend of Marijuana and Tobacco got me Higher using less Weed. The Same Idea as "Hamburger Helper." - So I Always preferred Roll Your Own Cigarettes. Bugler or Top. and Then Later, when I Had Money... American Spirit... a Can cost $34 Dollars... 200+ Cigarettes... and I Often Stopped smoking after Half a Cigarette and saved the "Roach" for later... Unrolling it and Putting the Enhanced Tobacco Back in the Can. VERY STRONG TOBACCO near the Bottom of the Can... and I Did Experience Paranoid Schizophrenia... or as I Like to Call It: "Channeling My Inner Chewbacca." - Just a General Background Rage... and a Belief that The Government Was Spying on Me... Of Course, The Government IS Spying n Me But... They Just Don't Care... I'm Not That Much of a Threat... All That Faded Away After I Quit...

I Used FEAR to Help Me Quit. My Brother Got Lung Cancer and I Believe That Cancer Runs in Families. He Recovered. I was Afraid that I Had a High Risk of Getting Cancer Myself So... I Just Stopped... and Experienced the Pain of Withdrawal Symptoms for a Month... and Experienced the Desire for a Smoke for a Year...

On a Related Note: I Did Use Tobacco to Perform a Ceremony at Significant Locations. Just Like the Native Americans, I Have Always Smoked the Holy Places. To Certify Their Wisdom. For Example: The Park Bench overlooking the Mouth of the Mad River Where it Enters The Pacific Ocean. THAT'S A Worthy Place...


and I read on FaceBorg: 
Rainbows Come Rainbows Go, but it's the Rainbow in your Soul that is Continual. Rainbow is not about who came first, but how long U last. Rainbow is not about a person, a place, a time, a kitchen or a bitching. Rainbow Family is not about the bickering or postings & personal attacks on the internet. Rainbow Family of Living Light & Love is not about an Annual, National, Regional, International, Global or World Gatherings. We are A Family of Humanity since 1972 Comming H.O.M.E C.H.U.R.C.H.
Heaven
On
Mother
Earth
Collective
Home
Under
Rainbow
Consciousness
Humans.
We Love You & Respect your Choices to Come or Go Always All Ways Glowing Feather the Maji.
Rainbow for me since 1972 is about Being, Giving, Kindness & Love, whenever & wherever U B...That's the Rainbow Way...


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