A Facebook friend in Colorado Springs just posted this trippy link. I need to SHARE, man.
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO FOLLOW THE TRIPPY LINK.
-Jobe
Having a vacation at home in your 50s is a useful thing; it gives you a glimpse of what your old-age will be like. Today is day number four of nine days of stay-cation, and I am hoping someone shoots me soon. Maybe I’ll go drive around Del Paso Heights later.
Today, according to the list my wife left for me, I am clean the bird cages, water the entire property now that the heat wave is over, clean the fish tank (perhaps the worst of the lot as I never wanted the nasty fish to begin with), and clean and dispose of the tortoise tank now that our old tortoise has ‘crossed over.’ And friend, that’s just today!
If I retire, my wife will work me to death. I can see clearly that I must always work in order to avoid messier work. I mean, would you rather clean a fish tank or play a block of Tom Petty songs? Tough choice. Not. Thank you, Stay-cation, for showing me the future!
-Jobe
Sponsored by the Downtown Davis Business Association, Armadillo Music, and the Cultural Action Committee of the City of Davis
First Prize: $200
Second Prize: $100
Third Prize $50
All poems submitted will be considered for publication in The Blue Moon Literary and Art Review
Submissions must be emailed or postmarked by September 21st, 2010
Emailed entries should be sent to: jackkerouaccontest at gmail.com
There is no entrance fee, though you should submit only your best work.
The Cultural Action Committee of Davis and the John Natsoulas Center for the Arts are proud to announce a poetic tribute to the reluctant leader of the Beats, Jack Kerouac with the Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize. In a contest to be judged by Beat icon Michael McClure (see below), poems emulating the spirit of the Beat Generation will be chosen for cash awards, for publication in The Blue Moon Literary and Art Review, and for public performance with live jazz at the annual Davis Jazz and Beat Festival.
This year the contest will be judged by a key member of the beat generation, Michael McClure. McClure’s first book of poetry, Passage, was published in 1956. His poetry is heavily infused with an awareness of nature, especially in the animal consciousness that often lies dormant in mankind. Not only do they contain an awareness of nature, but the poems are organized in an organic fashion, continuing with his appreciation of nature’s purity. Stan Brakhage, friend of McClure, stated in Chicago Review that, “McClure always, and more and more as he grows older, gives his reader access to the verbal impulses of his whole body’s thought (as distinct from simply and only brain-think, as it is with most who write). He invents a form for the cellular messages of his, a form which will feel as if it were organic on the page; and he sticks with it across his life…”
-Jobe
Hi Campers. On Friday, Sept. 17th, I’ll be giving a poetry reading at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis, California. This is a free event, from 7:30pm to 9:30pm, in the church library. (This poetry series is given space by the church, it isn’t a ‘church’ poetry reading.) Another longtime Davis writer, Ann Privateer will read with me. This totally free, though I will have my fourth collection of poetry for sale; WHAT GOD SAID WHEN SHE FINALLY ANSWERED ME, Rattlesnake Press. -Jobe
James Lee Jobe
Entreaty
Tell me, brother,
does her hair still
smell of almonds?
Do you breathe in
the scent of her hair
when you slowly
kiss her neck?
You must.
And her skin?
Fragrant and soft
from some exotic lotion
that she will never
find again?
And tell me, brother,
are her lips
not the blooms
and greens of spring?
Is her smile not a sunrise
worthy of prayer?
And tell her,
brother, how you
longed for her.
Tell her how
you need her close,
and then whisper
love to her.
Love.
Place your forehead
to hers and say the word,
so quietly
that you are
barely audible.
Love.
Pull her body
to yours
until her heartbeat
is clear.
And when
she kisses you,
silently thank God
that you are alive.
Every new day
is a new friend,
brother. Walk
with your head high,
for her love goes
where you do.
Her love
is your angel,
a halo
of warmth.
And your love
keeps the wolf
from her door,
brother.
Stand by her,
in all things,
at all times.
And may this love
keep you both
whole
when the night is long,
and the darkness
harsh.
Thank you to everyone who came to The Eagle Thank-A-Bration; our 20th anniversary party. It isn’t often that we get a chance to talk and hang out and with you, the Eagle listener… though hopefully, as you listen to the Eagle, it feels like we’re hanging out. To move around the party and laugh and joke and raise a glass with you was indeed a treat. I hope we have another get-together soon, and in the meantime you can email you thoughts, wants, and suggestion to us at feedback at eagle969.com and you can text us at 45797. Thanks a million – Jobe.
What we have here is a sweet little article over on the Worldwide Hippies site that says, yeah, they’re fat. Roly Poly. Tons O’Fun. When you follow the link you get a zillion fat cop photos, too. Some are eating. Can’t catch me, copper! -Jobe
This is a link to a story on the Newsweek site. It is very eye-opening, and heartbreaking to think of people still suffering from this hurricane after 5 long years. Also, this story hints at the homelessness that is so rampant in America, with the number of homeless Americans growing every day.
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO LINK TO THE STORY
-Jobe
Have you noticed those folks on the corner of 16th and L streets downtown, protesting our never-ending wars? Or the ones at Alhambra and K? Have you found yourself thinking you wish you had time to pull over and join them for a while? Maybe the idea of standing up for peace and non-violence sounds pretty good to you….
Stop by website of the Sacramento Area Peace Action <http://www.sacpeace.org/> for an online newsletter and a complete calendar of events so you can plan ahead.
Peace, out. -Jobe
This is not an endorsement.
Friday, State Attorney General Jerry Brown filed documents in a federal court asking that same-sex marriages be allowed to go forward. Brown claims, and I agree, that the evidence is overwhelming that Prop 8 is unconstitutional. And the current governor, though a conservative and usually clueless, agrees.
Here’s the link to the story from the San Francisco Chronicle: please click here.
And of course, Brown is also running for governor and will need every liberal vote to prevent California from having yet another millionaire governor with absolutely no experience.
Jerry Brown was governor when I moved to California, and I supported him. I found him honest and unpretentious after the idiot administrations in Texas I had lived through. And I like this move, too.
It’s true. No matter what any of you think of gay marriage, our constitution already says everyone has the same rights. Not some of the same rights, but the same. Every higher court is going to shoot down Prop 8 for what it is; an illegal law. And besides that, man, it’s mean. It’s just mean! It’s time to lay down another prejudice. Let’s just do it and move on.
OK, maybe it is an endorsement. I want the next governor of California to have a heart. -Jobe ( jjobe at eagle969.com)
Howdy, Campers. Just a quick link today. Check out this very small British piece on one crazy looking, but very practical, electric bike. CLICK HERE.
This is the Yike Bike. (Yow!)
I will also mention that one needs no special license or anything here in California to ride an electric bike. -Jobe
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