NOTE: This is an archived site. Everything is “dated” except for those articles specifically recommended in March and April. Those interested in articles about the Latino community (involving Salinas, etc.) should check out http://oxtogrind.org/archive/554 , and take it from there. “The Very Brown Down Party” (which follows the “The REAL Horror in Salinas (and Elsewhere)” might be a better choice for starters for some. Those from ABC can hook into “Pacquiao Paradigm” at http://oxtogrind.org/archive/521. This particular piece was created specifically for Billy and Anna (sp?), our guests today in Aptos, picking up some goods from Sylvie. [For condensed blah blah, B & A, you might want to glance at the following posting "Transforming Our State of California: Imprimaturs."]

Billy, Anna, The Ox and the One Love Party
Dedicated to all vaudevillian tympanic rolls and organic seeded rolls ever provided for grand entrances
by Oxz

“The turning of the world upside down is effected by the shortest distance between one delight and another.” — Raoul Vaneigem, The Book of Pleasures (1979)

This is about fun and beauty. But my whole shebang with TOSCA (Taking Over the State of California), obviously, has a very serious edge to it. To say the least.

That said, let’s start with Marcello (www.marcelsgeo.blogspot.com), who took you on a tour of his garden today. I’m trying to get Sylvie to put the full 12-minute version of our little one’s invasion of Bechtel’s International Center on the Stanford University campus online for your pleasure, but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM-Hdn7h7tU#GU5U2spHI_4 should do for now. Copy, paste and view, please. [I'm trying to get you involved, see?]

Okay, then hit http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/03/life%E2%80%99s-longing-for-itself-yo u-say-tomato-i-say-potato/ (*), where you can view the “I Say Tomato, You Say Potato” clip from Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution show. [There, also, you can access that Playing for Change footage of the Marley song, and a gorgeous video by Doner showing some of our abominations, among other gems, I believe; forgive me... I'm rushing through this to post ASAP.]

*If the link doesn’t work, Google Life’s Longing for Itself: You Say Tomato, I Say Potato Dissident Voice or search at the www.dissidentvoice.org site for Richard Oxman; that article should pop up on a list. Ah, just realized it’s all at http://oxtogrind.org/archive/551 too.

Now, to cut to the chase, as they say.

All else being equal (which is rarely the case in Life, yes?), I’d like you to share what you think’s important about http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/pumping-green-iron-calif ornia.html with your loved ones, in the hope that you’ll be interested in setting up a rendezvous in your neck of the woods… so that I can delineate HOW we can go about blending you into the gubernatorial ticket… effortlessly… without demanding too many heartbeats. And WHY we should. As I mentioned in passing, Billy, the whole schtick will be pulled off on a zero budget.

Forgive me for being presumptuous. But, as I often say, I simply cannot move on the urgent issues which plague us all at an arthritic snail’s pace.

To motivate Anna, perhaps we can have One Love Party be the tentative name for the whole shebang. http://anti-politics.net/school/ might be a bit strong for someone just getting their feet wet in the realm of public education, but, for what it’s worth, my four decades in academia led me (to embracing) “Toward the Destruction of Schooling.”

And Marcello confirmed the whole kit and kaboodle.

Blessings in drumming, humming solidarity,
Ricardo
P.S. Anna asking for a definition of molotov cocktails makes me think that I might really be pushing the envelope here, but… if you glance at either http://oxtogrind.org/archive/378 or http://oxtogrind.org/archive/545 (which provide bio info, with different tweaks, as I remember) and check out the host of high profile figures worldwide who are on board with TOSCA… you may forgive the bum’s rush here… and your curiosity and compassion may be piqued enough to open a door for me. I’ll try to return to this unedited first draft, but I can’t promise. [Pause.] Actually, you all walked through a serendipitous door today, I believe. I’ll need to bounce off of you both to know, for sure, but I smell something good in the air. And that’s what this whole missive is about, the thrust of Raoul’s quote above.