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A Cute Cuban Council Party
Dedicated to Cloudland, the realm of poetic imagination, and to Jeff Tweedy, Mavis Staples and all of us seeing God helping those who help themselves… as we help them and Mother Earth
from Richard Martin Oxman to Little Richard’s Fun and Fats‘ Gulf, Tar Sands, etc.

“Bill Hatch says, ‘We are shocked and awed this month by the sudden violent destruction caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It makes it difficult to see the slow-moving environmental catastrophes all around us, like the Westlands’, Papi. Can TOSCA stop that horrid momentum?” — The author’s home schooled ten-year-old son expressing curiosity and concern about what’s happening [See the link to Bill's piece at the very bottom.]

“Is Amy Winehouse ever going to make another record?” — The author’s ten-year-old, after watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrHGF1FAVkg&feature=related

The Cuban Council Party or the Anti Party (as in Anti-Records‘ spirit) or the Block Party… if Dr. Susan Block, the famous L.A. sex therapist decides to run. Whatever. I just want to get the gubernatorial ticket together that will make it a no contest vis-a-vis Anemic Arrogant Brown and Abominable Whitman. Snow jobs both. California Stars Party? The Party’s Over Party? [Pity the poor permanently marginalized traditional third parties.]

After getting so excited about the Muldaur/Staples treatment of the Dylan song at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9TLHyg2nXc and hearing Maria blah blah about her “new passion” respecting the Women’s Choir for Peace (or whatever it’s called)… and then have the bottom drop out of my ENTHUSIASM courtesy of ________________, I’m ready to up the ante, not bend over. [Pause.] No need to name names right now. Let’s get with The Program. Make it YOUR PROGRAM, if you will. Let’s go. Your call (to 831-688-8038?)

1. Tom Waits as our working figurehead candidate for Governor, the person citizens would actually vote for. Not many of those who turned out last time out, but some of the 61% who smartly stayed away from the polls for the 2006 gubernatorial scam. TOM WAITS FOR NO MAN would work for me. As per Ecstatic Politics (link below).
2. Lt. Guv working figurehead candidate. (Someone very sexy, maybe, who can sing and/or dance the roof off. Yes, someone who crackles.)
3. Dr. Wallace J. Nichols. See http://oxtogrind.org/archive/556 for his sweet link.
4. Derrick Jensen of www.derrickjensen.org, one of my son Marcello’s biggest fans. See www.marcelsgeo.blogspot.com.
For 5 through 12 or so… give me lots of people of color… give us a good representation ‘cross the spectrum, as you see fit. Actually, I think it would be ideal to have people of color be our working figurehead candidates.

I’ve been working 24×8 on this whole shebang for over a year… with Howard Zinn and a lot of other lovelies. See http://oxtogrind.org/archive/556. Wanted to have the ticket all up and running 9 months ago. By any standards, I should be packing my bags at this juncture. But NO. If we garner a million votes in a losing effort, we’ll still create a watershed in history, create positive ripples throughout not just the state and the nation, but the world. [To be explained, upon request.] This is definitely worth the candle. See TOSCA and Ecstatic Politics.

Here’s to having a rendezvous with you at your very earliest convenience.

Merci for your kind consideration. Gracias and grazie mille too.

Ricardo The Ox
1713 Jennifer Drive
in the Vienna Woods of Aptos, CA 95003
831-688-8038 AT ANY HOUR, BUT SOONER RATHER THAN LATER OR TOO LATE
P.S. I do love the whole kit and kaboodle of Cuban Council. [Pause.] http://www.counterpunch.org/hatch07062010.html is some serious shit, and I’m not into all that resignation, apathy, cynicism, ignorance or atomization.

“When I told Harriet’s husband that the huge state deficits of California and New York could be wiped out today by applying a one percent tax on the top one percent of their wealthiest residents, he said he’d never approve of such a thing. What’s wrong with him, Papi?” — The author’s son, 7/6/10, reporting a conversation with a neighbor which greatly puzzled him. [Name changed to protect the guilty.]