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Simon Says….
Dedicated to the spirit of Artemis, to the dogs of this world… in their various forms, and to what Simon says in Lord of the Flies
by The Ox and (with some help from) Marcelle Cendrars et al.

“Hey Papi, why don’t you get in touch with that Sam Simon guy from The Simpsons? I hear he cares a lot about dogs and people with disabilities.” — the author’s ten-year-old Mozart of Organic Gardening

“He’s all over the lot… a restless fellow who… doesn’t quite know what to do with himself…. He’s an interesting guy.” — Morley Safer, from http://www.samsimonfoundation.com/news.asp)

I know enough about Sam Simon. Maybe it’s ’cause I spent lots of time during my formative years with Kid Gavilan, playing cards with the Cuban Hawk and making pathetic bets with Nat Fleischer. And that my mentor was George (Late Chou Bronzes) Weber. [Pause.] And because someone burned my Great Dane Baron to death… intentionally.

Yes… way enough to know that — if he wanted — he’d make a way, way better Chief Executive for the State of California than anyone who the mainstream political parties (or permanently marginalized third parties) could possibly offer up in 2014. And even with my being ignorant about tons, I feel totally comfy in saying that I’d bet my life savings that any loved one of his who he might choose to recommend in lieu of himself could create the watershed in history that we need in the electoral arena. [I have zero faith in politics as things stand. The thing is that once you wade through the resignation, cynicism, apathy, ignorance and atomization in this river... one is tempted to say the same thing about life itself... as things stand.]

He could absolutely transform our horrid momentum. Especially if Sam (or his friend) secured the Sacred Seat in Sacramento on a zero budget… with no dependency on mainstream media outlets. And if he embraced the thrust of http://oxtogrind.org/archive/687 …which I absolutely would not (necessarily) expect or require of anyone. The charisma and desired impact would come from the fact that Sam’s head, heart and soul are in a healthy place relative to career politicians.

I’ve been working 24×8 on this whole shebang for 18 months without knowing diddley ’bout Sam. In the Big Picture, this actually has zero to do with Sam… less to do with me. THIS is alive only because of a vision which was generated by CLOUDLAND, the realm of the poetic imagination. Born of a desire to make a difference for dogs and artists and fighters and gamblers… for so much… for so many. It’s just that I think I’ve come home with this barking out to Sam. Here and now. With this.

I put an email to Sam in the hands of Barb Velasquez, Kim Meinhardt, Jannelle Hackman, Lori Ramey, Hannah Lieberman, Dr. Rick Mori, Veronica Monterrosa and/or Jackie Serrato; I don’t know who deals with the missives sent to info@samsimonfoundation.org, but I sure do hope they pass my heartbeats on to El Gigantico. Something tells me that someone will.

I don’t know them, but I know something that will resonate with them. That is, the Governor of California is Big Man on Campus when it comes to The Regents for our UC system. And as Head Dude for that prestigious group… he can — virtually overnight, unilaterally — END THE TORTURE OF ANIMALS IN LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS on UC campuses, creating a ripple nationwide that would transform the lives of lots of gorgeous creatures… and do a lot more in the process.

[Pause.]

But… what will Sam say?

Contact the authors at 831-688-8038 at any hour in the Vienna Woods of Aptos, California. Email to aptosnews@gmail.com will also work.
http://oxtogrind.org/archive/565 = Some background for The Ox.
P.S. Here’s to hoping that he hears what Harry Shearer didn’t seem to hear loud and clear… that whenever I contact someone in California… I’m addressing “the potential for a singular, unprecedented “coalition candidate,” not only a potential candidate along traditional lines… with the likes of Sebastopol’s Tom Waits, Crescent City’s Derrick Jensen, L.A.’s Lamon Brewster and Humboldt (?) County’s Pynchon in the mix, all else being equal (which, granted, is rarely the case in life).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P1c3nGyrCg