more vanagon~poor mom

well we did it, you, me and all of our crazy van talk and van life, has ignited a fire beneath my mom, now she too is pulling over to the side of country roads and strolling onto the lawns of maniac homes, littered with the love of failed automobiles
she spotted this little powda blue westy, aircooled, looking lonely, needing a touch of tlc, and buckets of cash~ but sweet jeepers look at that fucking house, where'd the front porch go, and who parks all these cars under the butterfly bush

vans slowly sinking into the earth filling up with stuff that has nothing to do with vans built for camping
unless your going camping with CRAZY !!!!!!
thanks Mom, welcome to the club, maybe you should buy yourself a little van, and a parts van, a spare engine~
it all comes with time. . .
PS i don't know why i haven't been posting these car stories over at Blownbrown~ a lapse, oopsie


the samba

today in bus hunting history~ is the title of this forum thread and my favorite place to use my eyes~http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=164642

there's just something incredible poetic about a picture of a van, rusted to dust parked amongst trees~ icedkoffee gets this photo credit

the word hell means light~ but sitting written fifty years ago in this empty socket in a field is haunting photo credit Lind


they chopped the nose off for a transplant~ Lind



this is an after shot, the before is later, i've switched them can you tell why, i'm drawn to this image ?
credit Lind



i love the photos that look like a tornado has swept passed full of agent orange~ the lifelessness of these tableau, these dioramacally~ perfect settings drags me in~






this jeep had been a van, until some monster chopped it into a jeep or something with a steering wheel in the middle, Everett the Samba guy has the whole story over there, this is his photo





i want to save vans, own Splitties, and scavenge
time capsules full of peoples junk and parts to random things






i love all the shades of green and the proximity of tree, in the wheel wells on the bumper, daring vehicles to move
photo credit Lind
this is what i wish Blownbrown could be, but i don't travel enough or ever see things like this, i need to live in the woods and just drive and get lost and make left turns into dirt roads without name















All photos from the Samba, and Samba members ~thank you very much


this web forum documents their travels, adventures and tales with pictures and stories, before and after shots, the sadness of getting there too late, but you don't need words, i'll show you why i love this site and why they've filled up almost 400 pages of beautiful nostalgic rescue









some one soon should make a documentary about these people
N~









thrift'n

ever since we were little kids we've been going to thrift shops on Saturday mornings~ my favorite was the Red Door in Goshen, NY, in the basement of a side street run by some of the oldest little skinny ladies in the world, the prices ranged from ten cents to a dollar, we'd buy sweaters and books, and eat at the diner, with coffee in Buffalo cups

driving home in other peoples unwashed cloths, smelling like dead old guys, stained with there last lunch~ reading their underlined phrases from under Mickey Spillane pulp covers

like walking into everyone you've ever knows mom's house, she's kind of poor and kind of kooky, stuck in the previous decade, or more, it's all broken crap


crummy/wonderful art gets kicked around and stacked up



a couple of young guys carried this painting thru the crowded parking lot as i drove off~ it's probably hanging in their dorm room~ now~ stunning




everything looks comfortable~ washed out~ it's all averaged~ i don't buy anything





the furniture section is mostly empty, dusty and sad, a bored old guy seated reading, awaiting spring and birds~ they should put a TV in this room maybe some snacks






having huge feet, i have never purchased shoes at a thrift store~ something about this pink sticker against Mary Jane's, made my face want to burst into tears







this is how you tell the upcoming seasons by crap gazing








i steal things like super-8 cartridges, found an Israeli passport, in my pocket, watched a state police officer try to establish parking lot order by holding his hands up and yelling at mad bag sales patrons who ignored him while i snuck a picture of him and hide in piles and tufts of jackets, books and crafty wooden salad forks and giant plastic toys









when i test a machine i always type this line, the end of the civil war was near~ i cant remember the line which contains every letter, somebody else is much more pragmatic






















years ago at the Warwick church second hand store, in a basement, again, i saw these two girls who from the neck down were dressed in serious filthy rags, torn, dirty, stinking with no recognisable style at all, like bums, but their little beautiful heads looked like they'd been transplanted, from somewhere too cute~ in pixie hair cuts, and glittered faces like little dolls~ so beautiful~ today, I'm still confused












i used to take photos of manikins dressed in underwear, i don't' know why so many church basements dressed their manikins in panties and bra but they do, and i took photos and Thrift Score fanzine published them, i loved that fanzine













Saturday mornings~ now that we haven't been surfing, because of the cold, the old, the econo, the kids, a whole list of excuse, the truck died, Toby moved, now the old draw, of wandering cluttered shelves pulls me to go out amongst the poor, the hungover, the Mexicans the hipsters, and I, am all of them














i would have bought this~ but completely empty it weighed thirty pounds~ sick though
















look at all the compartments, me and this Spanish guy pawed at it for awhile, until we both moved on, i bought Mee Mee a sweet little ToughSkin denim jacket, half price 3.00 dollar, some great patterns, and summer time shorts~ at this very same shop once i walked into the unlocked bathroom, right into the middle of a little old lady peeing, i screamed and ran out side















we used to ride down country roads listening to VKR radio shows and, greasy kids stuff, drinking coffee in the rain~ with camera and piles of books

















back before we had children and the stores were usually empty but for old guys and gals listening to oldies, yelling out prices to each other, doing arithmetic on paper bags


















i bought bikes and cookies and birthday presents



















That's where i met you baby, and wanted to crawl into your bags to let you take me home




















now i only find stuff in the trash, in free piles, my dead neighbours house, as i type this out, I'm wearing a poached shirt
i don't go out to church, bag, or thrift shops much anymore~ maybe when I'm old, I'll go to church and help out with the bag sale, the bake sale, the charity
when i get old you can wear my lunch shirt, you can wear my shoes, and listen to my 8-tracks





















this is what our towns newpaper is not sold from anymore~ black painted monolitic boxes/locked






















THE TREE AND THE DUST chapter 8


Chapter 8


The mother tried to hold the inferno that was the child, held prey in frictionless arms of glass, the mother dusted in a fine sift of invisibility cradled the squirming human, the mother’s breast mechanically forced into the caldron of toothless mouth, while on the other side of the bubble, the monster sat. . . watched

Shielding it’s eyes from the radiant heat burning through the hull slip

In the black grey and pane soaked chamber the child glowed as a moon immersed in milk of burning magnesium
With every arm swing and leg kick casting giant weld light shadow
It’s very spooky in here the monster said to it’s guest, slowly being drained, who, would have guessed, something so hideous and freighting could be afraid
But the Measled Velligree, secretly closed it’s eyes, especially when the baby turned it’s massive face and screamed, with it’s eyes open, nostrils flare and such horrid white flesh with throbbing purple arteries map

I can’t stop looking~ I just can’t ~but it did ~this hotlife movement, with it’s bursts of speed and sudden directionless lunge, this jerky spasmodic muscular thrashing, electrically fortified with delight, every time this being moves the world tilts, is thrown off course with micro ship quake, how could such a race of beings become. . .
And the Proffestor, smiles a slimy unfolding, and envelopes it’s guest,
You have seen enough of my exterior, senor, the Measled Velligree mumbles with tooth, claw and tentacle laced about the sticky twig with eyes ears, noses and mouth, helplessly querying,
I had hoped to watch this human time line further. . .
Ah, yes, you may, but from within my cellular walls framed windows



One, two. . . And then three steps forward, the headless black suit stepped toward the naked shivering girl, held softly in place with blood soaked robot arms as snowflakes the size of diner plates fell like hats on to costumed children’s heads
One two three. . .four the suit opened itself up, vivisected, from groin to neck, revealing a slick pink fleshy insides, quilted warmth, evaporative, wound, gurgling,
I don’t want to put that suit on. . . The girl screams, steps back, trips and is held up, forced to stand, arms raked back, legs kicked wide, feet stepped upon, crushed into the snow pack souped with blood, carbon, black, yellow and squished fleshes,
I can’t put that thing on. . .
Her head rocks from side to side, saliva squirts across her rich black pelt,
One two three four. . .five, the suit turning itself inside out, reaches it’s arm holes out to her,
I can't put that thing on. . . She screams and the suit answers,
You, aren’t putting me on, I am putting you on.
With a spine chilling authorities’ command, she stops moving and is frozen, the robots hold her arms out in front of her as the suit slowly tentatively touches her finger tips, like a dog licking a wound, the girl completely immobilized can only watch as the horror, gently, laboriously swallows her
Creeping over her arms, like tongues of rapists, slapping at her underarms, adjusting her according to some need of tailoring, her breasts fondled, her ribs compressed, her navel probed, and down the curving mounds of her ass, thigh knee ankle heel and toe cleavage,
I’ll be your shoe, now, the robots release her, and she stumbles two drunken steps, and is turned around,
The baby swaddled in grass, snow, blood and bacterium is striped and pressed to her chest, a rutting hungry mouth finds attachment, and the suit slowly closes over the infant,
I am within you, and you are within me~ we are complete~ a union engaged in survival

And the girl dressed now, in black and silver spacesuit, with crest of tree and acorn, sits in the snow, with a plop, on her ass and throws up into her hands, silver, blood and gold

space suits

the new york times today has a nice little article about advertising during the space race and the corporations involved, with a great photo link too~ here's a sample~ a book is forthcoming

the problem is not sand angels

this is where you catch croaker~ never go swimming after the rains, ocean, lakes or river
Mee Mee paddled around on Saturday, the water is very very cold, bluebird and well Flat

i like this chart ~ but i am not eating any of these fish, any time during the week, and certainly not more than once, yucky


this conifer make some huge cones, full of spiders








so this is my life,
and this is the problem~
this dilemma i've faced now for the passed three months is one of habitation, in my case my self imposed exile to an alien world, within my own thoughts, every morning i wake at four, and scheme, take notes, jot down scenes and random nonsense about this science fiction world i have been trying to build







because everyone knows that to write a real world novel, requires a man to build a real life tangible world on paper, but the rub, is that it must be complete and flawlessly self contained, in the case of s-f, the action and interactions have to span galaxies and myriad worlds and beings, unlike blase novel writing, where the world is already built, you can live in it, you can see it, you can use other peoples stories as your own, within the realm of space opera, and s-f you must be alien, off, distant,unknown and strange and yet, you must retain some human connection, be readable and try not to be dismissed instantly as a fucking hack~














regular people will not read this shit, regular people want to inhabit life~














this is the hardest thing i have ever done, because i have to live this silly haunted house blognov every second I'm alive, and to make it worse I'm trying to simplify it, down to the very bones of poetry~







to write this thing as a s-f poem, if it can be done,







i am only on chapter 7, have written eight and nine







now you know where i am, you don't have to care, i just want you to know







this distance is the distance of creation







and nobody has to give a shit and really I'm not asking~ i just deliver what i can, whatever this is







thnx







N~
and yes, turn your computer 90 degrees, kay ?

when it's not bluebird































































































































































































this whole post was going to be a long drawn out story of all the dreams and plans i have had and how they've changed~ but the computer dropped the ball~ and i lost the whole thing but pix
dream your own dreams aloud~
as i sigh~






























































i took the kids over to the house which was devoured by invasive bamboo







































































found in the trash



















































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