Re: A.A.P.C. FOLKLORE, Part Twenty

> Will Dockery wrote:
> [email protected] (HarryLime) posted:
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>> George J. Dance wrote:
>> MMP aka HarryLime aka Michael Pendragon aka Coco DeSockmonkey aka One Small Voice, etc. wrote:
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>> [snip]
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>> DISCLAIMER - "This isn't history, Donkey, but folklore. It's the stories that have grown up regarding the members of AAPC over the years. They may or may not be entirely true -- THEY MAY NOT EVEN BE TRUE AT ALL." (Emphasis added)
>> - MMP aka HarryLime aka Michael Pendragon aka Coco DeSockmonkey aka One Small Voice, etc., on his "A.A.P.C. Folklore" series.
>> http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=632244559&start=120
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>> The above folklore is, yet again, predicated entirely upon fact.
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> Some misrepresentations, but I don't see any outright lies in your Zod post.
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>> Zod was (is?)
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> Zod is alive and well, I spoke with him on the telephone just last night.
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>> a career pissbum, or to use his own description, "Dharma Bum."
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>> He claimed that he chose to be unemployed, and that his homeless state of living under a piece of discarded tarp was his "retirement."
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>> He often wrote that he was lying by the banks  of the Chattahoochee smoking a cigar, drinking a cheap bottle of wine, and watching the sunset -- and boasting about how his "Life is good."
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>> He also wrote numerous poems about his "girlfriend," Loretta.  According to his posts, Loretta was "a real entrepreneur" who sold weed, and traded "cuddles" for grass, smokes, or booze.
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>> George wrote at least a half dozen poems about his and Loretta's relationship, which he submitted to "The Sunday Sampler."  The poems inevitably described Loretta dancing about the "camp" fire while Dirty Mike strummed a different stringed instrument.
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>> Their love story became so strongly ingrained in the AAPC folklore
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> Zod did write at least a dozen poems about Loretta.
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> Zod is now living in an apartment in Columbus Georgia, and the last I heard from Loretta had gone back to live with her family out in rural Georgia.
> 



Thanks for the update on Loretta.  I had assumed that she'd met with a grisly end at the RiverWalk homeless camp. 


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