Re: OOPS, I did it again!

dsi1 <[email protected]> wrote:
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> chefly <[email protected]> posted:
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>> On Wed, 1 Apr 2026 12:35:11 -0500
>> Bryan Simmons <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> On 3/31/2026 7:32 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:
>>>> dsi1 wrote on 3/31/2026 7:10 PM:  
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>>>>> [email protected] <[email protected]>
>>>>> posted: 
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>>>>>> And I'm not ashamed.  I had another pepperoni French bread pizza
>>>>>> today and it was as yummy as the one I had for brunch on Sunday.
>>>>>> Mmmmm-mmmm
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 😋 🍕
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>>>>>> Pepperoni is also tasty shingled on top of cheese of your choice
>>>>>> before placing that slice of bread on top and making a grilled
>>>>>> cheese sandwich.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ~  
>>>>> 
>>>>> You can make pizza out of most breads - even a tortilla.
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>>>> Tojo, your tortilla pizzas are FAMOUS!
>>>> 
>>>> Soon, people on da mainland will discover them, and they will be 
>>>> trending.  Especially in montana.  Lots of Hiwayans there, yoose
>>>> know. 
>>> For some reason that reminded me of this.
>>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/178007996611
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>> 
>> Rare to find anyone who read or even recalls Brautigan.
>> 
>> One of our most prolific hippy era writers, but a massively disturbed
>> and self-destructive man.
>> 
>> I particularly enjoyed "The Revenge of the Lawn" and "Sombrero
>> Fallout".
>> 
>> But the rest of his works were all stirring and highly visual.
>> 
>> A troubled genius, but still a genius:
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>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brautigan
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>> Brautigan was born in Tacoma, Washington,the only child of Bernard
>> Frederick "Ben" Brautigan Jr. (July 29, 1908 – May 27, 1994), a factory
>> worker and laborer, and Lulu Mary "Mary Lou" Keho (April 7, 1911 –
>> September 24, 2005), a waitress. In May 1934, eight months before
>> Richard's birth, Bernard and Mary Lou separated.
>> 
>> Brautigan said that he met his biological father only twice. But after
>> Richard's death, Bernard appeared to have been unaware that Richard was
>> his child, saying, "He's got the same last name, but why would they wait
>> 45 to 50 years to tell me I've got a son?"
>> 
>> In 1938, Brautigan and his mother began living with Arthur Martin
>> Titland. The couple had a daughter, Barbara Ann, born on May 1, 1939,
>> in Tacoma. Brautigan said that he had a very traumatic experience when,
>> at age nine, his mother left him and his four-year-old sister
>> unattended in a motel room in Great Falls, Montana, for two days.
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> Brautigan was raised in poverty; he told his daughter stories of his
>> mother sifting rat feces out of their supply of flour before making
>> flour-and-water pancakes. Brautigan's family found it difficult to
>> obtain food, and on some occasions they did not eat for days. The family
>> lived on welfare and moved about the Pacific Northwest for nine years
>> before settling in Eugene, Oregon, in August 1944.
>> 
>> Brautigan drew on his childhood in the poems and stories that he wrote
>> from as early as the age of 12. His novel So the Wind Won't Blow It All
>> Away (1982) is loosely based on childhood events, including an incident
>> in which Brautigan accidentally shot the brother of a close friend in
>> the ear, injuring him slightly.
>> 
>> On September 12, 1950, Brautigan enrolled at South Eugene High School.
>> He wrote for his high school newspaper, the Eugene High School News. He
>> also played on the school's basketball team. He was 6 feet 4 inches
>> (1.93 m) tall by the time of his graduation. On December 19, 1952,
>> Brautigan's first published poem, "The Light", appeared in the school
>> newspaper. Brautigan graduated with honors from Eugene High School on June 9, 1953.
>> 
>> After graduation, he moved in with his best friend Peter Webster, and
>> Peter's mother Edna Webster became a surrogate mother to Brautigan.
>> According to several accounts, Brautigan stayed with the Websters for
>> about a year before leaving for San Francisco for the first time in
>> August 1954. He returned to Oregon several times, apparently for lack of money.
>> 
>> On December 14, 1955, Brautigan was arrested for throwing a rock through
>> a police station window, supposedly to be sent to prison and fed. He was
>> arrested for disorderly conduct and fined $25. He was committed to the
>> Oregon State Hospital on December 24, 1955, after police noticed
>> patterns of erratic behavior.
>> 
>> At the Oregon State Hospital Brautigan was diagnosed with paranoid
>> schizophrenia and clinical depression, and was treated with
>> electroconvulsive therapy 12 times. While institutionalized, he began
>> writing The God of the Martians, a manuscript of 20 very short chapters
>> totaling 600 words. The manuscript was sent to at least two editors but
>> was rejected by both, and remains unpublished.(A copy of the
>> manuscript was discovered with the papers of the last of those editors,
>> Harry Hooton, sometime after 1961.
>> 
>> On February 19, 1956, Brautigan was released from the hospital and
>> briefly lived with his mother, stepfather, and siblings in Eugene. He
>> left for San Francisco, where he would spend most of the rest of his
>> life except for periods in Tokyo and Montana.
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> In 1984, at age 49, Richard Brautigan had moved to Bolinas, California,
>> where he was living alone in a large, old house that he had bought with
>> his earnings years earlier. He died of a self-inflicted .44 Magnum
>> gunshot wound to the head. His decomposed body was found by David
>> Fechheimer, a friend and private investigator, on October 25, 1984. The
>> body was found on the living room floor, in front of a large window
>> that, though shrouded by trees, looked out over the Pacific Ocean. Due
>> to the decomposition of the body it is speculated that Brautigan had
>> ended his life over a month earlier, on September 16, 1984, days after
>> talking to friend Marcia Clay on the telephone (neighbors heard a loud
>> noise that Sunday while watching an NFL game). Brautigan was survived by
>> his parents, both ex-wives, and his daughter Ianthe.
>> 
>> According to Michael Caines, writing in The Times Literary Supplement,
>> the story that Brautigan left a suicide note that simply read: "Messy,
>> isn't it?" is apocryphal. Ianthe Brautigan has confirmed that her
>> father did not leave such a message.
>> 
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> I read a couple of his books back in the 70's. However, these days, Trout Fishing 
> in America reminds me of these guys. 
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-ia13f72-4
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Sweet