Re: OOPS, I did it again!

chefly <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:22:14 GMT
> dsi1 <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> chefly <[email protected]> posted:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 1 Apr 2026 12:35:11 -0500
>>> Bryan Simmons <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 3/31/2026 7:32 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:  
>>>>> dsi1 wrote on 3/31/2026 7:10 PM:    
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> [email protected] <[email protected]>
>>>>>> posted:   
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 😋 🍕
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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:
>>> 
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brautigan
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>> 
>> I read a couple of his books back in the 70's. However, these days,
>> Trout Fishing in America reminds me of these guys. 
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-ia13f72-4
> 
> +1
> 
> https://youtu.be/XIGkGABm4Wg?t=77
> 
> 

Good stuff 

I recognize that song.  Used to hear it on my college radio a lot.