Re: OOPS, I did it again!

On Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:13:39 GMT
marika <[email protected]> wrote:

> chefly <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:22:14 GMT
> > dsi1 <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  =20
> >> chefly <[email protected]> posted:
> >>  =20
> >>> On Wed, 1 Apr 2026 12:35:11 -0500
> >>> Bryan Simmons <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>  =20
> >>>> On 3/31/2026 7:32 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:   =20
> >>>>> dsi1 wrote on 3/31/2026 7:10 PM:     =20
> >>>>>>=20
> >>>>>> [email protected] <[email protected]>
> >>>>>> posted:    =20
> >>>>>>>=20
> >>>>>>>=20
> >>>>>>> And I'm not ashamed.=C2=A0 I had another pepperoni French bread
> >>>>>>> pizza today and it was as yummy as the one I had for brunch
> >>>>>>> on Sunday. Mmmmm-mmmm
> >>>>>>>=20
> >>>>>>> =F0=9F=98=8B=C2=A0=F0=9F=8D=95
> >>>>>>>=20
> >>>>>>> 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.
> >>>>>>>=20
> >>>>>>> ~     =20
> >>>>>>=20
> >>>>>> You can make pizza out of most breads - even a tortilla.
> >>>>>>  =20
> >>>>>=20
> >>>>> Tojo, your tortilla pizzas are FAMOUS!
> >>>>>=20
> >>>>> Soon, people on da mainland will discover them, and they will
> >>>>> be trending.=C2=A0 Especially in montana.=C2=A0 Lots of Hiwayans th=
ere,
> >>>>> yoose know.    =20
> >>>> For some reason that reminded me of this.
> >>>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/178007996611
> >>>>  =20
> >>>=20
> >>> Rare to find anyone who read or even recalls Brautigan.
> >>>=20
> >>> One of our most prolific hippy era writers, but a massively
> >>> disturbed and self-destructive man.
> >>>=20
> >>> I particularly enjoyed "The Revenge of the Lawn" and "Sombrero
> >>> Fallout".
> >>>=20
> >>> But the rest of his works were all stirring and highly visual.
> >>>=20
> >>> A troubled genius, but still a genius:
> >>>=20
> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brautigan
> >>>=20
> >>> Brautigan was born in Tacoma, Washington,the only child of Bernard
> >>> Frederick "Ben" Brautigan Jr. (July 29, 1908 =E2=80=93 May 27, 1994),=
 a
> >>> factory worker and laborer, and Lulu Mary "Mary Lou" Keho (April
> >>> 7, 1911 =E2=80=93 September 24, 2005), a waitress. In May 1934, eight
> >>> months before Richard's birth, Bernard and Mary Lou separated.
> >>>=20
> >>> 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?"
> >>>=20
> >>> 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.
> >>>=20
> >>> ...
> >>>=20
> >>> 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.
> >>>=20
> >>> 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.
> >>>=20
> >>> 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.
> >>>=20
> >>> 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.
> >>>=20
> >>> 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.
> >>>=20
> >>> 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.
> >>>=20
> >>> 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.
> >>>=20
> >>> ...
> >>>=20
> >>> 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.
> >>>=20
> >>> 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.
> >>>  =20
> >>=20
> >> I read a couple of his books back in the 70's. However, these days,
> >> Trout Fishing in America reminds me of these guys.=20
> >>=20
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dw-ia13f72-4 =20
> >=20
> > +1
> >=20
> > https://youtu.be/XIGkGABm4Wg?t=3D77
> >=20
> >  =20
>=20
> Good stuff=20
>=20
> I recognize that song.  Used to hear it on my college radio a lot. =20

A longer iteration:

https://youtu.be/F-h0MDpnKIE