Dear Reverend and Friends
Editorial
February, and the sun has been r ismg ear her and
warmer The news h « been bleak all w in te r. tales of
Now & Then
March, (insert any lion/lam b joke here,,
here at the bookstore we look forward to
March It is the beginning of the Season,
Spring Break, garage sales and usually lo t s ^ c v -
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We can expect a lot of folks to be
v is itin g us here on the edge A lot of
people bought the farm this winter, a lot
of folks in America lost the farm, through
no fault of their own they became
instant ly homeless Though they have
jobs, bank accounts and insurance, their
homes are no longer standing They have to
move, and we imagine a few w ill decide
that the upper left edge is a pre tty good
place We expect to sta rt seeing them this
month They w ill be the ones asking about
property taxes and f ix-er-uppers Don t
worry - - most w ill move on, some might
try it for a year or so Only a few w ill last
two w inters, and they'll be okay, because
they w ill become your neighbors, friends,
locals
As w e w rite this it is s t ill the
dangerous month of February We attended
a gathering in Cannon Beach Chamber
Building brought to us by the Coast Range
Association Clatsop Chapter, and got to
see the new book Clear Cut ($30 from
Sierra Club Books) Thousands of copies
w ill be given away free to p o litic a l
leaders, the timber industry, w ild life
managers (now that s an oxymoron),
fishing organizations, etc etc We believe
it w ill be available in the Cannon Beach,
Lincoln City, Tillamook, Newport, Astoria,
Seaside, Portland. Eugene, and Salem
Libraries So take a look, it's scary, but
true
Hult»
And as I sit here, listening to the crow on the roof
actoss the street laughing at something he s seen or
heard, the sun ripples softly across my face and I think
ihet maybe there is some way ,0 really do something
good The idee congeals
In the not too distant future when all the key
power brokers and technocrats and their neural
partners are zipping down the virtual super highway,
trading virtu al information and doing virtu al lunch,
while they are all busy and preoccupied with virtual
war and network sex
simpty reach out and unplug
the thing After all it's just a game
I'm not anti technology, but I recognize that I am of
the earth, and that the evolution of humanity all along
has been dependent on the natural world and whan thet
wor Id is gone we w ill perish There is no technology
that w ill wipe away our Karmic debt or allow us to live
on an uninhabitable planet, and retirement into a
silicon chip is not my idee of a good time
On days like today I find myself thinking, hoping,
that we w ill find a way out of this science fiction
horror future we have written for ourselves, but I am
a middle agad hippie with moderate IQ and one thing I
k now 13 that the piper must be paid ( or is that the
Ferryman'’ )
By the way. the reason that the Seastdt City Council
can define the estuary as being bounded by a fresh
water coastal lake 13 because in politics meaning 13
a rb itra ry , words only have meaning in context to the
laws being subver ted
Until next time Takecare
Sshh, Ain't tell anyone, but. Friday March 4th is the
Bir tfiday of The Humble Ms Sally Louise Lack o f f
Yes. the women who makes the Edge look like it does,
the woman who proof r eads every word before you see
it. the woman who does it all is another y w older
There are plans to take her toasleezy bar and later to
end up at B ill s ( is there something redundwit here9
only kidding Ken') so. of oourse, we invite all our
r aader s to come on down and buy her a beer, or
something (She has expressed an interest in
mountain or oceanfront real estate, and trips to Par is
are always a nice gesture )
Seriously, this paper is only possible because of
Solly s talent, intellegence, compassion, and infinite
patience with your beloved editor Happy Birthday.
Salty we love you' ( Since Sally lays out the p<<«r, we
had to slip this in on the way to the printers, so she
dicki t proof read i t . any mistakes are your beloved
editors alone, and gives you an indication of why we
need her so badly')
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helix and stripped the chromosome of its mystical
name, inserted silicon chrism wafers into the
gr»/matter of american test subjects to better
facilitate the changing of consciousness, found new and
improved uses for the aborted fetus The horror of old
1940 s r ad 1 at ion ex per iments are nothing compared to
the (unfilled wor Id of techno-rape of the 9 0 s
Meanwhile, here in Seaside they are going ahead with
the plan to build condos on the estuary In esoteric
symbolism birds represent the human soul, so I
winder if this project is in reality a sign to the cosmos
that humanity has decided to build a rune for all to see
and ponder, the rune cal led "Deethwish' The
inscription w ill tell of a society that hated the body and
its sexual desires, thet loethed neture end her
non-conformity A society whose biggast industry is
war
Next issue w ill mark the beginning of our
th ird year and we would like to thank the
lite ra lly hundreds of folks who have helped
us put out the Edge Our readers and
subscribers, all over the country, like Alan
Schoenberg, the Salt King of Brooklyn,
Ellen Harmon, the Family Dog Veteran, in
New Mexico, (Hi, Aunt Ellen1 I'll w rite soon,
I promise'), and Tony in Australia And our
Advertisers, like Mike's Bikes, who has
been there fa ith fu lly every month since
the beginning The same goes for Laurel s
Wine Shop"' And not just for the checks,
but for the moral support and inform ation
that we all need to know And our
contributors, who open their hearts and
minds monthly, and give their talents so
that we can share them
Well, we could go on forever, and we plan
to Our April issue w ill be dedicated to
the people who bring you the Edge each
month See you then
I d itn r/P u b lis h e r
science and cyberspace haze turned my blood the color
of chrome
Black ice
It'S a brave new wor Id. and the tin goto of the avwite
garde have chosen their pr tests with care ’All praise
the L'/berChrist1' They have unravelled the double
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NEWPORT. OR
Speak mg of the Coast Range Assoc , these folks
are busy Feb 16th they held a meeting in
Manzanita thet brou^it 5 0 people together in the
middle of a gale to give theOOOT and OOF
earful
about ciearcutting in general and cleercutting
scenic buffer zones on Hwy 10 1 in particular
Examples9 Oreg Movsesyan, owner of Manzenita
News A Espresso 'You've been watching this
happen for twenty years It is your responsibility
to offer alternative ways of forestry - - but you
don't'" Chuck W ilie r , Director of the CRA, quoted
Forester Dor don Robinson "You don't have to be a
professional forester to recognize bad forestry any
more than you need to be a doctor to re callize ill
health If logging looks bad, it is bad " In defending
the clearcuts, Janet McLennan, Chair of the Oregon
Board of Foresty, stated in a recent letter to
Michelle Syver son. member of the CRA. "It
remains a viable harvesting method for Douglas fir
because of regeneration requirements for the
species, economics, and technology for operating on
steep terrain This practice also creates big game
and other habitat that would not be viable with
partial cuts" Yeh, right Check out the CRA They
are having fun and mak mg waves
it snnt often we find an image that puts the
universe into perspective, provides some
conceptual fxx4 to hang in fin ity on, some sound
of one hand clapping that spot welds the micro
and the macrocosm
Ready for some fun''
6 Edelman, who tends her garden in the
•department of neuroptology at Scripps Research
Institute, gives th e thougntful food for it
Noting that the cerebral cortex, that part of
the Pram we think of as the Pram, is. at bottom,
a cooperative community of ten b illio n nerve
cells, Edelman points out
" a calculation of how many combinations and
permutations there are of such an entity, which
is the lesser part of the brain, results in.'
s ittin g down, are we9, "the number 10 followed
by ten m illio n zeros *
Shall we take a moment from our busy day to
consider such a number9 Remembering that each
lit t le zero m ultiplies the last one by ten No. yoi
couldn t , not even if you counted real fast
By now, the thoughtful among us are saying,
wow, if the potential of our lit t le punk in heads
is that big, how big must the furshlugginer
universe be9 To get a handle on this, the bulk of
the observable universe consists of charged
particles
'There are," Edelman cites, "10 followed by 80
zeros of positively charged p a rtic le s " Of course
for every positive particle, or proton, there is a
negative particle, an electron This mating
brings the total of observable m atter to 10
followed by 160 zeros, making the ra tio between
the universe and our a b ility to make meaning
from it the number 10 followed by 9,999,840
zeros
While this gives horrible new meaning to the
term stupid mistake , it doesn't mean there
aren t mysteries the profane mind w ill never
penetrate There just aren't as many as we like
to think What there are, are a lot of ways to
look at things More, as they say, than are in
heaven and earth
Synaptic short c irc u its being what they are,
we re reminded of a story
An old monk and his student are walking
through the forest They come to a river
Standing on the bank is a young woman w ith a
heavy bundle, looking hesitantly at the stream
The old monk says to her, "Climb on my
shoulders, daughter, I w ill carry you across* The
young woman accepts graciously and soon the
three of them are on the far shore, whereupon the
young woman thanks the old monk and walks off
down the path
The two monks travel several m iles in silence,
the student deep in thought Finally, the old
monk says, "You are troubled, lit t le bro th e r'
His student nods "The rules of our order says
we must not touch women"
"Yes," his old teacher says
And yet you carried the woman across the
river on your shoulders"
The old monk smiles, in that way old monks do.
and says Yes, but unlike you, I put her down
long ago"
The number 10 followed by ten m illio n zeros
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