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You don’t have to be a
Weatherman to know which
way the wind blows.”
Thirty years ago today, October 1967 “The
Summer of Love” ended with the “funeral for a
hippie” on Haight Ashbury and by October of ‘68’
Martin and Bobby were dead, and the Chicago 8
were trying to explain who the “Weathermen” were,
and why there were the “Days of Rage”. Do we
remember this ? Have we told the children ? So,
what as that all about, the Weathermen and Bob
Dylan?, and the Sixties. The violence, the rage, and
what does that mean these days? Why is it the
headline? Well,, do you remember the Declaration
Independence? basically it says, people will suffer
conditions while conditions are sufferable, but when
they become insufferable it is not only their right, it
is their duty to change those conditions...and
change, being what it is, hurts. Mao said change
comes from the barrel of a gun. Gandhi disagreed.
Gandhi was assassinated, Mao, wasn’t.
Now, we don’t want our readers to get excited and
think the Edge is advocating violence. But, Dammit,
we are advocating change, and we think it’s about
damned time this generation lived up to the dreams of
those who risked their lives, and lost their lives, at
the hands of bigots in authority during the civil rights
struggle, and the military during Nam, and the cops
during the student protests around the world, in the
sixties. “But what can we do?”, you ask? Well,
think about what you did. Remember ....The
polls/experts/authorities tell us that 75% of
Americans consider themselves “environmentalists”
yet our ‘representatives’ have an agenda to roll back
major and minor environmental protections. 75% of
Americans call themselves Pro-Choice and yet
legislation to restrict, de-fund and ban abortion and
birth control is a constant agenda item. It seems like
the folks that are setting the agenda are those with a
vested interest, either economic or theological. Our
governments are being run by corporate lobbyists
and religious zealots, while we watch and shake our
heads. Well, folks, it has never been easier to let our
beloved elected officials know what we think. Don’t
be shy, there are all kinds of fun ways that aren’t
illegal. The mails still work, telephone calls to a lot
of these folks are free 800 numbers, e-mail isn’t that
hard, you could even fax’m the ‘finger’. Because if
that one quiet voice saying the emperor has no
clothes is not heard by the people, they will be afraid
to say that they think he’s naked, too, and not too
pretty to boot. I guess that is the point of this rant
that the weathermen don’t know any more about
which way the wind is blowing than any child on the
beach. And it really can be fun, we called Viking
(they publish books) and asked them about why Don
Berry who wrote Trask, a Northwest Classic, was
no longer in print? They said, Don who? You see,
just because Don Berry is an artist with an amazing
mind who sometimes writes, they can’t be bothered,
they are making money off stuff that sells books, not
stuff that makes people think and understand.
Certainly not art. So, we explained that besides being
big time newspaper folks, we had already e-mailed
our favorite Congress person Elizabeth Furse, who
has been known to be responsive to folks, and we
wanted to know why they hadn’t printed any of his
books for thirty years, and the only place you can
read him is on the net? They said they’d get back to
us. We said, no, we’ll get back to you. Oh, yes
Viking has an 800 number, it’s 1-800-526-0275, call
them, ask about Don Berry, yes it qualifies as a
political act. Culture, economy, and politics are of a
piece, they are what define us as us. Do we sit and
watch what we are told is what we want, or do we
actually tell folks what we want? A fine example it
the recent format change at OPB; no more music.
Well, we guess the guys at Archer Daniels Midland,
“Super Market to the World”, figure that talk is
cheap. Art forces one to think and understand the
relationship between things. Thinking and
understanding don’t inspire shopping. If you spend
more time thinking than you do listening to what
other people think, you might form an option, and it
might very well be that the emperor is not
appropriately dressed. And the wind blowing from
the direction of our representatives, our media, and
our corporations seems to be just a lot of hot air.
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"Our readers have been whimpering lately," Hults
informed me last week. "They say the Edge is
becoming some sort o f literary paper. We need to get
more political. Find some cause or something. Write
about issues. If you're not upset, you're not paying
attention!"
Cripes. Whenever I saddle up for any subject even
faintly political, I get all surly and caustic. My lips curl
back, teeth bared, and flecks o f bile and vitriol drool
from my gums Nossiree, Hults. You'll not lure me out
with that bait!
My preservation instincts warn against discussing
political topics this month. The rain dinge of the past
two days could set me on a serious spinner. A few ill-
chosen slurs, a tweak here, a diatribe there, and I would
run horribly afoul. I know the Chamber o f Commerce
already wliispers about me. God forbid I sliould look
out my window and see militant members of tte
Women's Library Club or tlie Garden Club fomenting
riot outside my little home!
Hults. The topic this month is fall provender.
All those juicy and succulent beasts and fruity things
have spent a splendid summer basking in long days.
Swollen, sleek, turgid beyond common decency, they
await our yearning lips, gentle readers. I've already
fondled crook-neck and summer squastes the size o f the
zepplin Hindenberg! I quiver in salacious expectation
when confronting thickets o f dense, pendulous,
drooping Himalayan blackberries. Hoo-hah! A
gourmand's bacchanalia! Consider the pears Bose and
D'Anjou Ahhhli, wliat sensual globes, the aestlietically
curved and chaimingly freckled skins hint at the tender
flesh within. In the lusty fields o f fall, young cornstalks
sway like Nordic warriors, tousled and golden, sheathed
and waiting.
Consider a few autumn stalwarts from the animal
kingdom. Each fall those randy salmon flash their lusty
flanks upstream and into our skillets and barbeques.
Oo-la-la. Va-va-voom! Twisting and shimmering tliey
flex delectable cheeks toward our coast, 20 to 50
pounds o f muscle guided toward a love tryst. Yummy.
Don't forget our friends the dear little bivalves! All
summer they've basked indolently in summer seas,
sipping plankton cocktails and ripening those private
parts we love to nibble. Few things quicken tlie pulse
like an encounter with a nubile oyster at flic liarvest
dinner!
All, fall, glorious fall! Fallow deer and elk nibble
gently in wooded glades, shadows dappling tlieir tender
briskets and chops. Chanterelle parasols dance softly on
the forest floor. I yearn to lure them home to a hot bath
in wines and rare oils, so tender for their delicate skins.
Welcome to the feast, my beauties. Shall we begin
the meal?
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BASEBALL
It’s October, do you know where
your Cubs arc? Of course you do.
Yes, another year in a forty year
rebuilding program comes to a
merciful end, and we get to watch
Baltimore & Atlanta or is it Seattle &
Atlanta? in the World Series. Well,
as wc say, Dammit, wait til next
year!!
Go Cubbies!!!
There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have
the whole government working for you. Will
Rodgers
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