Sunday, August 16, 2009

thanks, judy!

it was a very effective, inspiring show last night with you! We talk the same language and from the similar experiential history. Here is what my students [who are coming to your yard sale Saturday] wrote:

"Soon we were handing over the stream, and the show was starting. Right away, we were blown away at the fact that Frank had this person on his show! "Up there" ... It was that sense of those "6 degrees of separation" suddenly being collapsed into none, and being face to face with history that we have seen/read so much about, in such an immediate and personal way. Judy Gumbo Albert had not only lived through the late 60s and 70s as a "Yippie", right alongside Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and the others, but she now lived in Berkeley, and had a perspective on life and history that felt so much like ours ... we were blown away at her stories ... we really experienced too what Linda said afterward about feeling like "coming home" when you meet and talk to someone like Judy. And then there was the level of being able to put out a conversation like this into the world, to put these realities and this view of history out there, where there is so much misunderstanding, intentional misrepresentation of the history and the historical figures, like Leary, Hoffman, Rubin, etc... was amazing. This is the show that BTV would like to squeeze out! "

I am looking forward to doing it again!

Btw, both Paul Krassner and John Sinclair endorsed me when I ran for president.

Hey, Paul! Judy ratted you out about performing in Berkeley! Next time let me know and we will come.

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