I don't know what to call this one, it's the fifth email... August 18, 2005
In Anchorage to give the Brown Beast the medical care he deserves. Apparently, the Beast has many leaking wounds, but according to the doctors, if I keep giving him transfusions on a regular basis, the Beast should be good to go, for a long time...how about that?
Joe has joined the tour for the rest of the summer and he's set a goal to sell all the books in my truck, and it is definitely more empowering to be a team of plural than a mission of singular, the books are definitely selling. At Chair Five in Girdwood, I had people following me to the bathroom to buy a book - yippee!!! It is so much easier to have somebody else promoting me as a dreamer who is trying to manifest fantasy into reality. When I do it, I sound like a geek. At least for the next month, I don't have to endure the surface polite nods of those who can smell blood, while underneath the kitty sharpens its claws...okay, so I'm blowing things out of proportion.
Done with the Kenai Peninsula, and manana we're heading to McCarthy for the Blackburn Music Festival where we'll lay out a blanket and sell books. Heard good things about this festival, so it should be good, and then we'll be heading up north - we may even go to Prudhoe Bay just so we can say we did because I doubt a bunch of republican oil-drillers will be into fairy tales featuring my heart-eating seductress, but you never know. Then we'll be meandering on down to Fairbanks, and then...who knows.
Joe asked the I Ching a couple of questions...about chicks of course. And one said the great departs and the small approaches - after he made the decision to not spread himself thin to go see a gal on the other side of the world and the other was "The Marrying Maiden" with "The Arousing, Thunder" as the upper trigram, and "The Joyous, Lake" as the lower. Since that girl already compared him to a flower, because he's "sweet," that made Joe's day. He's been referring to himself as "I am the Arousing Thunder" ever since. And he's totally sold on the I Ching.
It's like traveling with my kid brother.
Anyway, my journal list is starting to get bloated, so I have a request of everybody...if you would like to keep hearing of what's going on, drop me a line and let me know one way or the other. If I hear nothing by the end of the mohth, I'll assume the answer is no and you're too considerate or too chicken to say so.
Anyway, hope all is well...
Montgomery
A short and sweet one. That was when I was getting in my groove where the road trip was concerned. Having Joe with me really helped a lot, even if we did get into the biggest fight after the Blackburn Festival, but we made up. Let's just say bartering arrangements in situations like that don't work very well because it's too easy to feel I was being cheated.
There were a lot of blanks in that trip that I didn't send along, and one of them was this camping trip we took - I can't remember the trail, but it was a 15 mile straight shot along a ridge that ended at the edge of Seward. We met up with a couple of friends from Outdoor Studies - Ela and Winter - and Winter's sister Brita - she was the Marrying Maiden above who compared Joe to a flower. But Joe was camping out with a bunch of women and was privileged to the inner sanctum of women being without each other with no men around. Since Ela's a boy crazy thirteen year old in a thirty year old women's body, Winter has a touch of the mad hatter crazy in her, and Brita laughs a lot and they weren't about to let his presence inhibit them... Let's just say he seemed to enjoy the spectacle. Joe's one of those dudes that sees all women as beautiful.
After the camping trip, we stayed with Winter and Brita at their father's house/cabin in Sterling (I think that was the town - I'm not sure after this much time.) Great house, and lots of dead bearskins hanging everywhere. It was kind of intimidating. And I think that was when I threw the I Ching for Joe.
By the way, I'm embarking on a visiting friends and hot springs mini road trip Sunday. Be sure to check it out on my other blog montgomerymahaffey@blogspot.com. Or you can just go into my profile and go into Freelance at Large. I'm still trying to figure that one out.
And thanks for reading. And Dan, thanks for being my first follower.
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