Joan Baez injured in fall from backyard treehouse (to sleep with birds)

Mercury News ^ | November 18, 2010 | Bruce Newman

[decimon]

1960s songbird Joan Baez had a treehouse built -- without walls -- 20 feet high in an oak tree behind her Woodside home because she wanted to sleep with birds.

The folksinging legend, who once performed the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" before a half-million people at Woodstock, fell from that treehouse Wednesday as she climbed down from the platform.

[babble-on]

Cuckoo

[dangus]

She keeps that up, she’ll swim with the fishes.

[driftdiver]

this is nothing to crow about

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Or was it Robert Zimmerman’s backyard and she was trying to ask him what he meant by one of the lines in his lyrics?

If so, maybe she didn’t fall but had a garbage can thrown at her.

[gr8eman]

Actually she was looking for Joe Hill!

[cgbg]

Been a tough month for liberals.

I let the birds hang out in the trees without harassing them, but that is just the libertarian in me.

[Venturer]

This is the difference between being rich and not having any money.

If a poor person built a treehouse and slept with the birds they would lock him/her up for their own good.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Ah. Phil Ochs must have given her a boost up to that first limb.

[Mobties]

Sleeping in a treehouse that was purposely built without walls?

Sounds like someone has flunked her IQ test.

[laker_dad]

She was probably high enough to get up there without climbing...

[GQuagmire]

cuckoo falls out of tree ping......

[IronJack]

Voice of a lark, brains of a chickadee.

[MaggieCarta]

this is nothing to crow about

I'm going to go out on a limb, and say that you are right.

[PoloSec]

Zippety...Dooo...Daaaa

[babble-on]

Bats

[AndyJackson]

Classic example of “shut up and sing.” When singing real folk-songs and traditional ballads she was fabulous, but here mind was rotted out by the liberal disease and she mostly sang junk.

[ZX12R]

fell from that treehouse Wednesday as she climbed down from the platform.

More likely took some bad drugs and tried to fly away with the birds.

[Cheburashka]

Someone said that all liberals have fairies living in their trees. This liberal went up the tree to talk to them.

I wonder if they pushed her?

[Moonman62]

... fell from that treehouse Wednesday as she climbed down from the platform.

She probably slipped on some bird poo.