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.

[MaggieCarta]

"Ok. I’m “leaving” now.”

Well it is “fall”.

It is fall! Just like Joan!

[a fool in paradise]

What should you do if a folk singer arrives at your door?

Pay for the pizza and don’t forget to tip.

[MaggieCarta]

Maybe. Who knows?

[Mr Rogers]

Listened to the video, and a few others of her. Her voice is too shrill for my tastes, although the baggage she carries doesn’t help my opinion any.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I recall when Al Capp characterized her as Phony Joany in his Lil Abner strip.

[MaggieCarta]

Stop it.

I "wood" like to, but I'm afraid I can't...I really need to get to the root of this problem...
It's series...

[Mr. Lucky]

Arrrgh.

[MaggieCarta]

Giggle.

This whole story was really for the birds...

[Monterrosa-24]

“...Al Capp characterized her as Phony Joany in his Lil Abner strip.”

Now Al was a creative guy compared to Joan.

I once criticized an Alabama history textbook for middle school students because it had info about Joan Baez coming to this state to sing at “civil rights” demonstrations but the book made no mention of Helen Keller who is actually from Alabama.

[MaggieCarta]

PS: Please, nomodem, no “dirty bird” remarks...

[a fool in paradise]

I once criticized an Alabama history textbook for middle school students because it had info about Joan Baez coming to this state to sing at “civil rights” demonstrations but the book made no mention of Helen Keller who is actually from Alabama.

This is the type of nonsense that the Texas textbook controversy centered around. If I recall, McCarthyism is discussed but not in the same grades or classes as The Cold War, Marxism, Stalin, etc.

Makes it easier to divide the negative aspects of Communism from coursework.

[a fool in paradise]

And when I call it “nonsense” I am referring to what was in the textbooks presented, not the debate over it.

[Doulos1]

schadenfreude

[RetSignman]

Those has been’s will do anything for attention.

[popdonnelly]

Prayers up for the birds.

[Oztrich Boy]

OK It’s Official: Baez is out of her tree.

[trisham]

I think she was a stupid beatnik and is now a stupid hippie. But let’s not quibble.

[ßuddaßudd]

LOL

[rogue yam]

Keith Richards should stage an intervention.

Wise 1960s music icons know that if you're going to hang out stoned in a tree you should do so with Keith Richards. He's likely to fall out first and then cushion your landing when you go.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Sleeping in a treehouse that was purposely built without walls?

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She was too cheep.