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Joan Baez injured in fall from backyard treehouse (to sleep with birds)
Mercury News ^ | November 18, 2010 | Bruce Newman

Posted on 11/19/2010 5:10:27 AM PST by 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.

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To: driftdiver; Mr. Lucky
"Ok. I’m “leaving” now.”

Well it is “fall”.

It is fall! Just like Joan!

61 posted on 11/19/2010 6:31:40 AM PST by MaggieCarta (What are we here for but to provide sport for our neighbors, and to laugh at them in our turn?Austen)
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To: alarm rider

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

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


62 posted on 11/19/2010 6:32:20 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: nomodem

Maybe. Who knows?


63 posted on 11/19/2010 6:32:40 AM PST by MaggieCarta (What are we here for but to provide sport for our neighbors, and to laugh at them in our turn?Austen)
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To: oh8eleven

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.


64 posted on 11/19/2010 6:36:37 AM PST by Mr Rogers (When an ass brays, don't reply)
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To: Mr Rogers

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


65 posted on 11/19/2010 6:39:26 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: Mr. Lucky; driftdiver
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...

66 posted on 11/19/2010 6:42:49 AM PST by MaggieCarta (What are we here for but to provide sport for our neighbors, and to laugh at them in our turn?Austen)
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To: MaggieCarta

Arrrgh.


67 posted on 11/19/2010 6:45:23 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mr. Lucky
Giggle.

This whole story was really for the birds...

68 posted on 11/19/2010 6:54:22 AM PST by MaggieCarta (What are we here for but to provide sport for our neighbors, and to laugh at them in our turn?Austen)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

“...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.


69 posted on 11/19/2010 6:54:45 AM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: nomodem

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


70 posted on 11/19/2010 6:55:53 AM PST by MaggieCarta (What are we here for but to provide sport for our neighbors, and to laugh at them in our turn?Austen)
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To: Monterrosa-24
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.

71 posted on 11/19/2010 6:58:12 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: Monterrosa-24

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


72 posted on 11/19/2010 6:59:12 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: decimon

schadenfreude


73 posted on 11/19/2010 7:01:31 AM PST by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever!)
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To: decimon

Those has been’s will do anything for attention.


74 posted on 11/19/2010 7:04:19 AM PST by RetSignman ("It's about saving our Republic, STUPID")
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To: decimon

Prayers up for the birds.


75 posted on 11/19/2010 7:05:50 AM PST by popdonnelly (Class warfare is Obama's thing.)
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To: decimon

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


76 posted on 11/19/2010 7:09:14 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce - Karl Marx)
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To: Hacklehead

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


77 posted on 11/19/2010 7:11:51 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: decimon

LOL


78 posted on 11/19/2010 7:12:59 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
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To: a fool in paradise
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.

79 posted on 11/19/2010 7:17:44 AM PST by rogue yam
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To: Mobties

Sleeping in a treehouse that was purposely built without walls?


She was too cheep.


80 posted on 11/19/2010 7:19:04 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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