OK, who do we trust with the torch on the pin?
Posted on 08/05/2018 10:45:44 AM PDT by ransomnote
I’m SO stealing that!
There seems to be a keen eye above those ol’ whiskers!
I had not considered that part of the tale in the context of internet trolling before.
Rugs I don’t know. (I wonder what George Sand would recommend?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llni1Dn-f4U
Your concert room; moonlight in the evening: Windows that overlook the gardens, and the wind sifts in the night. Floating white curtains. The damp scent of rose and lavender...
Sliding again...this is your room!
Hebrews 6:11-12 And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
I would rather a slow rollout and be resilient in the outcome than to go off premature and let the bass turds walk.
I want convictions of the perpetrators, ALL OF THEM. I want Justice, and I am fine with giving bad actors all the rope needed to HANG them. As a matter of fact, I would buy the HEMP for the job.
The old adage (paraphrasing)”Justice is slow, but grinds a fine meal”.
OK, who do we trust with the torch on the pin?
Huummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm interesting
Alas, your usefulness here,
Now that you have gone there,
Is suddenly on the wane.
That was in response to another Freeper regarding Anonymous. I posted it as info, not my opinion.
You owe me an apology. Please just give one. I am not a perfect person either. I am a sinner saved by Christ.
But you attacked me for no reason. Please don't do that.
Leave him that comment in the comments section every time you watch. I try to.
STEVE ALLEN PART SIX
While Steve Allen was not a resident of Laurel Canyon, he had some connections to several of the people who lived there. We saw previously that Aleister Crowley settled here in 1933.
The person who introduced Allen to LSD, Gerald Heard, lived in Laurel Canyon. Heard also had as a platonic life mate, an individual who had great wealth and Plantagenet bloodline. In addition, Heard was friends with the Huxley family. These Power Elite connected people all arrived in the Canyon in 1937.
This report is not intended to be a detailed history of Laurel Canyon, although it is has been tempting to call upon our guys in the Qanteen for the heavy digging equipment to do just that.
Finding the McGowan and Drockton sources relieved me of that necessity. But for whatever reason, this location seemed to be in the center of much of the California explosion of the era of unrest in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s.
In this Part, we will revisit Steve Allen, and see what some of his encounters may have been with not only the Laurel Canyon people, but also the entire gamut of Hollywood and the Music and Entertainment industry.
One of the residents of Laurel Canyon, Vito Paulekas had a dance studio at which Steve Allen matriculated, but in so far as I have been able to find, not caught up in any scandal by the association:
“According to most accounts, it wasn’t really the Mayan-tomb decor of the studio that many of the matrons found so exciting, but rather Vito’s reportedly insatiable sexual appetite and John Holmesian physique. In any event, Vito’s students also apparently included such Hollywood luminaries as Jonathon Winters, Mickey Rooney and Steve Allen. Nevertheless, though Paulekas claimed to be a serious artist (a painter, poet, dancer and photographer, in addition to a sculptor), there is scant evidence that I have seen that supports such claims (I am not, however, the most objective of art critics, as I am, as best I can determine, apparently not cultured enough to ‘get’ the majority of what passes for art).”
According to this same source, Vito was involved in quite a (to me) distressing scandal regarding the death of his son:
http://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-v/
Hollywood Movie Factotem/ Airplane Engineer/ Onetime Jack Parsons Boss, Howard Hughes, formed a nuclear disarmament organization. Steve Allen and friend Jack Ryan donated to it.
“Both Meier and Hughes were proponents of nuclear disarmament. Meier became a director of an anti-nuclear activist group “Fund For Survival”. Hughes donated $$ to it. Also members were Steve Allen and actor Robert Ryan. The fund wanted to see a controlled dismantling by the United Nations.”
Ryan and Allen also were “founding co-chairs of The Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy’s Hollywood chapter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ryan
As an entertainment mogul, he was beholden to his bosses, and was known for giving many of the young people and bands an introductory and national platform on his television shows. The veterans of show biz also appeared frequently as well.
Frank Zappa seems appeared on his show - and played a bicycle:
http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/videography/Steve_Allen_Show.html
Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees, 1956, as “Circus Boy.” ((LC Res) - he became a Monkee in 1966. )
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004880/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
1956-1960 - [only some!]
Showbiz favorites Orson Welles (Laural Canyon Resident), Bill Dana, Don Knotts, Pat Harrington, Jr., Tony Bennett, Les Brown and His Band of Renown, Don Adams, Lou Costellow, his wife Jayne Meadows, Eydie Gorme, Peter Lawford, Buddy Hackett, Sammy Davis Jr., Jonathan Winters, Audrey Meadw, Jayne’s sister, Johnny Carson, Andy Griffith, Bob Hope, Alan Young, Peter Ustinov, Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra, Ginger Rogers, George Gobel, Rosemary Clooney, Dinah Shore, Brenda Lee, Jimmy Dean, Micky Rooney, Count Basie, Claudette Colbert, Jerry Lee Lewis, Henry Fonda, Lee Marvin, Tony Randall, Tim Conway, Errol Flynn (LC Res), Shirley MacLain, Rise Stevens, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Debbie Reynolds, Lionel Hampton, Frank Sinatra, Wally Cox, Rocky Graziano, Dean Martin, Milton Berle, Kirk Douglas, Shelley Berman, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Charles Laughton, Rock Hudson, Red Skelton, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Fred Astaire, Jayne Mansfield, Lenny Bruce, Tony Curtis, The Three Stooges, Jack Kerouac, Bud Abbot, Imogen Coca, Buster Crabbe, Gene Kelly, Gypsy Rose Lee, David Niven, NORMAN VINCENT PEALE*, Elvis Presley, Rin Tin Tin, Margaret Truman, Peggy Cass, The Coasters, Benny Goddman, William Holden, John Huston, Bert Lahr, Pat Boone, Lloyd Bridges, Dick Cavett, Buddy Ebsen, Fred Gwynne, Art Linkletter, and more….
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048899/fullcredits
*Note: Allen interviewed Norman Vincent Peale at about the time he was influencing a young Donald J. Trump. - Indirect connection between our POTUS and Steve Allen
He also hired some notables to work with him on his own creations:
Roseanna Vitro, scat singer was invited to perform some of Allen’s compositions:
“A popular bop and swing stylist, she is known for her renditions of sultry ballads as well as for her scat singing. Renowned for her versatility, she easily commands audience attention when belting out a rousing roof-raiser of a song. Mentored as an aspiring singer by Arnett Cobb, Vitro toured with Lionel Hampton in the 1980s, and in 1986 she was invited by radio and television personality Steve Allen to record a collection of his songs.”
I was wondering what he did during the WWII years caused me to re-examine what his Wiki page said. He trained for the infantry and served the war domestically at Camp Roberts.
That made knowing a little more about Camp Roberts important to me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/561vrb/what_was_boot_campmilitary_training_like_during/Training and Shipping Out:
Training and Shipping Out:
“…After a wait due to the finalization of classification, the men, divided into groups and led by an officer, received their camp assignments. For travel, an allotment of money was given, and the men set out all across the country to their assignments; one of the infantry replacement training centers (IRTCs) like Camp Wolters or Camp Wheeler; the infantry and field artillery replacement training center at Camp Roberts; the tank destroyer training and replacement center at Camp Hood; the armored force training and replacement center at Fort Knox. Once the men arrived at their new camp, they were quarantined for 72 hours and received another “short arm” inspection.”
It was mobilization and training camp.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/camp-ww2.htm
It was abandoned after the war, and has now a refurbishment and even a museum there now. Here is a comment from a visitor:
3/27/2013
“Never even heard of Camp Roberts until I came here for WAREX. It’s got some WWII barracks-no exaggeration. Back in WWII they kept German and Italian POWs.
So the camp itself isn’t in the greatest shape. There are some condemned buildings and the post doesn’t get enough money to destroy those buildings. But the scenery is pretty nice. There are some really nice run routes here. Some hills, not too bad. The DFAC is run by contractors and the head cook is pretty serious about the food. I actually had mash potatoes with rosemary in it! It was pretty good for Army mash potatoes.
So what is really cool here. The museum. It’s only open on Tuesdays and Saturdays but you should really try to check it out. I was amazed at the history of Camp Roberts. There’s a lot of history here. And I mean a lot. This is how I knew about the German and Italian soldiers. Oh and all the vineyards in the area? It’s because enough of those Italian POWs loved it enough to stay here in the States.”
It is interesting to speculate what Allen’s service might have been. Was he a typist? Trainer of some kind? Was he a prison guard? Or did he have assignments at Lookout Mountain? I do not expect to ever know if he worked there, unless perhaps one day the whole thing really is laid bare.
As this goes to press, I do not have permission to give public credit to the FReeQ who shared with us this wonderful gem. It was a bunny hole in itself finding them. Our FRiend recalled the “Happy Jack fishery” phrase in connection with them and found this link:
It is a series of letters which appears in Esquire magazine in which Steve Allen seeks to refute the political positions of a fellow named Dalton Trumbo.
I THANK YOU, MY FRIEND FOR THROWING THAT OVER THE TRANSOM!
The consensus from many FReeQs who have commented on this series about Steve Allen, seems to be that he was basically a decent, though perhaps in some areas, a deluded man. He was very human, and was indeed a self-described “humanist.” I hold that vision of him as being basically decent, and marvel at the pressures that had to be on him being in the Hollywood Entertainment Machinery… and yet still having a very graceful way of reaching us heart to heart with his immense sense of humor and independent perspective.
Gee, that seems pretty harsh and cold? Doesn't it?
Well, it was your idea.
A FreeQly FRiend hug back at ya. Thanks for pinging me. You go deep into the bunny holes and bring lots of interesting things for this old dog to sniff.
The only other cause I can think of, unrelated to you being a troll, is that you are under some external stress, or distracted--say, you went on a chocolate chip cookie binge. Or your boss was a class-A idiot this week. Or you were fighting with your significant other over the color of the paw-nail polish to put on the dog. Or something.
Would it help if you did something different for a few hours, to clear your mind?
Did you witness this clown explosion? omg
Repeat come in team!
IIRC, Johnson & Johnson has been a cabal enterprise from way back.
The last ballots from the last precinct in Franklin County are in and looks like the DEMs came up a few boxes short:
Troy Balderson Republican 100,052 50.1%
Danny O’Connor Democrat 98,364 49.3
Joe Manchik Green 1,120 0.6
The capital of WHAT in America . . . might be the question. Patriotism or California brainlessness or illegal immigrant ag workers?
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