Da Dog Digest

Banjo did the recycling today. I took off and when I got home she had done the recycling...all over the floor.
We have a little trash can and a recycling center that looks like an army barracks.
I guess she chases mice with out needing to hear the command "Earn yer livin girl!" This dog works off the clock, she tore into the bins rolling cans and bottles too and fro, found stuff she liked in the metal cans and made a huge mess.
O well, I'm just glad that mice hardly ever run into commodes.

I need some good thoughts here friends

As we speak my friend "Tylerjohnfool" is hand delivering my book "A shmanarchist tale" in a meeting with a publishing outfit in New York city.
I really hope they decide it's funny enough and political enough to publish. A gig like that would be so cool because the people in the book really exist and we could tour around as the characters doing shows in book stores and hawking the novel, we would make tens of dollars.
I would use my share of the ten bucks to buy Texas shaped gold teeth and breast implants for my back(I want Caffeine to grope me when we ballroom dance).
Tylerjohnfool is a really funny guy, I hope he can keep his pants clean and not fart up the room when he is in "The big meeting".
normally when people try to sell a book they get an agent, I chose a dishwasher.
The book takes place around the end of the last century, it's a history of the Pepto Dizmal clownarchy when we lived in Eugene. We had so many funny confrontations with riot cops, traffic, squatters, the super natural. Pepto and I take a trip across the country and got lost in death valley.
It's a real cool adventure and the cool part is it really happened.
I have two other books in the works, one is about the Portland Clownarchist times and the other, takes place at the scene of the first book, just 50 ft. to the left.
When they are done you should be able to read the first book and the third at the same time and get a bigger view and more comedy.
Pray for me folks, I really need a good thing to happen in light of all the crappy stuff that's been going on.
If not we still gots lots of comix, videos, live stuff and other art to make our ten bucksiz with.

Pepper Spray is unleashed

Now that all the outside stuff is done, I went inside the Clown House and drew up another zine. My new comic Pepper Spray is done, most of the other 12 or so zines I have put out in the past have been just about the pEPTO dIZMAL CLOWNS. tHIS ZINE ISN'T ABOUT ANY ONE THING OR PERSON, IT'S JUST SILLY DRAWINGS with mild political commentary.
You can have a copy for a buck if you can find me or two bucks if I gotta mail it to ya.
B&W,well over 14 pages, collectable, autographable, fish wrappable, no sharp corners, printed with carbon based ink on carbon based paper, Not intended for use as a floatation device.

The Heat

Until this morning we have been without heat. It's
ok, the kids burn hot and it's common practice to get a blanket if you are cold, thats to save money and the planet. I kind of have a hard time with turning the heat on. When it's winter and people turn the heat up, a house gets hotter than when It's summer. The vents blow dust all over and you wake up feeling ill, and worst of all the heat runs on oil OIL! my least favorate commodity.

Turning the heat on also proved to be difficult because the heater is really old. The heater guy came over today and said the entire system needed to be replaced, Caffeine also noticed that the oil tank has a leak, The oil level has dropped since last spring.
I didn't see the heater guy but I could hear him telling Caffo, "Oh this thing is from the beginning of the last century, it runs on whale blubber (I may have just made that last part up, it was dark this morning).
The plan is to use blankets as much as we can and only turn the heat on when we absoulutly have to. Also we gotta find some calking and plastic wrap for the windows.
Here is our wish list:
Calking,
plastic,
and use of a shop vac for the vents.
If anybody can help us out with this stuff I'll kick down some Dawg Snax and may even play you a song.

Great summer I tell ya

Solid Gold

I asked our friend and the Tall bike jousting champion of the Clown House (next to Capt. Insano) and Zoobombadero "Solid Gold", how it's going in France. He went all the way there and now can report for T.D.D.D. I got hold of him through the Zoo Bomb Forum.

Dingo: Hey Solid Gold, are you in the riots and stuff?

Solid Gold: can't talk, gotta keep filling molotov's....

no, but seriously, the rioting is kind of cool, and kind of fucked up. in france, arabs are treated like the mexicans in our country, but worse. see, they're the largest immigrant group, and mostly live in ethnic ghettos, not unlike south central LA. and to compound this, you gotta remember, most of north africa was a french colony up till the earlier 60's, when they had a bloody war for independance in algeria, sudan, etc. it was their version of vietnam, a colonial power getting slaughtered by third worlders defending their homes. so, there's still a lot of hard feelings in france towards the Arabs. plus, europe isn't used to immigrants. everyone in france, traditionally, is french. like, their family has lived there for hundreds of years, and so they aren't used to dealing with the concept of immigration, and accepting immigrants.

ok, so you've got a whole shitload of poor africans who show up in france, since their economy and country has been totally butt-fucked by french colonialism, they want jobs, and they ain't gonna find them in africa. but there aren't too many jobs here either, and there's even less jobs if you're black or brown. and the police, like police everywhere, do a fine job of oppressing the minorities with random searches and beat-downs. so, you've got a poor, oppressed people who are regularly discriminated against, and the death of these two kids just set it all off. they basically just said fuck this, it's time to fight back, let 'em know how you feel about their society by throwing a brick at it.

i totally understand this, and honestly, think it's pretty fucking cool. EXCEPT for the fact that they're not destroying state buildings, or the property of the rich elite who live in paris. like always, they're destroying their own schools, their own shops, and their own cars. what the fuck!? why is it always like that? same fucking thing with the LA riots, they destroy the place THEY live, not the mansions of the oppressors.

on the plus side, this will force the french government to begin dealing with the immigrants in a different way, hopefully trying to integrate them into society more and provide legal protections for them.

all around the world, the poor and the oppressed are gathering, getting ready to fight back against the hand that beats them. everywhere except of course, america, where the rich came up with the brilliant manipulation and pacification technique of controlling the media and especially TV. but not in the iron-fist way of Iran, but in the greed is good way of capitalism. sure, you have the freedom to express radical ideas in american media, you just have to be a multi-millionaire to do so, that's all. why do you think TV's are so fucking inexpensive in america? now, the poor vote republican, if they bother to vote at all (p.s. how many of you bother to vote?) now, blacks want to be gangstas instead of Panthers. and all the while, the rich are just chuckling as their power and cash grows larger.

Bike saftey

Drew got hit and the driver didn't bother to stop.

here is some info

Drew and his buddy gave me a key to a garage we can use for a little while. I'm going to stick all of our contraband wheels in it so if you need rims before the middle of december, let me know.
Thanks fellas.
We still need to getrid of the stage and some other props, and the Joust arcade game is outside (tarped) I need to find a way to get it inside a place where it can generate some funds, any ideas?