Why did atwooddharma go west to the sea?
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my rod and my staff, they comfort me.
"plunk your magic twanger, froggy!"  <- had to be around in early days
of television to remember than one.  was it national or just l.a. local?
hey john, you been breathing air long enought to know the answer to that
one.  was some kind of puppet program.  don't remember the name.  my house
was about the 3rd or 4th on the block to sprout an antenna.  my mom (b.1918)
had birthday last sunday...i gloomed images from
http://www.westland.net//photo/file001.jpg the whole day, from just past
sunup to after sundown.  the site refreshes the image every 10 minutes.
missed a few in mid-day - market trip, etc - but basically can replay
the day as sort of an animation of mom's birthday as cam'ed down my the
oceanside on the other side of the country about a mile from where i was
raised (venice, california).  full site can be found at
http://www.westland.net//beachcam/index.html   ...remember being at
nyc village vanguard, dexter gordon home-coming gig, charles mingus at a
table right next to us, dexter looking out, catching him, "hey home"...
yeah, l.a. rules!!! l.a. rules   ("i love it" sings randy newMan)...venice
of growing up in 50's before venice beach, just run-down old venice, town
of orson wells flick "touch of evil", right after l.a. department of
recreation pigged out closed down amusement pier...just decided it had
to go...seaside special killed by bureaucrat punk power homogeneity rules
life gotta die that... my fifties memories began soon after that.  didn't
know the story until the web told me so.  connection after connection.
relationship.  openings.  incredible beyond... classic film that one
was. preserved the place on celluloid.  still images too, back now to
prod the memory, or touch sight will places never seen scene now a taste
of wasn't there but have a sense...and busy being born and reborn and
recycled and history and http://www.westland.net/venice/history.htm
"for a good time" and taste of then and now" ... "this land is your land"
and going west from this place next land some space away...ha-why-eee???
 
http://www.westland.net/venice/history2.htm  wow!  pulling my pants right
of with this one, boys and girls.  first image on this page is looking north
>from  foot of rose avenue.  my mother used to put me on this wooden seat
that straddled the bar of the red ballon-tired bicycle that would she and me
so small a little guy wheel the mile from 225 ruth avenue venice ca 90201
(send my mom a birthday card ("beatrice atwood") and tell her you read a
billy atwood post on the internet - go on, do it! just for the thrill)
down to the edge of the fucking continent, that beach, remember being real
young and on that edge, the people, the sand, the beach and have been told
the story of running away...one day i just wasn't there and don't remember
it happening except a foggy part experience and part the retelling that
i just wasn't there and there was this woman riding on the bus going down
rose avenue towards the beach and looking out and seeing this little boy
running west and she knew that wasn't right and got off the bus and
i must have been old enuff to say my name and where i lived ("billy
atwood   225 ruth avenue") because as i have been told she brought me
home but i don't remember, likely because... <orson wells steps in for
a moment to speculate> but even as i right these words a clearer understanding
of that little boy knowing where he is going, running west as fast as
he can because there is something real fucking magic about the goddamn
edge of the continent and, once again, the url

    http://www.westland.net/venice/history2.htm

will take you to the place
that billy atwood was running to go and see and...i'm not real sure of
this but seems to me that the woman knew it wasn't right, not because i
was so young, but because i was stark raving naked... and for those that
may remember a very old thread..."has anyone seen my pants?"

"those were the days, my friend
 we thought they'd never end..."

hey, it's better than a sunday...  ;-)   ...<?>

, billAgain ( "longer than i imagined, and certainly not anywhere near
               as close" )

too many gifs...requires patience:
  http://www.panix.com/~wra

stolen...but foot-noted, spell-checked and worth the visit:
  http://www.cpx-ltd.com/kjr/teisho.html