oh Oh Alabama

On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson notifies Alabama's Governor George Wallace that he will use federal authority to call up the Alabama National Guard in order to supervise a planned civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.

Intimidation and discrimination had earlier prevented Selma's black population--over half the city--from registering and voting. On Sunday, March 7, 1965, a group of 600 demonstrators marched on the capital city of Montgomery to protest this disenfranchisement and the earlier killing of a black man, Jimmie Lee Jackson, by a state trooper. In brutal scenes that were later broadcast on television, state and local police attacked the marchers with billy clubs and tear gas. TV viewers far and wide were outraged by the images, ...................

After an Alabama federal judge ruled on March 18 that a third march could go ahead, President Johnson and his advisers worked quickly to find a way to ensure the safety of King and his demonstrators on their way from Selma to Montgomery. The most powerful obstacle in their way was Governor Wallace, an outspoken anti-integrationist who was reluctant to spend any state funds on protecting the demonstrators. Hours after promising Johnson--in telephone calls recorded by the White House--that he would call out the Alabama National Guard to maintain order, Wallace went on television and demanded that Johnson send in federal troops instead.
.............. 50,000 marchers followed King some 54 miles, under the watchful eyes of state and federal troops. Arriving safely in Montgomery on March 25, they watched King deliver his famous "How Long, Not Long" speech from the steps of the Capitol building. The clash between Johnson and Wallace--and Johnson's decisive action--was an important turning point in the civil rights movement. Within five months, Congress had passed the Voting Rights Act, which Johnson proudly signed into law on August 6, 1965.
photo from here
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And today, how ya doing Alabama?

Today, Here's your choice to lead the nation.....

Spreading Santorum

blog.spreadingsantorum.com/

The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex.
 Rick Santorum won Republican presidential primaries in Alabama and Mississippi ... propelling his candidacy..............

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Neil Young had a few words for you........

photo of Neil from here

here's Neil's Alabama,  recorded in 1973 at Winterland........listen for the gorgeous David Lindley violin....the lyrics are at the bottom.....

 Oh Alabama

The devil fools
With the best laid plan.
Swing low Alabama
You got spare change
You got to feel strange
And now the moment
Is all that it meant.

Alabama, you got
The weight on your shoulders
That's breaking your back.
Your Cadillac
Has got a wheel in the ditch
And a wheel on the track

Oh Alabama
Banjos playing
Through the broken glass
Windows down in Alabama.
See the old folks
Tied in white ropes
Hear the banjo.
Don't it take you down home?

Alabama, you got
The weight on your shoulders
That's breaking your back.
Your Cadillac
Has got a wheel in the ditch
And a wheel on the track

Oh Alabama.
Can I see you
And shake your hand.
Make friends down in Alabama.
I'm from a new land
I come to you
And see all this ruin
What are you doing Alabama?
You got the rest of the union
To help you along
What's going wrong?
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/n/neil+young/alabama_20099012.html ]

and another song of the Southern Man by Neil Young. South, you got a lot of work to do...

give thanks and make peace and pumpkin pies

I did!

oooh spooky...

Pretty, Prague, vintage European car, flowers and his blue Eyes

It will be better...even better than it feels right now.........

It's a bit strange...but oh well!

so today is the last day of the physical shop known as funkoma vintage.......
all things are 20%.... at least. Saturday March 27, at 11 am.

It was an interesting 2 years here on Broadway.......a familiar old building .....a wonderful view....coffee...cocktails...karaoke...pizza......No fucking street for 6 months....Flooded building....electrical explosion.....the Depression/Crash of 2009 - 20??....and the best customers ever....not everyone "got" funkoma style....a willingness to not dress just like everyone else...to be unafraid to get Vintage With it.........






But until I reopen...
I'll be busy doing what I truly love to do..
Make stuff!! Here's a list of what shall come from my hand...
skirts, t-shirt and sweater dresses,
reproduction dresses of vintage fabric,
swimsuits made from vintage fabric with vintage designs,
coats and jackets, mitts, spats, more steampunk,
purses and tote bags, leggings,
more jewelry,
more cashmere bloomers.......more bloomers....more Tressie designs including dolls and hats and whatev' crosses my mind.








Here's a few more pictures......the parties !!!
the FREE all ages shows...
food, fun, Fewster and Heidi....Folksingers In Hell ....Tacomen....

I'm Sorry, this is Just Cracking me Up !

and I'll be watching the Runaways movie.
I'm sure it's far out man.
But here's me in 1972...
Check out my shoes. My hair. My purple pants. My white denim jacket. My tight knit shirt.


I love Joan Jett.........
but I really hate butt rawk. I hate Aerosmith. I hate ACDC. barf.

The real Joan Jett and some Runaways...

a pic from the movie.......


and finally ...


I Don't give a damn about my bad reputation...no really.I.Don't. Give. A.Damn.About. My.Bad.Reputation.

What Inspires me today/What I'm working on...

I don't think I will ever tire of dresses/skirts with boots...and really cute sandals.....especially if they have buckles and straps........

A Blue dress for the Alice in you.......on etsy....







A tailcoat of ivory with toile, crochet and shells....and lots of lace......with a blue silk party dress.......
fairytale.........






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and this song was playing last night in the "new" Thriftway...as I was shopping for pie and lotion kleenex for my husband......I sometimes forget that I love Christine McVie

I Got A Freaky Old Lady Name Cocaine Katy

who does embroideries on my jeans.......

the ol' Shel Silverstein song.....by Dr. Hook....(vid below)

I have sold many things to famous or not so famous very talented people...when I was in High School (2 1/2 years) I made tons of things that I sold at a Head Shop (name escapes...) on Jefferson Street near the Liquor Store, Lawlers, if you must know....

and I met lots of "Rock Stars".....ha ...and I got a lot of commissions to embroider groovi things on their jeans......
I also made a tidy little lump of cash cutting up jeans and making tuxedo morning coats for fancy boys and girls.....
Well, that's the kind of thing that happens to a girl that lives near a world class city......

Recently I sold this blouse.......
to Lynne Adele of The Victor Mourning...


Lynne plays the banjo and is pretty and she sings. I feel so lazy!
Well, I'm really happy to do my part to help performers, The Real Talented People of the Planet ..look good...
Because when you look good ...You feel good...and when you feel good, You Look and Sound FABULOUS on stage......


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Here's a mess ...of Dr. Hook etc......

Neil Gaiman + Seattle + Jason Webley = 2 degrees near Tacoma

Neil Gaiman is singing (he says) on this new album EvelynEvelyn with Jason Webley & Amanda Palmer and more.......according to this blog post by Neil's lovely lady friend.....Amanda Palmer...of Dresden Dolls.....

Jason is this cool guy...who ...along with......Andru Bemis........made this right-on song about Tacoma....

Shot on Super 8 in Tacoma by Oliver White and Jason Webley.....

Lullabies for a Saturday evening....

Why Not Me?

some days....
I wonder why my mom didn't give me cheekbones instead of her chins?
Huh?
Damn.
I used to watch the Country Music Channel on the boobtube back in the 80s....that's where I first heard the Judds (The Juggs)
Randy Travis, Dwight Yoakam, Ricky Scaggs..o\post Emmylou....
The Forrester Sisters...


and this one......well, values like honesty, fairness, empathy...where did they go?

Feeling very Marianne...again

Free Fun on Broadway - Pants half-off

	All funkoma vintage PANTS are half-off the marked price...because that's funny...
	David and Heidi consented to play here again! Folksingers In Hell Tacomen said they'd show and bring FIRE !! from about 3ish to 7ish... Cheez Whiz, Crackers, Hot Water, and toilet paper. This is the kind of Old School Tacoma fun we used to have until some dumbass closed down the MECCA! (totally PG rated entertainment) And it's FREE !

Date:	Saturday, December 19, 2009
Time:	3:05pm - 6:55pm
Location:	712 Broadway

Raspberry Beret like the kind you find at the second hand store

You might find yourself....standing outside...

Take a giant step....and find a Raspberry Beret...



















Berets galore....Irish wool, raspberry, red, blue, green ....pink hearts ...blue clovers....

Folksingers In Hell...

Want the real Tacoma? Here you go!

Written by David Fewster. Filmed at the Antique Sandwich 10/13/09. A Folksingers In Hell Production

Derek asks: A Song For Tacoma...

I've answered that ? a bunch of times....
I'm sorry that the "Yeasty Puke-Stockinged Slug" Rush Limbaugh, a man that is a brown stripe inside a teenager's underwear...(Insult courtesy of Shakespeare Insult Generator)
uses this song...but still a great song...
"...by a government that had no pride...."

The Pretenders- My City Was Gone (vinyl) from JeffN1960 on Vimeo.

When Tacoma is being Sweet...and a bit of a personal anthem:


& fuck the raccoon....I'm being Chrissie Hynde for Halloween.

Witchy topshop commercial....

with Melissa Auf der Maur.......

Happy birthday to me and listening to John Gorka...

here's what the Birthday girl is listening to....October 10 is my birthday...so don't panic...yet.

had drinks with Nick at Doyles........

Just John Gorka this afternoon in the shop....

I didn't know Brian....

but I'd seen him many times, because this is a tiny town. But many people I love and do know...did know Brian Redman and are grieving and so so sad...
Thinking of how hard death can be for the young to know....
and how music releases....
that art always soothes...and excites...and forgives....

This poem came to mind...I find it comforting....composed by a transplant who graced the Northwest as a poet...
Theodore Roethke...himself an iconoclast...supremely talented.....
wrote

The Waking

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me, so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.

Now with Witty Commentary...

Miles and Cole and Tacoma...

One of the best pleasures of having a big space in Tacoma is tossing out a free venue for kids to play in....remember...the yutes of today are the Social Security payers of tomorrow.....so get busy!!

I took this picture of Apache Chief just minutes after pulling in from the 4 1/2 hour drive from Portland!!

Some 'rents...

The kids are alright...

Hey Look it's Kelly !

The bitchin' Phoenix....

2 of my fave shots...Sugar Beats in the greenery...and a moody pic of Hippo Critt...