Merry Thanksgiving Ho Ho Ho!

By -史蒂夫 奥托

Yes- Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, but only the cooking shows are really making any deal about it. Already Chad is helping Santa deliver his new phones and LL Bean is singing about snow in New England, so they can send you a catalog. Try and find the turkeys. They’re not there.

Our local TV station has brought back Santa and KAKEman. Each day they pretend their broadcasting from the North Pole. The other station has set up a similar show with TOY-BOY. Yes it’s Toy Boy. We can just imagine what he’s good for.

So don’t wait! buy my books now:
o The Pol Pot Journals, The making of Democratic Kampuchea A fictional autobiography
o Can You Pass the Acid Test?: A History of the Drug and Sex Counterculture and Its Censorship in the 20th Century

o

Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie: Tales from the 1970s counter-culture: Drugs, sex, politics and rock and roll

or:

http://steveottosbooks.tk/

Santa does get some goodies this season:
Ho Ho HOOOOOOOOO!

I want to shoot this whole day down

Yes I felt like a wacko and imagined I was getting back at all the assholes who fucked up my day.

I want to shoot this whole day down

By 史蒂夫・奥托
To the old fart to held up the line at Walgreens so long, I finally went to the film place to buy my ant-acids…..
Blam Blam Blam!
To the high school security cops who couldn't help me jump my car
(I left the light on all day) Here's one for you folks……
Blam Blam Blam!
To my car for not starting after I parked it – after I drive it a while to charge the battery…
Blam Blam Blam!
To my wife who poked around and made me late….
Blam Blam Blam!
To all the kids that give me a hard time at school….
Blam Blam Blam!
To all those who say "you brought some of this one your self!" and that includes me…
Blam Blam Blam!
Remember, this is just my fantasy. No real persons or objects where harmed while writing this poem.

Thank$giving Day – Let’s have a parade

Thank$giving Day – Let’s have a parade

By 史蒂夫 奥托

It’s
Turkey
Day and we
Need to go shopping
As soon as we can, then eat
Some turkey or some ham, then
Go get more overpriced gifts that your
Friends and relatives won’t really care about,
Just remember this one golden rule to make your
Holiday
Happy,
Buy!
Buy!
Buy!

Kyrie Eleison – Electric Prunes, Easy rider

In a far away place-- but not that far---

I found some more pictures of the Moon Titon orbiting Saturn. If I find a jeany in a bottle before I die, I'm going to wish for a very short vacation on that moon. I love the seenery.
They found some lakes on the little moon, probably made of gasoline, it's too cold for liquid water, between -200° and -300° Fahrenheit.

I wonder if I could go fishing in this lake. I doubt if I'd catch anything.
All these strange worlds look like earth without the trees, birds and grazing cattle. I'm waiting for a picture of that from outerspace.

Not much to see on the surface of Europa, orbiting Jupitor. It has no clouds or sky, just a surface of cracked up ice. But below it---who knows? We won't see cows or trees, but how about something like this.

Or

I'll need scuba diving gear for this.
OR---
I can stay home and take a lot of chemical amusement and somthing good to its or
drink.

-史蒂夫・奥多

The First Thanksgiving

By 史蒂夫・奥多
We all know the story of the first Thanksgiving feast. Our early setlers got help from the Native American Indians and to repay their kind service, we held a feast with them, that lasted three days. Their help to out ancestors was crucial to our survival. So we pulled together with the Indians and survived.
The good will didn’t last long. Within a few years we were at war with the Native American Indians. According to Wikipedia,:

The war began in May 1763 when American Indians, alarmed by policies imposed by British General Jeffrey Amherst, attacked a number of British forts and settlements. Eight forts were destroyed, and hundreds of colonists were killed or captured, with many more fleeing the region. Hostilities came to an end after British Army expeditions in 1764 led to peace negotiations over the next two years. The Indians were unable to drive away the British, but the uprising prompted the British government to modify the policies that had provoked the conflict.
Warfare on the North American frontier was brutal, and the killing of prisoners, the targeting of civilians, and other atrocities were widespread. In what is now perhaps the war's best-known incident, British officers at Fort Pitt attempted to infect the besieging Indians with blankets that had been exposed to smallpox. The ruthlessness of the conflict was a reflection of a growing racial divide between British colonists and American Indians. The British government sought to prevent further racial violence by issuing the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which created a boundary between colonists and Indians.

A major leader of those earlier Native American rebellions was Chief Pontiac:
(c. 1720–April 20, 1769), was an Ottawa leader who became famous for his role in Pontiac's Rebellion (1763–1766), an American Indian struggle against the British military occupation of the Great Lakes region following the British victory in the French and Indian War. Historians disagree about Pontiac's importance in the war that bears his name. Nineteenth century accounts portrayed him as the mastermind and leader of the revolt, while some subsequent interpretations have depicted him as a local leader with limited overall influence.

Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Thanksgiving dinner is done in the evening, usually as a gathering of friends and/or family. At this time you say all your thanks and wishes.

Things do change!

My Art revised

I just altered this picture so I can use it in an art show I plan to put on sometime in the spring. MAYBE!!

TI What Ever

Leah Andreone

"It's Alright It's OK"

Important information about The Pol Pot Journals

Due to some screw ups on the part of Lu Lu Press, my new book, The Pol Pot Journals, is not available at this time from Barns & Noble or your local Borders store. It is only available through Lu Lu.
This will change. I have two other publishers I’m looking at who will either distribute this book or they will republish it and it will be available for order it through the usual outlets. My other two books are available that way.

If and when I announce that I have a new publisher and if it is republished, I will be deleting my account with Lu Lu. If that happens, that very limited first addition will be very rare and if I can sell a few books, as I have in the past, on line and at signings, that first addition may eventually bring in some money.

In the mean time, Can You Pass the Acid Test?, and Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie, can be ordered at your local Borders or Barns & Noble.

Buy them now!

Don’t wait until December to buy these great books for your friends. They are all now available through the internet.



For the serious historians:

The Pol Pot Journals
were written by a ghost writer during this former leader’s final year.
This is great for a historian interested in Indochina in the 1970s
In this novel, in the 1970s the turbulence of the Vietnam War and protests by students and youth who where un-willing to fight for a cause that seemed unwinable and useless. When President Richard Nixon spread the Vietnam War to Kampuchea, (called Cambodia today) he not only caused outrage and protest at home, including the Kent State Ohio massacres, but he also threw Kampuchea into a state of civil war. His inept handling of the situation brought about one of the strangest social experiment of the 20th Century. Pol Pot ruled through a committee known for the first year only as the Ankar (organization). His name was not even spoken to the Kampuchean people for two years. His Communist Party of Kampuchea had amassed a powerful movement of disenfranchised peasants, who were loyal to him and his regime. The Residence of Phnom Penh, the city’s capital, were not so lucky. They were treated with suspicion. And punishment for those deemed “un-redeemable” was harsh.His book is available on Lu Lu at

Can You Pass the Acid Test?

Sex sells and the subject is brought up several times. But this book is more of a documented history of the US drug and porn culture. This is more of a resource book and will come in handy for those who want to argue about America's drug laws. It is heavily researched and has some amazing information in it. It is political and I think many readers will want to get a copy. For one thing it exposes the racism of drug laws. It also shows how the narcotics population has remained nearly unchanged since the early 1900s. Some great arguments against our "war on drugs" can be found in this book.
This book should be in most stores and available on such outlets as Barns and Noble.

And for those who crave a nostalgic look at the debauchery of the 1970s there is:

Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie

Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie takes the reader through the life of a 1970s counter-culture drug user. Mark Spies goes from casual pot smoking to habitual use of pharmaceutical narcotics and cocaine. Due to the changing sexual attitudes, Spies has several unconventional sexual encounters. The 1970s brought us the "Woodstock generation." There was a sense of idealism that developed at the beginning and died at the end of that decade. Many counter-culture books focus on the 1960s, yet there are plenty of events in the 1970s that deserve attention. Nixon's war in Vietnam and Cambodia dominated the news and affected America's youth. Nixon's war on drugs impacted the counter-culture life style. Then there was punk rock, disco, casual cocaine use and revolutions braking out around the world by 1979. With politics in the background, this book gives the reader a look at drug use and the difficult business of drug dealing. The drugs, sexual attitudes, music and politics made the 1970s what they were. Taken as a whole, this book will give some insight into the people and events of the 1970s counter-culture. Steve Otto is a free-lance writer, living in Maize, KS. He is the author of War on Drugs/ War on People, published by Ide House, 1995, an expose of government corruption connected with the "war on drugs." Otto has published numerous articles in magazines, journals and newspapers.
Still available at Amazon.com.

Remember - John Lennon

Remember when you were young,
How the hero was never hung,
Always got away,
Remember how the man,
Used to leave you empty handed,
Always, always let you down,
If you ever change your mind,
About leaving it all behind,
Remember, remember, today,
And don't feel sorry,
The way it's gone,
And don't you worry,
'Bout what you've done,
[ Find more Lyrics at www.mp3lyrics.org/bdW ]Remember when you were small,
How people seemed so tall,
Always had their way,
Remember your ma and pa,
Just wishing for movie stardom,

If you ever feel so sad,
And the whole world is
driving you mad,
Remember, remember, today,
And don't feel sorry,
'Bout the way it's gone,
And don't you worry,
'Bout what you've done,
Oh, no, remember, remember,
The fifth of November,

Some people are ecstatic that the Democrats finally won.

Did everyone vote?

Don’t click that remote

Or as they use to say: Don’t touch that dial.It won’t do any good. The election Is on every station.

Here's a picture I got from one of my students. They wouldn't tell me who did it.