1. J. U. Lloyd is from Cincinnati. There is a botanical library here that he founded. His book was the most boring SF story I ever tried to read, far as I can tell, but the pictures are good.
2. I have some expertise about outhouses, since some of my first poems were published in The John House News (including 'Feed The Maggots').
So maybe I am qualified to join the group.
Larry 2
---- Gabriel Orgrease <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Ping your it.
> >
> Leland,
>
> Great. Encourage me.
>
> Once upon a time there was a listserv for historic preservation called
> Preservation-L. It had no rules, it was thought up by a computer geek in
> his lab, and he had no interest in historic preservation. It was there
> like a fish attractant at the bottom of a stagnant pool and in a short
> period of time a whole bunch of people that identified themselves as in
> the historic preservation business signed up for the list. But they did
> not know quite what to do with it. So there were 600 people connected
> but not communicating.
>
> I got some bright idea and using my mother's e-mail address (for which I
> had to apologize and make amends later) I sent to the list an e-mail
> about Gabriel and Etidorpha Ogrease (for those in the know about novels
> pertaining to cave utopias reference the novel *Etidorpha* by John Uri
> Lloyd) -- their father Buck had brought back a fiberglas portable toilet
> from a 1970s War Moratorium in DC that he suspected the hole in the side
> was kicked there by Alan Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky... and they wanted
> to get some professional advice on how properly, best to make repairs
> without losing the heritage significance. That request for advice got
> some folks excited, some agitated. So for a while there I took to
> writing a new installment once a week. It was not long before I was
> getting all sorts of really angry back channel threats from what I can
> only assume in retrospect were the blue-blood wannabees, Bastards of the
> Revolution, or whatever but it was an incredibly negative aura. Also a
> good deal of support and people jumping in with their own characters --
> and animals. Eventually the collection of outhouses grew to cover 40
> acres and set off SOS... Save Our Shitters. So, thoroughly pummeled by
> the unpleasantries and while resting up from a heart operation I
> solicited a new place to start a new list. Those G & E weekly
> installments I think went on for about two years before I gave up on it
> -- where can you go after eating Etidorpha's squirrel brain tarts?
> Eventually I took as my writer's pseudonym the Gabriel Orgrease brand
> name. But along in there we got us a list sponsored by St. John's
> University psychology department. I will never know for sure if we were
> considered a specimen for close observation, or not. It has been
> interesting. We have rules, as opposed to the list with no rules.
>
> One rule is not to get on anyone's case if they can't spell or make a
> coherent sentence.
>
> Another rule, often not followed, is to include some histo presto
> content in every message. Though I suspect that simply posting a message
> on a listserv can be construed as archaic enuf to qualify.
>
> For a time we used to raid the Preservation-L list just to see if they
> could still be agitated. It is kind of funny to me that nobody ever says
> anything on that list, least ways not that I know of.
>
> There is a good deal of irrelevant horsing around, often poor
> signal:noise ratio, but what I have learned is that the games, jokes,
> stories, play provides a context by which when real questions are asked
> the veracity of the information can be well gaged.
>
> Beside all that people that survive to hang, linger, emote, or otherwise
> not suffer from terminal attrition here tend to like each other, here
> and in RL.
>
> COD keeps us running. Sharpshooter keeps shooting at us. Py gets lost in
> Argentina chased down by flying rocks and UFOs. Sometimes we hear from
> Bullamanka. And Rudy has a time machine. Ruth is keeper of the screw
> drivers. Ralph is the Humor Czar. Larry (1) is associated with the
> Political Graveyard but sometimes we get confused and think he is from
> Toledo. Twy is the VI. I've lost track of most all of the nuances... but
> I am sure in a leaftime I will be brought up to the holy crapper.
>
> ][< (shaman)
>
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