Afterword- copying that now, november '96 it brings back to me the memory of those times, just back from Deeply Vale free festival, living in Coventry - those 23 jots, and the 23 of the drongos page sums up the flavour of those days and nights better than the pages and pages I typed at the time in my infamous unpublished uncompleted and unpublishable Deeply Vale book (dot dot dot..))
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Can
I be the first to say that I won't vote for her?
John Connolly, New Barnett. Feel Free - PH
The British
Government's moral superiority over the Argentinean fascists was sunk
with the Belgrano outside of the 200 mile exclusion zone. The
bloodstains are offside. That's why we must all, - Liberal Labour and
Loony - vote tactically to stop a five year Conservative majority
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see belgrano.htm
Dear Cousin,
I'm in
love with a policeman but I don't know what his number is -
the man who pulled my trousers down because I smelled of cannabis.
I lived in a broken bus at the Pilton Green Gathering.
I was a passenger in a minivan going to the shops.
I'd stashed my pipe and knife on the bus.
Lots of policemen flagged us down and one of them questioned me.
I told them my name and addresses.
When I told him that I prefer women and dogs he replied:
"Funny I thought men were more your style"
and made a joke about the price of hippy women.
Some of my best friends are whores.
Then he took me behind a police van and ordered
Open Up Your Trousers George!'
I said no. And then he got angry and said he might have me taken
somewhere else and then I told him that I was nonviolent, that I
wouldn't hit him, that "you can if you want to", and then he pulled my
trousers down and then I fell in love?
For years I had smoked and worked. Then they busted my friend. I sussed their game - divide and rule - remember. I resigned, followed a convoy, scored a bus, got threatened and fell in love with an anonomouse uniform ... or else.
An outlaw until that day that day that similar laws for cannabis, alcohol and tobacco trades.
wishing you a brave new year,
dice george
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
The new Foreign Secretary, Francis Pym, told the Commons that Britain would do all it could to acheive a settlement without fighting. On Saturday 2st May Mr Pym was in Washington with Alexander Haig negotiating a peaceful settlement. He told the Times that 'no further military action is envisaged at the moment, except to keep the exclusion zone secure.' Early on 2nd May Reuters reported that the Peruvian president Belaunde said that peace negotiations between Argentina and Britain were under way and that both countries had agreed in principal to cease hostilities.
However, as Tam Dalyell told the Commons on 24th March 1983, Margaret Thatcher gave the orders pre-lunch at Chequers on Sunday 2nd May 1982 for HMS Conqueror to unleash its Mark 8 torpedoes against the Belgrano, behind the back of her Foreign Secretary, without consulting our allies the American Government, in the knowledge that the Belgrano and her escorts were at that time no conceivable threat to the task force and in the knowledge that Galtieri had ordered the withdrawal of the army from the Falklands- Malvinas on the evening of Saturday, 1 May, on the basis of the Peruvian-American United nations Peace terms.
368 Argentineans died. The bloodstains are offside. Now peace had no chance. Serious fighting began. At the very least Thatcher, in her self-appointed role as Great British Conservative leader is guilty of an act of reckless warfare and idiotic nationalism. In a moment of crisis I believe that Ronald Reagan would listen to advice and remember the words of the splendid American Constitution; that is why I am more scared of Thatcher than of Reagan. British popular opinion, following the newspapers, is that she is a hero. I suggest that it is our duty to publicise Thatcher's guilt before this Lady Macbeth brings about the destruction of everybody.
george
I am horrified by the effects of alcohol and heroin abuse on individuals and society. It is rare to find an issue of a local newspaper without reports of alcohol or heroin related tragedies. People are dying, relationships are being ruined. They are dangerous and addictive drugs and ought to be illegal.
Cannabis is a soft drug, it is not addictive. The two main dangers to
cannabis users are contact with other illegal drugs and legal harassment.
Cannabis smoking is not a transitory fashion: it is in society to stay. It
must be legalised soon: the illegal cannabis trade is financing the mafia,
the terrorism of the IRA and the PLO. Arguments against full legalisation
stink of stagnant conservatism or classic doublethink. Is this why I walked
into Glastonbury police station with cannabis in my pocket and got busted?
George
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
George, of Greenlands Farm, Glastonbury, admitted possession cannabis resin and was fined £50. he was ordered to pay £20 costs and an order was made for the destruction of the drugs.
The court heard from Mr W Cole, prosecuting, at about 2.30pm on January 18 George had walked in to Glastonbury police station.
Following a conversation he was detained and searched and a piece of vegetable matter and a pipe were found. Later a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act was executed at his home and certain items seized.
Forensic examination of the vegetable matter seized showed it to be 1.76 grams of cannabis resin. None of the other items seized was found to contain drugs.
In court George said he was a single man and unemployed having formerly worked as a computer programmer. He said that he had bought a bus to travel around in but it blew up.
In a statement after the case George said that on January 18 he read in The Times that Linda McCartney had been arrested and charged with possession of cannabis.
Later that day he walked into Glastonbury police station to symbolically express his solidarity.
"Taxation of cannabis could help to feed, clothe, house and educate millions" he said.
"Cannabis is a petty matter which takes up valuable police resources.
People should be able to make up their own minds about what is right or
wrong"
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
Council censures everyone
who leaves food on their plates to be thrown away.
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
POLICE STATION,
DANCES LANE,
WHITCHURCH,
HANTS.
RG28 7EG
Our Ref. RHB/BM
Dear Sir,
with reference to your letter of the 7th June, 1985,
a copy of the contemporaneous note made of your interview
is enclosed as requested.
Yours faithfully,
ALLEGED OFFENCE: Unlawful Assembly (contrary to Common Law) HAMPSHIRE CONSTABULARY
INTERVIEW... ADDRESS DATE 2nd June 1985 PARTICULARS OF INTERVIEW DC316 Cautioned. Do You Understand. R. nodded in agreement 316. Do you own a vehicle R. Yes 316. Would you tell me the make colour and number of it. R. Bedford Bus, green, 644 FYO 316. Were you arrested in the field with a lot of other people R. I was sitting in my bus when Police with shields and batons charged towards us they smashed some windows I said I surrender I came out of my bus with my hands on my head they hit me on the head I rolled into a ball they hit me some more someone said that's enough and they took me away to here. 316. Who was in the vehicle with you R. Jim 316. Was he arrested as well R. He's here 316. Where had you come from when you were arrested R. Marlborough forest 316. Were you driving with the Peace Convoy R. Yes. 316. Where were you going R. I didn't know 316. Were you going to Stonehenge R. I didn't know 316. Do you think that you would have gone there if you hadn't been stopped R. I believed we were going to be stopped. The Police had told me that we were going to be escorted somewhere else and weren't going to Stonehenge. 316. Were you aware that there was a total ban on the holding of any festival at Stonehenge R. Yes 316. Is there anything you wish to say R. Throughout I acted non violently and tried to cool everybody down saying first we should stay in the forest and then in the field. I am a member of "The Young Liberals", "Green CND" and "The National Trust". 316. Were you aware that some of the Peace convoy were intent on going to Stonehenge R. Yes. I am worried about the condition of my bus and the property I left on it.
I have read the above questions and answers and I .....
Stu counted 200 anarchists - were they the noisy punks with leather anarchy labels? Was their chant "liberate the system"?
Does CND stand for Cider 'n' Drugs?
George, karelia
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
'Once I got lost in a wood' begins the book I've written called '1983'. Its lies, all lies, every phoneme is a fib except for the bit on page two about the Space Monsters. suss that in the third world war kids die. So I'll be the last straw on the camels back and I'll turn four cheeks but brandt is old and still they starve millions of dead kids if that aint war then whatinjudasnameis?
I'm in love with a policeman but I dont know what his number is: the man who pulled my trousers down because I 'smelt of cannabis'. It happened in NineteenEightyThree, eight or nine miles from Glastonbury, the annual gathering of the greens, kids and dogs and any old beans. We were going to the shops when we were stopped by lots of cops, then my policeman said to me 'Open up your trousers george'. When I said 'no' he threatened me so I said 'you can if you want to' and then he pulled my trousers down and then I fell in love?
The finnish language is nonsexist: its word 'han' means he/she like the german 'sie', also nouns have no gender.
A twoyearold rascal: 'whats your name?' - 'shutup' -
'whats your name dicegeorge?' - 'shutup' - he beams
By the entrance to the illegal 1984 Stonehege Free Festival was an overturned burntout wreck of a car, and painted on it 'EX SMACK DEALERS CAR'. Inside convoy hippies liberals punks angels and mutants were selling drugs - heroin was banned, experience had shown that junkies have no honour.
I'm learning to play the flute: I have a tune called 'Belgrano'.
Our convoy of 551ish individuals and 151ish busses and trucks and vanses and bikes and kids and dogs on a stony summer saturday afternoon in high spirits left the forest. I was sitting in my bus when riot police smashed six windows I said 'I surrender' I came out of my bus with my hands on my head they hit me I rolled into a ball they hit me some more others tried to run away they interned me for two nights its even worse in belfast, They should be ashamed. Drongos dont understand that tis all about controlling shit- drongos kill trees for no reason - all glue sniffers are drongos - drongos OD - drongos believe what they read - drongos wind up clockwork people - drongos bogart that joint - remember everybody is a drongo some of the time (1982)
At a radical-liberal-conference a concerned asian gentleman asked how to combat the alienation of the young blacks in innercity areas? Legalise the cannabis trade. Arguments against stink of stagnant conservatism or classic doublethink. Glastafari! There is no god but if there was she'd make us eat our unburied shit - stonehenge timefestival is farout next year -
your cousin - dicegeorge (c) 9ix85
The righteousness of the British cause was sunk with the Belgrano outside of the exclusion zone, the bloodstains are offside, did Lady Macbeth see my letter to Green CND?
David Steel the Liberal Leader spoke at the '84 Liberal Assembly about tactics for attaining world peace and justice, and about the practicalities of negotiating with Kremlin conservatives. We listened but voted for withdrawal of Cruise forthwith. They are dangerous cancerous missiles and also a symbol to the peace movement. We voted with the Greenham Women and with Youth CND, emotionally rather than rationally. I did not cheer: but it had to be done. David's speech the next day was sensational: he bounced. We were 99% behind him, the next Prime Minister.
At a radical liberal conference a concerned asian gentleman asked how to combat the alienation of young blacks in innercity areas. Legalise and tax cannabis possession, cultivation and trading. Arguments against stink of stagnant conservatism or classic doublethink. Glastafari!
By the entrance to the illegal 1984 Stonehenge Free Festival was an overturned burntout wreckofacar, and painted on it 'EX SMACK DEALERS CAR'. Inside convoy hippie liberals punks greens angels and mutants were selling drugs. But Heroin was banned: experience had shown that junkies have no honour. Alcohol heroin and glue are dangerous and addictive drugs and ought to be illegal. For their own sake imprison anybody caught in possession of even a trace of heroin: until they promise not to do it again. Heroin abuse is insane. Stop heroin.
I'm dice george, I'm learning to play the flute.
Our convoy of 551ish free individuals and 151ish buses and trucks and vanses and bikes and kids and dogs on a sunny stony summer saturday afternoon in high spirits left the forest. I was sitting in my bus with the side window open when riot police smashed six windows I said 'I surrender' I came out of my bus with my hands on my head they hit me I rolled into a ball they hit me some more others tried to run away they interned me for two nights it's even worse in Belfast. Uniformed and highly paid servants of the people and of the crown should be ashamed to have savagely attacked everybody with the convoy: theirs is not to judge and punish.
Remember: everybody is a drongo some of the time.
Karelia bus c/o Greenlands farm Glastonbury george (c).13nov1985
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
Inside the festival convoy punks hippies punks anarchists angels and mutants were... selling cannabis, speed, acid and booze. But experience had shown that junkies have no honour - they steal from children, they are intolerable. So smack was banned, and an angry smack dealer with a shotgun was arrested by cops.
Children in cities towns and villages are chasing the dragon: 'its only skag', they don't understand that it's impure heroin, medicinally almost as dangerous as alcohol and glue. They see that cannabis is prohibited whilst alcohol, that dangerous addictive drug, is advertised and sold almost everywhere
Liberal politicians whisper, they don't want to scare the tabloid-educated public which equates Cannabis with drugs like heroin.
Every society uses recreational drugs, it is drug abuse which must be controlled. People are dying, families are disintegrating, relationships are being ruined.
Alcohol heroin cocaine and glue are dangerous addictive drugs and ought to be illegal. For their own sakes imprison anybody caught in possession of even a trace of heroin: until they promise not to use it again.
Heroin abuse is insane. Stop heroin.
dice george (c) 1985 Karelia bus
Yours sincerely, Scunge (the acid god)
Yes we agree. Although we try to represent a wide range of views, that was over the top. The sentence was supposed to have been censored. GA.
If he still remains committed to
ecology, how different is he from those
he condemns? If he isn't as is a
genuine nihilist (a nothingist,
believing in nothing, including himself)
then do we think that shooting
up and ripping people off is really
a model we 'naive kiddies' think
worth emulating or even respecting.
Certainly not worth GA giving
blanket acceptance of his opinions
and then advocating censorship -
which is not only reactionary
but also rubs out the better
points Scunge makes.
Yours for world-wide personal freedom,
PN Rogers, Bedford.
In the Greenfield at Pilton some drongo stole my flute, I'd left it on a table, the thief walked off with it and swapped it for some beer. I hassled everyone for days, when I got my flute back I asked no questions.
In Dyfed a boy with a beard took my adjustable spanner 'to test me'. I think he wanted to beat me up, to prove his manhood. Dogs live like that. Whence legal systems, and honour among thieves. If a law passed by a democratic parliament of my equals commands me then that is a very strong reason to obey, but I am free to disobey if I feel that I ought. Indeed, I felt it my duty to travel to Stonehenge last summer and to lose the battle, perhaps when I have read more Jung I will understand why I am proud...
Libertarian philosophers argue about the right to justly acquired property; I worked for three years to buy my bus and toolkit, but the society in which I worked exploits the powerless in the third world. Whence revolution, non-violent revolution within democracies and assassination in Johannesburg...
Jean-Paul Satre, writing about Baudelaire, said that the revolutionary wants to change the world but the rebel is careful to preserve the abuses from which he suffers so that he can go on rebelling against them. Me, here and now, I don't want a revolution where nice old ladies get hit over the head and sent to prison, I don't want a revolution if I have to sing. I want to be free to dance when and I if I choose...
PS will whoever 'borrowed' my crash-helmet at Inglestone please return it.
Your cousin, DICE GEORGE, Greenlands Farm, Glastonbury.
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
Jean-Paul
Satre, writing about Baudelaire, said that the rebel is careful to eat
shit wheras the revolutionary wants to change the world - hotknife -
stonehenge shamans, green anarchists, glastafarians, kids and dogs
know ganja - legalise cannabis campaign is winnable nonviolent
revolution - suss everything you say and dont say is politics - away
with the thatcheroid greed of heroin dealers - I wanna grow legal
grass - I want to buy Eritrean hash down the Rotherhythe Co-op - when
a hundred MPs defy Lady Macbeth then Simon Ashdown will be PM and nice
and green and feminist and much too busy to evict foolish mischiefs
like us ... dice george 28i86(c).
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
They're using national democracy as a tool to divide us, and
to rule us and to starve us. They make us paranoid: make Them
paranoid. Millions of dead kids. If that aint war then
whatinjudasnameis?
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
The report explores the conflict of civil liberties between travelling people and settled people. It recommends that Local Authorities obey the 1968 Caravan Sites Act, that "a festival site near Stonehenge be provided for 1987", and that, after farmer Atwell's ordeal, eviction procedures in relation to trespass as a civil offence be made easier.
Several of the numbers in the booklet are wrong! There were 200,000 people at Stonehenge in 1984; three convoys met at Savernake on 31st May 1985; surely the ratio of 400 adults to 100 kids at Stoney Cross is wrong; many more than 29 homes were impounded and destroyed; in June 1986 the London Walk became the Salisbury Protest who camped at Yarnbury then becoming the Hanging Langford Carnival.
Much use of the phrase 'members of the convoy' is used in this and lesser documents. Is this like being a member of the National Trust or of the Liberal Party? In June '86 one convoy was confiscated at Stoney Cross and another near Hanging Langford. Which was the Peace Convoy that drove from Stonehenge to Greenham in 1982? The report also mentions 'people from the convoy', 'hippy convoys', 'convoy walkers' and 'convoy campers'. Verily sayeth Phil: "The convoy, it's not the vehicles, it's the people, and now's the time for all true Englishmen..."... but Stonehenge is global, there were festival-goers from India, Cymru, Canada and the Hopis.
Stonehenge is essential to the convoy culture: a fusion of individual enlightenment and collective unconsciousness! Ethnic with three 'f's.
I predict next summer there will be 150,000 arrests near Stonehenge: a protest against this crazy century.
George
(1996: I don't like paragraphs 3 and 4, petty.
but "ethnic with three Fs" is one of my best!)
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
I don't want a revolution if I've got to sing; Stonehenge is the revolution; the world anarchist festival; it's all mushrooms and 2+2=5.
Your cousin dice george,
Karelia Bus NFA Rotherhithe
PSS Criminalise Tobacco OK?
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
Sunday: I shall not mention any names but say simply that they were all fabulous, original, and extremely talented.
Take on George , an erstwhile real-time programmer with GEC. After three years' working on GEC's Integrated Services Digital Network, George was a bit bored.
So he packed it all in and bought a bus to set off round the world.
The bus broke down and by the time George had got it running again he could only afford to go as far as Wales.
Never mind, adventures can start closer to home. George had all his bus windows smashed by police with he was as at Stonehenge.
After a variety of jobs, including being a litter picker at the Pilton pop festival, George decided to pick up his programming life again.
He signed up for the Enterprise Allowance Scheme at £40 a week as a Software Engineer.
George says he doesn't fancy the nine-to-five in a suit rigmarole. His ideal is to run his Olivetti PC from a windmill on top of his bus.
He's on the hunt for a few projects to take on, and placed an advert in a recent issue of LOOT magazine to that effect.
So anyone out there who doesn't think that a two-piece suit is an essential part of a programmer's support environment, give us a ring and we'll put you in touch with George.
I joined the British liberal Party in 1983, after Thatcher, the Belgrano, and all that. To declare an exclusion zone and then torpedo outside it was not cricket. She's a murdering cheat.
To wear any label, whether Liberal, socialist, anarchist, hippy, punk whatever is, unless you're a clone of the leader, compromise. But if everyone who didn't vote had voted against them Thatcher wouldn't be in Number 10 attacking the poor, the left and the weird. You say you're innocent not voting, hands clean, well you're guilty, it's your fault. Some governments are worse than others. And if her confrontation leads to bloody revolution it would be violent anarchy, dead kids, feuding gangs, lynching, survival of the fittest, barbarian.
One of my dreams is anarchism, mutual aid, nobody's naughty so the police and armies have no work so they're disbanded. Anarchism good, anarchy bad.
I'm a liberal not an anarchist because I believe in compulsory taxation. Cannabis should be legal but heroin not.
I went to Harrogate and voted to destroy the old Liberal Party. They're a good bunch, healthy, like a family not a class. Not perfect. What's bad is Party Chauvinism, we are the people, they are not, vote for only us, like football teams, countries, shades of red.
I'd like to throw out the name 'Liberal Party'. Then Joan Ruddock could say she's a liberal without antagonising the Labour chauvinists. Because she is, and Paisley ain't.
The opposite of liberal is closed, prejudiced, bigoted, nazi...
Ah but, you say, come the revolution...
The revolution is today.
Dice George Miles
He states dogmatically that some governments are worse than others as if this were a total answer to anarchism, and is obviously unaware that few if any anarchists would deny this, though most would say the differences are of degree rather than of kind; and would say that the delusion that you can cure the ills of government by the methods of government is bound to be self-defeating.
From this dogma he deduces that everyone should have subordinated all principles in order to vote against Thatcher. If that were true (and if one ignores the experience of history that rule by pragmatic reformist government always results in disillusion and despair in the supporters of reform, and in consequence paves a way for a return to even more vigorous right wing governments) it would be an argument for voting Labour, not for voting for the Alliance, since the former had a chance of defeating Thatcher and the latter did not.
So your correspondent proves by his own past actions that he does not believe the logic of his own case. He should ask himself why, if he believes Thatcher to be the ultimate evil, and that all principles should be subordinated in her defeat, he and his friends did not throw all the weight they could behind the only force capable of defeating her. In fact while he expects anarchists to abandon our principles of libertarian socialism, he is not prepared to abandon the Alliance's of bureaucratic capitalism.
He is proud of the fact that he voted to end the Liberal Party ( a party which twenty years ago campaigned on 'which twin is the Tory' and against the bureaucracy and conservatism of the Labour leadership), in favour of merging with a body formed by the most bureaucratic and conservative elements of that leadership, who were ousted from power in the Labour party as a result of campaigns which twenty years ago the Liberals claimed to have initiated.
Too true mate you are not an anarchist,
nor are you a radical liberal, you're
a small conservative, who feels
threatened by Thatcher's threat to the
status quo.
Laurens Otter.
Yes but also no.
I don't believe in karma...???????????
Piercing the fences to penetrate and possess the Stones is old-age
manners.
your cousin, Dice George
(also in Festival Eye 1988 was a great article
by David Loxley about his Druids on page 10...
"Stonehenge symbolically represents the relationship between Time and Space
and all other opposites"...- see the
Stonehenge Druids webpage
??????? dodgy quote marks
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
But last June in the dark there were yobs fighting the police: they spoilt it. Entering Stonehenge by force is like rape.
In June '85 riot police smashed the rainbow convoy, but June '86 when hundreds got arrested nonviolently was better. In June '87 we waited in the Shrewton road near where the Avenue used to start until the English Heritage 'guardians' opened their gate and let us in for a few hours. It was good.
Since time immemorial common people have come in peace to see the sun rise over the Hele-stone.
This June the police want to cancel Wednesday's Solstice, I want to walk there and play flute - because if it's all stopped because of the troublemakers then bad will have triumphed over good.
With love from your cousin, Dice George.
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
Natasha the goat, who attempted to eat a copy of Festival Eye magazine, joined seasoned New Age travellers on the banks of the Thames for a send-off picnic of cans of beer, strawberries and fruit juice.
Not invited, however, was the Chief Constable of Wiltshire, Mr Walter Girven, who has warned all travellers to stay away from Stonehenge or face the full force of police powers. Landowners have been advised against providing a site for a midsummer festival because of alleged public order risks.
Injunctions prohibiting entry have also been granted to the National Trust, local farmers and others whose land is within a three-mile area of the stones. English Heritage will close Stonehenge for 24 hours on the summer solstice.
Nevertheless thousands of travellers are expected to make the journey. Last year the confrontation ended in 115 arrests. Wiltshire police say 33 officers were injured.
"Natasha walked all the way to Stonehenge last year" said a soft spoken man in gold-rimmed spectacles who goes by the name of Dice George. "She's really good. It breaks the ice when you are faced with police officers in riot gear and she starts chewing a hedge".
George's home, a parked bus in Shepherd's Bush, west London, lost several windows in the 1985 clash with Wiltshire police which has passed into tradition as the battle of the Beanfield. Legal actions against the police are still outstanding.
Wearing a leather pilot's hat, it's earflaps
turned down over his long grey hair, Mr Don Aitken of the Travellers
Aid Trust chatted with other Stonehenge veterans. He believes the
police are taking a harder line than ever before. "We assumed there
would be a change for the better after last year", he said, "I think
people will be satisfied this year finding any site".
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
He was a star, a convoy driver, rock and roller, great with kids. His best band - the Cramps, his drink - Martell brandy.
At the funeral: his family and his "adopted family" - us lot.
"Well what a shame - just when I had the whole caboodle about to become a
soluble aspirant to the truth and freedom, you in your infinite
incompetence have pulled the mat - whoops - I mean oppurtunity out from
underneath my basic reality concept..."
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
1985, the beanfield, Stony Cross, the Convoy (good honest drugs dealers) split up. Brew crew gangs arose. Some great (Greenlands). Vast sums of cash went off-site for booze (HMG tax!). Some found it easier to terrorise and rip off students, locals, and gentle hobbitses. Festivals declined. Thatcher's greedy 80s.
(Why
write this? It'll be misunderstood (my acid pen is a double-edged
sword). Why stick my neck out? For freedom, festivals, Rock n Roll,
psychedelic liberalism, hippy dreams, Deeply Vale, Pelcomb, Emma,
Kier, Cain, Fay, Alison Collyer, Chinmoy, Tirthapad, the L-word...
(But I won't mention certain guitarists)).
An attack on the Hungerford '90 stage bar was stopped (DW). Good, I thought, it evolves, grows, transcends...
Then Hawkwind, scared and intimidated, got on stage to give music, the famous egg, Dave made a mistake then all hell let loose. My friends Spew and Don got head wounds but lived. Etcetera.
Now there's rumours, lies,
witch-hunts, secret trials, hit-lists, lynch mobs, everyone's scared.
(Whence compassion, forgiveness, the L-words?)
1990 - the year of
the wobblers!
Ghandi said: An eye for any an eye and the whole world's blind
When they built it the outer sarsen ring had 29 uprights and 28 lintels on top, opening south, there the Small-stone, ((number 11) remains.
It's as symbol. If we all said of what then we should all have used different words, ideas, pictures, poetry.
And it seems to me that all the world is a stage, and every man woman and child a star, and Stonehenge a theatre, for better or worse, and tinker tailor baddy cop, we're all the same mutant monkey family on the same sick earth; and the analogy of local mummy daddy family with global human family opens out into a toddler's fearless curiosity, a 4-year-old's gimme yuppy zest, and the duties of an adult - not to sick doggy survivalism but to freedom, truth, art, etcetera...
And I do believe that first, even before freedom, comes LOVE.
(1996: wow- if i could write like that every day!)
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
Dear Green Anarchists, Judge Pickles says legalise cannabis today and then, if this doesn't lead to a massive increase in heroin use, then legalise H.
Yes, legalise the cannabis trade, tax it for hospitals and the UN and the poor arid producers, Palestinians, Ethiopians, Pakis etcetera.
He says each adult should be free to do as they will with their bodies, provided they don't harm others. Too many people I knew tried it, declined, became junkys, lied, stole, died. It's like walking between the Underground rails. Mad. Therefore anyone choosing skag is insane. Thus banning smack does not disobey freedom for adults. This means adulthood is not an age but an attitude, a headstate, an understanding (of the moral law?) (more or less)...
Years ago I wrote you should grass on people who use heroin - for their own sakes. I was soaring on rhetoric, outrageous propaganda to make you think - I never have. When needles or skag come out I go 'yeurgh' and disgusted walk out.
I'm an Ippy - no H. (smoke 'ash).
That's H the drug. Needles is another issue. So many people used to jack up speed- which is a softer drug and makes them think they're clever but after days without sleep they're terrible arseholes (which is an insult to arseholes).
Needles: now for all that junkys claim they're clean, I reckon once you get in the habit then drunk one night you're gonna be offered twos up and feel it rude to refuse your mate, paranoid to think rationally of Aids and Hep, live for today. in five years half of them will be dead of Aids and their girlfriends and their boyfriends' girlfriends' boyfriends' ... its a bastard vicious virus how it mushrooms dormant for five years then bursts out exponentially - if you assume each carrier infects on friend per month then in five years it mushrooms to two raised to the power sixty which is zillions.
So in ten years there'll be loads more oldsters than youngsters.
I haven't had an HIV test because I don't need to know - if I ever again have casual sex I'd wear a durex because that's 90's manners (I couldn't make love worrying if she's worrying if I'm worrying if... (chance'd be a fine thing ( and in the 90's 'wanker' is not an insult (and black clothes is very 80's (and so's stupid drum machines - they aint got soul.)))))
Your cousin,
(dice) george (rainbow worrier assassin)of Karelia Bus behind Acton Park.
Soar C90 Stonehenge Benefit Cassette
£3.00 from S.C. 99 TorrianoAv NW5 2RX
with RedIceBrian, DiceGeorge, Oxfin's Eugene, Glastonbury's Danny,
Invisible Rory, the Coventry Drongos etc
My politics of food is not to leave food on my plate; when served too much, to make a fuss and put some back, untouched.
And when I drop food, to pick it up and eat it dirty as a punishment and reminder to myself of respect for the unlucky hungry millions
your cousin (dice)george
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
Dear Stonehengers: 1974-84 Stonehenge Free Festivals, rock n roll acid dancers all night with Hawkwind, Here+Now, and countless nameless bands. At local noon when the small south stone 11's shadow was shortest and northest white robed alleged druids' circle rituals: commoners smoking, heckling, empathising; then in comes the hippy procession with conch, chillums, ashes, ponies, guitars, etc etc etc...
June '85 riot police ambushed our convoy for Criminal Damage to Grass and Beans By Driving On It etcetera. June (86 they arrested hundreds for "Obstructing The Pavement By Walking On It Towards Stonehenge.")
(Being interned for non-violently crossing their line earns equal karma points to walking into the Stones - i.e. treble tops.)
Some times since we've dodged the English Harlotage contraceptions.
(Meanwhile silent but deadly like a woodworm's fart aids germs are rotting the mightiest oaks and freshest greens - 'Five Years' sang Bowie)
March non-sunrise '92 lying puking dribbling drunk on damson wine outside the hele stone fence, in tune with the planet and Stones, fenced and sick from greed - a few hopped the fence to be rugby tackled and evicted, playing NewAge British Bulldog?
Let the great rave dancing evolve, transcend from clockwork discos to outdoor dancing with live bands, feeding energy back to the musicians...
The word 'hippy' was coined in the '60s but we've always been here: called
bohemians, gypsies, mutants, weirdos, witches, alchemists, shivites,
ascetics, shamans or whatever: Straights' laws restricting drug use to
booze and fags are but decades old: brits smoked pipes long before tobacco
was imported; and you can imagine why I believe the builders of Stonehenge
had festivals with magic mushroom wine... your cousin, (dice)george
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
STONEHENGE CAMPAIGN NEWSLETTER MARCH 1993 ==========GLASTONBURY MEETING=========== Last years meeting was a minor success, 23-ish of us met in the cafe, leaving the hall to the noisy kids. Perhaps this year we'll fill the hall again??? I've set up this meeting not to tell you my views or to hear the same old hacks but to listen to new voices. Thats why I think we should sit in a talking stick circle, and speak in turn ( with short interruptions for points of information, jokes etc) If you can't wait for your turn, If you can't respect other people, then how the luck will we ever get a free and peaceful festival together? ======== (diceG)===================
Imagine Willy's Stonehenge Rave - huge speakers between Standing Stones, ravers semaphore dancing on top no no no it's wrong to climb on the Stones, lets dance on the mounds, we don't need electrickery inside Stonehenge, pipes strings drums voices, look at the photos in old Festival Eyes - I get jealous hearing of the legendary 60's but Stonehenge Free Festival in 1984 was a whole month, time enough for random neighbours to become family (and the chalk drained rain unlike Somerset's mud) and when was the first? 1974? no: four thousand years ago when we built it.
{ (dice)George }
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
====== 9 December 1992 =======
Sitting on my bus roof with 3 blankets and 2 kids watching the monster shadow eating up the moon - one said "wow", another "wicked" - then they slept while I waited and smoked a toast dreaming of ancient full moon festivals, the dread and wonder of it, the moon earth and sun in a dead straight line, the time to synchronise watches, to reset the Aubrey hole moon marker stones - their language may have been an early form of Welsh or closer to Karelian Finnish or Siberian Lapp; did they have wheels or rollers, could they read and write on wood - we know they could calculate and knew more of predicting eclipses than you or I ('know' in the sense of knowing how to, how to use a tool, not why - their theories and gods can only be dreamed of). Stonehenge is writing in stone (and evidence of teamwork (and I'd guess slavery (in your imaginings do you have the mathematicians and warriors on ponies, sledges, boats, chariots))) as the moon glimmered then glinted in an arc top left and kissed her tiny hand and because it's the full moon nearest Winter Solstice yelled across site "Happy New Year!"
====(diceGeorge)=============
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
the luck will we ever get a free and peaceful festival together? ======== (diceG)===================
====== LETTER FROM KARELIA ======Them yanks done good, getting out and voting for the least bad leader. Some are worse than others. In his October '92 Tory speech Rubber Johnny slagged off New Age Travellers. Some deserve it, sharing his old-age selfish short- term consumalot 'philosophy'. "There's two kinds of hippies : good and bad" oversimplifies. Have you got any ideas for a "New Age Travellers' Code" : a leaflet saying N.A.T.s:
========== (dice) george ==========
************************* * LETTER FROM KARELIA * Stonehenge is a symbol. * Namaste * (dice)George. ( PS - the reconstruction on George Firsoff's red Oxford tickets is wrong. Is that why I bagsyed off Arthur's mob care of the small, south, Stone Eleven? *************************
You put your left wing in, You take your right wing out, hash in, pipe out, shake it all about. You do the smokey dopey and you feel far out, cos that's what its all about! Oh.. gacky wacky backy, Oh.. yippy trippy hippy, Oh.. hopi smokey dopey, Mind bend, arf mix, Ra sta star !
** Political Poem ** from Karelia Bus ** March 1993 **
* Don't vote it only encourages them' said we anarchos *
* don't vote Labour or Liberal - they're fat imperfect" *
* us Poll Tax Dodgers didn't dare register *
* us travellers weren't allowed to *
* us green rainbows wasted tokenist votes *
* RESULT ** Not a hung parliament *
* (some governments are worse than others) *
* BUT this unpopulist Westminster Major-ity *
* faceless greedy grey old men pulling Rubber Johnny *
* COMPARE with the yanks where we lefty rif raf *
* swung the 5% swing (not voting = half a vote for) *
* Electing dodgy Clinton's New Age (me I dont exhale) *
* Change your tactics/slogans/mantras geezers *
(((((( but violence always makes things worse)))))) *
* Dont blame the government (dont blame the turtles) *
* Blame me, blame yourself, wake up, U-turn!!!!!!!! *
*** namaste **;(dice) george *** (rainbow worrier) **;
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-- Letter from Karelia Wed01Dec1993--
.......Dear Stonehengers,,,,,,,,,,,,,
on Tirthapada Day I found Kbus burning
( luckily no-body was harmed )
(a common danger in gypsy lifepaths)
4ft flames burst though placcy skylight
then gentlemen firemen sting-wished
(if they'd been a random 2mins later
the oils in the cab'd'v 'sploded
and I'd'v been free of my prison bus
but now I've months of repair work...
......................................
First we built Chalk-Henge, persil-white
banks along avenue and around circle,
observing the angle stars rise and set
not digital Greenwich h20.27 instant
but from the Hele Stone one day
the winter sun sets behind the Stones
(should we celebrate Tuesday or Wednesday?
(I'd say when its not cloudy, or moon-day!
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- nakemiin - your cousin - (dice) george -
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PS Happy belated 2000th birthday to Jesus
15Sept-7BC Jupiter and Saturn were the star)
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PPS Tirtha is my friend the nonviolent NewAge
Glastonbury-Krsna rainbow warrior teacher
who was born and killed on November 13th.
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LETTER FROM KARELIA (NFA,Kentish Town)
Dear Stonehengers,
Yesterday I played wicked lights
at St John's Rainbow Centre.
Willie greeted me smiling - my heart sank -
"You haven't heard the rumour"-
"First Smoke" - then -
"Mutant Jason, Rachel's Kierra, Karin's
Missy, Michaella, (and Glenn Carroll)
are dead from teenage car crimes".
Yes/no, 99% certain, and Leroy's ill.
- Terrible, Horrible, Awful, (not 'Tragic' -
- not Fated but bloody stupid bad luck).
How to compare Free Kierra snow-balling
or bare-back horse-riding,
with thousands of wasted innocents
in Angola, Timor, Bosnia, etc???
What is Stonehenge to you?
::::: With love from you cousin,,,
(Dice) George (Miles) march 1994.
*PS They can't kill the spirit **GONG**
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All Right? No! Bit of a lefty, my cousins. The richest 10% are secretly supporting the greens to spit the anti-cons vote 4 ways (divide and rule), so in 1997 they'd win Westminster 30:20:20:20:10 (of the 50% who get to register their vote) and pass more horrid Westminster laws (subtley brainwashed Sun'readers' etc)
OK - vote Green Rainbow locally and Euro, but when the Westminster Elections come compromise and tactically vote Lib/Lab for a hung parliament (heh heh heh!)
(though Hitler's government and Pol Pot and Timor are millions worse than Rubber Johnny and Enoch and Lady Belgrano
which is why we'd not be morally justified to use pre-emptive violence (and look at Belfast where the Troubles have worsened the lives of the poor)* Who's our worst enemy? Ourselves! *
* What's our strongest weapon? Love! *I always felt jealous missing the 60s but Woodstock was just a long weekend whereas Stonehenge Free Festival 76-84 was a week, then two, then a month... (where good neighbours become family) (Did y'hear Ken Kesey on Radio4 - wow!)
Effnic cleansing? OK, give us an island (there's a million smoke pot so give us a biggun, the Isle of Wight? (and I can think of a few don't smoke who'd join us - Allison, Jim, Sue, Krsnas, Sikhs, Quakers, most true Christians, the miners, the Cornish, Welsh, Scots, good honest country folk - damn it - we'll keep Britain - give them an island: the Falklands? (if the sheep'll have 'em) or that mythy Beatles one of Fat Sid's!
Yours (dice)George(MiddleAgeTraveller)
****PS They can't kill the spirit ****
Correction: Michaela was Lexa's Kayla.
The funerals was an eclectic epic epoch.
Stonehenge is our microcosmic literature.
Read Kool Ken Kesey's Demon Box! 64,928!
Last June I cycled (too etymological?)
Do you think they'll kill the spirit?
'Criminal Art' at Cooltan - an artists' collective occupying an old dolehouse and currently under threat - focuses on these issues in paintings, photographs, sculpture, installations and performances by over 30 artists who look at topics as diverse as motorway protest and personal freedom
Combinations of text and images are effectively used to convey both horror and fact in Terry Dennet and Shadeed Macgregor's poignant 'Eating Rough/Sleeping Rough', an evocation of the grim realities of life on the street.
The impact of Dice George's 'Stonehenge Window' - of police statements, half-concealed behind a smashed sheet of thick glass - is both chilling and brutal.
Michelle Baharier's 'English Country Garden', a lurid assembly of technicolour flowers in a derelict city setting, has a suitably edgy setting; so does Angela Aydinian's paper collage contrasting urban blight with the order and symmetry of classical architecture. In the context of this show, it is difficult to take seriously Karen Widler's admonition that 'Sweetness is the Purist Political Action' which appears to be in direct conflict with Candida Blyth's 'Brief Blue Period', and aggressive installation which features a blue-stained tampon beneath the slogan 'Sexist Art History is Criminal'.
In this exhibition, passion and argument are far more arresting than pious hope .
Emmanuel Cooper
Dear Stonehengers, What do you think NAMASTE means?
Your cousin, Dice George
Ok we want the A344 grassed up, but tomorrow close the dangerous furlong, Car-Park to 303, or at least make it one-way and no-right-turn.
By the south pavement an al-chemical new-age post, twerent there in March, perhaps marking June's sunrise, or some Wilts Council boy's dash at fame?
We jumped the northern fence, visiting the remains of the banks of the avenue of old ChalkHenge.
(dice)George (Rainbow worrier)
Dear Stonehengers,
Visiting the Avenue of Stones at Avebury,
pondering of the thousands who lived there
and built the earthworks etc...
King X saying: (in Olde Welsh): ..... "Right lads; we're clearing this land and re-arranging all these Stones :
us plebs thinking: "Oi, we live here,
our fathers' fathers built this hut,
these stones - Ow, ouch! "
**pandimensionalism**
Love from your cousin, Dice George LightShow
*Rainbow 01712670828* *********************
(c)george@dicenews.com©1996
=+= Poem from Karelia =o= Sun14May1995 = Forget faked Corn Circles Fractals or Eric Von Daniken's space-ape fictions, get into spiders - spiders are wicked thousands of ways they do their doings... Monday I saw a great web at the Stones, under a Lintel, high at the front, (But I didn't climb up - that I won't do See come and conquer, roman, dog?) A chain's strength is the weakest knot but a web's strength is flexible, man, It's OK to fail sometimes (hu)man, ((( a woman is a man with a womb))) it's the thought that counts, OK? Rubber Johnny MP PM cancelled Mayday Churchill was ousted in actual events Christ this rhyme is bloody trying! Love tin whistling in Stonehenge: "WE'LL KEEP THE RED FLAGS FLYING" Orange safety catches know Yellow fire from my biro Green is life, apples grow Blue is sky, water gray I don't believe in Indigo. Purple Hazel VE Day. *** your cousin, (dice) George ******
******************************* STONEHENGE VE DAY BOOK PROJECT I've got the black book some of us wrote in in Stonehenge Any words, photos, art, videos, information, ideas, dreams etc for a MultiMedia mag/vid/CD-R? please c/o Stonehenge Campaign 99 Torriano Av London NW5 2RX dice.george@martian.demon.co.uk *******************************
******************************* LETTER FROM KARELIA 14Sept95 Irene Claremont de Castillejo, who studied psychology with Mrs Jung and Toni Wolff, wrote: "It may sometimes be wisdom to use one's shadow deliberately. ...Christ vented his anger on the moneylenders in the temple. He knew what he was doing. We also need to know what we are doing, as it is only when our shadow comes up unbeknown that it causes mischief". Wasn't Stonehenge VE Day great! Linda Grant in Grauniad wrote: "At some protests one spies the extraordinary sight of the Union Jack, wrenched away at last from the hands of the BNP, and reworked as a Union Jill of Rainbow colours". There were also standard Union Jacks in our Stones that day, (in any war you get eager boys ready to kill for the team they happened to be born in- I empathised with the gassed at the Stoney Cross Eviction, herded like pigs to slaughter- (I'm not calling police Nazis- most are good at heart, but rusted by everyday horrors- (Register + vote tactical (Reefer to ex Festival Eyes) .....DiceGeorgeLightShow)))) Rainbow Puzzler(last reserve). *****************************
___Poem from Karelia,,,Wed13Dec95___ (Guess a colour not in the Rainbow?) We don't know who built Stonehenge or what language they spoke but now we know who built Callanish. They were widening a track for tourists on the Isle of Skye when they found some Stones: did an emergency arkeyerlogickal dig, uncovering a double cairn - the grave of the builder of Callanish. So they'll have to put it back and build their road elsewhere. One Equinox I parked by the Cottages, borrowed Louie's bike and almost got hedgehog-ed at the 303/344 junction- it's stupidly bloody dangerous (and decapitates Stones + cursus/avenue??, It should be closed forthwith (from the 303 to the carpark - tourists use the safer roundabout and triangulate by Fargo Woods). Later green it + move the carpark. +++ Love from your cousin +++ dice.george@martian.demon.co.uk (PS red light + blue = magenta)
**** Letter from Karelia **** 11March1996 **** I wanted to go to the Rainbow Circle Glasty gig but worried about leaving my bus in London - too many thieves, you know the crack; (couldn't afford to replace missing tools/toys) but then, on one level, I thought of it this way: that then I'd be a slave to my prison bus and tat: so I went, danced, and slept up the freezing Tor; but I didn't get a lift to Newbury, by chance. * Stonehenge VE Day 95 could be my centre- I've been looking at the Undercurrents video frame by frame on multimedia WWW Macs - wow! * As to the future - who knows? - dice role? I'm still parked here at Kentish Town (eX-Rainbow-Centre - what an embarrassment) while I work on the Stonehenge Internet etc. * Then MOT, eviction, follow the bus... (we've given the building back to the COE) (this planet's a church, everywhere, always) * I'll hitch to Glastonbury to listen; then 5am on the 5th of the 5th, Landism; then 1st June, if we can make BatterseaPk a media splurge with hundreds of musical happy hopi walkers the rest would follow... **** your cousin, (dice) George NFA ****
****** NEW ****** STONEHENGE INTERNET WEBSITE ******* http://www.kingsway.ac.uk/kiss/stonehenge/campaign.htm The college computer is not the greatest in the world, try it and see if it works - term ends 28th of June, ** WANTED: words, pictures, dates, help etc, CLICK.** *****************************************************
An almost complete study of UK counter culture, 1974-95: Windsor, free festivals, tipi people, Albion Fairs, Crass punks, the Convoy, Rainbow Village, Greenlands farm, the Glastonbury NewAge party, Castlemorton, Madchester squat-raves, ClaremontRd, Twyford dongas, anti-CJA-ers, Justice?, UnitedSystems...
Superb quotes, long words, footnotes and pics.
I'm glad he wrote it 'cos now I don't have to
(and I don't remember so much...
(page 23 reminds me of wild dancing at Stonehenge)).
P.S. Shannon says it's "Acts of Sense and Beauty".
================================================ ++ Letter from Karelia ++ Thu 23rd May 1996 ++ Stonehenge is a symbol - who built it? - we did. (DiceGeorge, KareliaBus, NFA by WandsworthBridge) ==================================================
Dear Squallists Squallees, and Squallettes,
It was at an early Festival that people decided to build Stonehenge .
For the record, when on June 1st 1985 Thatcher's police and 'specials' charged the hippy convoy in a grass field near Stonehenge, many tried to escape through the beanfield. If any one of the hundred-ish convoy drivers had wanted a 'battle' then he/she could'v killed cops truncheoning windows- squashed like woodlice between anuverbus at 40 m.p.h. - but not one of us did - for all our hypocrisystems we were a Peace Convoy.
May 1997 maybe Westminster elections - perhaps they'll Con us again -
else a hung parliament, Lib/Lab/Welsh/Scots, Rainbow Alliance,
Glenda Jackson PM?, a new age of consensus, justice, trust, compassion...
...and a glorious summer solstice sunrise...
Your cousin, george@dicenews.com
======================== Letter From Karelia (Fri13Dec1996) ------------------------------------ Dear Stonehengerists, Saw that Hillsborough drama/documentary on telly last week - horrorshow - I didn't believe all of it but emphasised - the ambulances locked out - horrorshow then fast cycled across London - spitting at a van that almost. ---------------------------------- Hitched from 9.30pm to 11.30pm September Equinox but no lift so last bus home to Wandsworth EcoVillage (my best summer since 1995( at least!)) Hope to get to Stones for Dec Solstice Don't relish a windy wet cold outside- (bet Arthur'd rather be out+wet tho) -------------------------------- Got me a new free website at www.geocities.com/SoHo/9000, dicenews.htm world-wide... .....your cousin,,,,,,, .....Dice George Lightshow.... =======99% fluffy =========
~~~ LETTER FROM KARELIA 12march1997
~~~ Dear Stonehengers, ~
I'm voting from Wandsworth Eco Village -
I want an open decentralised hung parliament at Westminster, with PR, EEC, UN,
etc ~
I saw somewhere the exact date of Jesus' birth, a day around 7BC
when the planets, comets and stars aligned in a special way,
(I've lost the astronomological details).
So his 2000th birthday, Millenium3, has been. ~
For me, that night up Glastonbury Tor, the 'Harmonic Convergence'
was a 'New Age Party', the Mayan New Age, wasnt it? ~
Any excuse for a
party. ~ I want to play my lightshow, (like New Years Eve in the Pilton
Pyramid, (but without troublemakers spoiling it)) And I want to play flute
and tin-whistle solo on Glastonbury Festival's Stage One for 23 minutes
on Saturday afternoon (But I'm allegedly an introvert and a pessimist
- it's their loss if I dont('want' not 'need'))) ~~~~~~~~~ (and in Stonehenge
again) ~~~~~~~~~ ~~ That hundred yards of tarmac which ~~~ ~~ CUTS Stonehenge
and its Avenue ~~~ ~~ should've been grassed up years ago ~~ Then we could
carefully repair StonehengeI by putting new white shining chalk where the
3 or 4 banks were (with an entrance south by the Small Stone Eleven (whatever
the builders called it in old Welsh)) (:} and now we've invented perspex
for the roof :-} ~~~ your cousin ~~ george@dicenews.com ~~~~ PS anywhere
I can park (or bury) an old bus please? (apart from cyberspace www.phreak.co.uk/stonehenge/psb/)
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99% FLUFFY means usually letting fools be fools,("an eye for an eye and soon all will be blind" said Ghandi (we all make mist0kes (tit for tat revenge gets worse and worse (99% non-violent but reserving the right/duty to go all the way )))))
(cycling 'cross London lots, spit at cars, Franky Morgan got killed by two)
Last summer, at Wandsworth Eco Village was the best in my life since the year before at Rainbow City (see last year's letter which I've stuck up the web (I got most of my writings and they didn't even half fill a forty pence disk- (I'm an undiscovered popstar - arent we all - wanna play solo flute on Sunday afternoon Glastonbury Stage One ( a pessimist and an introvert (so it probably won't be that bad, and it's their loss if I don't - art? - Art? dont talk to me about art - I'll tell you four colours not in the rainbow - (Dice George Lightshow - will I ever get it up again?
My bus went Inglestone -> Shepton -> Greenlands -> Wales -> Stockport -> Coventry -> WickTip -> Savernake -> convoy -> captured ->WhiteHorse ->
Pilton -> Greenlands -> South London -> left ->
Last week, pubbed, equinox midnight, hopped fence and ran through; unknown torchlight stabbed; but past->south->left->left->back to HeleStone pavement tinwhistling -> Hail Bopp!
With love from your cousin, www.phreak.co.uk/stonehenge/psb/DiceGeorge.html
PS magenta, black, white, grey, and pink.
PPS "It's never too late to have a happy childhood" (painted at Stonehenge Free Festival, 198?, up the top of the main drag, to the right of the mounds, by the blue and white tibetan marquee).
Food was planted in 'raised beds' - the land was polluted - Permaculturists make do with what is.
For seven days we worked, then on the eighth we partied - Heathens All played in the Roundhouse, builders hammered, kids energised, Channel 4 filmed, Jules glowed, the local vicar blessed, Pendragon preached, and Zoe seduced George! Many left, many arrived; the more you put in the more you got out.
Half the site we left as wilderness, the rest evolved.
In October we built a winter kitchen (food, food, food!) Decisions were made at Wednesday evening meetings, amongst the bullshit much wisdom was shared for those with open ears. One bully was asked to leave by a meeting ("tell us why you should stay"), he refused, we didn't have time to resolve this at the next meeting because we were suddenly evicted after one last Open Day with music from new Age Radio etcetera.
During the eviction they unnecessarily chainsawed ten mature trees, infuriating the locals (trees are the lungs of London).
A week later Guinness were refused supermarket planning permission - The land is bulldozed - no dens for boys or foxes or nests for birds .
That five months was like five years, thanks Bill, Charlotte, Anya, Jarrad ...
thanks y'all
The Land Is Ours 01865 722016
(dice)George
~Letter From Karelia~ Good lift to Glastonbury, danced, talked, listened (let's rebuild the chalk banks of Stonehenge I), raced Merlin up the Tor, borrowed that book off Mutoid Ritchie and scanned that picture for Festival Eye Back to Kew, cycling around London, clicking up the World Wide Web, then hitched to equinox, we picked up Arthur, to pub, fixed next September's meet, then Midnight hopped the fence and ran, torch light stabbed, but I ran through stroking Stone Eleven, then south, and back to the Hele Stone Avenue pavement, where I played tin whistle -
Hale Bopp!
george@dicenews.com
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~~~ Dear StoneyHengers, ~~~
The bestest Walk transport was that year
we used shopping trolleys, ropes, and a long
plastic tarp over our heads when it poured.
This June I cycled, hitched and walked,
to the chaos in the pub Solstice Eve,
then a lift to a Walk's campfire.
some dicey tinwhistling and jokes,
then bimbling up an old path towards
~~~~~~~~ Stonehenge ~~~~~~~~~~~
whereat police spoilsports said 'Stop'
(I did this time).
July I paid for a vehicle pass
to the Big Green Gathering,
then drove my bus out of London
to the Stonehenge trackway.
Slept in the track with a
morning view of the Stones.
Revisited the dip in the nearest Mound
where we used to firesit
and watch and hear the life of
Stonehenge Free Festivals upto 1984.
Walking up the Avenue that night,
it became clear that there used
to be two hele stones, left and right.
Then pushstart to the BGG,
then downhill to here,
Dead Woman's Bottom @ Whatley Quarries,
(5 miles west of Frome,
from Nunney Post Office up hill,
then left for one mile).
~~~ with love from your cousin, ~~~
www.phreak.co.uk/stonehenge/psb/DiceGeorge.html
(PS I want a trombone - bassy analoguess)
(PPS there's another solstice in 1997 )
(PPS congrats to Blair - the People's PM)
***************************************** ** NO LETTER FROM KARELIA ** dec97 ** The last line from september's letter "(((PPS congrats to T.Blair P.M.)))" was cut - allegedly from lack of space. I'd spent weeks writing that cheeky line: cutting it spoilt the letter's balance. (1984ish Young Liberal News changed from "Heroin and alcohol are dangerous and addictive drugs that ought to be illegal" to "Heroin and Cannabis are..." and 1985 RifRaf Poets made over 100 changes: libel - I still want "right to reply",dg. (but GreenAnarchist and others never changed a word or line-end)).- (I write "letters" or "poems" not "articles": it fences my opinions / mistakes / wordage/ prejudices / jokes / ideas / diceisms from those of the magazine, and vice versa. (see webpage dicepubl.htm) So I will not write here of Equinox, how our lot overslept by the west track and missed getting into the Stones again! love from your hypergolicky pseudographer, www.phreak.co.uk/stonehenge/psb/Dicegeorge.html ********************************************
**************************************************** Review by diceGeorge of Merrick's book "BATTLE FOR THE TREES" isbn-0-9529975-0-9 (3pounds) I feared it'd be a name-droppy list of super-heroes but no: 'twas from the heart; his story of 3 months at Newbury 1996: what he did and how it felt and how it changed him, what we want freedom from of tobacco, frozen eggs, local baths and chocolate, of sharing biscuits with security guards, of bonking quietly so's not to wake others, of a shitpit named "Rendel", of blind police, of Susanna's lockon, of danger, and burnout, of saving three trees at Mary Hare, of Josh's strange brew of roots and herbs - how will you explain it in 23 years? ********************************************
OVERDUE LIBRARY BOOKS? What is Green CND's policy on overdue library books? Should offenders be applauded as anarchists, imprisoned as parasites, or have their library tickets burned? Do we support private ownership of books and newspapers (whence deforestation)? Does CND stand for Cider 'N Drugs? Dice George, Glastonbury
