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From WWR
'Archived on May 4, 2008' Atuuschaaw (talk) 10:36, May 4, 2008 (AKDT)
TRIBUTE TO THE 'DILLO'
I close my eyes and concentrate...I can feel the coolness of the shade from the wisteria which was draped overhead. I can smell the sweet aroma coming from the table next to mine as they pass around a big fat one. "Huh? What's that? Sure man, pass it on over this way!" I can still taste the wonderful peanut butter and bananna sandwiches with cantelope slices on the side. Ummm, those were the best! And as my mind continues to drift back to that time, I can hear the music. Ahhh! The music! Some of the best artists performing in one of the best places, and it was shared with some of the best people that I've ever had the pleasure to meet.
This place, is where the cowboys and the hippies began to find some common ground. I'm not sure if it was the music, the power of place, or whether it was just time for the people to evolve. Now that I think about it, it was a really strange unearthly place which didn't mirror any of the cultural, ethnic, or lifestyle differences or conflicts which were so prevalent in society at the time. This time I'm referring to can be called the decade of the dillo and the place was known as the Armadillo World Headquarters. The Armadillo was host to names such as Charlie Daniels, Bruce Springsteen, Emmy Lou Harris,Willie Nelson, Taj Mahal, Leon Redbone, Asleep at the Wheel, Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, Steve Fromholtz, BB King, Jerry Jeff Walker, Greezy Wheels, Edgar and Johnny Winters, Pointer Sisters, Bonnie Raitt, and many, many, more. That list is just the tip of the iceberg as this phenomena grew. With a song release from Michael Martin Murphey the name cosmic cowboy was born and outlaw country was now hip.
In Michael Allen's article he relates how the counterculture of the time had a larger impact on the cowboy culture than what most people would admit.
"Cowboys" and "Hippies" are not as different as one might think. This article explores the connections between cowboys and hippies portrayed by 1960s and 1970s countercultural musicians, moviemakers, and novelists who stressed themes of the Myth of the West and the Cowboy Code. These portrayals of "Cosmic Cowboys" show that many scholars' generalizations about the "radical" and "leftist" nature of the 1960s "counterculture" break down under close inspection. We're just a couple of free spirits driftin' across the land. Chris LeDoux, "The Cowboy and the Hippie"
On New Year's Eve of 1980, Kenneth Threadgill played the last concert at the Armadillo. I was very fortunate to just happen to be in Austin during the early 70s and I was fortunate to have a good friend who drummed for Threadgill during '73-'74 in his Velvet Cowpasture Band. This allowed me a unique backstage position during a small section of this era of the Dillo and I shall never forget how the people came together in spite of their differences. A solidarity which to this day I can't explain. But I am proud I was able to experience the phenomena which proved to me that it is possible for the people to unite and share in taking part in something which was considered impossible just a few years before!
Steve Hopson has some awesome photos of the old place featuring a lot of Jim Franklin's art.
"Armadillos and hippies are somewhat alike, because they're maligned and picked on. Armadillos like to sleep all day and roam at night. They share their homes with others. People think they're smelly and ugly and they keep their noses in the grass. They're paranoid. But they've got one characteristic nobody can knock. They survive." - Eddie Wilson (Founder of AWHQ) -
Moved a blog entry
Hi Atuuschaaw! In an attempt to give the descriptive title (rather than the date) to your blog entry of this morning the entry is now duplicated in a couple places. I'm not exactly sure how Jim's doing the behind-the-scenes blog stuff, but it looks like the feature picks up the entry upon it's creation. Hopefully, Jim will help me fix it. Anyhow, I wanted to give you a heads up about it.
If you want to fiddle with giving blog entry titles, and it does take a little bit of fiddling, see Create a blog entry.
I'm enjoying your blog entries - marvelous writing style and thought provoking content!
--sparx 05:26, November 23, 2006 (AKST)
Hey sparx and thank you so much! I'm unfortunately wiki challenged and I do appreciate the help. I read and I think I understand how to change the date into a title now. I'll try it on my next entry. And thanks for the encouragement but it's you guys at who I'm marvelling! Awesome homestead!
atuuschaaw 06:21, November 23, 2006 (AKST)
Happy Birthday from Esther!
Hey there Atuuschaaw - a warm hug and happy birthday from li'l ol' me! Thanks for your interesting, insightful blog entries. I'm glad you're a part of the Wheat Head phenomenon... you're day shoulda been special indeed! Esther 18:56, November 24, 2006 (AKST)
A big hug back at ya Esther and thanks from big 'ol me! :) And I want to thank all of you for allowing me to rant on. It's actually therapy for me...gotta get this stuff out of my head before I drown! :) My day was special! I got to participate in the audio mag while I juggled my grandkids in my lap! Priceless!
blog stuff
- You know it sure seems like I've been thanking you and Jim a lot since I got here! Sorry guys! I think I've got it now! No PUNCTUATION or MISSPELLINGS in the titles! Am I close? :) atuuschaaw 10:04, December 1, 2006 (AKST)
- After 9 years doing newspapering, I suppose I feel compelled to correct spelling and punctuation problems. We all do the best we can with it. WWR operates with a few rules as possible, I think. No worries, atuu.
smile --sparx 10:20, December 1, 2006 (AKST)
- After 9 years doing newspapering, I suppose I feel compelled to correct spelling and punctuation problems. We all do the best we can with it. WWR operates with a few rules as possible, I think. No worries, atuu.
Blog Feeds
How do the Blog Title tags get added? I see all the old blog posts have the (Email this • Submit To Netscape • Add to del.icio.us • Digg This! • Share on Facebook • Google Bookmark This • Slashdot This • Fark It • Blog This • Furl This • Subscribe by email) added to the title. Is there something I should be adding to the posts so these will show up when the page is saved? Or is this a sysop thing? atuuschaaw 06:11, December 2, 2006 (AKST)
- Yup, it's sort of a sysop thing. They don't get added until I create a new RSS feed, which I do manually. I do it manually so that I can read blog entries and make sure they're not spam before releasing them to our tens of thousands
wink of readers. It sometimes takes me several hours (especially when it's night and I'm sleeping) to get to the manual update. BTW, I enjoy your entries even if I don't always have time to completely delve into the details.thumbsup Jimbob 2.0 10:52, December 2, 2006 (AKST)
Beautiful webpage
Your page is absolutely beautiful. If there was an award for great pages, you'd get one. I really really enjoy looking at it and clicking on everything. I'm glad you're here... Jimbob 00:09, December 6, 2006 (AKST)
- Thanks Jim, but I can't take credit...the source of this river began in the headwaters of sparx! :) My apologies to all, as I never did excell in the english language (maybe a southern thing). But yet here I am trying to learn markup language while I continually attempt to get a handle on the english language. I'm straddling a four wire fence while tip-toeing in two entirely different paradigms! I've always thought life was just another math problem and the secret to solving the problem begins with simplifying the equation. So through that logic I've apparently become simple minded. :) You know how us folks down here talk. And there's no room in markup language for colloquial expressions. In the south, there is no need to use more words than needed in order to get your point across! So we shorten them up. We can take a sentence and extract the pure essence of the sentence into a short, yet concise, phrase. Such as this sentence: In my humble opinion, the facts dictate that this is indeed true and therefore I definitely agree with your premise completely! So that sentence can be summed up, summarized, hacked, and shortened, and we just have to say: Sho-nuff! viva WWR atuuschaaw 01:14, December 6, 2006 (AKST)
Secret Wheatie
No problem at all Atuuschaaw - your package may well have arrived in plenty of time - it's just that I can't get to the PO on a regular basis at the moment. I look forward to getting there someday though and picking up the package. In the meantime, just your being here and letting us all see that big white beard is wheat enough for me!
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::rotfl If I had of known you were that easy to please I could've saved myself a lot of postage! atuuschaaw 00:43, January 28, 2007 (AKST)
Thanks
Just been watching the videos on your page...thanks. And know that a major reason I do the "behind the scenes" work to keep this site running is because of people like you and the way you speak out in writing on this site. I admire your courage and the respectful way you are able to make your points while still not alienating other community members.
When I started out I wanted this to be a place of respite for those of us who are exhausted by the inundation of mainstream media and right-wing thinking. Unfortunately, more often than I care to see, things are published on the site/chat that clearly demonstrate that goal has not been reached. I cringe to think of the number of times each week I just close my browser and quietly leave the site in mild disgust.
So when I see what you have done, it brings me more joy than I can possibly express. Thank you. Jim 19:51, March 23, 2007 (AKDT)
- Well heck, thanks Jim! But it's your "behind the scenes" work that inspires me to contribute in some way...even if it's in the form of what seems to be absolute lunacy. My contributions are very small in regard to the "big picture" as they say. I've found that those "behind the scenes" jobs are usually the most time robbing and labor intense projects that we will encounter. The vision of a better, more sustainable direction for humanity is key to the volunteerism needed to help make the vision become reality. The trick is in maintaining a level of activism or participation without coming face to face with the infamous "information burnout"!
- As a member of a building trades union, my first participation on the web began in the world of union reform because of the growing undemocratic, corporate mirrored practices within organized labor. What the reformers have taken to calling, Business Unionism or Biz-Union for short. I've seen many friends reach the point of burnout, myslef included! When you constantly wade through corporate waste, prejudgement, and the stench of injustice...it's hard not to become overwhelmed. And the fight for more democratic practices within busines as well as within our unions, left most of us active reformers with only ourselves as allies. But I have found that within groups or communities, we will always have people of different social and religious beliefs, opposing national or international viewpoints, and political persuasions. But there are times in spite of our shortcomi
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday, Atuuschaaw! All the best to you in the coming year! 
Fine-line 10:16, November 24, 2007 (AKST)
Happy Birthday Atuuschaaw!! 
DogNut 14:08, November 24, 2007 (AKST)
==Role of Humour in our lives+
Atuu, you have just put up a very pic of Jim crossing a road. Such timing. I sense a little unease in WWR over the last week or two, what with Zben and KLAW and all. Me, I'm happy to go with Jim's decision, as it is not mine to make anyhow, but it sure has quietened things up somewhat. So you bit of humour releases a little tension. Thank you! Peterdale NZ time Thursday 0942 10 January 08.
Suggested listening
Atuu, I placed a recording of one of Robin's newest songs called Buffalo Creek on the web. It's a 5Mb download, when you get a chance, have a listen. Cub Driver 07:18, February 15, 2008 (AKST)
::hand6 Thanks so much for sharing this Cub! That is absolutely awesome that the family takes it serious and keeps the wishes of the elders! And I sincerely hope the Hopper family remains the caretakers of the Seneca legend and of Buffalo Creek for generations to come! Atuuschaaw
Tim Mason CD
Hey Atuu - quick note ... thank you for the CD order ... hope you were able to hear the audio magazine of Timothy Mason - it was excellent. Anyway, he had left before your order arrived so he wasn't able to sign it. Sorry. But he'll be through again I think and he can sign a piece of paper for ya then! Jimbob 20:08, February 15, 2008 (AKST)
- Thanks Jim! Yes, I did listen to the recording! Awesome! Hate that I missed it! We've just been so busy with poor ol' Ma, haven't had much time for much else! Just have Tim sign across the front of one of those Benjamins, and send it on down this way!
::;) Atuuschaaw
A New Personal Template To Help You Out
Atuu after noticing your situation of regularly talking to yourself I created and will post this template in chat to like "poke you with a stick". Hoonah 13:53, February 18, 2008 (AKST)
Template:Atuu Land
Thought you might appreciate this use of a wiki
Hey there - saw this posted today on boing boing and thought you might appreciate it. Steal This Wiki
- Thanks Todd! Actually I ran up on STW months ago, and brought it to sparky's attention. After that I kind of forgot about it. But I have joined up with the folks there now. Although I have yet to begin participating in a respectable way!
::;) Atuuschaaw 03:25, February 21, 2008 (AKST)
How to do tag typos
I think you're trying to get people to the right page if they create a tag "Mood|uplifting" when it should be "Mood|Uplifting". I don't want to encourage multiple names for the same thing (I don't think) yet because I haven't had time to test/think it through. (It could be a wonderful thing because we could finally use multiple words to all point to the same emotion or it could be terrible because technically the counts etc. don't get updated etc.) If that's what you're doing though, a coupla of them got into senseless loops ... I think what you want is:
#REDIRECT [[:Category:Mood Love Sick]]
on the page Category:Mood Love sick
Jimbob (talk) 06:46, March 1, 2008 (AKST)
- Oh you give me way too much credit there Jim!
::;) But I do see what you're saying and I appreciate the clean up Bro! I found those few red links on a list this morning. On a list that I hate to admit, that I can not find now! Sheesh! I should have had my coffee before I started editing...that was the first mistake!:) Atuuschaaw (talk) 07:11, March 1, 2008 (AKST)
Folk Alliance
I created a page for Folk Alliance. Please add to and modify as necessary since you know more about it. Thanks! Kelli (talk) 08:36, March 2, 2008 (AKST)
Thank you Atuuy, Sweetie, for your birthday wish. What a kind man you are, truly. I happen to read that you and your brother were standing up for your Mama's home structure. I hoped that worked out in her favor. Good effort! ReWoven (talk) 10:32, March 20, 2008 (AKDT)
