In The Mess Cont... MM's Meetings/Workshops, We're Invited.

pstrong pbThe residents are in the picture,br / lets stay there with so many peoplebr / from 'M Street and surrounding areas./b/p pThat this kind of community unitybr / becomes a model for other citiesbr / and towns where citizens voices arebr / really heard and just maybe Urbanbr / Renewal and Redevelopmentbr / will have a positive meaning./p/strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Joe B./p pThursday and Friday, Oct. 18th and 19th are rush days they came and went like phantom horses mixing with the wind, galloping across sped-up flickering sky. /p pSaturday, Oct, 20, 2001 went slow as cold molasses from a frozen bottle./p pIt's 8:26 am. Market Street is still sleeping with a few street folks, parents walking taking turns pushing their infant child in a stroller, a police car making its rounds, some guy with headphones rollerblading down the street./p pWhen I begin to record these gems of regular life - no taperecorder!br / Its safely on my soft, warm, if rumpled bed. /p p Up and down the blessedly working lift, out the door with a hi-by again to the desk clerk it is now 8:34 and I know I will be late at the office 9am./p pGood! Saturday Morining to me as with rest, reading, or any kind of relaxation is sacred and is hard to find a slow phase in these fast time of 21st Century Earth. /p pGlad Mr. Stuart Brand of the of the 1960's, Whole Earth Catalog and later theCo-evolution Quarterly now Whole Earth Review in 1999 was and is working on a Clock/Library in the Nevada desert that supposedly is built to last 10,000 yearsbr / b[that’s one long hobby to be working on/b] /p pAre most of its parts made from near indestructible Timex parts? /ppSomething like this or long range-view works can help humanity appreciate a true flow of linear time, not these new nano second spliting of infinity. /p pWorking on a high tech - low slow mechanical time machine (clock) in a desert to run ten thousand years and to slow ourselves down to me is a noble endeavor and other. /p pOn the bus I'm reading "The Turd Filled Donut" of 6th.Street, this is its 8th publication. I wonder how it began? /p pMy thinking is:a couple of girls and guys pick up a donut from a thrown away pastry box full or a few donuts. /p pThey see what looks like dark and light chocolate smears but the odor betrays what really covers the donut./p pQuickly throwing it away making sure their hands are clean, one of then decides to create a publication based on the incident for Sixth Street. Laughter subsides the friends get serious and they begin working on the ugly sounding and imaged publication./p pIt sounds gross but has lots of info. /p pI wonder if that ever really happened to anyone in the past or presence. /p pBy 9:40 I'm in POOR's Office. /p pSoon a little Toyata is racing to Golden Gate Larkin St. at 455 The Hiram, W. Johnson, State of California, State Office Building of San Francisco. /p pWe are in the building by 10:07 am./p pI don't know about anyone else but it feels like one long day for me.br / It ends at 1:30 pm. /p pOutside are faint far off voices of protest at City Hall. /p pHaving no idea what its about or having an inkling I know when its time to go home read a book or two, have free lunch at St. Anthony's or Glide Memorial's Lunchroom, or get some zzzzzz's./p pI had two servings in both Glide Memorial and St. Anthony's just in time before closing then walk home belly not belly ache and get my voluntary Z-on. /p pNothing like a good hard sleep after work then waking up in time to party the night away./p pSure-you right, soon as my face hit the pillow, body under sheets I od on z's-z'd out completely, my day is done folks... Bye.br / PS- How's life treating you like a limp, rank rag or soft silk perfect?/p pPlease donate what you can to b[laptops, webcams,palms-whatever]/bbr /Poor Magazine orbr / br /C/0 Ask /ppJoe at 255 9th St.br / br /Street, San Francisco, CA. 94103 USA/p pFor Joe only my snailbr / br /mail:PO Box 1230 #645br / br /Market St.San Francisco, /ppCA 94102br / br /Email:askjoe@poormagazine. org./p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p