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Bless the Beasts & Children

It is an anti-gun film before its time. Growing up is finding out that the good guys don’t always win.

In 1971 Bless the Beasts & Children exploited a unique and overwhelming sad focus on how geeks, misfits and nerds were treated. Boys go to Box Canyon Summer Camp to relax, play games and bond. Not for a group of boys that get bullied.

Bill Mumy – Lawrence Teft III

Barry Robins – John Cotton

Miles Chapin – Sammy Shecker

Hazing is a wake-up call for these boys. This film is about how badly some of us raise our children. Teaching them the wrong way to treat innocence or uniqueness. I recommend anyone with a youngster about 12 or 13 to view this film with them.

I loved this film when I first viewed it because I was coming of age and waking up to the real world too. The motif of this film fits nicely into the seventies groove, hey it was the beginning of the hardcore seventies.

The love these boys focus on together is upon the wild Buffalo. They find out that these proud and innocent beasts, almost reaching extinction, are being gunned down by sport hunters as if in a penny arcade.

They start on a journey as youngsters and transform into young men by standing up for something besides their small personal problems.; against all odds they are going to try and save the Buffalo. Growing up is finding out that the good guys do not always win.

Bless The Beasts & Children is filled with humor, intense emotions, sadness, and love. The soundtrack is peaking a seventies musical score with the hit song Bless the Beasts & Children by The Carpenters.

Yes I had a big crush on Bill Mumy…

A brief story: I co-published a music fanzine. I collaborated with others via our post office box through a real Whittier California Post Office. We included a letter section in the magazine. It took a couple of months to receive letters, respond to them, and publish them in the fanzine. It was a time-consuming process. I loved it. As you know, it is radically different now.

DETOX (RIP)

2009: Steve Pfauter (Human RIP), Hudley, and Tony Malone (RIP)

Hudley and Detox !! Steve Human and Tony Malone...

Image by Bob Cantu at the Scotland Yard Pub.

I love this oracle computer, this place!

I was once enrolled in an online course for a master’s program. I found it thrilling to express myself online. My classmates were not so thrilled. I was thrilling here and there, on campus and on the internet. They complained about it being too much extra work for them. The class meets once a month, as well, to discuss and show materials as a kind of delicate touch base.

I enjoy online engagement and find it more interesting than meeting in a classroom. I realized at this point that I found a place that I love.

Online communications are for me; MySpace and then Facebook after my experience with online courses. The world opened up to me. I met up with old friends and made new ones. I was reaching out to people from all around the world.

I am thrilled about having access to others via the internet.

During the 1980s I was one of those geeks who corresponded with Quantum Link via the 64/ 128 Commodore computer. At the time bulletin boards were popular but very underground via the computer scene. No one really understood what I found through my Commodore computer. Most of my friends did not have a clue and thought I was weird.

I joined an online group called Midnight Mystics as a host. We went online at the witching hour of 12 midnight. It was a place where I found myself inside a mysterious world where I communicated with others from across the country. It was thrilling to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Link