 TERMITE's ELECTRICITY SHUT OFF !!!! Steve d. to blame !!!
TERMITE's ELECTRICITY SHUT OFF !!!!
BECAUSE OF STEVE D. THE ASSHOLE WHO ALMOST GOT US EVICTED IN MARCH
mister steve d. is back again. sunday 7th he came by the house to scream insults at two termites as they left the house to go down to the quarter. They ignored him, which is the advice i give all termites now a days, cuz talking to him is useless. then this morning the national guard and the electrical cherry picker came by and snipped our electricity. its dark in here now. termites are franticly groping around for candles and curiously smelling the rotting crap in the fridge get moldy.
For those of you who haven't met termite and vines evil arch nemesis in person; imagine a late thirties righteous psychopath asshole. now double what your imagining until he assumes cartoon like proportions. steve likes to come by the house every few weeks and threaten us and call us things like "druggies" "junkies" "queers" "faggots" "freaks" "ugly dykes" and of course "rich white kids with nice teeth". finally getting our electricity cut off is an amazing victory for Steve cuz his favorite thing to yell at us is: "you cant be living in that house with no utilities cuz its gonna burn down the neighborhood"
he cant actually be talked to. he just comes on our lawn and screams insults. most of the time if you try to talk to him he just freaks out worse trying to bait people in to getting in to an insult fight with him. once i told him that i knew who he was, specifically that hes the lowly secretary of the mid city neighborhood organization, that he doesn't live anywhere near our house but his mother Ursula has a house 2 blocks away(her house is boarded up and empty now.) that he has a brother who is a Sargent in NOPD 1st dist, sometime he can be seen biking arround garden district in a stupid looking spandex outfit.
TRYING TO AVOID GETTING EVICTED A SECOND TIME
tHIS new no electricity thing is sucks but not really that big a deal. I'm feeling kinda optimistic actually in that the guard shut off our power and then left. they wernt even here for 10 minutes. this plus recent peace talks with the guard in our area shows that possibly, just maybe, all the signs and documents posted all over our front porch, and our file at city hall, might actually be working to protect us from loosing our house !!!.
Termite and Vine is legally in my possession. i have consent of the title holder to take over his property, and i have a corporeal possession filed at city hall giving me the complete legal protection from trespassing charges, the ability to control who is on the property, and the right to renovate the house.
however, we are still technically not fit for habitation until we pass our inspection (but we do have a building permit), we dont have proper utilities yet, and the police have told me when i met with them in the spring, that squatter's rights are civil law that is decided in court. the police are only interested in criminal law. what that means to us is that the police will come harrass us if they get complaints about us and we might wind up in a big long terrible court case. The outcome of such a court case is in no way certain as laws are only as good as the people you hire to argue your case for you.
so TERMITE has to watch her step for the next little while
we have good relations with several of our neighbors including our favorite long time allie Omar. Steve is not our neighbor, hes some bored psycho whose been complaining about us to the stormtroopers since summer 06. the police say they wont come around unless they get complaints. the guard we've dealt with a little bit. i'm known to the night patrol for our sector. the MP patrol our neighborhood in 3 different 8 hour shifts. and its almost always the same 4 guard on patrol for each shift. our nighttime guards are two 30 ish white dudes from the mid west, one big guy, one skinny guy with a name kinna like "pinula". they alternate between driving MP cop car MP75 and Hummers. they've pulled me over a few times and i've actually satisfactorily proved to them that i "own" termite with my huge pile of amazing documents i have. in fact, i recommend that if your harassed by the guard in our neighborhood, try name dropping that you work at the house on duels street.
by the way, nobuddy lives at termite. termite is not a residence, its a construction co-operative. members work here doing work share skills stuff and co-op things and stuff. all members are free to hang out out termite when they're not working, and store their stuff here.... etc.
electricity TURNED BACK ON AFTER HALLOWEEN ?
we've gone without 'tricity before. this shit no big woop. we had no 'tricity from nov'05 to april '06 !!! me and the current 8 "co-op members" are gonna sit arround in the dark for a while and eat cold canned food and maybe borrow a generator for a minute.
I almost avoided this whole problem this weekend, as i have begun assembling a TEMPORARY ELECTRICAL POLE. THE TEMP POLE is a fuse box on a pole that construction sites set up for job site 'tricity. ours is almost done and it cost me about $100 to make. this week we're gonna try to put it up and get it approved by the inspector. thats probably gonna wipe out about half of my pay check for the past two weeks (i would have built this pole 2 weeks ago but i been real busy working on my dishwasher career). after we get ok'ed by the 'spector, then we can open an account at the power place. this might be a bit of a problem as i'm a Canadian and most of us have shitty credit. i'm anticipating a complete horror show of stupid connection fees and bullshit deposits. Also, once we actually start having real people electricity, we're prolly gonna be facing a bill around $100 a month. and i'm gonna have to go around to all you miserable little lolly fucks and shake you down for your socks full of quarters you busked for and take them away to power the ceiling fan.
we're also accepting donations for the turn on the ceiling fan fund. and hey, i was just starting to install ceiling fans in ALL THE BEDROOMS !!! godammit.
more info on how much this is gonna fucking cost us later this week when I've made a million phone calls for a minute.
PLEASE DON'T COME VISIT US THIS MONTH
i feel terrible about this, but if you can make other arrangements for your shelter when you arrive in morteville for the helloween influx, please consider:
TERMITE IS UNDER SKETCHY STEVE POWERED NATIONAL GUARD SURVEILLANCE
OUR ELECTRICITY IS SHUT OFF UNTIL AFTER HALLOWEEN
WE ALREADY HAVE 8 "CO-OP MEMBERS"
theres a few of you who I've talked with in the past few weeks about coming home, y'all lollyfucks who were here back in the spring when Steve got us evicted. you kids, you know who you are, i could never say no to and if you show up we'll squish you in. WE SHOULD BE FINE ONCE WE LAY LOW A WHILE AND GET OUR ELECTRICITY LEGAL, THE GUARD DON'T SEEM TO BE INTERESTED IN HARASSING US BUT STEVE TOTALLY DOES. WE'RE NOT INVULNERABLE. WE'LL BE SOLID ONCE WE BEAT THIS ELECTRICITY BULLSHIT.
SOME other NICE PLACES TO STAY :)
- Apparatus : (queer nerds)
- The NEW music street house : (allegedly stumps is gonna build a shack in their yard)
- Brick yard / Rice factory : (quarter squat)
- the K family : (for friends of the K's)
- Piety and desire land : (circus punks)
- under the burnt out docks.
-and theres some other secret hiding spots. if anybuddy wants to squat camp a big warehouse on the industrial canal, ask me about it in person and i'll show yeh.
WERE trying to remain optomisitic. I've been wanting to put this pole up for over a month. legal electricity is another giant step towards solidifying our hold on termite and making our house look good and our possession look tight. AFTER we get 'tricity we can have exterior lights to make the neighborhood look more lived in, we'll have proof of bills and proof of improvements. and the next step after this is our spring building inspection. soon we'll have so much legal electricty that we can make a 30 foot high blinking santa claws x-mas thing on the roof for the holidays. onwards and upwards.
OTHER FACINATING TERMITE NEWS !!!
WHISKY IS FREE
as you may have heard by now whisky is out of jail !!! mad marullo let wix go after serving 2 and a half months of a 18 month sentence... possibly because wix is a sweet heart and the jail is overcrowded to hell. they need space for more economicly viable prisoners, drug offenders whose fines can bring in some stacks of c notes for NOPD to rebuild their stuff. i actually want my local police to get a new police station cuz they all work in a trailer right now and i think they'd be less jittery and twitchy if they had some more leg room and could poop in a flush toilet.
Wix has a million years of probabtion and has to take 100 piss tests. he shaved a fake comb over in to his head and is getting a job as a janitor.
RIDE ME DIRTY FACE !
IN RESPONSE TO THE FACT THAT BRODIE MACARONIE NOW HAS A TOTALLY wikked neat o art career were he gets to be in american photographer magazine and nerve and stuff, and because i've been talking shit about making queer punk porn for years, we're quite possibly going to try to generate ridemedirtyface dot com. the pron version of brodies photography. this will enable us to kick the following kinds of ass.
1. we will become rich by exploiting you filthy little traveller kids.
2. you can get mad dog and twenty dollar bills for being in porn !!
3. me and brodie get to be "porn industry" and that means we get to go to weird parties and every new person we meet we're gonna look you up and down all creepy like yiz a piece of meat
4. more better hot queer punk porn in the world
5. recontextualises macaroni's work, ie: that macaroni is frequently called out for either being exploitive of his subjects, or accused of staging the pics. now we have the opertunity to do both. except in a reverse postpostmodern kind of way.
this will be after we get the lights back on though... we need lights for the film equipment.
expect lots of weird art porn crap direction from me. like fight f*cking and vacuum cleaner taxidermy sex and stuff.
The Ceramics Store
You may have heard the rumor that termite acquired the store across the street and also a few other houses. this isn't exactly true. we have an opertunity to acquire these buildings and have begun a process of filing claim on them at city hall but we're just starting to look in to the matter. I've been talking to some people about partnering on that project and these howses aren't going to be turned in to termite part 2. at least not now. we cant really move on these other properties until after termite herself is secure, which means after we get our certificate of occupancy/appropriateness. which will be next winter if we're lucky. untill then we're just trying to claim the property and maybe give it a coat of paint to keep developers from tearing it down.
stay tuned.
GINGER BREAD HOUSE TO REOPEN ?
even once we get out electric back on, we cant have total open door on termite. we will always take in travelers, but what i'm trying to do now is put doors with locks on the rooms and get people to commit to being partners and having long term residents. in short, termite is a big house and can hold 8 very comfortably, 12 with a little squishing, but last mardigras we had 24 fucking people and i got about 2 hours of sleep a night and there was that one night when i came home and two people were having sex in the kitchen next to someone bleeding to death. yes, that night was completely awesomely hilarious, but we cant have the population go over 12... it's to fucking hot right now... just the thought of enduring mardi gras without a certificate of appropriateness scares the poop out of me. i promise though: once we get clear title of termite, we will erect a huge shit pile beehive in the back yard and y'all can skitter all over it and have bon fires and shoot chikens with bow and arrows and shit.
so what this means is that a few kids are thinking of reopening the gingerbread house squat, or perhaps a new house.
this is the hand written log from 1909 showing our land getting sold to by hypolite greller to the french men who started the grocery store.
lostetta pukerella in the conveyences office (theese books are the index to the notarial archive upstairs)
Termite loves her lollyfuck family, and i personally am willing to do city hall searches and help people with options for "semi - legalized squatting". Louisiana actually has some very clear and attainable squatters rights laws and one of the shortest corporeal possession periodes in the nation. for more info on legally taking possession of abandoned property in the state of LA check out blightbusters.com . do it soon cuz NORA who own the website, have decided they hate squatters now and they're gonna take this site down soon.
i'll also loan people tools and building materials within limits... c'mon kids !! Termite had 24 fucking kids living here last spring and means that this city needs more houses for lollyfucked traveling kids, time travel detectives, and employment impaired busker trash. go squat stuff.
LOLLY FUCK CITY
IN 2012 WE'RE GONNA FOUND A small city. its gonna be made of waste materials from construction in nawlins. we're talking about it being in TN. its gonna be a bunch of crappy leaky shacks in a forest and there will be a few acres of cucumbers grown as our principal export. i'm gonna kidnap my top 6 wingnuttiest friends and make them the government. its basicly a BACK TO THE LAND project except we're gonna populate it entirally with lolly fucks and wing nuts. it will probably fail in some insanely catastrophic way but that will be entertaining. so starting 2012 you'll have the option of coming to our town and doing cucumber harvest !!!!!
i want to call it Cucumbervania.
MISS ROCKAWAY ATE MY DRILL BITS
so i just got back from a weekend jaunt up to the rockaway armada. the boats are beached for maintenance in st-louis right now. some of you might remember that i was signed on to be maintenance and performance crew all summer but never went cuz of termite obligations and this silly nonscence where i got in an iron pipe fight and went to jail for a minute.
I sent a ton of neat stuff up there, tools and equipment and performance stuff. and i am happy to say that as of this weekend i have managed to get OVER %18 OF MY PERSONAL BELONGINGS BACK !!!
so my drill bit set got used up... and my socket set got assimilated... my bolt cutters are gone forever cuz people just borrow the fuck out of those...
i found my psych meds and my piercing equipment, Kaitlin hummingbird has them in NYC but shes traveling. any info on how to contact her would be nice.
Kids tell me that all my puppets are in st-louis somewhere with Charles. I don't know who Charles is but i'd like to get his contact info please. my puppet friends, cellieellery and crockidaligator and the head of ludkmilla, are all really really really important to me. they were living in a leather motorbike side bag.
also does anyone know how to get in contact with Nick Bulbundiao in columbia MO? or if someone at least could tell me the real way to spell his last name that would also be a help. its my understanding that ellery neon sold his mom my electronics laboratory for $1 a pound. i think he also has my artists portfolio that has all my favourite art in it. i need that back cuz it has an unfinished zine in it and material i wanted to show at a Lostetta Pukerella Vs. Brodie Macaroni art show in january-ish {thats right, fuckos}. also i know his mom bought a bunch of my broken electrical gee gaws. im looking for this thing the size of a toaster with a bunch of dials and knobs all over it. its the custom amplifier for my guitar frankenstein rockula (who was smashed to smithereens when rockaway outran a tsunami) . the amplifier, named tweakerbox, is this thing i put together out of a bunch of special gizmos i'd been saving up and scrounging from all over, it would cost me about $100 to build it again and it took me 65 hours to make (done in one sitting, hence the moniker.) fuck, if tweaker box is lying in a puddle at ducky lagoon Illinois then i'll freight up there just to get her back...
has anyone seen my expensive computerised battery charger ??
how about the charge stand for my GMRS radios ?? the ones in left i Alexis's truck ?
and i dont need the exact ones returned to me, but i had a snare drum and peddle cymbal in with the marching band equip. (they were katrina-y) and i'd like them back for my kit.
i hope somebuddys using all those public transport radios for something neat, and i sent a few boxes of broken instruments and radios and speakers and stuff.tape recorders, 300 watt inverter,... all that stuff i'm glad people are using it... if anyone wants to bring some of those neat oil rig cone speakers down to me that would be nice.
i know i sent a bunch of my personal clothes up there but i cant remember what i sent. i had a leopard print nightie in there that i wore as a shirt for a year while i was traveling... its all ripped up and nasty and i've saved it from getting thrown in the trash a few times ... i'm real sentimental about it and i miss her.
anyone seen my leather work kit ??
i guess now is a good time to announce that starting next spring i plan to spend 6 months traveling the amerika looking for my old stuff i used to have.
PS: i worked pretty hard on getting solar power stuff for rockaway and even donated a few of my own smaller panels and LED garden lights. since my house is electricity less for the next few weeks if anybuddy is coming down to the city of the dead from the boat and y'all can spare a panel however small, and maybe a charge controller or a deep cycle ?? it would help 8 kids not fall through the floor holes at night.
Cory Vinegar makin' potato snacks after smoking 5 entire pounds of trim schwag.
Brandy grump is the punkest human alive. the rockaway is temporarilly beached so hippies could have a month long meeting about "twinkles" but brandy is single handedly repairing the rockaway herself, from before sunrise to long after sunset, with just gumption and elbow grease and the tools she begged me not to repossess. i was gonna steal all rockaways stuff to make up for my missing crap but then i was like "oh my gawd, yer trying to fix yer boat with just one rusty hammer a steak knife and a busted forklift pallet ?!?!?" so i had to kick her a toolbox.
dixie b.
rockaway, run aground at cement land MO.
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