I thought I was going to quit drinking coffee in Vienna.

I'm an idiot.

Transformers Were Invented in Pittsfield

BullDia
Originally uploaded by douglasstruth

Did you know that? This is one of the earliest versions. It was filled with PCB, which was thought to be a kind of nutritious lubricant back in the old days. These things are worth a fortune now.

one great song

Dave Van Ronk's Mack the Knife

As Above So Below

Originally uploaded by douglasstruth

We humans, we're just in the middle of everything. It's up to us whether we send it up, or down.

have a nice day

I love the what appears to be a third eye on this guide. someday we'll shake hands, fellows well-met, and tell stories of the old days, and laugh, laugh, laugh.

Remember the time... he'll say, and I'll say, No.

Rusty

Rusty
Originally uploaded by douglasstruth

I remember the day long ago, in Portland OR, when the People of the Wall revealed themselves to me for the first time. They warned me: don't tell others about us. They said that not out of worry that they might be generally revealed to the world at large, but, as is usual with them, out of concern for my well-being. "No one will believe you," they said. "You'll be committed."

I'm so glad they were wrong. But maybe it means that no one believes anything I say.

Noble Toad

Noble Toad
Originally uploaded by douglasstruth

Don't you wish you had one of these old Douglass Truth Institute Tshirts? I do. All gone, gone, gone. Being used now, I suppose, to clean carburator parts for an old Briggs and Stratton lawn mower engine. Or dusting the parlor. Or sent somewhere, ignominiously, as part of a bale of cotton to be used in paper-making. No one knows what happens when you die.

sun needed

IMG_1861
Originally uploaded by Teahouse of Danger

my toes are complaining about having to be inside shoes all day long. here they are relaxing in Paul Graubard's Pittsfield art studio.

I told him I was working there.

I'm doing this instead of figuring out what the opening for my show is. It's the hardest part, you know. A couple of bad jokes in the beginning and you're saying, like Moms Mabley, "well, you might not like it now, but you'll be glad when it's over..."

The Douglass Truth Institute

Feels like a renaissance is in the works. The Institute is weed-grown, paint-chipped, silent. The cafeteria echoes with the olden sounds of happy, dynamic students. But now.. now... perhaps spring comes for the Truth as well. A ver.

VIDEO!

At long last, we got the Lantern video edited.


check it out! We're really really going to make a real movie out of this story some day.

Scene from maybe my favorite movie. Something about the corporate/government talk in this movie is so accurate, and in its precise way says something profound about the old world which is soon to be gone...