PIK'S GOLDEN SLIPPER

I just heard that P.W. Botha died. I had to think for a minute. Who was P.W. Botha?. Then I remembered his nickname was Pik and he wore golden slippers. I had written a poem inspired by the evil bastard back in 1985.

Pik's golden slipper
Steps gently 'neath the canopied elm-
The myth of the realm satiated in early light.

Cokenosers, aciddrippers, headachers, skinsplitters, bonegrinders of the uppercrust covered in the stick, leaf and dew of NIGHT.

Showers of a happy mood
Showers of a summer's news in Johanesburg, in Bethanie....on the farm.

The hair and fabric of another time. An ideology of nostalgia- year and year and year in and out, sending butterfly and bead spewing out my mouth- heartbeats of love.

The wising and wishing for another passion.
(A lexicon of fashion).

The rise of sincerity in "The Family of Man" (in the future) fried like the armies of the world...in the pan.

A passion for morals or
Morales

A knowing of the score
And once more, an interdiction of complacency...an intuition of WAR.

MO
1985

FALL

Fall turkey hunt 2005. Photo: MC Brown

GUITAR

Hoyer f hole. Photo:MC Brown

OUTHOUSE

Wearing church vestments, sitting outside church outhouse- 2005. Photo: MC Brown

BACK

Back tattoo with congregants initials- Richard Hoffman, Greg Bershad and Michael "Baby" Gregor Photo: MC Brown

JOB

Roof rip. Dave Smith crew.

SPIRAL

Staircase in church 2005 Photo: MC Brown

LIMBO

Performance "Valium'o Fun at Limbo Lounge NYC 1984

THE WORLD

Performance @ The World NYC 1986

SEMINARY

Class lecture @ Pacific School of Religion Berkeley, CA 1983

BONAPARTE'S RETREAT

Spoken word performance ABC NO RIO NYC 1985

DRAWN LIKE PICASSO

Written and performed by Mike Osterhout

CBGBs

Purple Geezus lead guitarist Jerry Williams @ CBGBs 1989

MISSIONARY SANTA

Handing out Missionary cards, dressed as Santa Claus in front of an upside down cross, placed in the rented JC Penney Dept. store windows. SF 1978

COW IN THE CORN

Written and performed by Mike Osterhout

BABY-LOVE

Written and performed by Mike Osterhout

A LITTLE BLOG HISTORY

I wanted to break character on this blog in order to bring you up to date on all fronts. If you are new to this site you can learn way more than you want to know about me by going to Luckymike.blogspot, Christmo.blogspot, Parishitler.blogspot and Glenwild.blogspot. Holylgm has served as a kind of scrapbook/song journal, while the others are more narrative. I'm presently updating my image catalog (putting old slides on disc) and soon will have more pics for here. In the meantime- turkey season just opened up, I'm working a full week in Stone Ridge for a NYC couple on a house renovation, I have a torn tendon in my left arm, a cyst on my lower back and am growing out my hair and beard once again. The leaves are changing and I have most of my wood in for winter. The other day I saw a bear disappear into Claude Osterhout's corn field in Stone Ridge and got permission to hunt there. Paris and Nicole (the cats) are well and send their love. All for now, XMO

BAR

Models @ Old School bar. Photo: Kern

SANDY RIVER 500

Wreck racing in Maine.

ESAK

Esak and Duke arm wrestling- Phillips, Me.