Gorilla Radio for Monday, July 30, 2007

by C. L. Cook

Remember? The phone rang early that day. It woke me up. It was my brother, excitedly telling me to turn on the Teevee, saying: "The World Trade Center has collapsed!" I watched for a while, then went into the yard to smoke a cigarette.

 

The lady that lived under the stairs was beaming; she was an East German retiree, whose annual vacations to Cuba were as much a pilgrimage as they were a holiday, (and who I suspected of being a former communist spy).

 

 

 

 

The fact she was an aged East German spy meant less to her then than the collective Germanic memory of Hitler, and the mechanism he and his Nazis used to make of the republic a dictatorship. Phil Rockstroh is a self-described auto-didactic, gasbag monolist, poet, lyricist phiolosopher, and author of numerous articles and essays published across the internet and one I pulbished at Pacific Free Press.com I titled: 'American Reichstag,' while its author calls 'Tales of Angst, Alienation and Martial Law: Roasting Marshmallows on the American Reichstage Fire to Come.' Phil Rockstroh in the first segment.

And; is there transcendance from the Sturm and Drang of the times we happen to live in? Is there a way we can make of our short lives lived here and now, more meaningful than we are so far doing? Are we hurting the world through our daily actions, and if so, can we do things in another way, so we don't hurt the planet and the creatures on it? Yes, there is; and we are; and we can! Joseph and Zach Borkovic are the father-son force behind Earth Spirit, a Cowichan Bay-based endeavor to make a difference. Joe and Zach Borkovic and getting the earth spirit in the second half.

And; Janine Bancroft can't join us this week, but she'll be full of stories when she gets back from her summer travels next week. But first, Phil Rockstroh and tales of angst, alienation, and martial law.