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YOU GOT TO GIT DOWN TO GIT ON UP

YOU GOT TO GIT DOWN TO GIT ON UP

on Aug 17, 2014

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Here we go now… Phase 4. I’m about to git down. Handy 3 years now since I cooked up MMM in my friend Pete’s basement. And it’s alllll good. It’s over-time to bump it up a notch, tho’. And so here we go.
From here there is only one way fwd and that’s with bigger and more consistent backing. I’ve spent every one of my own cents on this and absolutely don’t regret one single penny. But if I’m gonna git out there, I gotta git out here. So here’s where we stand:
I’m in Vancouver, Canada right now. It’s my cripplingly (I never use that word lightly) expensive but beautiful and somehow loveable home-town. And I got plans.
I’m shooting for Columbia in October – looks like the end of October now. Columbia is making more amps per-capita than anyotherplaceonEarth just now. Narco-terrorism. It’s evil and gruesome.
Those of you how have read Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ will quickly cast a nod, hold your temples and stare blankly at the tabletop thinkin’ on the regression in Colombia and Peru. You start with right-minded Left-Wing revolutionaries and end up with a Me-Me-Me Free-For-All that sounds like seagulls at a fish-packing plant. A decade ago the Taliban, too, turned up their noses at dope money. Now, no such luck.
Mikhail Kalashnikov bought the farm recently, but his unit lives on and so does everytyrant’s version of Domestic Policy.
So what starts Chiaro is now Scuro: 3 squares, an AK and a hut for my cousin and Devil take the Hindmost. It’s hard to argue with guerillas as the aforementioned AK is often involved and plus they change horses in mid-stream more often the Jacques Cousteau changed his SCUBA tanks.
Wear fatigues, hide out in the Hills, salute sharply and polish yer boots… but please, shit, don’t harm the innocents and don’t treat them as your expendable pawns. And that’s the deal in all the dope-producing provinces in Columbia and Peru and elsewhere besides.
I’m not gonna change shit. But I will certainly… most certainly, help some peeps who have already been hit.
I digress, or maybe not, cuz I haven’t even started to ‘gress’.
But here’s my current deal and I’ll shutup. Promise :
• I’m gonna go out there again come Hell or High Water by late October at the latest (prolly ‘high water’, considering)
• I’m aiming to go to Colombia but it all depends on funding
• It depends on funding, happily, because I am in talks (talks varying from desultory – even dismissive, to intense) with a few diverse Organizations with an Eagle Eye to propagating what I now view as both my vocation and my calling. I’m good at it. These Orgs, variously, have interests and activities all over the ‘developing world’ and should they foot a bill of sorts, I would, with zero hesitation, go to any of the places where they have vested interest in a red second.
• So there
• I’m tired of standing, ‘cap in hand’ on social media or in anyotherdamnedsense, looking for donations. Tho’ I will still and always gratefully take them and can readily and transparently assure peeps that the money is going EXACTLY where it is intended/promised.
• So it WILL be October, but it may be anywhere in the strife-filled world – from Haiti to the Democratic Republic of Congo, to ex-Yugoslavia, to the Burmese border country, to southern India, to the Sudan. Tragically, there is no shortage of need-bursting spots. Happily, for me, and for THEM, mirrors are Everywhere and so is my Drive.
So there you have it, friends. Wish me luck, lend me support – in any and every sense – and please, perhaps above all, Spread The Word, cuz support = awareness and awareness = RELIEF!!!

Warmly, stephen

Here we go now… Phase 4. I’m about to git down. Handy 3 years now since I cooked up MMM in my friend Pete’s basement. And it’s alllll good. It’s over-time to bump it up a notch, tho’. And so here we go. From here there is only one way fwd and that’s with bigger and more consistent backing. I’ve spent every one of my own cents on this and absolutely don’t regret one single penny. But if I’m gonna git out there, I gotta git out here. So here’s where we stand: I’m in Vancouver, Canada right now. It’s my cripplingly (I never use that word lightly) expensive but beautiful and somehow loveable home-town. And I got plans. I’m shooting for Columbia in October – looks like the end of October now. Columbia is making more amps per-capita than anyotherplaceonEarth just now. Narco-terrorism. It’s evil and gruesome. Those of you how have read Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ will quickly cast a nod, hold your temples and stare blankly at the tabletop thinkin’ on the regression in Colombia and Peru. You start with right-minded Left-Wing revolutionaries and end up with a Me-Me-Me Free-For-All that sounds like seagulls at a fish-packing plant. A decade ago the Taliban, too, turned up their noses at dope money. Now, no such luck. Mikhail Kalashnikov bought the farm recently, but his unit lives on and so does everytyrant’s version of Domestic Policy. So what starts Chiaro is now Scuro: 3 squares, an AK and a hut for my cousin and Devil take the Hindmost. It’s hard to argue with guerillas as the aforementioned AK is often involved and plus they change horses in mid-stream more often the Jacques Cousteau changed his SCUBA tanks. Wear fatigues, hide out in the Hills, salute sharply and polish yer boots… but please, shit, don’t harm the innocents and don’t treat them as your expendable pawns. And that’s the deal in all the dope-producing provinces in Columbia and Peru and elsewhere besides. I’m not gonna change shit. But I will certainly… most certainly, help some peeps who have already been hit. I digress, or maybe not, cuz I haven’t even started to ‘gress’. But here’s my current deal and I’ll shutup. Promise : • I’m gonna go out there again come Hell or High Water by late October at the latest (prolly ‘high water’, considering) • I’m aiming to go to Colombia but it all depends on funding • It depends on funding, happily, because I am in talks (talks varying from desultory - even dismissive, to intense) with a few diverse Organizations with an Eagle Eye to propagating what I now view as both my vocation and my calling. I’m good at it. These Orgs, variously, have interests and activities all over the ‘developing world’ and should they foot a bill of sorts, I would, with zero hesitation, go to any of the places where they have vested interest in a red second. • So there • I’m tired of standing, ‘cap in hand’ on social media or in anyotherdamnedsense, looking for donations. Tho’ I will still and always gratefully take them and can readily and transparently assure peeps that the money is going EXACTLY where it is intended/promised. • So it WILL be October, but it may be anywhere in the strife-filled world – from Haiti to the Democratic Republic of Congo, to ex-Yugoslavia, to the Burmese border country, to southern India, to the Sudan. Tragically, there is no shortage of need-bursting spots. Happily, for me, and for THEM, mirrors are Everywhere and so is my Drive. So there you have it, friends. Wish me luck, lend me support – in any and every sense – and please, perhaps above all, Spread The Word, cuz support = awareness and awareness = RELIEF!!! Warmly, stephen