Cant wait to be the arm candy to my friend Wayward Bill as we head to a friends award show tomorrow. I saw somebody post something about how vein Colorado was for hosting an awards show in Colorado. WTF, do you mean? We are The New Amsterdam and we have been for many years now. Turn on your TVs. Show respect where respect has been earned. It makes me reminisce on all the shit Ive seen on the scene since I arrived almost a decade ago, a fresh faced evac-ee from a dying place at that time. I remember my X said to me the day after the hurricane, after he had lost everything hed ever known in 23 feet of water...we can go anywhere in the country...but Colorado has the best weed, right next to Humbolt county. I immediately said, Lets go. I had two suitcases. One I thought was winter clothes and one that I thought was summer clothes. And a $100 check from my mom that I had to pay back. Little did I know that as a Southerner, I indeed, in fact, owned no proper winter clothes. (Look at all the blessings Ive earned, just a decade later!) One of the first things I remember seeing on the news, despite all the commotion, was Mason Tvert and his first campaign for legalization in the city and county of Denver. My jaw went to the floor. I immediately looked up the website and became their best volunteer. My X didnt get it. He smoked more weed than me, but he didnt understand the activism. He said do something serious. But, I did do something serious I worked for 5 years for sometimes 60 hours a week for a subcontractor of a subcontractor of NASA. I touched shit that went on the International Space Station. I was serious. But when I wasnt at work, I had a dark secret. I was a radical pot activist. I did absolutely everything I could do every, waking moment I could think of it to work on getting pot legalized in this state. Along with a small, dedicated group of activists we made it our lifes work. We gave it absolutely everything we had. Some of us sold our souls, but we all put our souls into it. I saw it as a race to the moon. We had to be the first in the nation, and we had to absolutely beat California. And we did it. And I dont take back a second of it. Did I put off shit I should have been doing instead, like finish a lucrative engineering degree or think about all the time I could have spent blind dating or all the hours my mom thinks I wasted? Nope, I dont take it back for a second because every single bit of it has totally been worth it. Just to know the amazing folks that I have known (and RIP the many Ive seen die for this cause) and being able to see history change like that in only a decade is by-far one of the most amazing things I will see in my lifetime. I remember the tightness of this crew back in 2006/2007-ish when SAFER did the only Thanksgiving Fundraiser I think they ever did. They got me to go around and raise money for them, so my idea was to pin $50 to my shirt since that was the going price of an 1/8th at the time and that was what, in my opinion, everybody in the room needed to pony up to be at that fundraiser. Well, I got some people making fun of me for looking like something else, and I got hit on by Rob Kampia, but, hey, I think thats a right of passage anyway, right? and I raised nearly twice the amount that they had set out to that night. I remember a few years later they did a five year awards ceremony show and my good friend Eva was organizing them at the time. She told me that they where going to give me the award a few weeks before, but then I got in this huge fight with her. The party was fun, but for some reason they didnt have any music and I remember my friend brought in his guitar and we all sang House of the Rising Son acoustic. It brings me back to my home, the city of New Orleans, as everything always does. And my next mission is to bring this new society and sub-culture to my home town. And its already there. Its been there since 1716, since Lafite stood on what is now the levee and argued with his engineers about the practically of building a city in a bowl. It was divine. He said, this is where I want my city! https://youtube/watch?v=5A-4VGfx5lU
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:59:47 +0000
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