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 March
3 Saturday
At
1 met Christine and Lesley at Aurora and Douglas Shand, we walked
to Rob's [in the neighbourhood of the
Lakeshore General Hospital] and went to the basement.
About 1/2 hour later Steve came and we got in a car with Hugh,
3 guys and the driver (10 people in all) and we drove to Peter's
(?) house in Beaconsfield. We all went in except the driver.
They had guitars. About 3 we (Rob, Lesley, Christine and I)
left and went back to Lesley's. At 4:30 Christine left and at
6 I did too. nite-nothing.
Saturday,
3 March
...Alan
called and asked if I was doing anything tonight. I said I
didn't know and he wouldn't tell me what he did yesterday,
this afternoon, nor his plans for tonight.
[Andrew, Donna and I ended up going over to Dave's in the
evening. We sat in his basement and listened to music- John
Mayall, Leon Russell and Atomic Rooster get mentioned.]
March
4 Sunday
Met
Lesley on the highway and we walked to Rob's. Sat in the kitchen
about 20 minutes then went to the basement. Peter came, talked,
boring pretty well. Left about 5:30 and walked with Rob and
Lesley.
Sunday,
4 March
[Went
to Dave's and then to Jackie's in the evening and drank rum
& cokes]
March
5 Monday
Art-brought
in 3 of my movies (May 26-27, July 5 + Oct+Nov/72) and played
them (after some difficulty with the projector). Lunch-showed
the movies to the E block class. Andy, Ralph and Mike came
to see them, then Ralph, Mike and I went outside. Math-Andy
and I talked about my going with Lesley and friends [see
March 10, 1973].
Monday,
5 March
...Lunch-
went with Alan to watch his movies which he was showing to
his "E" Block art class- May, July and August.
..."G"
Block-English- [Rob] Griffin (88a) predicted that in '76 FLQ terror would reign...
March
6 Tuesday
Art-talked
with Lesley and Christine, stabbed Christine's sandwich. Lunch-in
the student's lounge with Lesley, Sue
[Essiambre?] and Andy. Near the end talked with
Andy and friends. On the way to my locker met Chris T, he
asked about the movies yesterday. Math-had to sit by the window,
found a Jesus Freak booklet [Moses
David and the Children of God, who's comic book-like pamphlets
were making the rounds of the school]. nite-driving
lesson from 6 to 7, went near Donna's. Parallel parking.
Tuesday,
6 March
[The
M&R retreat at the old farmhouse on Blvd St Jean. My account
is made up of the usual litany of indescribably dull detail]
(88) [Ah
Ralph, Ralph, Ralph. This reminds me of the copy of Gibbon's
Decline and Fall I have.
An editor had had his way with it (deleting sections describing
the troupe numbers in Europe)...Maddening..].
88a. from an email from Bob Kennedy, June 21 2008: Robbie Griffen - the first suburban white guy to like Barry White.
88. Ralph's note: Bob Kerr and Ernie get mentioned. My discussion
group was animated by Mike Straw- one of the founders of the
Fairview Drop-In Center and of the Emergency Drug Unit at Lakeshore
Hospital. The EDU served Alan on one occasion- can't recall
or locate the date-[see
January 21, 1972] and became a fairly regular hospice for Mike Flahault in the
fall of 1974 when his almost constant mescaline and LSD intake-
as well as a pretty bizarre personal life- led to a series of
psychotic episodes which the EDU was not really equipped to
handle. It got to the point where Mike carried around the phone
number of another of the EDU's founders, a Robert Palmer (?),
who we were to call in case Mike "freaked out". I remember having
to do this on one occasion when Mike had an episode in my basement-
Palmer showed up at around 10 pm at my house to deal with Mike-
leading to my having to do a lot of explaining to my parents.
Mike Straw was 3 or 4 years older than us, and a friend of Nicolette's.
Since his EDU days he has held various jobs in the fields of
human relations and Personnel Management, and has also become
one of the most powerful members of the Canadian National Coven
of Witches. This is true, really. I stayed around after the
all day session to help clean up and got a lift home with Peter
Taylor, an overweight guitarist who was in my M&R class who,
being a few years older than me- I assumed he was a returning
"mature student"- and considered to be really "cool", was an
object of my admiration.
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