[SkateDC] Holy cow, he's still dead!

Thu Aug 16 13:46:14 EDT 2007

Nah, no one can ever rival El Vez for pure inspiration:

http://www.elvez.net/evFrameset.html

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Justin Resnick" <justin.resnick at gmail.com>
To: <skate at skatedc.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [SkateDC] Holy cow, he's still dead!

> Let's not forget, however, that the soul of the King still lives in that 
> of
> DC's own King Blelvis.  If you are yet to meet the man, you are yet to
> experience one of DC's lesser-known legends.  How can you rectify this
> injustice you ask?  Go out for a couple of beers in Adams-Morgan or Mt
> Pleasant and you greatly increase your chances.  And if you really want to
> have some fun with him, do your research and pull out a really tough one 
> for
> him, not that it'll be that tough.  For more, see:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/13/AR2007081301133.html
> .
>
> On 8/16/07, Susan Burgerman <susan at burgerman.net> wrote:
>>
>> Lordie, Mojo Nixon, ain't that a jolt from the past.
>>
>> Full disclosure: at the time of Elvis's apotheosis I was a mellow yogini
>> meditating in an ashram in Malibu; news of the event didn't reach me at
>> the
>> time. Didn't have much impact when it did, either, as I have no
>> recollection
>> of when I learned that the King was dead (long live the Prince). I'm sure
>> it
>> must have been after I left aum and decided I could be mellow when I'm
>> dead.
>> I did not cry. Elvis is everywhere.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Emily Bennett" <citiskate at yahoo.com>
>> To: "Andrew Baxley" <baxlap at msn.com>; <skate at skatedc.org>; "Carl Ford"
>> <ford at dcaccess.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 2:16 AM
>> Subject: Re: [SkateDC] Holy cow, he's still dead!
>>
>>
>> >I was a wee small slip of a girl in Cincinnati, riding in the back of my
>> >family car:
>> >
>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Country_Squire
>> >
>> > Dad at the wheel, Mom riding shotgun, me watching the passing trees and
>> > powerlines, my brother and sister hitting each other as usual, when
>> >
>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLW
>> >
>> > broke the news.
>> >
>> > Being a wee small slip of a girl, Elvis didn't mean all that much to 
>> > me.
>> > Later, Mojo Nixon was the apostle that brought me to the path of
>> > enlightenment:
>> >
>> > http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gopc3fgnXDw
>> >
>> > Rest well, E.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message ----
>> > From: Andrew Baxley <baxlap at msn.com>
>> > To: skate at skatedc.org; Carl Ford <ford at dcaccess.net>
>> > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 1:01:50 AM
>> > Subject: Re: [SkateDC] Holy cow, he's still dead!
>> >
>> >
>> > Holy cow?!?!  Let us not invoke the catchphrase of Phil Rizzuto so soon
>> > after his passing.  Instead, let us mourn his passing by celebrating 
>> > his
>> > work ethic and leaving a baseball game at the 7th inning stretch, when
>> > Scooter would regularly check out of Yankee games to beat the traffic.
>> >
>> > Anyway, correction:  Elvis Aron Presley died on August 16, 1977 at the
>> > tender age of 42 in an upstairs bathroom at Graceland.  With his pants
>> > around his ankles.  With a chalky, impacted colon that was estimated by
>> > coroners to weigh 22 pounds.
>> >
>> > But enough of the sordid details, let's get to what really
>> matters:  Where
>> > you when Elvis died?  Did you cry?  After all, he was THE KING!
>> >
>> > Me, I was at hockey camp learning to play goalie on skates for the 
>> > first
>> > time in Guelph, Ontario. One of my fellow campers, Ray Shero, is now 
>> > the
>> > GM of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
>> >
>> > At that point, to me, Elvis was just this old goober who did "In the
>> > Ghetto."  So I didn't cry.  But I was introduced to The Sun Sessions
>> > within the next few years.  I then was made aware that all light, all
>> > truth, all wisdom, nearly all that I hold sacred was contained therein.
>> > Yes, The Sun Sessions are tablets from the mount.  While much of his
>> later
>> > catalog is spotty, pre-Army Elvis kicks ass like little before or 
>> > since!
>> > So blast it, in THE KING'S honor later today.
>> >
>> > "So playing rock 'n' roll makes you feel like a preserved moose?"
>> >
>> > -- Marti diBergi
>> >  ----- Original Message -----
>> >  From: Carl Ford<mailto:ford at dcaccess.net>
>> >  To: skate at skatedc.org<mailto:skate at skatedc.org>
>> >  Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 11:14 PM
>> >  Subject: [SkateDC] Holy cow, he's still dead!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >  Thursday August 17 marks an anniversary of sorts.  A man named Elvis
>> > Aaron
>> >  Presley died on this date 30 years ago.  In a most, um, undignified
>> > position.
>> >
>> >  And 30 years later, despite the wishes and hopes of some very
>> unbalanced
>> >  individuals, he appears to be still dead.
>> >
>> >  Holy cow, indeed!
>> >
>> >  --
>> >  Carl Ford
>> >  ford at dcaccess.net<mailto:ford at dcaccess.net>
>> >
>> >  "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your
>> government
>> > when
>> >  it
>> >  deserves it." - Mark Twain
>> >
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