Feed the Cow

It has been reported "... A man wearing a Bob Dylan [an Upstart Poet] backstage pass orders $3,900's worth of pizzas in an Amherst, Mass., restaurant and then never comes back. (CBS/AP) ..."

(CBS) A man wearing a backstage pass to a Bob Dylan concert showed up at a famous Amherst, Mass., pizza parlor in the wee hours of Saturday morning shortly after the music legend put on a concert nearby and ordered 178 pizzas, according to local reports.

The problem? He never came back.

Sean McElligott, manager of Antonio’s pizzeria on North Pleasant Street said the business was “too trusting” when it agreed to fill the man's order, reports The Republican, a daily newspaper.

McElligott said the man was in his 40s and asked if the restaurant could help feed the crew. The manager then offered to drive the pizzas to the Mullins Center, but the man never returned.

The final bill for the pizzas was $3,900, and the crew stayed up until 5:30 a.m. making them while looking forward to the promised big tip, reports the Associated Press.

While some pizzas were given away, many were tossed, the AP reports.

On Wednesday, Police said believe they have identified the man who placed the order, allegedly for a Mullins Center concert crew, reports the Daily Hampshire Gazette. (SOURCE)

Is it possible the man said "Feed the Cow" instead of  "Feed the Crew?" ... Dylan must've said "Don' wan' no pizza, man..."

Bob Dylan's lost song.... Found at last

Sent in from Lost and Found Department -- by Vinnie Visconti
MooPig: Vinnie, may I call you Vinnie? ... How did you ever discover this most rare and valuable songwriter's song lyrics?

Vinnie: Call me anything: just don't call me late for dinner... I found the lyrics in a book.

MooPig: Uh, just a book?

Vinnie: Yes, it was folded up and in an old book from the reference section at the old Des Plaines Library. Also there was a receipt from the McDonalds just up the street from the old library.

MooPig: Have you speculated on what these words of the reclusive poet mean?

Vinnie: I think those lyrics are from some secret that Dylan knew about.

MooPig: Yes? What secret?

Vinnie: e-mail.

Blowin' Somethin'
by Bob Dylan

[Sung to the same Tune as the other blowin' in the ...]

Yes, and ...
> > If you have sex with a
> > prostitute against her will,
> > is it considered rape or
> > shoplifting?

> > Can you cry under
> > water?

> > How> > important does a person have to
> > be before they are considered assassinated instead of just
> > murdered? [Refrain]

Yes, and ...

> > Why do you have to "put
> > your two cents in"... but
> > it's only a "penny for your thoughts"?
> > Where's that extra penny going
> > to?

> > Once
> > you're in heaven, do you get
> > stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for
> > eternity?

> > Why does a
> > round pizza come in a
> > square box? [Refrain]

Yes, and ...

> > What disease
> > did cured ham actually
> > have?

> > How is it
> > that we put man on the
> > moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put
> > wheels on
> > luggage?

> > Why is it
> > that people say they
> > "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like
> > every two
> > hours?

> > If a deaf person has to go to
> > court, is it still
> > called a hearing?

> > Why are
> > you IN a movie, but
> > you're ON TV? [Refrain]

Yes, and ...

> > Why do
> > people pay to go up tall
> > buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at
> > things on the
> > ground?

> > Why do
> > doctors leave the room while
> > you change?
> > They're going to see you
> > naked
> > anyway.

> > Why is
> > "bra" singular and "panties"
> > plural? [Refrain]

Yes, and ...

> > Why do
> > toasters always have a
> > setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no
> > decent human being
> > would eat?

> > If Jimmy
> > cracks corn and no one
> > cares, why is there a stupid song about
> > him?

> > Can a hearse carrying a
> > corpse drive in
> > the carpool lane?

> > Why does
> > Goofy stand erect while
> > Pluto remains on all
> > fours?
> > They're both
> > dogs!

> > If Wile E.
> > Coyote had enough money
> > to buy all that ACME crap, why didn't he just buy
> > dinner? [Refrain]

Yes, and ...

> > If corn oil
> > is made from corn, and
> > vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil
> > made
> > from?

> > If
> > electricity comes from electrons,
> > does morality come from
> > morons?

> > Do the
> > Alphabet song and Twinkle,
> > Twinkle Little Star have the same
> > tune?

> > Why did you
> > just try singing the two
> > songs above?

> > Why do they
> > call it an asteroid when
> > it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid
> > when it's in your
> > butt?

> > Did you ever notice that when
> > you blow in a dog's
> > face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car
> > ride, he sticks his
> > head out the window?

Refrain:

The answer my friend
it's not blowin' in the wind
the answer's in your e-mail-in'

[So, Do you ever wonder why you gave me your e-mail address in the first place?]

This Story Shivers Me Timbers

http://www.celestialmonochord.org/2008/10/rollingstone-out-on-highway-61.html

Rollingstone out on Highway 61
The Celestial Monochord | Journal of the Institute for Astrophysics and the Hillbilly Blues

The histories of Minnesota City and Rollingstone, two towns you pass along Highway 61 on your way out of Minnesota, begin with a Utopian crackpot whose followers became his victims in one of the more ghastly episodes in the state's history.

The Rollingstone Colony was a little like the Donner Party, if a lot less famous. Its story also reminds me a bit of the Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre.

In 1851, a New York printer persuaded a group of New York professionals to join a Utopian community. They would start fresh in a well-planned city out west in the health-promoting climate of the new Minnesota Territory. The town was to be called Rollingstone.

The leader went out west first, and when 400 people followed him, they found him stuck in a swamp. The women and children slept in a large tent, the men in gopher pits. About three quarters of them soon died in the epidemics that swept the settlement.

Wait. Come to think of it, that's more or less how I came to live here too ...

Anyway, the survivors founded Minnesota City. A small village two miles away is today called Rollingstone, but I'm unclear about precisely how the two towns relate historically to one other and to the Rollingstone Colony.

In any case, I'm thinking more about Bob Dylan and the mid-1960's.

PHOTO: Not Bob Dylan

It seems hard to believe that a Minnesotan would write a song called "Like A Rolling Stone" — a song about what it's like to find yourself all alone and boondoggled out on the new frontier — and that he'd put it on an album called Highway 61 Revisited without knowing anything whatsoever about the story of the Rollingstone Colony.

But then, a lot of true things are also hard to believe. It certainly wouldn't be the first time that Dylan seemed preternaturally relevant — that his empathetic imagination would insinuate itself convincingly beyond what seems possible. I've written about that before.

Maybe it's all a coincidence, but it might be worth looking into. I don't know if anyone's properly done the legwork to understand how well-known this incident could've been to Dylan in the early 1960's. My research time is currently booked.

I also don't know if anybody has ever asked Bob when, if ever, he first heard about the Rollingstone Colony down on Highway 61.

[ Retrieved entirely from HERE ]
Author's References:

Cathy Wurzer's just-published book, Tales of the Road: Highway 61, provides an efficient telling in two pages. She also talked about it today on Minnesota Public Radio.

Christopher M. Johnson's article in Minnesota History (49:140-148) provides much detail on how the community got to Minnesota.

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"A rolling stone gathers no moss..." 9proverb0
Comment:
I hope I am on the right side. This proverb came from the Sententiae of Publilius Syrus, and roughly translates as People always moving, with no roots in one place, avoid responsibilities and cares. I have always thought it meant something else. I thought that whatever is going on in your life if you just keep moving you will eventually get on the right course. I say, Rolling, Rolling like a river........