“True Story about a Small Town: Walla Walla, Washington” by Robert McEwen, HWM

~Think of yourself as a small town. 
 
You feel ok about your town, looks good, like Walla Walla, Washington, got voted the #1 Best Discovered Town in the U.S.A. of 1996.  
I know Walla Walla, Wa., I was born there in 1953.  I was a little pyromaniac.  I love to start fires at 4 years old to show off for my 4 year old girlfriend Sally Spencer.  I even had a little red fire engine, a pedaled type, with ladders and a bell on the hood i could ring out.  I pedaled  down the street and stole black licorice twists at the service station candy store…and got caught. A policeman took me home. 
 
Anyway…   I was a show off.  Mars in Aries does that for a girl.  It is a Fire sign!  Anyway, the fire trucks would come and put the fire of the field I lit for Sally.  The fire department was 3 houses down.  I liked to hear the sirens and watch the fire horn high upon a tripod spin round and scream Fire…Fire…fuckin Fire now!…..  I wanted to be a fireman.  I even later bought a fire truck at 19 years of old.  I drove itto South Salem High School.  I took the rock band I was in “Robin and the Hoods:” the drums and the amps to our gigs.  One time I ran the sirens after a beer or too with Robin and the Hoods.  Well, back to Sally Spencer and showing off.  We played Doctor and Nurse lots.  We knew all about each others bodies and what brought each other pleasure.  We had hiding places for our playtime.  This a flashback I remember on each adult date I go on.  I secretly bring my symbolic stethoscope. I dream 
during the date we will play Doctor before go home.  I sometimes offer.  Sometimes the woman says cool, yes role play.  I been waiting for some
guy to have enough balls to ask me” and she strips out and wears the nurse outfit she secretly carries in what she calls her whore bag.”
 It is like Roger Maris the 1964 New York Yankees pitcher would secretly where his favorite girlfriends panties when he would pitch a no winner
with an erect baseball bat the whole game.”    
 
   ….”anyway….I forgot how hard dating was.  Excuse the pun.  It was fun to date, and also scary.  It is willing now days on both parties if you write,
talk, are horny, and wanting to learn and have adventure.  That is the recipe.  A dash of curiosity helps out.  Having the knowledge of astrology helps in some occasions.  Take her to a strip bar to see the reaction. That is dead give away.  Is she sassy and full of curious adventure.  Maybe she will compete and strip too!  hmmmm It did happen on more than one occasion in my long dating history.  I married the girl who jumped out of the cake at my first marriage bachelor party.  Really.  I did.  It was 8 years later.  Those women hated each other from the beginning.  Hate I mean.  For no reason but astrology signs opposition of Mars of Beverly, and the Uranus of Lulu, my second wife.  They were opposites.  
 
Beverly a hippie with beads and peace.
 
Lulu, a 96 lb. model and bartender.  Me, an astrologer.  We rented the penthouse in the Gentry a 1912 Brick apartment five story apartment building on  S.W. 12th and Taylor in Downtown Portland. It was above the Old deco Egyptian Theater.   It looked at the Portland Park Blocks.  Portland State University and Portland Art Museum Film School.  I attended there.  Then I made a movie..5 minutes about my attempted fantasy suicide in mime face and 8 mirrors.  Lanelle Light filmed with our company camera.  I think she stole that and my film.  She wrote me on face book to be friends a month ago.  Haven’t talked yet.  Are friends though.  She married a friend and band member Mike Latham.  He wanted to do a ride on our Triumph motorcycles to NY.  I dreamt he crashed and to sell his now.  He didn’t and is brain damaged for life now.  I think he is still alive.  Anyway…  I worked as a street counselor getting runaway boys and girls out of prostitution.  Place called Harry’s Mother.  Saul Shiprio stated it.  A charming Leo Jew Man from the streets of Chicago conned the Jew Rich old ladies of Chicago and Portland out of there last time and diamond rings to start Harrys Mother.  We were in a house on SE 42nd.   We loved tequila and Mescaline roots…mushrooms for days.  That was back in 1976.  I was teaching astrology all over town.   I liked it.  Was on OPB and did astrology to on KATU with Bob the weatherman.  There was spaceway, the safeway drug dealer and whore on the corner by PSU that was fun to cruise at 1 AM.  Walk by the congo drumming and the pot smoking teens. Anyway…Lulu and I had great halloween parties.  Actually it was Halloween everyday with Lulu.  She wore only black…platnum blond hair, on the dry side. We broke up in the middle, and then gave it a second go and had a great Halloween Party at 338 SE 14th just between Pine and Oak.  Starkies Gay Bar on Stark was 11 blocks.  We loved to eat at the gay restaurant.  Piano bar and sing alongs as drunk as a skunk.  Great fun and horrible hang overs.  We had

quit booze anyway.  Recovery for our 3rd Year.  I went back out after 20 years thought I could control it.  It took me to my knees.  I am sober now…over a year…and glad.  Anyway,  It is good to be alive.  I quit starting fires.  I do like candles though.  Lots!!!  I fill a room with 25 candles and light them.  Put on my favorite 1971 Led Zep and dance.  I like to do that.”

Robby 

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