http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJOGq5XTojo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchydog@...> wrote: > > On Halloween I think of John Block. > > I last saw John 15-years ago sitting on a pile of his belongings near the > corner of Stone and 3rd. It was always hard to read John's ever > expressionless dead-pan face or get an indication of what he was feeling from > a hint of inflection in his flat monotone. I couldn't tell if he was happy or > sad when he told me he was on his way to New Mexico with his dogs. His dog > had had puppies, so all five dogs and John had lived happily together in his > little apartment. I believe his landlord evicted him for excessive poop on > the premises. > > Some years prior to his departure from Fairfield, when we first arrived from > Amherst in 1979, John had been working on MIU kitchen staff. I was on CCP > (Creating Coherence Program) at the time. There was a kitchen in one of the > frat buildings I reported to once a week to chop veggies in exchange for CCP. > > > One day around Halloween, on my way to kitchen duty, I happened to walk by a > storage room near the kitchen. I peeked into the room and there was John > sitting on a large pile of nearly floor-to-ceiling, overly ripe pumpkins. He > had been tasked with removing them from the room. As soon as he saw me, I > don't know what came over him, mania? In that same dead-pan expression that > never left his face, without a word or a grunt, for the next 5 minutes he > began leaping from pumpkin to pumpkin, smashing them into a pulpy mess. I > laughed myself silly at the sight of him. I'll never forget it. > > God Bless John where ever he is. > > Happy Halloween. > > Smashing Pumpkins in Slow Motion > http://youtu.be/4bALl6dhVRk >
