GREAT JOB!!!!!!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 2:35 PM Subject: FWD: Town Votes To Ban Joni Mitchell Music After Weekend Disturbance
> Town Votes To Ban Joni Mitchell Music After Weekend Disturbance > > by Edmund Bearden, The Catskills Gazette > > (Oliverea, NY) > > During an emergency meeting of the Oliverea Town Council last night, > residents expressed shock, despair and outrage over last weekend's so-called > JoniFest at Full Moon. By meeting's end, council members voted 5 to 0 to ban > any future performances of Joni Mitchell's music within the town's boarders. > > "Enough is enough," local potter Sunshine "Sunny" Seagull declared. "It was a > disgrace. I consider myself a flower child, an aging hippie or whatever, and > I've been to my share of love-ins, but this was way over the top. Those > people just plain scared me." > > "I agree," organic farmer T. Leary Freedman added. "JoniFest was so > huggy-kissy, it made the original Woodstock festival look like a Ku Klux Klan > rally. And the music! Heck, how many deet-deet-dee-dee-dees can one tiny > hamlet take?" > > Council President Barbara Littlefeather was pleased with the vote. "I think > we need to send a message loud and clear to Full Moon," she asserted. "One > more commotion like this, and we'll turn that place into a parking lot. > > "We're just a little village, really. We can't be expected to handle this > kind of influx of obsessed Joni Mitchell freaks flocking here from the > far-flung corners of the world. Even that poor white duck over at the Full > Moon pond has been swearing like a New Jersey sailor since this thing ended. > For goodness sakes," Littlefeather asked, "how much darned stardust can one > little village's road crews be expected to sweep up?" > > "I think we all feel very good and extremely empowered by this decision," > tie-dye artist Om Fletcher stated. "In fact, you can be sure the whole town > will be here at next week's meeting when we take up the subject of Ethel > Merman." > > All JoniFest participants have left the area and were unavailable for > comment. > > (8/30/02)
