The Leaves of Twin Oaks Summer 2001 - Page 4
Update from Woodfolk Asylum and Walk-in Cooler Woodfolk Asylum has been rolling along pretty nicely this year, as of this writing our house is pretty full and our vision as a collective rapidly forming. The words activist and half-crazy are still adequate descriptions of most of the folks who live here. Alexis, back from being arrested for protesting against star wars in California is again putting energy into Trade Local, Spot is working both with CAGE (Citizens against global exploitation, an anarchist friendly group nurturing direct action in Charlottesville) and the central Virginia anarchist collect, Jai picked the Carnival against capitalism in Quebec City, also called the FTAA riots, as her first protest and was moved to explore other activist opportunities.   Meanwhile Brian is working on VOCAL, which is a consumer-oriented approach to mental health activism.      Other news is that Susan ex-twin oaks is staying with us for a few months, as is Andrew, who is also active with Cage and was arrested with Spot during a living wage protest in July. We have also had other long term guest including Lisa and Pepita (ex-viz and frequent TO guest). We have been filling rooms before they are completed barely avoiding a waiting list because by camping, sleeping on couches or sleeping in peoples rooms while they are away. We are still along way away from opening up the second floor that will add four more rooms. I think the most exciting thing we have done is implemented our shop and shove method of getting the shopping done. We have a very attractive clock face sign (surrealist image of circle dancers sabotaging the wheels of industry) each of the individuals on the food system or on the clock face and if the feather/arrow is pointing to you either shop that week, or if it doesn’t work shove the arrow over to the next name. Division of Labor thru voluntary consent, aka Anarchy now!
Meka-leka-hiy Meka-hiney-ho an OTRA request from Valerie
When Paul Reubens was arrested in a Florida adult theatre in the early 90’s, for engaging in so-called indecent acts with himself, it sounded the death knell for his TV show based on the character of his own creation, Pee Wee’s PlayHouse. This was a blow to PeeWee Herman fans galaxy-wide. Since that time, the actor has appeared in various films, playing various off-beat parts, but none even come close to his stellar performance in “PlayHouse”, or his pioneering film work, PeeWee’s Big Adventure. For many of us, watching him under-utilize his talents is an agony, as we re-live our memories of Chairey, Globey, Reba the MailPerson, Cowboy Curtis the hunky soccer player and of course the old-queen-disguised-as-swami, Jambi, the Talking Head. We remember avidly watching the show, screaming along with the rest of the viewing audience whenever the Word-Of-The-Day was mentioned.
He could roam the festivities thoughout the day, spreading his unique blend of quirky, twisted humour, and personal charm. Imagine the courtyard awash with the sounds of “I know you are but what am I?”, “If you love ice-cream, why don’t you marry it?”, and other gems from his specialty genre of elementary-school humour. At night, he would wow the crowd gathered for the Anniversary Talent Show with scenes from “Big Adventure” and the more troubled sequel, “PeeWee Under the Big Top”. If we’re lucky, he’ll perform his famous “Tequila” dance sequence. Supporting the low end of this OTRA will provide funding for us to hire PeeWee (given his desperate decline in acting options, surely he can swing us a cut rate) and travel expenses (our best hope is that Ezra and Mala can give him a ride in a TO vehicle from Sarasota, his hometown and where he suffered through his arrest, and also location of New College, their alma mater) Supporting the high end of the OTRA will allow us to build our own Twin Oaks replica of his infamous PlayHouse (complete with Floorey and the dancing/talking Flowers in the windowsill). The PlayHouse would be located adjacent to the Playground of Life, Death and ReBirth, as we can’t imagine a more suitable front yard for him to enjoy in his off-hours. My personal interest in this OTRA, aside from righting a gross injustice of Saturday morning entertainment, is two-fold. Ideally I would like to re-enact my marriage of this year’s Mass Validation Day wedding, at which I was pseudo-legally united with a 16-inch representation (a less respectful term would be “doll”) of PeeWee, but this time with PeeWee himself. I think that the name “Renwick-Porter-Herman” would roll nicely off my tongue. Secondly, my ultimate desire would be to bear PeeWee’s child, although this of course is pending appropriate Child Board process, and a Land-Use change to turn the aforementioned PlayHouse into family housing.
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