Friday 1 October 2010: piddlepaca

Where i live every second farm has alpacas

if i lived in Kenya you would get lions

just the way it is

having said that one day i was at the zoo and two lions began to shag each other. i thought wow you don`t see that every day

well i stumbled apon this alpaca in the starting blocks weeing her heart out

then it occured to me that my fellow blippers would not see this every day

oh sure at the zoo you will get the odd masterbating monkey but this is different

enjoy.........

The April 16, 1969 – Vol. 3 No. 2 is one of the more famous issues. Montgomery County Judge James Pugh declared the previous issue of the Free Press pornography. The issue contained a drawing of the judge masterbating behind his dais.

This issue (Vol. 3 No. 2) was published with the same drawing as a connect-the-dots caricature. The two issues set off a months-long court fight that eventually exonerated the Free Press.

The Washington Free Press published from 1966 to 1969 and became the first of the 1960s “underground” newspapers in the Washington, D.C. area.

It began as an intercollegiate newspaper in the area and in April 1967 began publishing as an area-wide alternative newspaper.

It started as an eight-page weekly tabloid publishing investigative pieces and exposes not covered by the mainstream press but in a writing style not much different from than the three daily newspapers that served the city.

By 1968 it was publishing a 24 or 28-page issue every two weeks or so and had adopted a more free-form style of journalism where opinion was mixed freely with reporting. Its politics evolved from a left-liberal bent to youth culture to revolutionary over a three-year span.

Under pressure from authorities, internal issues, and from the start-up alternative newspaper Quicksilver Times, the Free Press began faltering in its last year of publication. It moved to a monthly and then abandoned a regular schedule. Its once lively content began to fade and it ceased publication in December 1969.

During its existence it ran in-depth pieces on the rise of black nationalism at Howard University and in-depth interviews with black nationalist Stokely Carmichael and long-time civil rights activist Virginia Durr.

It featured regular columns on how to avoid the draft and desert from the armed services, dispensed advice on drugs and carried music and film reviews.

It wrote an early in-depth article on the gay scene in the city and published the initial appeals to form a women’s liberation group in the area as well as covering the rise of the Yippies.

Their vivid descriptions of events featured writing like this from Frank Speltz covering the anti-freeway protests in the city:

“Attention SDS and SNCC organizers: if ever you control a turf as tightly as the Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis (ECTC) does, you will know it by the following signs: you will drive a nine-man city council from its seats several times in impotent fear and trembling, you will involve every age group and every political spectrum, you will turn out 300-400 non-movement adults who are angry and unafraid. The difference between an anti-draft demonstration of those of ECTC are the difference between a picnic and a rumble.” ---WFP, March 27, 1968.

They briefly published daily during the 1968 city-wide newspaper strike of the three dailies and covered in-depth the issue of discrimination by the all-white craft unions at the newspaper—an issue that would later haunt the unions during their failed 1975 strike at the Washington Post.

They ran a special edition covering the 1967 March on the Pentagon that exposed the brutality of U.S. Marshals and military police. Other coverage that went further than the mainstream press included conditions in Anacostia, the 1967 convention of the National Student Association following revelations of CIA funding, the protest activities surrounding Nixon’s 1969 Inauguration, police brutality, prison conditions, the shocking details of the split between Marion Barry and Rufus “Catfish” Mayfield, and the demonstrations at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention and subsequent conspiracy indictments.

Perhaps most famously, the newspaper broke the story of the 13-year-old daughter of law-and-order Vice President Spiro Agnew’s bust for drugs at the Cathedral school with 10 other young women.

The Free Press also documented the attempts by authorities to suppress the newspaper that included frequent arrest of its street sellers, the prison beating of a jailed reporter, the assault on one of its photographers by a D.C. narcotics detective, the jailing of vendors for violating so-called obscenity laws and the attempt by Montgomery County judge James Pugh to invoke Maryland’s anti-communist Ober Law against the newspaper. Toward the end of its existence, the District police and/or the FBI broke into their office by smashing a hole in the adjacent men’s room, stole the paper’s files on undercover police officers and ransacked the suite.

Some of the prominent staff included Margie Stamberg, Dick Ochs, Frank Speltz, Art Grossman, Michael Grossman, Sheila Ryan, Bill Blum, Elaine Fuller, Cathy Wilkerson, Mundo Bravo, General Marsbars, and Fooman Zybar.

This collection is mostly derived from the on-line collection of the D.C. public library and contains only three issues of our own plus fragments of other issues. There are currently no issues of the inter-collegiate edition published during its first year of existence, but most issues are represented during the paper’s city-wide run from 1967-69.

The Free Press volume number began in March, except that Volume 2 ran for two years 1967-68 and 1968-69 and didn’t change until April 1, 1969.

Unfortunately, many issues have been copied in black and white only, some apparently from microfilm, and pages are missing from many of the issues. Where color was used, it often does not reflect the actual colors used in publication. If you have copies of this newspaper or know where to obtain them, please contact us at Washington_area_spark@yahoo.com.

However, for activists of today, history buffs or researchers, this collection provides a valuable window into a time of fervent social justice activity and alternative culture.

Vol. 2 No. 1 – March 26 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-03-26-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 2 – April 2, 1967 – missing pages - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-04-02-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 3 & 4 – April 19, 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-04-19-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 5 – April 26, 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-04-26-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 6 – May 5, 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-05-05-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 7 – May 22, 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-05-22-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 8 – June 6, 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-06-06-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 9 – June 14, 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-06-14-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 10 – Not available at this time

Vol. 2 No. 11 – June 30, 1967 – missing page - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-06-30-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 12 – July 21, 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-07-21-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 13 – August 4, 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-08-04-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 14 – August 20, 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-08-20-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 15 – September 3, 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-09-03-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 16 – October 14, 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-10-14-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 17 – October 31, 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-10-31-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 18 – November 3, 1967 ca. – Extra - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-11-03-ca...

Vol. 2 No. 19 – November 23, 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-11-23-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 20 – December 12, 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-12-12-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 21 – December 31, 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-12-31-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 22 – January 14, 1968 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1968-01-14-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 23 – February 3, 1968 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1968-02-03-vo...

Vol. 2 No. 24 – February 20, 1968 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1968-02-20-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 25 – February 29, 1968 – pages 1 & 2 from color scan - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1968-02-29-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 26 – March 7, 1968 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1968-03-07-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 27 – Not available at this time

Vol. 2 No. 28 – March 27, 1968 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1968-03-27-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 29 – Not available at this time

Vol. 2 No. 30 – May 8, 1968 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1968-05-08-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 31 – May 18, 1968 – missing pages - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1968-05-18-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 32 – Not available at this time

Vol. 2 No. 33 – Not available at this time

Vol. 2 No. 34 – July 16, 1968 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1968-07-16-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 35 – July 26, 1968 Special Edition - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1968-07-26-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 36 – July 27, 1968, Special Edition - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1968-07-27-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 37 – August 1, 1968 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1968-08-01-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 38 – Not available at this time

Vol. 2 No. 39 – September 1, 1968 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1968-09-01-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 40 – September 15, 1968, missing pages - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1968-09-15-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 41 – October 1, 1968 – missing pages - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1968-10-01-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 42 – Not available at this time

Vol. 2 No. 43 – November 1, 1968 – missing pages - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1968-11-01-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 44 – November 15, 1968 – missing pages - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1968-11-15-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 45 – December 1, 1968 – missing page - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1968-12-01-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 46 – December 16, 1968 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1968-12-16-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 47 – January 1, 1969 – missing pages - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1969-01-01-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 48 – January 16, 1969 –missing pages - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1969-01-16-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 49 – February 1, 1969 – missing pages -https://washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1969-02-01-wfp-vol-2-no-49.pdf

Vol. 2 No. 50 – February 15, 1969 – from color scan - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1969-02-16-wf...

Vol. 2 No. 51 – Not available at this time

Vol. 2 No. 52 – March, 15, 1969 – from color scan - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1969-03-15-vo...

Vol. 3 No. 1 – April 1, 1969 –missing page - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1969-04-01-wf...

Vol. 3 No. 2 – April 16, 1969 – some pages damaged - washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/196920...

Vol. 3 No. 3 – May 1, 1969 – washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1969-05-01-wf...

Vol. 3 No. 4 – May 16, 1969 –missing pages - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1969-05-16-wf...

Vol. 3 No. 5 – June 1, 1969 – from color scan - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1969-06-01-wf...

Vol. 3 No. 6 – July 1, 1969 – missing pages - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1969-07-01-wf...

Vol. 3 No. 7 – August 1, 1969 – missing pages - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1969-08-01-wf...

Vol. 3 No. 8 – August (late) 1969 – missing pages - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1969-08-late-...

Vol. 3 No. 9 – September (early) 1969 – missing pages - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1969-09-early...

Vol. 3 No. 10 – October (early) 1969 – missing pages - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1969-10-early...

Vol. 3 No. 11 – November (early) 1969 – pages 11-14 from color scan, missing pages - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1969-11-early...

Vol. 3 No. 12 – December (Christmas) 1969 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1969-12-chris...

For other alternative periodicals, see washingtonareaspark.com/contributors/periodicals/

For other activist documents, see washingtonareaspark.com/contributors/

For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsmGkArk4

Hard copies were donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson and Craig Simpson and subsequently color-scanned. Most other digital images are from the D.C. Public Library Dig DC Collection.

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A Journey Through Time and Beauty: A River Nile Cruise in Egypt

Introduction:

The River Nile, often referred to as the lifeblood of Egypt, has been a witness to centuries of history, culture, and civilization. Embarking on a River Nile cruise is not just a boat journey; it is a captivating odyssey through time, allowing travelers to unravel the mysteries of ancient Egypt while luxuriating in the breathtaking beauty that surrounds this iconic waterway.

Historical Significance:

The Nile River, the longest river in the world, has played a pivotal role in the rise and sustenance of one of the world's earliest and most advanced civilizations. A cruise along its meandering course offers passengers a front-row seat to history, with stops at iconic sites like Luxor and Aswan. The Valley of the Kings, Karnak Temple, and the Temple of Philae are just a few of the gems waiting to be explored, showcasing the ingenuity and grandeur of ancient Egyptian architecture and art.

Cruising Through Time:

As the cruise ship glides along the tranquil waters of the Nile, passengers are transported back in time, imagining the bustling ancient trade routes and the vibrant life that once thrived along its banks. The juxtaposition of modern amenities on board with the timeless landscapes outside creates a unique experience that combines comfort with a profound sense of history.

The Temples of Luxor and Karnak:

A highlight of any River Nile cruise is the visit to the majestic temples of Luxor and Karnak. The Luxor Temple, located on the east bank of the Nile, is an architectural marvel adorned with colossal statues and intricate hieroglyphics. At night, the temple is illuminated, casting a mystical aura that accentuates its awe-inspiring beauty. The Karnak Temple, on the other hand, is a vast complex dedicated to various deities and boasts the famous Hypostyle Hall, a forest of towering columns that leave visitors in awe of the ancient craftsmanship.

Cruising to Aswan and the Philae Temple:

As the cruise ship sails further south, it reaches Aswan, a city known for its serene beauty and the mighty Aswan High Dam. Here, passengers can explore the Philae Temple, dedicated to the goddess Isis, which was meticulously relocated to Agilkia Island to preserve it from the rising waters caused by the dam. The tranquil setting and the harmonious blend of ancient ruins with the surrounding landscape create a serene ambiance that captivates the heart and soul.

Relaxation and Luxury:

A River Nile cruise not only offers a cultural immersion but also provides an opportunity for relaxation and indulgence. Onboard amenities range from luxurious cabins with panoramic views to gourmet dining experiences that showcase both local and international cuisine. The sundeck provides a perfect vantage point for taking in the breathtaking scenery, and the gentle lull of the river promotes a sense of tranquility that complements the overall experience.

Conclusion:

Embarking on a River Nile cruise is not just a vacation; it is a journey through the annals of history, a passage through a timeless land that continues to enchant and inspire. The beauty of the landscapes, the grandeur of ancient temples, and the cultural richness that permeates every stop along the way make this cruise a truly unforgettable experience. As the sun sets over the Nile, casting a golden glow on the water, passengers are left with memories of a voyage that transcends both time and space, echoing the enduring legacy of Egypt's fascinating past.

The most vicious cat we ever had (I loved him ...he originally came from a cat home). You couldn't walk into the room without long sleeves and gloves...he would slice you with his claws and drag them the length of your arms. He got into fights with other cats and would sometimes come back either with a dead bird or mouse... or with a half torn ear from battle with other cats. He loved to fight. he attacked everyone . After he got the op he had that sucked in look and kinda gave up on life. He loved to masterbate in public.

Masterbating