My dear brother,

I have been in deep slumber, and dreamt of you often. I awoke to find no sign of life in the land I once knew. I thought it must have been obliterated by the sands of time. I was wrong. Thankfully so. It would be such a shame to lose such a wonderful land full of wonder and mystery.

It is great to know that it was an enigma and that the winds still flow through the Great Oak.

I hope our paths cross soon. It would be good to catch up… and it’s been a while since I made fresh salsa, but maybe I’ll have to do that again soon too.

Wow. Hi!

Cesare and I have missed you so. Filling up your inbox, and often wishing you were there while we plotted and pondered the world.

I was back in a position of responsibility recently, and activity had seriously stepped up in a part of the world too vile to mention, when a little smelly creature appeared from nowhere and tapped me on the forehead with its cane. My name stolen, my self violated.

I was resigned to my fate, and planned to lurk in the shadows and reclaim what had been stolen from me. But somehow some will to be was also drained from me, and I haven’t awoken since.

I would love to wake your sleeping form, and talk things over together in the Grove one day.

I trust you are well, happy, and making fresh salsa.

s.

It must be odd seeing yourself unexpectedly like that.

Off topic, did they ever officially close muddy waters?

So footage of your Self was stolen, used in a program on Self, and then you found yourself watching your Self?

Yes. That’s exactly right.

Weird!!

I can’t wait to watch these, especially knowing that you’ll pop up in there.

Who filmed you playing originally? What was THAT film? Were you credited properly in that one? If so, BBC really should have followed the citations down to you to use in the documentary. How lazy of them not to, very unprofessional.

wild…

i’ve been wanted to see that doc since it came out a couple of years ago. it was playing on Penn Unverversity’s campus on my birthday but my parents were in town and i realized that i couldn’t subject them to six hours of that even if it was my birthday…

can’t wait to see you jamming. : )

I’m leaning towards The Outer Limits. The whole earwig episode. Still gives me nightmares. Yeah, Outer Limits. Very Freudian or Jungian or or was it Uri Geller? Whatever. Awesome. I think you should sue for royalties. Make $37.50 and get a Starbucks card and impress the barista with the cute smile, you know the one I’m talking about….. PS I’m most impressed this BBC documentary held your interest all the way into part three. Now that’s truly Love American Style… Yup. You are the man.

So footage of your Self was stolen, used in a program on Self, and then you found yourself watching your Self? KOOKY. It’s like an episode of the Twilight Zone.

lovely…

So it appears that SRI (stanford research institute) made the original video, because that footage was apparently part of a different video. SRI Values and Lifestyles Promotional video, from 1983

ps. the whole documentary is online at
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6111922724894802811, 44:37-44:51

This is the oddest thing…
And I know that’s you - I remember that silhouette.
Funny? Weird? Disturbing? I don’t know.