Date:         Mon, 8 Apr 1996 16:10:38 -0400
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         VW85Westy@aol.com
Subject:      Re: Garcia/stickers

I'm on digest mode, so I'm a little late to the party, but...


James Cohen Writes:
>>Garcia of the dead has nothing to do with VWs.  He was, however,
responsible for hooking thousands of people on drugs and cultivating a
lifstyle that glorified substance abuse. 

James, lighten up.  I think that people are responsible for their own
actions.  You would be right to say that Jerry was *associated* with drug
use, and even abuse.  But that is a far cry from "responsible for hooking
thousands of people on drugs".  Jerry did one thing exceedingly well, by many
people's standards, he made music.  He is not responsible for the rest of his
fans' lives.

>> It is poetic justice that he died
of heart problems stemming from his years of drug use 

More like significant statistical probability than poetic justice.  That
being said, I personally know several people who have died from alcohol
abuse, but none from abuse of other drugs (other than nicotine).  If you're
against drug use because if its destructive nature, I assume you mean alcohol
and nicotine too.

>>  Lets have stickers which have to do with us and our
love of these vehichles.

As to the appropriateness of Garcia and a list sticker...not necessary.  I
would say that only about half the busses I see have no Grateful Dead
stickers  on them, so the conection is already made.  And yes, Zippy sports
one from his first show, Hampton VA, March 1986, I think.  He made many a
happy  trek thereafter.

The VW bus is a car for iconoclasts, a large number with a countercultural
bent.  That's just the way it is.  However, there seems to be an unusually
broad tolerance here on the list, this hundred hydra headed narrative
dialogue repair manual poetry .  Strength From Diversity!  Let's keep it that
way.

Peter & Zippy