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Key NorthWest Parrot Head Newsletter June 2007
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In This Issue
Club Events
Concert News
Jimmy Buffett News Items
Recipes
Other News
Contact Information
Happy June
from Key NorthWest!
Ahoy there Parrot Heads!
June Phlockings!
The big news this month is that Hugo Duarte is
coming to our particular harbour! So let's show him
a true Key NorthWest welcome and join us as he
plays in our particular harbour on June 22-24, along
with Greg "Fingers" Taylor (the ORIGINAL Coral
Reefer) and Emily Hutchison. Here's whats going
on!
Kickoff Private Party Friday Night, June 22
at the Portland Rowing Club Clubhouse
from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. We'll start the party
weekend right on the Willamette River. This
is a VERY limited seating private event so
you need to get your tickets reserved ASAP.
They are $20 in advance and $40 at the door
(assuming there is space left!).
Email us at
[email protected] ASAP
to let us know how many advance
tickets you want.
It's a BYOB affair so bring your favorite
beverage(s), food and a low chair to sit on the deck
on the Willamette River and enjoy some very
savory tunes. It should be a VERY fine time.
Directions: It's at the north end of the Portland
Rowing Club houseboat community. Driving directions:
Heading east over the Sellwood Bridge, turn right
(south) on SE 7th Avenue then turn right (west) onto
SE Harney St. Continue on Harney to the end then
head down the driveway to the parking lot above the
houseboats. Park and walk down the ramp and turn
right. The Clubhouse is on the north end of the
moorage.
On Saturday afternoon, June 23 at Captain Ron's at
21900 SW Alexander Lane, Sherwood, OR phone:
We hope you and yours are well and we wish you all the best. June has arrived and
here's what's going on! Check it out!
Key NorthWest Parrot Head Events
Hugo Duarte, Fingers Taylor and Emily Hutchison
LIVE right here in Key NorthWest!
In June we are welcoming Hugo Duarte to Key NorthWest! Hugo is a very
talented singer/songwriter who hails from North Carolina. Several of our club
members have had the opportunity to Hugo play in other locations, primarily in
our "sister city" Key West. He has three CD's out and this will be his first time in
Oregon. Hugo will be joined by Emily Hutchison on vocals and the legendary
Greg "Fingers" Taylor on harmonica! That's right friends, the original Coral
Reefer is coming to our particular harbour to play his fantastic harp with Hugo
Duarte! It's a wonderful opportunity that we know you will enjoy.
So let's show him a true Key NorthWest welcome and join us as he plays on
three days in a row right here in River City!
We'll kick off the Hugo Duarte and Friends weekend with a private
show at the Portland Rowing Club Boathouse. Friday, June 22 6:00-9:00pm Space is very limited for this exclusive Friday evening
welcome party so email [email protected] to reserve your
advance tickets ASAP. Tickets are $20 advance and $40 at the door (if
space is still available) When they're gone, they're gone. We don't
want you to miss out on this really unique opportunity to welcome
some world class talent to our very own version of paradise. BYOB
and enjoy an excellent evening on the water.
Saturday afternoon, June 23 at Captain Ron's at 21900 SW Alexander Lane,
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(503) 625-6600 it's time for the first "Paradise and
Palmtrees" outdoor concert event. Tickets for the party
are $5.00 in advance and $7.00 at the door. Bring your
friends! This is a party not to be missed! To reserve
your advance tickets, call Captain Ron's at (503)
625-6600 and ask for Cheyenne. Do it ASAP!
Then, on Sunday we're VERY pleased to have Hugo,
Fingers and Emily play at the Island Cafe located at
250 NE Tomahawk Dr., Portland, OR for a special
show. The plan is to have Hugo, Fingers and Emily
play on a boat next to the Island Cafe from 3:00 to
6:00 pm. Several members suggested that this would
be a wonderful place for a concert so we are pleased to
be able to have this happen. Come on out and let's
show them a Key NorthWest real good time!
More information about Hugo is available here:
http://www.hugoduarte.com.
More information about Greg "Fingers" Taylor is
available here: http://www.fingerstaylor.net.
Jimmy Buffett Concerts
The upcoming confirmed Jimmy Buffett concert dates
are as follows. Note the two new Las Vegas shows!:
June 23, 2007 - Post-Gazette Pavilion - Pittsburgh, PA
June 26, 2007 - Tweeter Center at the Waterfront Camden, NJ
June 28, 2007 - Nissan Pavilion - Bristow, VA
July 21, 2007 - Midwest Bank Ampitheatre (Tinley Park)
- Chicago, IL
July 24, 2007 - Verizon Wireless Music Center
July 26, 2007 - Riverbend Music Center - Cincinnati, OH
- Noblesville, IN
July 28, 2007 - Alpine Valley Music Theatre - East Troy,
WI
September 2, 2007 - Gillette Stadium - Foxboro, MA
September 8, 2007 - Gillette Stadium - Foxboro, MA
September 18, 2007 - Madison Square Garden - New
York City, NY
September 20, 2007 - Madison Square Garden - New
York City, NY
Saturday, October 20th, 2007 MGM Grand Garden
Arena Las Vegas, NV
Saturday October 27th, 2007 MGM Grand Garden
Arena Las Vegas, NV
Tickets on sale for the Las Vegas shows Monday, June
18th through TicketMaster.
Tickets for most of these shows are on sale through
Ticketmaster. Most shows are broadcast live on Radio
Margaritaville: http://www.radiomargaritaville.com and
Sirius Radio Channel 31.
Official Concert Schedule:
http://www.margaritaville.com/tour_dates.php
Sherwood, OR phone: (503) 625-6600 proudly presents Paradise & Palmtrees,
An Outdoor Concert Event, Sponsored by Budweiser in cooperation with the
Key NorthWest Parrot Heads.
This is going to be a big party, with be an opening band, "Trigger Happy" from
Sherwood playing classics from country and rock n' roll to get the party started!
Then at around 6:00 pm Hugo, Fingers and Emily will hit the stage.
We'll take over the parking lot with a stage and a beer truck serving several
brands of beer and a Bar-B-Q serving burgers and hot dogs.
The outdoor party area will be 21 and over only. Free Shuttle Parking provided
from Sherwood High School, no outside food or beverage, but Lawn Chairs are
welcomed and encouraged.
Tickets for the "Paradise and Palmtrees" show at Captain Ron's are $5.00 in
advance and $7.00 at the door. Bring your friends, relatives, buddies, work
associates, and anyone else that knows how to smile! This is going to be a great
a party! They're going fast so reserve yours today and don't miss this event.
Update: Half of the tickets are already sold, 200 remaining so hurry in today to
pick yours up. You can also call Captain Ron's at (503) 625-5500 to reserve
them, Just ask for Cheyenne.
There will be plenty of beer (Bud, Bud Light, Drop Top Amber Ale and others)
outside plus lots more and the full bar inside. There will be burgers and hot dogs
on the grill outside and the full menu inside. Bring your lawn chairs for the
outside (over 21) seating area! We want to thank Captain Ron and his son
Cheyenne for really stepping up for this one. It's gonna be great!
Then, on Sunday Hugo, Fingers and Emily will play at the Island Cafe located at
250 NE Tomahawk Dr., Portland, OR for a special show. The plan is to have
Hugo, Fingers and Emily play on a boat next to the Island Cafe from 3:00 to 6:00
pm. We have been working on chis for a while are are very pleased to have this
come together. Come on out and let's wish them fine bon voyage from our
particular harbour.
More information about Hugo is available here: http://www.hugoduarte.com.
More information about Greg "Fingers" Taylor is available here:
http://www.fingerstaylor.net.
Hugo Duarte!
Here's some background information Hugo Duarte, FYI:
“Trying to define Hugo Duarte’s music is a bit like trying to define good Cuban food to
someone who’s never experienced its satisfying, mouth-watering sensations. Throw in
a creamy, caramel colored flan for dessert; top it all off with shot of kick-in-the pants,
revive-the-dead Café Cubano, and there you have it.
Like good Cuban food, Hugo’s music is a combination of a little bit of this, a little bit of
that, and a whole lot of down-to-earth ingredients that come together in an adventure of
the senses. You can’t really describe it; you just have to try it in order to understand
and appreciate the flavors and subtleties of whatever it is that you've just been
presented.”
Such are the elements of this remarkably talented singer/songwriter/storyteller. Duarte
blends of a bit of Country, a pinch of Bluegrass, a handful of Southern rock, a cup or
two of Blues, a dash of Island music, occasionally sprinkled with some American
history, or tales of the sea, to form an eclectic style that doesn’t fit into the traditional
definitions of the Rock and Roll world, the Tropic/Island sound, Blues, Country or any
other particular genre.
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Jimmy Buffett News Items
Rolling Stone recently interviewed Jimmy. They
noted that he started this summer's Bama Breeze
Tour, the twenty-ninth since he, now 60, released
mainstays "Margaritaville" and "Cheeseburger in
Paradise." "His shows typically have all the
suspense of a North Korean election, and that's
the way the Parrotheads like it. Year after year,
they turn out to hear the "Big Eight" -- the major
hits Buffett plays at every show -- and make like
sharks during "Fins.""
"Do you ever get sick of the hits?
You have to give people what they want. I'm not
out there to make statements. I'm descended from
court jesters, not theologians, and I just go out
there to entertain. Joseph Campbell said, "If you
have a really great old car, and it keeps running,
you may want to change the paint and seat
covers, but you don't want to sell the car."
Anything new this year?
We went to [Caribbean island] Anguilla and did a
show in March, and I said, "Let's find ten songs of
mine we haven't done in twenty years." We shot a
video of that show that's going to be out in
December. There are songs out of that batch, like
"Domino College," that are working really well in
the show.
Any chance the new material could displace any
of the "Big Eight"?
On the last tour, we didn't play "Why Don't We Get
Drunk and Screw," which is one of the eight. It
was an accident, because I plugged some stuff in,
and when I finished the show, I went, "Oh, my
God, we didn't do 'Get Drunk and Screw,' " which
you figure in Texas is a must. Well, nobody yelled
or threw anything, so we didn't do it the whole
tour.
The Margaritaville.com web page has been
updated. Check it out.
.Jimmy played a gig in Paris on June 8 at a club
called New Morning. The setlist is below.
There is still a contest going on through June 20,
2007 to win a set of tickets to see Jimmy Buffett,
George Strait or Alan Jackson. More details and
the entry form are located at:
http://www.LiveAtTexasStadium.com/sweepstakes
Jimmy played a benefit at the Rose Theater in
New York NY on Monday May 14th, 2007 for the
Jazz at Lincoln Center's 6th Annual Spring Gala.
The show included performances by the Wynton
Marsalis Septet, Lenny Kravitz and Derek Trucks.
Jimmy played two songs (with Mac McAnally,
Ralph MacDonald and Robert Greenidge) : Fool's
Paradise (a Mose Allison song) and Creola
(America needs New Orleans it has to be there.
So this is for Ed) .
Jimmy Buffett performed at a benefit for the
Wounded Warrior project at the Armory in NYC on
Wednesday May 30th. He sang five songs.
"Cheeseburger in Paradise" (solo) and "Son of a
Son of a Sailor" (solo). "Changes in Latitudes,
Changes in Attitudes" and "Margaritaville" with the
Nancy Atlas band and he did "Volcano" for an
encore.
They released some images of what Margaritaville
may look like when it opens in Biloxi three years
Born of Cuban, Chinese, and Scots-Irish ancestry, Duarte’s music is as diverse as his
origins.
His early childhood years were spent in Tigerville, South Carolina, an extremely small
community in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was there he came to
understand the basics of life in that close-knit, rural community where life was simple,
where everyone’s parents parented everyone else’s kids, and music and song were an
integral part of everyday life.
Somewhere along the line, Hugo’s family moved to North Carolina where Duarte’s
musical influences drifted away from the native Bluegrass and traditional country music
that had been so much a part of his life and began to take a new direction. He began to
focus on the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band, Poco, the Eagles, Billy Joel,
Elton John, Pure Prairie League, the Outlaws, Loggins and Messina, and many others.
And that focus didn’t stop there. It also included Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Crosby,
Stills and Nash, Led Zeppelin, Glen Miller, John Phillip Sousa, Aaron Copeland, and
other equally divergent styles.
A defining moment in Duarte’s young life occurred when his long-time friend, Darrell
Stafford, loaned him a guitar, an old Stella that had once belonged to Stafford’s
grandmother. At a formative time in a boy’s life, when dreams take root, when idealism
is at its strongest, when words and melodies trigger the search for self, the loan of that
old Stella marked a pivotal point on the compass in Hugo’s young heart and mind.
Visualize a 14-year-old boy, with that loaned Stella, sitting by the radio or dropping LPs
onto a turntable and teaching himself to play along. This is the point where Hugo began
developing his own brand of music, a style he dubbed “country music” because it
wasn’t that big a departure from what he’d grown up with. It was also during this time
period that Hugo wrote his first song called “Dance For Me”, a song about a ballerina.
As Duarte continued to develop his music skills using various music styles as his
guide, whether it was Soul, Country, Beach music, Rock 'n Roll, Classical, a unique
blend emerged and began to meld together into his brand of “All Music”. Hence the
origins of Hugo’s eclectic style… a style that really began to surface while at the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Growing increasingly serious about his music, Duarte left college and began playing
clubs in Charlotte, North Carolina and then on the road in places like the ‘Tween
Waters Inn in Captiva, Florida and Crow's Nest in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. It
wasn’t long before he realized he could make a living doing what he loved the best.
A few years later as he drifted down that musical highway playing gigs with his
ever-expanding group, The Full Sail Band, he found himself as far south in the US as
one can go. Searching for a connection to his Cuban heritage, he arrived in the Florida
Keys and fell immediately in love with the area.
Greg "Fingers" Taylor
To music lovers worldwide, the names Jimmy Buffett and "Fingers" Taylor go hand in
hand.
Jimmy and Fingers met in 1970 when Taylor, a student at The University of Southern
Mississippi, first jammed with him. At that time Buffett was performing as a solo artist.
Fingers joined Larry Raspberry and The Highsteppers in 1971 but continued to work
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from now. Margaritaville will include a hotel,
casino, shops and restaurants. The $700 million
project will be built along the water, directly across
the street from Grand Casino Biloxi. The pictures
are below.
Recent Concert Setlists
Here are the setlists for the recent Bama Breeze
Tour shows, FYI, according to BuffettNews.com:
Bama Breeze Tour
New Morning - Paris
Friday June 8th, 2007
Special Show
1 Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
2 Piece Of Work
3 I Will Play For Gumbo
4 It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
5 Pencil Thin Mustache
6 Son Of A Son Of A Sailor
7 Son Of A Son Of A Sailor (Voulez-Vous Danser)
8 Elvis Presley Blues
9 Woman Goin' Crazy On Caroline Street
10 Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants
11 Volcano
12 Come Monday
13 Coast Of Marseilles
14 Autour Du Rocher
15 A Pirate Looks At Forty
16 One Particular Harbour
17 Cheeseburger In Paradise
18 Brown Eyed Girl
19 Margaritaville
First Encore:
20 Fins
21 Southern Cross
with Jimmy during the recording of Buffett's first three albums. In 1974, Jimmy called
him and said he was ready to form the first actual "Coral Reefer Band" road unit. He
still performs occasionally with Buffett .
Greg "Fingers" Taylor, is considered by many musicians to be one of the best
harp players around. "I wanted an instrument I could scream on, and I loved the blues
harmonica players like Little Walter and Sonny Boy Williamson," said Taylor.
Among his early influences were Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Eric
Clapton, Muddy Waters, but he especially loved to emulate the sounds of Little Walter
Jacobs.
Why Fingers? "I'm afraid that I'm responsible for the nickname," Taylor says. "I had a
band called the Buttermilk Blues in high school...and I decided to give everybody in the
band a bluesy nickname. Being the keyboard player, I picked 'Fingers.' It wasn't until I
switched to the harp that I realized I had the wrong name. But by then it was too late."
The Buffett mystery
Are Jimmy and Warren related? And how did Google co-founder Sergey Brin's wife get
involved? Fortune's Matthew Boyle reports on the resolution of a mystery.
FORTUNE Magazine
By Matthew Boyle, Fortune writer
May 28 2007: 7:47 AM EDT
(Fortune Magazine) -- Did you hear the one about Warren Buffett, Jimmy Buffett,
Google billionaire Sergey Brin, and his wife's startup firm? Stay with us, because this
story gets complicated.
Second Encore:
22 He Went To Paris (Jimmy acoustic)
16th Annual Meeting of the Minds 2007
Update
!
"#$%
Bill De Walt, Parrot Heads in Paradise, Inc. Director
of Conventions MOTM 2007 sent this out on June 2,
2007:
"Fins Up, Parrot Heads!!! We have well over 2100 of
our closest Parrot Head Phriends who have already
registered and will be in Key West to "Party with a
Purpose" at Meeting of the Minds 2007, "Barefootin' Key
West.".
Over the next few weeks, I'll be sending out some
background information on the bands performing at our
host hotel, the Casa Marina Resort and Beach Club. We
have several new entertainers this year along with some
of your favorites from years past.
Here are two bands that are part of the entertainment
line up:
In a May 22 SEC filing, Google disclosed that it had invested $3.9 million in a
heretofore unknown biotech startup that just so happens to be run by the new wife of
Google co-founder Brin. Okay, maybe you knew that.
But did you know that the firm, 23andMe, which decodes DNA to help people
understand their ancestry (the name comes from our 23 paired chromosomes),
recently submitted a report that definitively answered a question Fortune posed eight
years ago this month - to wit, Are Jimmy and Warren Buffett related?
Before we reveal the answer, here's some badly needed background: Fortune's 1999
piece, while noting that both Jimmy and Warren play stringed instruments, stick to their
guns, and are filthy rich, could not prove any definitive link, save for some possible
common ancestors who lived in a former penal colony in the South Pacific.
But the question continued to linger, especially since the Oracle of Omaha and the
Minstrel of Margaritaville have long been fans of each other. Jimmy even made a
surprise appearance on stage at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting on May 5,
singing "Wasted Away Again in Berkshire Hathaway-ville," to the delight and
amazement of those present.
Earlier this year two letters came over Buffett's (the Oracle's) transom asking him to
submit to a DNA analysis. One was from Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe's co-founder. She
didn't mention that they had previously met at Herb Allen's annual Sun Valley, Idaho,
retreat - she was with Brin - and even after Google's (Charts, Fortune 500) recently
announced investment in 23andMe, Buffett had no idea it was Brin's intended he had
been dealing with. (Wojcicki's romance with Brin, by the way, was reportedly sparked
after her sister rented out her garage to him and his partner, Larry Page, as office
space for a little search engine company they were hatching.)
The Caribbean Chillers:
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http://www.caribbeanchillers.com
Taken from their web site: "They are one of the most
AUTHENTIC, and TRUE TO FORM Jimmy Buffett
Tribute Shows touring today. They are --- The
Caribbean Chillers!! They have an 'authentic look',
realistic sound' to their music, lots of interaction with the
audience, the Caribbean Chillers get it right, and we are
sure that you will love it!"
Jason, the lead vocalist, has Jimmy's mannerisms, vocal
style, and connection with the audience down pretty
good. They have masterfully put together an authentic
"Tribute Show" that includes just about everything you'll
see and hear at a real Buffett Concert. This band knows
how to PARTY, not only with a purpose, but designed to
be authentic on purpose! To find out more, go to
http://www.caribbeanchillers.com/home.htm.
Stars on the Water: http://www.starsonthewater.com/
Taken from their web site: Stars on the Water is a
nationally recognized San Diego based band that
specializes in a Tropical Rock and Roll sound and cover
tunes of Jimmy Buffett. This power duo is comprised of
San Diego natives Jerry Gontang and Mike Broward.
Their calendar for 2007 has them traveling the United
States from coast to coast and border to border helping
Parrot Head clubs raise money for favorite local and
national charities. (See http://www.starsonthewater.com/)
If you have participated at the Gift Bag Stuffing at
Meeting of the Minds, then you have seen them in
action! On top of what they do when they are performing,
Jerry has never been the kind of guy to stand around
when everyone else is working. He jumps right in with
the rest of us to do what ever is needed to make MOTM
a success, from assisting in unloading the 18 - 22 boxes
of T-Shirts when they arrive in the delivery truck to
helping set up the Gift Bag Stuffing items the day before
the actual stuffing.
So come on out and "Party with a Purpose" with all of
your Parrot Head PHriends!! Go to
http://www.phip.com/MOTM and register online or via
snail mail. If you have any questions regarding MOTM
or registration - please don't hesitate to ask your club
leaders, your phriends, or email our Registration Chair
at [email protected] or [email protected].
Looking forward to seeing you ALL partying and
"Barefootin' Key West" at the Casa Marina in
November!!
Don't be left outside looking in. Register TODAY!!!
Bill De Walt
PHiP Inc. Director of Conventions
http://www.phip.com/MOTM.asp
Some other things to remember about MOTM:
1. Registrations are not transferable.
2. We cannot "hold" your registration place; payment in
full must be included with your registration.
3. You must be registered to attend all the events
scheduled at MOTM.
4. Registration is $75.00 per person, not per couple.
Children under 12 are free unless they want a gift bag
and then they have to be registered.
Brin and Wojcicki (pronounced wo-JES-ki) were married in early May, on the same
weekend as the Berkshire (Charts, Fortune 500) shareholder meeting. (See, we told
you this was complicated.)
About two months ago Warren and Jimmy submitted DNA to 23andMe. (Warren "just
kept spitting into a little receptacle, and then we FedExed it. Not very elegant," says his
assistant. Jimmy did the same.)
When the results came back a month later, Wojcicki - a 33-year-old Yale grad and
former health-care industry analyst - and her associate Joanna Mountain called Warren
from 23andMe's offices, just half a mile from Google's Mountain View, Calif., campus,
and broke the news that he need not include Jimmy in his will. In fact, "I'm as closely
related to you as Jimmy is," said Mountain, the head of 23andMe's ancestry product
line and a former professor of anthropological genetics at Stanford. (By the way, if
you'd like to join Wojcicki's team, they're hiring like mad.)
As it turns out, Jimmy and Warren do have common ancestors, but you have to go
back more than 10,000 years to find them. That's before surnames, folks. "Bottom line:
We're not related," Warren wrote to his sister Doris, the family genealogist, who
opened this whole can of worms many years ago.
Warren Buffett's ten-page DNA report, which he shared with Fortune, also revealed
that his paternal ancestors hail from northern Scandinavia, while his mother's side most
likely has roots in Iberia or Estonia.
Sadly, the report gave no inkling of the whereabouts of that lost shaker of salt.
Here's an article about Helen Bransford, the illustrator of Jimmy's new book
"Swine Not":
Helen Bransford Brings Home the Bacon
Her next book is a collaboration with Jimmy Buffett about a cosmopolitan swine (of the
four-legged kind)
By Russell Drumm
(05/23/2007) Helen Bransford is small, fine-featured, and pretty, a most unlikely
swineherd. And she wouldn’t touch a pork chop with a 10-foot pole. She has a thing for
pigs, however. “Root around in there and find the tea you want,” she told a visitor on
Friday, her words soft and shaped by Nashville, where she was raised.
“I’m a vegan now. That’s a creepy term. I like ‘plant-based diet’ better.” Forky, a
12-year-old Vietnamese potbellied pig, slumbered on the living room couch wearing a
shawl. Pinky, a youngster — “the manly pig” — clippity-clopped across the kitchen floor
wearing a red harness and complaining about something in a high-pitched squeal. Ms.
Bransford said that when people hear him in the background they often mistake him for
a parrot. (But more about parrots later.)
“I once had an English bull terrier. People said, Is that a pig? I guess I’ve been
moving toward pigs for a long time.”
A very long time. Seems that down on the family farm her two older brothers called
her “Moonbeam” or “Mac,” after Moonbeam McSwine, the character from Al Capp’s “L’il
Abner” cartoon who preferred the company of pigs to men.
It wasn’t until early 1995 that the porcine preference took the form of a pet pig. Ms.
Bransford was living at the time in the heart of Manhattan, where barnyard animals are
strictly verbotten. Guile and the winking cooperation of a friendly doorman made it
possible. The apartment complex in which she lived with five cats, her twins, Jay
McInerney (her former husband, the author of
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5. Everyone must be registered. This means a registered
person may NOT bring a date, spouse or significant
other and expect that person to be permitted to attend
MOTM events as your guest.
Forky
“Bright Lights, Big City”), and Forky backed onto the Carlisle Hotel. The trip to the city
in an R.V. with family and menagerie “is a book in itself,” Ms. Bransford said.
Please do your fellow club members a favor and talk to
them, tell them it is time to register before it is too late.
We have been cautioning you all and this is just one
more note reminding you that we will be stopping
registration at 3500...
As an infant, Forky went in and out of the building in a purse. Her droppings were
deposited in a park down the street so they couldn’t be traced. A screenwriter friend
who lived on the top floor met Forky at the freight elevator to let Forky stretch her legs,
loins, and fat back. Even her name was a ruse. It was chosen to prevent the twins from
mistakenly blowing the pig’s cover in the elevator by saying something like “ ‘Porky ate
my socks.’ If they knew they would have confiscated her.” Pork-Qua was another name
under consideration.
Eva DeWalt, Registration Chair
Meeting of the Minds 2007 ”Barefootin' Key West"
For more information or to sign up, go to:
http://www.phip.com/MOTM.asp
Migration 2007 “The Cannons still Thunder”
Regional Phlocking in Vegas - July 27-29,
2007
All the swine-related subterfuge inevitably led to “Swine Not,” a book illustrated by
Ms. Bransford and written in collaboration with her friend Jimmy Buffett, the original
Parrot Head. Now that the imaginative author and her cloven-hoofed friends dwell in
pig-friendly East Hampton, it’s safe for Little, Brown to publish it come fall.
Ms. Bransford lived in London for a time. In her youth she worked as the head
waitress at the city’s Hard Rock Cafe, when it first opened. It was in London that she
began designing jewelry, apprenticing there before making a go of it later on 48th
Street in New York City. She has continued making jewelry, some of which begin as
Christmas tree decorations. And she has written before, unabashedly.
“Welcome to Your Face Lift” (Doubleday) came about through personal experience
as a guide for people who were considering plastic surgery. “At the time it was a
forbidden subject. You couldn’t say, ‘Hey, tell me what it’s like to have a face lift.’ It was
before Botox. I kept a journal. I was having dinner with Liz Smith and she said, ‘That’s
a book.’ ” The book sold well.
“Swine Not” follows the adventures of Rumpy the pig and friends, including the
pigeolantes (pigeon vigilantes) who “watch the airspace in the city, to prevent animals
from falling out windows.” Like Forky, Rumpy is forced to live undercover in an
apartment, only venturing outside when well disguised as a dog or when wearing her
favorite pink wig.
Migration 2007 Regional Phlocking “The Cannons still
Thunder” will be going on July 27-29, 2007 in Las Vegas,
Nevada at the Hooters Casino Hotel with several
musical guests, including: Stars on the Water, Hugo
Duarte, and Tommy Rocker & Conched Out. For more
information, go to: http://www.migrationsocal.com.
Tommy Rocker Update
“I was staying at Jane and Jimmy’s,” she said, referring to Mr. Buffett and his wife.
“Jimmy said, ‘Let me read it, and took it on his sailboat overnight.’ The next day he told
me he wanted to edit it and add layers. He got into it. Took it to a fantastic level. He
likes animals.” She said it was originally meant to be a children’s book, and probably
still was, although it was one that should appeal to easily amused adults.
During Friday’s visit, Pinky continued to squeal. It was raining outside, which was
where he wanted to be, his owner said. Forky, on the other hand, seemed content on
the couch. She grunted middream only occasionally, the white shawl covering her
shoulders in a grandmotherly way. Alas, she was fixed and has no piglets.
“They’re as smart as dolphins, and adore people,” Ms. Bransford said. “And they can
smell things six feet underground.” She predicted that the olfactory sense that’s put
pigs to work finding truffles might some day help diagnose disease in humans by way
of their breath even better than dogs, whose trained noses were able to detect cancer,
she said.
At the same time, they are not everyone’s idea of a pet, Ms. Bransford allowed.
These lines from the book were the fruit of firsthand experience with Forky:
Speaking of fellow Oregonian Tommy Rocker, his
landmark Mojave Beach establishment in Las Vegas is
about to go through a rather significant makeover. On
June 6, the Las Vegas Parrot Head Club will have their
last phlocking there and on June 16th Tommy and
"Conched Out" will play their last gig there. Then, on
June 20 it will reopen as "Tommy Rocker's Gentlemen's
Club" complete with "bare naked ladies"! The Las
Vegas club has indicated that they will now call the
Hooter Casino Hotel home. We wish them all the best!
A home that’s occupied by pigs
Is nothing like the normal digs
Its system must incorporate
A crazed-with-hunger vertebrate
A thing routinely left intact
Might well become a piggy snack.
Forky, just for instance, loves alcohol. “If she finds a can of beer, she can crush it
with her jaws and then lick it up. There are concessions you’ve got to make.” A special
hole in a closet door was made for kitchen scraps, normal garbage cans being easy
prey for Pinky and Forky. “I hate to say it, but they’d eat a crispy piece of bacon if you
gave it to them.”
“They’re large and unwieldy, more of a commitment than a dog or a cat. They don’t
like their heads petted, would rather get their stomachs rubbed,” she continued. “And
as they get older they’re not like a trophy wife. When they’re abandoned, it breaks their
heart.”
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June Recipes
Ms. Bransford said she hoped “Swine Not” would be a success for two reasons: to
give Forky her due as she nears the end of her life, and “just to keep pigs out there.
Here are some concept drawings of the proposed Margaritaville Casino in Biloxi,
Mississippi:
Rum Punch
Ingredients needed:
Two and one-half cups pineapple juice
Two and one-half cups orange juice
1 cup white rum
One-half cups dark rum
One-fourth cup coconut rum
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
3 tablespoons grenadine
In a pitcher, combine and stir all ingredients and serve
over ice.
Yield: 8 servings
Tropical Chicken Kabobs
1/3 cup lime juice
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon honey
6 single chicken breast halves *
12 single pearl onions, peeled
1 single lg green pepper **
1 single papaya, peeled **
1 1/2 cup fresh pineapple chunks
*4 oz each, skinned, boned, cut into 1 1/2" pieces
** seeded, and cut into 2" pieces Combine lime juice,
vegetable oil, and honey in a shallow dish. Add chicken;
toss gently. Cover and marinate in refrigerator 8 hours or
overnight, stirring occasionally. Remove chicken from
marinade, reserving marinade. Alternate chicken, onion,
pepper, papaya, and pineapple on 6 (12") skewers. Coat
grill rack with Pam; place rack on grill over medium-hot
coals. Place kabobs on rack, and cook 15-20 minutes or
till done, turning and basting frequently with reserved
marinade.
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Well, that's it for now Parrot Heads. We wish you and yours all the best and hope that
we get to see you around the "island" real soon! We hope you can come on out for our
Hugo concerts this month and have a phine time!
As always, if you have any questions, comments, ideas or announcements, let us know
at ([email protected]). Details about our events and more are located on the
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email to: [email protected].
Key NorthWest Parrot Heads
Mailing Address:
6107 SW Murray Blvd., #212,
Beaverton, OR 97008
club web page calendar at (http://www.keynorthwest.org) which also includes the
interactive Northwest Regional Parrot Head Calendar!
Club Email: [email protected]
Club Phone Number:
Key NorthWest Parrot Head Hotline!:
(503) 523-1700
Club Web Page: http://www.keynorthwest.org
Key NorthWest Calendar!!! Our online club calendar is
now interactive, so you can choose a month and see the
upcoming activities listed there. Just go to:
http://www.keynorthwest.org and click on "Calendar".
On the same page we have the Jimmy Buffett Concert
dates and at the bottom we have the Northwest
Regional Parrot Head Club Calendar which has events
from Canada to California, including Idaho, Montana and
Colorado.
Club Membership Information: http://tinyurl.com/f4tkl
Tropical Times Archive Editions:
http://www.tropicaltimes.net
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Take care and keep those Phins Up!
Chris and Andrea Sloan
Phearless Leaders
Key NorthWest Parrot Heads
Club Email: [email protected]
Club Web Page: http://www.keynorthwest.org
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