Some Personal "Bosc" History

Dear blog reader. We appreciate any input you offer about our subjects. The following material provides background information about me in a particular period of months in my life. It's kind of like "Acts of the Apostles" in that it is incomplete and reflects a personal point of view. It's probably more than you get from a lot of writers. In this blog we plan to explore a lot of the moral issues raised in the Bible. If you find yourself getting bored reading this first posting, feel free to move down to the next posting.

In mid March of 1980 Pete Richards invited me along with him on a dinner date with Kate. Kate was a sweet girl whom back in September around Beverly’s pool Pete had gotten in the healing business. She claimed one of her legs was longer than the other. Pete Richardsl also attempted to heal Laura, who had diagnosed scoliosis of the spine. I’m not sure how much success Pete had. Pete probably invited me along to keep distance between himself and Kate. Pete, Kate, and I had dinner in some place on Katella which was noted for its down home food or something, and they advertised free chocolate cake for desert. Soon after this Kate departed the scene. (I refer you to “Jousting”)

In late March of 1980 [Forrest Gump] had purchased a yellow truck. I think he had only recently gotten his driver’s license. He called his truck “Amos”. In fact he had names for a lot of his personal items like his tape recorder ect. Laura was in an amorous mood this twilight evening. She kept singing excerpts from the “Good and Plenty” jingle. At this time we were living in the yellow house with Daryl as our roommate. Daryl had a black lavidor named Taho, and Taho and Toby got along well. Daryl liked to work on cars a lot and Pete Richards once told me he found it irritating that Daryl wasn’t doing more house chores. Pete Richards was easily “irritated” in those days.

At the beginning of April I began my third and final twelve week quarter at Criss College. The details of how I even got a third quarter are in “Jousting”. This was the quarter they fired a few teachers. Notably Mr. Collins. I used to have him after sixth period when we were waiting for two O clock to roll around to get in our full six hours. He was an easy going fellow students liked. He gave me a passing grade in Payroll when I hadn’t done a lot of the work. Tom Day was probably my best friend there. He came in when I did and graduated when I did. There was that fat guy, whom I often saw in later years on a bus or ran into him somewhere, and I had to say I wasn’t doing much. There was Cynthia, whom I first met going there to register for the college. She was friendly. There was Linda Gunn, who really seemed to come out of her shell. And there was a blonde named Susie and there were lots of others. One thing I never told anyone at CRISS was that I was a Christian. I had seen it backfire too many times before and since and keeping my lips sealed on the issue was a wise move indeed.

In mid April things were going fine. I guess it was Friday April 18^th. that I accepted one of numerous offers of parents for dinner and a movie at the La Habra mall where Pete Richards worked. This time we had time and I went shopping. I bought three albums, “Victims of the Fury” by Robin Trower, “Rarities” –which was the new American version of the Rarities album of Beatles songs. There was already a British version out. And also I bought “Women and Children First” by Van Halen. I don’t remember what movie we saw. Afterwards as was customary I would meet up with Pete Richards, who was working as a Security Guard at the mall, and we would walk through the mall together and talk. I kind of miss this particular era.

The next night was the Bible Study. Laura was dressed in black, and looking sexy and she had a very flirtatious personality this night. One would have thought it was only a matter of time before we were having sex, [this part censored[..

In late April the weather had turned cool and overcast again. It would be about the last time. In early May the weather turned warm and sunny and pretty much stayed that way. In late April Alfred Hitchcock died. I think there was a book out. I was at CRISS college talking to someone about my dentist situation. I was having three upper wisdom teeth pulled. I had a “super-numary” or extra one. I think I was scheduled to have the lower ones out too, but I managed to delay that nine years. In “Jousting” I discuss Pete Richards’s saying my dental problems were affecting my personality. Dad also sounded this theme and in Oct. 1997 I was concerned enough to ask the dentist about infected brains and fevers and such. But it’s an even farther reach to say that a dental problem would have an adverse affect on my personality. (see “Jousting”)

Roll kettle drum. In early May, and I don’t remember the exact date, Pete Richards heard that what became known as the Bosc house was up for sale. I remember during this period of early May Pete Richards started getting uptight again. It’s almost as if some force was forcing Pete Richards to push things. The lady was a Christian. At the same time Mom was wondering where she could pick up some real estate and somehow Mom became more than a little interested in the house. I thought it was a bad idea from the word go. It would be like going backwards to move into a house your parents owned. In terms of rent it would go from 1/3 of $450.00 to half of $550.00. Not bright. I think it was mid May, perhaps Mothers Day, when we toured the Powers’ old house less than a block from where they lived. Obviously it would be absurd to live there. The funny thing is usually Real Estate deals have an escrow period. Maybe- - ten days?

The first Saturday in May several new people appeared at the Saturday night Bible study. There were Sylvia and Dilia. They were sisters. Sylvia was 20 and had been there the previous week. Dilia was a very mature fourteen. I liked the way she hugged. Also [cencered]. I didn’t particularly like him from day one. He seemed to have that motorcycle “tough guy” air about him. And there was Max, who was Colleen’s brother or something. I remember one time we and Jeff and Max were at a restaurant and Max mentioned some earthquake in Bishop or something. I think this was right after Mt. St. Helen’s had erupted. At this time Pete Richards was taking laborious notes on what happened at each Bible Study and who said what. Sometimes he read this journal to me.

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You Mark Campbell fans: There’s no room for him in this file. We need to pick up the pace drastically or we’ll never get all this in.

In early May I purchased “Dreams” by Grace Slick. A little later I purchased “Flush the Fashion”, the last album in the old house. Those flashing green lines are back. Every time I press a letter the whole lower paragraph flashes green lines. In “Jousting” we discuss my interaction with Rev. Westfall during this period. I remember having some dream Dad and I got in an argument when he was putting up an antenna. Reverand Westfall said the letter I wrote him seemed like a suicide letter. The letter was no doubt frought with a lot of the anxiety I was feeling at the time.

In late May at the last Bible Study at the old house, Laura was there hanging around the kitchen, and Brian Rains happened to make the comment “You need to watch out for those films reeling in your mind. Especially that one pornographic one”. I think he was referring to my lust for Laura. (Brian was a projectionist)

We moved into the Bosc house Saturday May 31^st. on a rare overcast day. We had a Bible study that night. A few days later Pete Richards, me, and parents took that family photo on the patio in front of that ash tree we ended up having to get rid of on May 13^th. 1982. My hair is observably long and full and my face has an air of confidence. At this time Pete Richards really began to ride me about doing chores and such. The thing is, he had graduated CSUF. I was the one under pressure. The house was a regular weed menace, and Dad thought it insane that they should consider buying such a place, with so many trees and all. There were these cute sprigs of blue flower plant. Little did I know they would soon end up taking over the whole yard, front and back. I think they were water hyacinths. They all died mysteriously in the winter of ’87 – ’88. Just to set the record straight, upon doing further research the flowers were not hyacinths. I don’t know what they were.

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Around mid June I bought “Blonde on Blonde” and “Heaven and Hell” at the La Habra mall. I took the bus home via Euclid and Lincoln, patiently waiting. Cindy Collins was back and I mentioned the Dylan album to her, and we also talked about the new Star Trek movie.

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I was feeling the pressure from Criss College doing the Practice Set and all in Accounting. I wanted to take the typing test to get it out of the way but they said “No, wait till you gain speed”. I was already typing 70 wpm. They were scheduling job interviews on campus. I felt pressure having to do an interview before I had even grad-uated. One thing at a time. There was a counselor there named Debby Vagner and she was friendly and everything but occasionally used obscene words and phrases. I saw her even after I graduated, but [the rest of this is sensored].

I was feeling beside myself and decided to write [censored] a letter. I said I felt as estranged from the Faith as Janis Joplin. I said I felt isolated. This letter met with a cooler response than any other. [cencored] clearly didn’t want to talk about it. Clearly, Christians let you down the time you need them most.

Parents came to the graduation at Criss. However the joy of the day was dampened because Mr. Bird, a new teacher and a real stickler, handed me back my practice set with lots of red marks on it. He failed to note the key word in the assignment was “Practice”. Linda Gunn made some comment to me and Pete Richards goes, “How come all the girls around here are so friendly tword you?”, and he had a note of hostility in his voice. We ate lunch out. I continued to go back to Criss the next week or so because they said I was missing some typing assignments but were vague about just what.

The Monday after graduation the weather continued hot, as it had been. I had a job interview in the late afternoon and took the bus down there in south Anaheim, and was hot and sweaty for the interview. I didn’t get the job.

The Bible Study was getting more spiritual and it seems often we had these long prayer vigils with the lights dimmed. I had a bunch of really strange dreams during the period. One time I drank a quarter bottle of rum just to get the image of one dream out of my mind. In early July I had a job interview in Orange, and someone drove me. The job was for someone with a “handicap”. I failed that interview too. In “Camera” I discuss both of these topics, and also how Pete Richards was spreading the roomer that it looked like I’d never get a job. I assumed I would because CETA had an investment in me, and they wouldn’t let me down. [one sentence deleted here]

In “Camera” we discuss how CMK members went Christian. This apparently occurred in early July. The Republican Convention occurred sometime in July.

Just how I came to write my book, “God’s Winepress” is an interesting topic, and I discuss it in two different ways in “Sougern” and “Camera”. In mid July or so I bought Queen’s “The Game”. A day or two later I took up smoking. One day I came across an unsmoked cigarette in the back yard. I liked it so much I decided I had been missing out. Smoking helped me think clearly. One time there was a prison break movie on TV and we were jotting down notes, “This would make a good example of how the antichrist works”. Ratting out friends, and other stuff. Actually I intended to put stuff about the Viet Nam War in my book and how “The country side is better than the cities” and stuff in the Stargate file. As it was there were notable things out of the Christian main stream in my book. I allude to the trinity as a monstrosity like a three headed snake. I say “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God” but I leave out “And the word was God”. We thought that might confuse our readers. There’s no talk about “living on the animal plane” or humans as a tripartite entity or how the Spirit comes in and reorganizes your life. I don’t say “Jesus Loves You” every other sentence. In other words, I don’t “stroke” my readers. Had I to do the book over again I would take more time with it and read it over and make sure it didn’t sound stilted. Gary, our next room mate made a remark to me that he had been working on a novel for eight months, and more or less indicated I was proceeding at a breakneck pace.

There was a trip to the beach with Laura on July 22^nd. According to the “Camera” file (in the Yearling directory) Laura wore a light blue bathing suit and about the only thing I did was put suntan lotion on her. It was an overcast day but I think we were at the beach for over three hours. You’d think me and her would have a lot of time to talk. But Pete Richards was the one with the phallic symbol, ie. car. [two sentences were deleted here]

We first met Jim Cooper on Saturday July 26^th. 1980, Mick Jagger’s birthday. Jim Cooper had a winning personality and we were eager to sign him on the dotted line. Jim seemed enthusiastic about my book plans. There was a problem with the power outlets on Jim’s side of the house which we tended to in early August. The swimming pool next door to the south was not empty. Jim and I went swimming there a few times. Jim liked to jump off the roof into the pool. I was too chicken to try that. The roof was kind of steep and frankly if you slipped, you would land on the cement.

In early August Pete Richards went on his annual backpack retreat. What was significant this year is that we were in Judy’s trailor and Judy makes the remark, “Yeah, but we have to keep up fellowship with something”. I thought, “You poor thing, you don’t know how Pete Richards’s mind works. If he wants to terminate the group for a few weeks or half the summer there isn’t anybody who can change Pete Richards’s mind”.

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In mid August Pete Richards was back from his trip. Me and him and Laura and maybe others went on an outing to the stores of Knott’s Berry Farm. It was Laura’s birthday and she was 21 as of August 16^th. She was in an amorous mood- downright physical. Per-haps it was due to some retreat she was just on. (in Sacramento?)

The next day, Sunday, we had people over. It was a celebration dinner for me finishing my book at breakneck speed in just three weeks. You see how absurd that is. Judy was in a bubbly mood. This was to change. Some time the following week, I con-tacted KNI printers about getting a print job done. I didn’t trust Publishers after bad luck with my first book. That was a mistake. When Pete Richards found out I had actually scheduled a print job for a book he went into a panic. He said “You can’t do that!” and other things to indicate he was strongly opposed. Pete Richards said “I’d like to know where you’re going to store them all”. In Pete Richards’s mind it was an impossibility that I would sell them.

On Sunday August 31^st. in addition to Saturday, we had people over. Laura came dressed in a sexy outfit and was flirtatious. We were listening to Chuck Smith speak on Job and he spoke of Satan providing “an attractive alternative”. I had told Judy I felt pretty good about the past month or so- what I had accomplished. In a somewhat bitter tone of voice she responded, “Well, anything you accomplished was only with God’s help. You didn’t do it yourself”. This was the first time Judy “went negative” but it wouldn’t be the last. The words were almost a curse.

Labor Day, September 1^st. me and Jim and Laura went to Laguna Beach. We climbed all over the rock formations looking at shells and such. We had fish and chips at some seaside place, and I had beer. Laura and I interacted OK but the only danger signal is when we went in some store afterwards and Laura was looking at lipstick or something and she and Jim got into an extended conversation. Some time around this period Jim said that he had kissed Laura and Laura got upset. I’m not sure what the deal was.

The next Saturday, September 6^th. a new face, Jeane Hayse made her appear-ance. Jim Cooper had talked to her on the phone and was favorably impressed. I talked to her OK. Only thing she was one of the new phase of mental patients Pete Richards was starting to have over. Kind of like his own personal groupies.

I had a pastoral conference with Rev. Westfall some time the following week. I’m not sure whether I discussed my anxieties about Laura or what.

The next day, Sunday September 7^th. was the Disneyland trip. In the late afternoon we had a Mexican dinner here. I think it was the first day of NFL season. The Disneyland trip went OK. I was a little bothered because Laura was distant and preferred to hang around with other people. At the end of the evening she gave Pete Richards some Christian albums to listen to, including Resurrection Band which in those days was Heavy Metal. The album was interesting.

The following Saturday, September 13^th. was the swimming party at Judy’s trailer park. It was overcast all day, which was to prove prophetic. This is the day that was a disaster with Laura. She was wearing that same light blue bathing suit and looked alluring and all of that. But she gave me the silent treatment and all of that. There was just the time she beat me at billiards. At this time I had started writing the media again and I sent them two albums in the month of September.

About this time I got the “galleys” back from KNI printers. There were all sorts of typographical errors and a lot of them they had introduced into the text. But I added sentences and did my best to get spelling errors. I think Dad at one said at one time he found 295 errors in the text. Some of those errors were miniscule.

The following Saturday Pete Richards had a group of back packers over or whatever and when it was time to go this cute girl named Karen was hugging people good-bye and I was so desperate I was glad to have that. My psychological mood was depressed.

John Bonnum committed suicide sometime in late September. He took a combination of sleeping pills and booze and I guess he was barfing a lot. Obviously Led Zeppelin would never play again. The thing is I remember his death occurring late September of 1979, not 1980, just after “In Through the Out Door” had come out and had six different camera angles or something with “clues” in the picture.

Well, we’ve come to the end of this file. I’ve reported everything I intended to. If you want more info. just read either “Sougern”, “Camera”, or “Jousting”.

Just as a closing note here- - - if the Rapture of the Saints is to come, I predict it will come in late September at about 6:45 in the evening, or just barely after sunset. In my vision I sense the Dodgers and Giants playing, probably in San Francisco due to the color of the uniforms. The media probably isn’t surprised that I choose to end the file here because of what I put in my letters. We’ve tried to keep this file squeaky clean, morally. We don’t want to offend any KFI commentators named Jesus.