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Recieved: 2000/06/24 04:27
Subject: [K-list] The Big Day
From: Paul Perner
On 2000/06/24 04:27, Paul Perner posted thus to the K-list:
It was almost ten years ago that they broke ground. There was the usual little
ceremony with the mayor turning over a shovel full of pre loosened dirt
surrounded by inept local politicians, but a week later, the real stuff got under
way. I remember that morning well.
I woke up to the sound of trucks and heavy earth moving equipment. Stepping
outside I walked down to the main street to see what was going on. Among the
workers was a woman with striking looks. She wore a silver hard hat over her long
blonde hair and seemed to be the one in charge of the project.
A man with a flag stopped the
traffic.
A kind of silence fell over the
area.
A bell sounded followed by a short wail of a siren. Then the woman, who was
standing about ten feet away from me, with a calm, business like demeanor, spoke
into her hand radio, "Fire in the hole."..........
BOOM!!! The street jumped beneath my feet and my heart almost jumped out of my
throat.
And this woman just clips her radio back on to her utility belt and walks away
like it was nothing. All I could say was, "wow."
She had started blasting for the ten mile subway tunnel that would link suburban
North Hollywood with Hollywood and downtown LA. But there were no cameras that
morning and she was no actress. She was a supervisor on an explosives team and
along with a few tons of rock, she blew away all my old conceptions of "women's
work."
So now it's June 24th.
Ten miles, ten years, several hundred million dollars, a few political scandals
and one major earthquake later, the mayor and the cameras are back.
It's the big day.
But mind you this is *North* H-wood, not Tinsel Town proper. We've always been
in shadow of our larger, well funded neighbors to the south. They see us as
cultureless air heads. I hate to say it, but they're often right. We're in the
Valley. And we're cursed with a regional surfer like accent (like, bitchen,
dude..... (ack!)). This is the backwater of the media industry. (Even the major
studios downtown are owned by outside interests. Hollywood is mostly in the hands
of Canadians now. A little known fact, but true.) This is just an ordinary
district with poor, welfare section 8 housing on one side of Magnolia and the
middle class mundane on the other. I live in between, right off Magnolia (the
movie of the same name was quite descriptive of the messed of lives some people
get into here). Our main international export is special effects post production,
sound equipment and cheap pornography. The rest of LA sees the North Hollywood
Arts District, "No Ho," as a desperate experiment: Take a small seed of culture,
toss it in a sea of white trash and see if it will grow. It almost didn't take
and years ago, we almost got left out of the plans for the final subway link.
That was then.
This is now. The tunnel is complete and the trains are on the track. The mayor
is about hit the on switch and a two day public celebration will soon begin.
The stage is set. But wait!!!
Like the explosives expert, another heroic woman has popped out of nowhere.
She's a little known rock singer (in the band Kelly's Lot) and marathon runner
who has awakened via several "runner's highs." She's a true live wire who uses
her energy to organize benefits for the less fortunate in the area. She's not
into the glamor thing, but can belt out a tune with the best of them. Few people
know of good she's done for others on a personal level. She's very modest and
doesn't seen to realize it her self. But when she ran in the LA marathon and sang
to the other runners to encourage them, she became a roll model for a lot of
folks.
Of the five music stages, she was chosen to host the one that will feature local
talent. She was also allowed to schedule the performances. It's located right by
the subway entrance. And I just heard that in the morning on opening day (in a
few hours) she's planned a public meditation
followed by the "sound of OM and drumming." YES!!!!!!!!! Go Kelly, go!!!
You won't hear this on the news and most of the world may never notice it, but
let it be known that our subway was began not by politicians and money, but by a
woman quietly saying, "fire in the hole" with a bundle of dynamite at her
command. And today that same tunnel will be spiritually dedicated through the
voice and energy of another unassuming, unpretentious woman. It will be the fire
of love.
Cities rise and fall... they crumble like sand castles in the tide.
But Goddess remains.
In Her, it will always be, "the big day."
Paul
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