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Alice's Restaurant (1969)
http://www.amazon.com/Alices-Restaurant-Arlo-Guthrie/dp/B000053VAR/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382574607&sr=8-1&keywords=alice%27s+restaurant
rug
(82,333 posts)Anyway, here it is for free. Won't even cost a pickle.
GReedDiamond
(5,313 posts)...which I thought was really weird.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)He endorsed Ron Paul in 2008. Maybe pot smoking does rot your brain...
GReedDiamond
(5,313 posts)...Arlo, how could ya?
Dude, yer father is spinning in his fuckin grave!!
On edit: I'm thinkin he must have quit smokin pot, that's what warped his brain.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,313 posts)...not George.
Dylan.
Sorry, slow processing brain chip, circa 1955.
Dad was right.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)"heir apparent" thing. Dylan is a major talent, while "Alice's Restaurant" is an excruciating exercise in tedium and "City of New Orleans" was written by someone else. What else does Arlo really have?
B Calm
(28,762 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)It comes on every year
Taverner
(55,476 posts)I have known MANY hippie capitalists
antiquie
(4,299 posts)full of entrepreneurs.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)Next to prostitution
UTUSN
(70,711 posts)Taverner
(55,476 posts)Same with the Whole Foods guy
UTUSN
(70,711 posts)The shaving mug is mine, which I re-named as The Knight Templar.
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(from Wiki, Burts Bees)
Originating in Maine in the 1980s, the business began when co-founder Roxanne Quimby started making candles from Burt Shavitz's leftover beeswax.[14] Their attention to quality brought success and eventually led to the bottling and selling of honey, a practice that slowly diminished as the company evolved as a corporation.[citation needed] Eventually, other products using honey and beeswax, including edible spreads and furniture polish, were sold, before moving into the personal care line. She also created the famous image of Shavitz that still graces many of the company's products.
In late 2007, Clorox purchased Burt's Bees. In late 2007, the Clorox Company acquired Burt's Bees for the reported sum of $925,000,000
1993: Quimby bought out Shavitz's shares in the company. Increasing demand and product offerings necessitated a move from Maine headquarters to North Carolina where other personal care product manufacturers were also situated. Burt's Bees changed its focus to exclusively personal care products
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/11-burt-s-bees-co-founder-burt-s-buzz-and-losing-millions.html
[font size=5]Burts Bees Co-Founder Burt Shavitz on the Doc Burts Buzz, and Losing Millions [/font]
Burt Shavitz, the eccentric co-founder of the personal-care-products company Burts Bees, is given the documentary treatment in Burts Buzz. Director Jody Shapiro and Shavitz sat down with Marlow Stern at TIFF to discuss Burts journey, and how he was screwed out of the company fortune.
by Marlow Stern Sep 11, 2013 5:02 AM EDT
.... Burt was born in Great Neck, New York. Since following in his fathers footsteps as a factory worker was of no interest to him, Burt took to photography, snapping pictures of bums on the Bowery, as he puts it. He was eventually hired as a staff photographer for a Jewish weekly and then, after they purchased some of his photographs, acquired a press pass for Time. He got work as a freelancer for publications like The New York Times and Life, photographing anti-war rallies, pollution, and popular figures of the period like Malcolm X, John F. Kennedy, and Allen Ginsberg. But when the television started to become popular, Burt realized that there was no longer much of a market for his photos. ....
One day in 1984, he was cruising around in his van when he came across a woman hitchhiking on the side of the road in Dexter, Maine. The lady was Roxanne Quimby, a down-on-her-luck waitress and single mother, and before long, the two were both lovers and business partners. With Burts resources and Quimbys business acumen, their makeshift enterprise started to grow. Quimby crafted decorative jars for the honeybearing a logo of Burts grizzled faceand, at Burts behest, used beeswax hed been collecting over the years to produce wax candles. Before long, they began making shoe polish and, the big moneymaker: lip balm. They introduced the lip balm, a combination of beeswax and sweet almond oil, in 1991. When they became incorporated that year, Quimby owned two thirds of the company, while Burt owned one third. ....
According to the filmand Burthe began an affair with a college-age girl who worked at one of the retail stores. When Quimby found out, she was irate.
She accused me of sexual harassment and went completely berserk, he says. She consulted a lawyer and put the paper on a desk and said, There! Take it or leave it! I had no one to turn to for guidance, so I signed it. I went one way and she went another."
While exact figures of the settlement arent available, a report in The New York Times claims that in 1999, when the two parted ways, Burt received a home and about 50 acres of property worth an estimated $130,000 for his one-third share in Burts Bees. ....
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mucifer
(23,554 posts)They put Woody's poems to music and made some great albums.
malthaussen
(17,204 posts)Now he's a Libertarian. His dad must be turning in his grave.
-- Mal