More magic from Karen

December 5th, 2006 · No Comments

Last spring, I posted the first of four voicemails received by another lucky object of Karen Freeman’s attention, but with the busy summer of moving and getting settled here in L.A., I never posted any of the others. Now that I’ve got a moment, and as I’m no longer on her list of people to call, I’ll be putting up the other messages here over the next few weeks. Feel free to browse previous episodes of the extraordinary adventures of my voicemail. At this point, she’s been on a first name basis, but it seems she’s introducing herself as “Karen Curtis” or “Curgis” or something other than “Freeman,” either way. I’m sure you’ll all enjoy this one, and remember it as “the one where Karen sings.”

Hey David: Karen Curgis. I’ve left a lot of messages for you. Cleveland Art Museum sends me a brochure every month. This one, it shows a red cross on the picture of the Great Lakes, since Dad’s bad let’s bag our dads took over, kids doing hostage and terrorist, destabilization of their parents and our country. You’ll find a lot of them in AA ‘ Alcoholics Anonymous, actors, singers, musicians, going back to the Boys Town orphans and the Wizard of Oz. You would say it was like Jimmy Stewart It’s a Wonderful Life, the military and government conspiracy of censorship. Now the reason I’m calling is people want money money money, whether it’s robbing banks and not being able to get in because they don’t have security system numbers or passcodes, or looking for dead account money. Get this: the Great Lakes went through a winter storm. A lot of people lost their jobs. Slave labor exists in America. Consider that Social Security money was deposited in dead accounts or workman’s comp. You say a lot of our federal money is stock market money, would never be accounted for because our local officials and our federal government was not doing its job, an accounting of what was going on with the people, whether it be hepatitis or bubonic plague, whether it be hurricanes, weapons of mass destruction down in Florida, whether it would be the problems out in California, you know, all I can do is say, you know, we’ve got to talk to the people who were supposed to be running things, whether it was banking systems or the stock market. Of course, Matt Rittner, from National Citibank Cleveland, Bill Rittner, New York snuff, Joan Rittner Hollowood out in San Francisco. They may have more answers for you because they were part of National Citibank, and believe it or not, like Judy Garland may have renamed herself, so actors and musicians don’t get a lot of money for their worker time, and a lot of their publications, they don’t go out for twenty years after. Digital sound tells you it’s the same people, year after year. If they were doing “Like a man, like a man,” “Layla … you’ve got–“

Perhaps she wants to talk to me about “the problems out in California.” I love that she does that weird “dad’s bad, let’s bag dad” thing again that I don’t understand at all. And I love the fact that when I was in Boston, she told me about how New Englanders went through A Perfect Storm, and now she’s talking about how the “Great Lakes went through a winter storm.” She always knows her audience…

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