[AGL] Helen Yarbrough

[Fontaine Maverick]

 I am just trying to come up with an explanation of why a mysogyistic 
undercover cop might label Helen in that fashion. Clark's young-man-bragging 
was not that shocking to me. Not sure I agree with the transgressive label, 
Mike. Clark and Helen were a bit more forthcoming than some of us, and I 
sorta admired them for it. And never would I connect the anecdote with 
Helen's being slutty or promiscuous. Somebody else put that together. 
Whatever.

Also, I never in a million thought I would agree with Mike, but.........

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at ando.pair.com>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: [AGL] Helen Yarbrough



> Fontaine,

>

> Actually, doggie-style is very transgressive. Definitely something to crow

> about if Clark felt loose enough to share it with you (and he did).

>

> Mike

>

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Fontaine Maverick" <fmaverick at austin.rr.com>

> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"

> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

> Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 6:18 PM

> Subject: [AGL] Helen Yarbrough

>

>

> Helen was Clarks girlfriend, I'm thinking around 1963 . Short as me, brown

> eyes and hair. Clark used to crow delightedly about how he and Helen did 

> it

> "doggie style" - how innocent we were thinking that was exotic. (Or I did,

> anyway). As for the listmaker cops calling certain women promiscuous, my

> recollection from a few years ago was that this was also the label for 

> Tami

> and for Janis.

>

>  ----- Original Message ----- 

>  From: bakhirun bakhirun

>  To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s

>  Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 1:27 PM

>  Subject: Re: [AGL] I have in my hands a list of 82 names

>

>

>  Come on Mike, ya gotta run it. I will even get my lawyer to write you up 

> a

> permission to use my holy monniker if I happen to be on it (unlikely as I

> was always lingering somewhere in the shadows).

>

>  BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB

>

>

>  On 11/19/06, Michael Eisenstadt <michaele at ando.pair.com> wrote:

>    Thorne,

>

>    I have in my hands a 6 page list (with a cover page)

>    of Ghettoistas and Ghetto sympathizers, 82 names

>    in all, apparently compiled in 1964.

>

>    (Parenthetically the pyschiatrists' report on the collective

>    psychology of Ghettoistas which you reproduced made

>    amusing reading).

>

>    As it was not reproduced in the Texas Observer archive,

>    you must not have seen our list.

>

>    Unfortunately, there are at least a half a dozen current

>    subscribers to AGL who are named and you would

>    have had to ask permission of all of them to reproduce

>    the list.

>

>    Reading over the names again, I wonder if the Wayne

>    Smith on this list would be the same ole codger who

>    lives near Bastrop and who left this list in a huff?

>

>    Also who is Helen Yarborough? She is identified as

>    "sexually promiscuous" by the guy in the white socks

>    who infiltrated the Ghetto partays. Sometimes

>    redundancy is ever-so-telling. For example, the first

>    line of Gay Talese's immortal classic Thy Neighbor's

>    Wife, reads "She was completely naked!"

>

>    Mike

>

>

>