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Sid's Place
Tom Calder's life underground in the psychedelic sixties of California
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The Hippy Coyote

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	A.  TO DO  /  DONE   Fix PDF at Payloadz.com
	B.  1st Draft:  2006 by Michelle McCarty
		This version had lyrics from other artists in it.  Uploaded to ENDEAVOR AGENCY and received good review from agent.
	C.  2nd Draft: 2008 in Tujunga
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	D.  3rd Draft:  10/23/2011
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1969, Tom Calder’s van is involved in a car crash, it’s loaded with kilos of marijuana.  He runs from the law, he runs from a hitman, joins a rock band, lives on a commune, learns Tai Chi, drops acid (LSD), joins the underground railroad, trains in a Libya terrorist camp, bombs a police station, murders a prison rapist, and falls in love on a hippie commune in Northern California.

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Our hero, Tom Calder, is a drug dealer.  He is involved in a car crash while transporting 100 kilos of marijuana in San Diego, California.  He runs from the law, joins a terrorist cell of the People's Freedom Army, PFA, in San Francisco, and with a vengeful heart murders a rapist in prison.

Three years of turbulence described in detail by Richard Del Connor who lived amongst the fugitives, exiles, draft dodgers, criminals, and Green Berets of the flower power years.  Sid's Place is a rare inside look at the underground lifestyles of the Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan years.

"The information in SID'S PLACE is based upon my personal experiences. Ernest Hemingway inspired me with his concept of transforming his life into fictional stories. That’s what I’ve done here. It’s possible I have revealed sensitive or classified government secret service information, but it is so old and outdated I couldn’t remember who told me what or who did what... even if they pumped me full of truth serum."

"Yes, I was a drug dealer from 1968 to 1970, but I was only 14 to 16 years old.  Many of these experiences were my friends or their older brothers. Having not read this book for many years prior to this rewrite it was a fun flashback for me as I relived this book, or in many cases remembered the girls who inspired the love scenes."

"Restrain your contempt for me if you’re anti-drugs, anti-sex, anti-anti-war... and for all the splinter groups I may have offended--please don't get pissed... Whew!  My goal is to be loved and liked. I hope to make friends with this book, not enemies.  If you hate this book, too bad, bug off and leave me alone. I’ve already had plenty of hate mail, threats on my answer machine... so don’t waste your time."

"One of my motives for writing this book was to explore how things might have gone for me under different circumstances. Like Tom, I got busted in my van, but I hung around and got a lucky break when my Uncle offered to take me in, in Newfoundland.  My accomplice friend went to jail, I went to Newfoundland.  Another motive for writing this book was to explore the possible error of my pacifistic passivity. I take a quiet pride in the fact I have not killed anyone in this current lifetime, and despite opportunities and good reasons, still decided not to when other people were encouraging me. In this story I pushed myself to the limit where I would take a life, purposefully. Better my imagination than reality.  As for the drug tripping, I explored that plenty in reality, or different realities.  I’ve got a lot more of those stories to tell.  So enjoy a glimpse of my teenage world. Sadly, as civilization seems to be heading toward less love and more war, by reading my book Sid's Place, you can see a generation that fought this Uncle Warbucks trend."

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Fictional adventure of sex, drugs, rock’n’roll, and terrorism in which drug dealer Tom Calder travels in the psychedelic underground California life of 1969 to 1972.

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Sid's Place - A Psychedelic Odyssey

1969, Tom Calder’s van is involved in a car crash, it’s loaded with kilos of marijuana.  He runs from the law, he runs from a hitman, joins a band, lives on a commune, learns Tai Chi, joins the underground railroad, trains in a Libya terrorist camp, bombs a police station...

Three years of turbulence described in detail by someone who lived amongst the fugitives, exiles, criminals, and Green Berets of the flower power years.  A rare inside look at the underground lifestyles of the Nixon and Reagan years.

I wrote this book in the seventies. It was later in the early eighties, while dating a
published poet that she convinced me to get this book published. So, I sent it to every
major publisher I could find on the current book racks. I got a book full of publisher
addresses and sent it to many more.
I remembered reading of how many famous publishers were rejected many times before
they were published. I had been a performing musician all my life, so I already knew
what rejection was from submitting music to record companies and music publishers.
I understood demographics and marketing and satisfying current trends, being a part
of fads...but I thought a good book was a good book. I wrote this book for me, hoping
of course, that others would enjoy it also.
Somehow, I received more compliments than ever before with a whole new twist: “We
can’t publish your book because of the Reagan Administration.” Many rejection letters
started to mention things like, “the hero of a book cannot be a drug dealer,” “this book
doesn’t condemn drugs,” and “we don’t want to get in trouble...”
Publishers were afraid to publish this book. Afraid. No matter how much they liked it,
they believed the government would somehow endanger their publishing business.
I don’t have any experience with book publishing beyond my photography in magazines,
my music reviews in trade papers, some poetry in newspapers, and selling my Kung Fu
manuals of photocopied pages in notebooks. So, I am naively publishing this book myself,
using my Kung Fu book publishing company, Shaolin Communications. If the government
is going to hurt me--I’m an easy and small fish to fry. Perhaps I’ll write a
book about that, if it happens-----hopefully not from my jail cell.
In Utah, I received a lot of censorship, boycotting, and slander from the Mormons and
their backroom politics. So, I don’t doubt that the American Government could also try
to ruin my life. But I can’t see what that would accomplish.
As I finished this final rewrite in 2008, I wondered if the F.B.I. would renew their interest
in me. Just don’t harass my mother any more. Please.
The information in here is based on my personal experiences. Ernest Hemingway
inspired me with his concept of transforming his life into fictional stories. That’s what
I’ve done here. It’s possible I have revealed sensitive or classified information, but it is
so old and outdated I couldn’t remember who told me what or who did what if they
pumped me full of truth serum.
Yes, I was a drug dealer from 1967 to 1969, but I was only 14 to 16, so many of
these experiences were my friends or their older brothers. Having not read this book
for many years prior to this rewrite it was a fun flashback for me as I relived this book
or in many cases, remembered the girls who inspired these love scenes. And yes, those
‘real’ love scenes happened later after I was 18.
So, restrain your contempt for me if you’re anti-drugs, anti-sex, anti-anti-war...and
for all the splinter groups I may have offended...Whew! My goal is to be loved and
liked. I hope to make friends with this book, not enemies.
If you liked it let me know, I’ll put you on my mailing list and let you know about
the projects and books I’m writing.
If you hate this book, too bad, bug off and leave me alone. I’ve already had hate
mail, threats on my answer machine...so don’t waste your time.
I love you all, yeah maybe even a little love for those of you who despise me.
Have a great life, learn from what I’ve written, or at least be entertained.
Mostly, if you’ve gotten this far, and read my book, thanks for taking the time to
give me a chance. It’s taken me 25 years to publish this book since I completed it in
1984.
Foreword
I wrote this book a long time ago. One of my motives for writing this book was
to explore how things might have gone for me under different circumstances. Like
Tom, I got busted in my van, but I hung around and got a lucky break when my Uncle
offered to take me in, in Newfoundland.
My friend when to jail, I went to Newfoundland.
Another motive for writing this book was to explore the possible error of my
passivity. Somehow, I take a quiet pride in the fact I have not killed anyone, and
despite opportunities and good reasons, still decided not to. In this story I pushed
myself to the limit where I would take a life, purposefully. Better my imagination than
reality.
As for the drug tripping, I explored that plenty in reality, or different realities.
I’ve got a lot more of those stories to tell.
So enjoy a glimpse of my teenage world. Sadly, as civilization seems to be heading
toward less love and more war, you can see a generation that fought this trend and
in too many cases, became that trend.
Love,
Coyote

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