The Steussite Guide to Dialogue

[Reflexzero]

Am I a cuckoo that the The Steussite Guide to Dialogue brought tears to my eyes?

No. That is the spirit my child...

You have been touched. If it was unwanted touching though, I suggest you report it to the proper ecclesiastical authority so it can be dealt with accordingly (probably with high-fives and such).

Here amongst the Steussites, we share a common view. You like me, and I do too.

Amen.

[_moksha]

Am I a cuckoo that the The Steussite Guide to Dialogue brought tears to my eyes?


Most likely.

Besides having many layers like an onion, the Steussite Guide also has a tearing effect. In the concentrated form of a doctrine, it can be placed in a cannister and lobbed into a crowd.

[_Blixa]

Long I have wondered and wandered. Now I feel like I can come in from the cold. Maybe its just that I now have my internet connection INSIDE the house and no longer have to post from the frozen grass at the end of the driveway, but I'd rather think its the blessings of the Steussite Guide.

And anyway the Spirit has confirmed the truth of my promptings...

[_Doctor Steuss]

Long I have wondered and wandered. Now I feel like I can come in from the cold. Maybe its just that I now have my internet connection INSIDE the house and no longer have to post from the frozen grass at the end of the driveway, but I'd rather think its the blessings of the Steussite Guide.

And anyway the Spirit has confirmed the truth of my promptings...

May your bosoms burn with confirmation of the truth of the Steussite way.


Mmmmm… burning bosoms…


by the way,
How are you enjoying Zion. Have you been to Fudruckers?

[_CaliforniaKid]

Steuss,

I laughed literally all the way through this thread. Brilliant. Well done.

-Chris

[_Blixa]

by the way,
How are you enjoying Zion. Have you been to Fudruckers?

I've been mostly lurking around the U. However, I have eaten many, many chocolate rum bars from Mrs. Backer's Bakery on South Temple (and compared them with the same from Glaus's Bakery on Highland Drive next to the old Villa Theatre). I also purchased a pineapple rum filled cake there, but did not eat it entirely by myself.

I have also been enjoying many Big H's with frosty mugs of root beer on 7th East.

I found Dr. Robinson's grave in the Fort Douglas cemetery (the cemetery itself was hard to find!).

I ducked into the Cathedral de Madeline on South Temple and stayed for an hour because the organist was practising and I was the only one there. I also "prayed" to the Virgin of Guadalupe while there and lit a candle.

I've prowled around the Enos Wall mansion (former LDS business college) several times and will go back some more as well as looking through the Enos Wall collection at the Utah Historical Society. My great uncle was butler there a long time ago: he and his wife lived over the carriage house round back. This was not long after my grandmother's family emigrated from Leeds (and other northern places).

I found a good coffee shop on E street and looked at two of my old places of residence: one on G street, the other on 3rd South.

I looked at an alleged Frank Lloyd Wright on 11th Ave (it isn't--it was built by some local architects who may have been students of his. Nice house, though).

I've spent alot of time at Ken Sanders books and will be spending more time and money there. I've been using it like a library...(Rosalie Sorrells is playing there tomorrow--Thursday--night and there is a possibly interesting reading there friday: Scott Carrier is one of the writers featured).

I drove up Millcreek Canyon for a few miles to familiarize myself with the names of trailheads...I hope to hike Grandeur Peak and later, Mount Olympus...

I had a beer at the Cotton Bottom Inn

I've eaten lunch at Big Ed's a couple of times....it has not changed ONE IOTA since I used to go there as an undergrad in the mid 70's (also I saw Ted Bundy there a couple of times in those days).

I looked aghast at Sugarhouse...

My eyeballs writhed in agony at the sight of the new-to-me Institute Building on the University Campus. In a city that has some unspeakable recent architechture (the Matheson court house, the Gateway Mall, all Mc Mansions in Sandy) that has to be the worst...

I drove to a special sacred place in Northern Utah and found the area where I used to play amid wild horses to have been recently burned in a lightning fire (most probably). The only live thing I saw there was one straggly jack rabbit with enormous ears (even for a jack rabbit).

I partied with some exmos in Kaysville

I went to the MMM 150th anniversary memorial. The best part of that was the gravy and biscuits I ate in Cedar City.

I walked through Parley's Hollow (or is it just all called Tanner Park, now?) and looked at the foundations of the Dudler Inn and saw the remains of the Pioneer aqueduct. I want to investigate the area on the other side of the highway---near Suicide Rock---to see the resevoir remains (if any).

I think that's everything I've been doing, so far. I need to go have a talk with Brigham's ghost and I've yet to investigate the old McMurdy barn in Paradise (built with axles of Fancher wagons, allegedly). Also I have a crap load of archival work at the Historical Society, Marriott Library Rare Books and Manuscripts, and possibly the LDS archives, the Utah State library and BYU's library. I'd like to see the Koyle mine, too---I've been reading some Ogden Kraut pamphlets that I scored at Ken Sander's: fascinating stuff on the nutjob end of a culture that seems rather nutjobby in alot of places to me...lots to do and see...

[_Doctor Steuss]

In all of the times I've gone up to the SLC area to visit my brother, I have never done even 5% of the things you've mentioned. I have really been missing out, it appears.

I've eaten lunch at Big Ed's a couple of times....it has not changed ONE IOTA since I used to go there as an undergrad in the mid 70's (also I saw Ted Bundy there a couple of times in those days).

My mom’s college roommate went on a date with him.

[_Blixa]

In all of the times I've gone up to the SLC area to visit my brother, I have never done even 5% of the things you've mentioned. I have really been missing out, it appears.

I've eaten lunch at Big Ed's a couple of times....it has not changed ONE IOTA since I used to go there as an undergrad in the mid 70's (also I saw Ted Bundy there a couple of times in those days).

My mom’s college roommate went on a date with him.

I remember the Bundy years well: back before he was caught there was a media-fed rumor that all of the girls who had been abducted all wore long hair with center parts---this caused a huge increase in the work of hair stylists...

SLC/Utah still has lots of historically interesting bits, despite efforts to tear them down and stamp them out. I was happy to see lot of old bowling alley signs still standing (on 33rd and Highland Drive and State street) and other memorable landmarks from my childhood. Sadly the Birdcage bar on the corner of 33r and Highland Drive is gone (where all my rock climbing boyfriends used to hang out). And the loss of The Sun (though I knew it was gone before; destroyed by god's hand in that freak tornado nearly a decade ago) still smarts. Some of my most significant experiences happend at the Sun. Bar X is still going, though, as is the Twilite Lounge. Didn't see the Apex bar last time I was down town, though....

My dream has long been to tear down those two nasty buildings on either side of Wall's Mansion (that the business college put in). But then I have a long list of monstrosities I intend to see to when I rule the world...

[_moksha]

I had a beer at the Cotton Bottom Inn

What about their famous garlic burger? I braved the cigarette smoke one time for one of those. It was pretty good. I remember when Big Ed's was around the corner above the Pie Pizzeria.

[_Blixa]

That's where Big Ed's still is.

I will have the garlic burger if you'll join me, Moksha!

(I just stopped for a beer because I was on the way home for dinner...I couldn't remember where the Cotton Bottom even was...I was thinking it was on Highland Drive! )