From: myke@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (Michael Dautermann)
Newsgroups: alt.brother-jed
Subject: Brother Jed at the University of Michigan, Part II
Followup-To: alt.brother-jed
Date: 16 Oct 1992 18:50:52 -0400
Organization: Holy Ghost Hotline
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Summary: Sinners, repent from your forneeekating and whoremongering
Keywords: smock, jed, smokes, crack


I never did return to tell what the great orator, Jed Smock,
did on Tuesday at the U-Michigan.. so here I am now...  

I got out of my classes at 3:30 and made a beeline for the diag,
where sure enough... Jed was standing on a bench surrounded by 
an eager, receptive and calm audience (not).  I was bummed out
that I didn't get to watch the tag-team bible thumping between
Brother Jed and Sister Cindy but the crowd looked a little more
calm than they were the day before (maybe just worn out or 
overwhelmed by all the hot air circulating around the park?)

Jed has moved his blue lawn chair up onto the bench and he had a
carrying tray of six water bottles filled with water and some 
other brown drink (tea?  or maybe a "smart drink" like they do
in those Nightclubs and Houses of Sin and Feerrrrrrnication!??)
  
Brother Jed told us "The Jed Smock" story.... His first ROCK album
was "CHEEEEEEEAP Thrills" by Janis Joplin.  In 1969, he was teaching
history at the University of Wiscon-SIN.  In 1971, he quit school
and went to a "Hippie camp" in Morroco, North Africa.  He "did chant",
"run naked around the beach", yelled "primal screams", "SMOKED pot"
(complete with putting his wrist to his mouth and making loud sucking
sounds as he pretended to suck on a piece of chalk) and did 
"meditation".  But when he was meditating and "smoking DOPE!" on
the beach, a man came up to him carrying a cross and Hippie Jed's
interest was piqued!
  
Instead of going to India, Jed recalled, he went home and in August of
1972, Jed "found the KING OF KINGS at Burger King, Home of the WHOOPPER!"!
  
The story was frequently interrupted with lots of helpful, complimentary
comments like "Hey Jed, wake up... you're still tripping!".  A rather
large (endowed) female happened to be wearing a low cut t-shirt that
showed too much of her heat-dissipators.  Jed said "woman, you should
close your jacket!  Your body should be an intstrument of righteousness".
She replied "but my body is a temple.  Anyone want to worship it?"
(Not sure if anybody followed her home that night).  What was more
interesting was when Jed complimented a thin blonde girl who was
wearing a lot of clothing, albeit hippie-esque itself (a colorful wool
shawl, Birkenstocks, big socks, long long skirt, etc).  He said
"that girl is dressed modestly!" (the blonde turned red on this comment).
"Look at her, she's blushing.  She must be a virgin".  The woman
turned around and ran away, apparently crying.  A granola-type guy
ran after her, and after about 4 or 5 minutes of trying to calm
her down (or either get her phone number or something), he came running
back yelling "you EMBARASSED her you $#@$#@$@$@#$#@" (well, I would
repeat all the 4 letter words, but I couldn't take notes as fast as
this guy was yelling them).  I've never seen a peacenik-type hippie-dude
get so violent before.  I guess they're crunchy on the outside, sour
on the inside?

I was discussing religion and sex with a rather attractive redhead
when I mentioned Holy Hubert.  Cindy was just pushing the stroller
(with three of Jed's daughters clinging on) and overheard me.  
She told me that Hubert is currently in the hospital and is not
expected to live.  If Hubert was anything like Oral Roberts, we should
take a donation (I have a cabinet full of returnable popcans)
and maybe save him from meeting the maker too early.


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