beelen west virginia
BEELEN WEST VIRGINIA IS DEADER THAN PUNK
lillian Lost bloodgherdt - mid 2003 early 2004 ?
way less haggard but kinda dumber than today
THREE YEARS AGO
SO... i'm only doing this post right now cuz i'm cleaning out the concord 3040.
three years ago i was just getting in to travelling the United Snakes evil imperiealist empire after years of being certain that there was nuthing usfull about america and no real reason to leave canada to venture there...i was mostly doing theese amtrak and greyhound powered expiditions to denver co and stopping in filthy on the way.. this time on my way west i stopped in Pittcity PA for a sec and wound up meeting mary belle kurtz, who at the time was a beautifully broken filthy dirty wingnut with a followable nose for utter fucking chaos. we had a hell of a long weekend rifting off eachother became instant freinds. what totally kicked my ass tho was the awsome communitee she was living in. beelen was this lil crappy decayed neighbourhood cluster of punkhouses and gutter cases living in trees. totally smitten with my new friend and the beelen life i went home to minkus to disolve my appartment of 6 years and all my responsibilities and go buy a $4000 house in beelen... the next 6 months was agonised awfullness as police repeatedley harassed beelen untill the whole comunitee finally disolved... it prolly wasnt all the cops fault.. a town made of 40 gutter punks ranging from responsible employed kids to art punks to anarcho keeners to scumfuckups had to drama itself to death eventually.
the pigs did a nice job of driving people crazy tho, with illegal surveillance and constant harassment... we now know that it wasn't the mandate of the pitt police to crush beelen tho !!! kids back in pitt city have access to information that shows that the flippin FBI were generating fake calls and complaints to the local po-po framing beelen as a training camp for... and i'm not even slightly exagerating here... militant nazi satanist terrorists... no shit...
SEE!!! HOW I'M WAY LESS BORING A WRITER THAN I WAS 3 YEARS AGO !!!
of course a big part of framing the beelen kids as a dangerous cult was related to mary be skinning a road kill deer on her front porch and leaving bits of the gorey carcass strewn about.. but hey... fuckin pigs...
actually maybe says %75 of them were really nice and appologetic to her while they were sicking dogs on her and smashing up her house.
so after that... may-be and i lost eachother for almost a year.. she squatted arround.. i worked in a tatto shop and then moved to fucking nevaskabrada to live in a really weird relationship, then i moved to filthydelphia to be an unlikely sexworker, and when i finally chaosed my life up funny enuff i went travelling all summer of 2005 and wound up finding may-be k again and moved in to her squat in pitt city. then that squat got burned down by the property owners when i went to filthy to go get my stuff. then we both lived in a hippy attick and then moved to new orleans to blow off our frustrations in the flood.
CENTRO LIVING ROOM 2006
so the reason i'm telling this stupid storey is cuz back in february i went back to beelen and took a bunch of pictures...
most of theese are from the big mostly female collective food-not house centro. which has been abandoned and rotting for a year and a half.
CENTRO KITCHEN
ron and the bike dykes still have their place and S. moved in there too and had babies i think. most of the scumfuck forest kids live in south pitt city now if they still live any where near there.. i dont think anything really replaced beelen.. i think traveller kids just land at the houses of kids they know or sleep on the shores of the monogohala.
i always kick myself for not having lingered in beelen longer. there were a few newspaper articles written about it and lots of dirty kids remember it if you ask them about travelling through pitt city a few years back.
it was the seeds of what got me in to squatting tho. and may-be k. is my all time favourite damage and i'm supposed to go hang with her tommorrow and do projects but i wanna go to a show and she hates shows (socialising is bad) so i'll prolly grummble about it on the phone with her and we'll hang out sunday or sumthin... i promised i'd fix her stove cuz i broke it.
SUB BASEMENT BEDROOM OVERLOOKING THE MONOG RIVER
abandoned scumfuck1 camp
scumfuck2 camp in an old house foundation. jonny mutherfucker lives in south pitt and is a sweet guy now... he does cranberry harvest every year and keeps thinking i'm rat-tits every time he sees me. (which isnt often)
this is the worst part... this is END house. after a 12 month court and media battle marybell had to not only abandon hope of owning the end, but pay out $2000 in bail and fines to escape serious tresspassing charges and possible 1 year of jail time. it turned out that the alleged owner of end as well as most of the property in beelen, was running a long complex con where he'd get with women and use their ID and credit to buy property that he'd rent sell and mortgage out (often all at once) in a cash grab and then just dump on the woman when the con finally crashed. the case for end hous ehad the FBI leaning on some woman who'd been conned and she was protecting dude for some reasona nd everything got insane out of control. fuckin ACORN and some legal aid people and even the historic renovation dept, and a pitt city urban renewal project where involved but the whole case was such a mess that it just resulted in melt down and may-be was lucky to have been able to bail...
so in january of 006 END house was taken by the backhoe... nuthing left at all but fill...
the night of the demo tho some one snuck out there and smashed the windows out of the backhoe. smashed guages, cut hydrolic lines, bashed the enjin with a rock, dirt in the gas tank....
backhoe sat on the edge of beelen for 2 months before someone finally hauled it away.
so the moral to this storey is that nothing lasts forever... especially backhoes.
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