1999-2000

1999-2000

The following is a famous set of minutes prepared by Gabe Mondino '00, the house secretary at the time.
The minutes are written to pay homage to Allen Ginsberg's Howl.

12:21 p.m. EST
TH Communication
Subject: The Minutes

Present in room:
22:00– LS, CB, CS, LZ
20:01– LS, CB, CS, LZ
22:02– JJ enters
22:03– DJ enters
10:04– NG, AH reported MIA
10:05– group members wandering around
10:06– unsettling noise and laugher... LS can giggle

10:07– the meeting begins (more prompt then Earth Issues.. just kidding)

AND SO DO THIS WEEKS MINUTES............

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, 

starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves though the HUB at dawn looking for

everything bagels,

angeleheaded hipsters planning for a faculty dinner function

to the passage to India in the machinery of night,

who rice and dishes and good-tasting and yum eat up smiling

in the supernatural darkness of funk-filled vibes floating across

the mind of professors contemplating A's,

who bared their thanks to Lisa under the Glow of 40 people Mu-

chingdown eats on Feb. 24th with us treekids,

who on the 27th though our house with radiant cool eyes hallucinat- 

ing Awareness and Sustaibalility among the freshman of

Morgan,

who have signed up for a floor program for education and learning

wonderful ways of saving our earth,

these treekids will then in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their  

flexpoints in veggies and hosting dinner for the Campus though

the caf,

who seem to neglect vegan fudge being in cahoots with the Underground,

with a belt of marijuana for New York***, (hmmm how'd that get in there?)

Thom and Judy will come in pants or skirts and speak of organic farming

in Pennsylvania,

apples, or possibly some other foods season after season 

with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and 

cock and endless balls,

incomparable bogeying to the streets of baltimoredancing bass and

lighting in 

the mind leaping toward the dance floor at Paradox and Fever, le–

aving at 7 for those who want to come

Peyote solidities of halls, backyard green tree cemetery dawns, 

wine drunkenness over the rooftops, storefront boroughs of 

teahead joyride neon blinking traffic light, sun and moon 

and tree vibrations in the roaring winter dusks of Brooklyn, ash-

can rantings and kind king light of mind,

who talked to Durdens secretary but Courtney for the sideroom chat with 

Earthnow and the Treehouse on March 6th at 5:30 until the noise of

activism

and student interest bring Durden down shuddering mouth-wracked 

and battered bleak of brain all drained of brilliance in the 

drear light of HUB.

we should read the strategic plan all night in submarine light for

environmental progress in and 

out of our campus.

listening to the crack of doom on the hydrogen jukebox,

Lisa talked continuously seventy-hours from park to pad to bar 

of budgets due on the 8th of March.

A lost battalion of platonic conversationalists jumping down the 

stoops of fire escapes of windowsills of Old West out of 

the moon,

yaketayyakking screaming vomiting whispering figures of how much mo-

ney and such we had added to our budget so think of ideas before

they set it as then its too late.

whole intellects disgorged in total recall for seven days and nights

of our valentines day fun, gifts thrice in the week about for your per–

son

mine vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey leaving a trail of

candy hearts for my person Christiana Briddell

thinking earth week ideas for Earthnow and bands of local 

origin

we've decided everyone remains high and devilishly grinning Lisa

desires coke as Lucas spoke

"I shaved my head the other night

as I was contemplating what to do about gabe

and as I came to the discovery that the reason why gabe comes

up with all this insanity..... 

is because he has been in love with Lisa all these

years and in an attempt to deal with this revelation

I shaved my head"

only to go better with our streaking when its warm.

but before, at the round table in flourescent lighting, 

are due your leaves articles then next Sunday 

we read.

as Dan read his quotes 

from emails which Edenbo wrote.



Howlus redoneius [Ginsberg] Mondino


The author would like to thank the Lisa for always being there and

thinking she's tough, Courtney for sticking through with it all and

being tough, Christi for being a cheesehead, Lucas for shaving his head,

Dan's smile, Melanie for making me a vegan, Joel for making the cookies,

Jackie for reminding us the Mickey Mouse will never die, and Nicole and

Addie for playing it safe and staying away from our meeting; also the

beat poetry movement which has proven to be so influential in tonight's

minutes.  



ps. i love you

• • • contained in original poem.