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]]> http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2006/04/25/freestyle-and-mundane-sf/#comment-7065 Rudy Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:23:20 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/wordpress/?p=93#comment-7065 Dennis info can be found in my essay “Haunted by Phil Dick” which is in my collection <i>Seek!</i>. I also put this particular essay on line a few months back, to find the link jump back to my February 6, 2006, blog entry. I won’t put a link here, because links can’t go into comments. Here’s an edited excerpt: The character Sta-Hi, also known as Stahn, also known as Stanley Hilary Mooney, is transreally inspired by a real person: Dennis Poague, occupation freelance mechanic, legal status Blank (like the “Blank Reg” character in <i>Max Headroom</i>), long-term resident of San Jose, now residing in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. I met Dennis in the mid-seventies when I was teaching college in up-state New York, a state college in a small town called Geneseo, described as “Bernco” in <i>White Light</i>. Dennis’s brother Lee was an English professor who lived across the street from us. One day Dennis showed up from California on his way to Europe, acting totally outrageous. Dennis and I got along very well together, each of us happy to meet such a madman. And for the rest of the time in Geneseo, every half year or so Dennis would orbit through our town and we’d see him. When my wife and I moved from Geneseo to Heidelberg for a two-year grant I had, Dennis stayed in touch, sending, among other goodies, tapes of the Dr. Demento show, and, best of all, tapes of the people who rode in his cab. He was driving a cab in San Jose — just an unknown Latino-sounding California city to me then. The cab tapes were amazing, like of drunk hookers, or of giggly teenage girls, with Dennis’s manic, insinuating voice going on and on, “You girls wanna stop and do a bowl? I’m Sta-Hi, live or die, just keep me high, chaos and confusion reign supreme!” From Heidelberg we moved to Lynchburg, which I always write about as “Killeville,” and then I found out where San Jose really is (it’s at the southern end of Silicon Valley, which stretches up the Bay peninsula through Palo Alto to San Francisco), and we ended up moving here, and for a few years I saw Dennis quite a lot. Dennis info can be found in my essay “Haunted by Phil Dick” which is in my collection Seek!. I also put this particular essay on line a few months back, to find the link jump back to my February 6, 2006, blog entry. I won’t put a link here, because links can’t go into comments. Here’s an edited excerpt:
The character Sta-Hi, also known as Stahn, also known as Stanley Hilary Mooney, is transreally inspired by a real person: Dennis Poague, occupation freelance mechanic, legal status Blank (like the “Blank Reg” character in Max Headroom), long-term resident of San Jose, now residing in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
I met Dennis in the mid-seventies when I was teaching college in up-state New York, a state college in a small town called Geneseo, described as “Bernco” in White Light. Dennis’s brother Lee was an English professor who lived across the street from us. One day Dennis showed up from California on his way to Europe, acting totally outrageous.
Dennis and I got along very well together, each of us happy to meet such a madman. And for the rest of the time in Geneseo, every half year or so Dennis would orbit through our town and we’d see him.
When my wife and I moved from Geneseo to Heidelberg for a two-year grant I had, Dennis stayed in touch, sending, among other goodies, tapes of the Dr. Demento show, and, best of all, tapes of the people who rode in his cab. He was driving a cab in San Jose — just an unknown Latino-sounding California city to me then. The cab tapes were amazing, like of drunk hookers, or of giggly teenage girls, with Dennis’s manic, insinuating voice going on and on, “You girls wanna stop and do a bowl? I’m Sta-Hi, live or die, just keep me high, chaos and confusion reign supreme!”
From Heidelberg we moved to Lynchburg, which I always write about as “Killeville,” and then I found out where San Jose really is (it’s at the southern end of Silicon Valley, which stretches up the Bay peninsula through Palo Alto to San Francisco), and we ended up moving here, and for a few years I saw Dennis quite a lot.

]]> http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2006/04/25/freestyle-and-mundane-sf/#comment-7064 Ross Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:08:06 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/wordpress/?p=93#comment-7064 Those are great photos, Rudy. Could you tell us something about Dennis Poague? I love Sta Hi Mooney. Those are great photos, Rudy. Could you tell us something about Dennis Poague? I love Sta Hi Mooney.

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