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A Nancy-send-off

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By SuBri - February 25, 2010

Until you shall return, I wish you peaceful travels Nancy.
Happy India!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Watch out India! Here she comes...

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By Nancy P - March 04, 2010

I've been thinking it over.... What it is about India that is so mindblowing is its "otherness". Where we expect order, here there is chaos, instead of cleanliness the country just seems to be a very big mess (48% unemplyment and only 15% of the people pay taxes) Yet in the midst of the shit and the garbage there are beautiful women in the most glorious colored bejeweled sharis. No one seems to notice. On the morning train to Agra everyone is served bottled water, juice, coffee or tea and a breakfast by a gracious fellow in a turban and as you look out the window you see two fellows squatted down taking a crap next to each other while having a morning chat. The reality of all these extremes existing right next to each other turns ones assumptions upside down. There is a unashamed acceptance for humanity in all of its gradations. Something about that is very right even as it is looking very wrong.

Who is Nella Evets (Veets)?

By Nancy P - February 08, 2010

"For those of you who don't know Nella Evets(Veets) let me introduce myself.....I am Nella Evets,which is Steve Allen spelled backwards. I learned how to say Steve Allen Backwards by listening to the original Steve Allen on tape. I had a tape recorder that had a track selector that allowed me to play tapes backward. I focused mainly on people whose last names were Allen; primarily famous people of the 30's, 40's, 50's, and 60's. Such as; Nella Derf, Nella Eicarg, Nella Xer, Nella Lem, Nella Ydoow, and so on. If you are wondering if I am related to the original Steve Allen, I am not. Originally my backwards name was Nella Nnelg, but at the end of 2000 I changed it to Nella Evets in honor and memory of the original Steve Allen. I was fortunate enough to know Steve Allen. He introduced me to videos of the golden age of television, late 40's and early 50's. KTL (channel 5) went on the air in 1947 in Los Angeles, the oldest TV stati...