Guam Mafia

Hey Dean's Circle peoples,

I think I already know the answer to this question, but I also know I'm usually wrong about such matters :)

A related group of folks with Guam brain damage to y'all is the Guam Mafia. Rod Duncan and I are members. The Guam Mafia are the Suttle, Hale, Duncan, Thomas, Gourley, and Farrow familes. There are some other wannabes, but these are the families who provide the Dons for the Mafia. Rod and I are second generation Dons. The Mafia actually pre-dates Guam with my dad, my name sake James R. Hale, and John Suttle working for the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratories in 1966 in Montana. For my 5th birthday at Flathead Lake near Kalispell, Montana Sara Lee Suttle gave me a scrap book with my picture on it announcing "Hi, I'm Jimmy Hale, and I tell a tall tale". Ain't nothing changed since then, man, look out :)

Actually, the old men may not have been working for the NWREL, the outfit they were working for on Guam. I think there's a college in Kalispell they had a gig at. But seems to me the Sandbergs, and a couple of the other families whose names escape me who did stints on Guam via the NWREL was there that summer. Oh ya, the Tylers, Joyce and Ed and their daughters, and the Sandberg boys, and the water skiing incident where they almost decapitated a fisherman. Hey, this isn't just one of my tall tales Sara Lee was warning y'all about, this actually happened. Them stupid dudes ended up spending some time, overnight I think, in the county clink. Rod would know nothing about it, it pre-dates the Duncan's admittance into the Mafia :)

Anyway, I'm majorily sidetracked as usual. My question for y'all is that the Guam Mafia is in desperate need of a Blog home. I can either start a separate blog or we can just kind of crowd in with y'all. We could start off with crowding in with y'all, and if that get's to be no good, the break off into our own blog. What do folks think? Seems to me rather than having 2 minorly busy blogs, why not have one semi busy blog. Some folks may get up tight and say "we should have a blog with our own name on it". Ya, whatever, do you name every new mole that shows up on your ass too? I mean get real?

So, let me know what you guys think. The level of activity the Guam Mafia will add is likely to be pretty sparse. There will be a feeding frenzy come Civil War time, that's the annual Oregon/Oregon State football game. Our opinion has always been the more people we can drag into that ridiculousnesses the better. Most people find it a lot of fun. Some find it complete wrong and think the whole mafia should be put in straight jackets, thrown in padded rooms, the doors locked and the keys thrown away. I keep waiting for it to happen, sounds like a hoot to me. You know those giant blow-up sumo suits they stick people in so they can bounce off of each other, I think we could get some of that action going, except you add being able to bounce off padded walls. Sounds like fun, don't you think?

Take care,
Jimmy Hale


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