more interview candidates

Soon i will disappear into the mist (i got my eviction notice the other day) so i must 'take this on the road' (possibly Phuket or Chiangmai). i must leave a list of interview candidates (for Oprah or whomever) incase i truly disappear (for instance, a Thai prison for visa violation or get abducted by a mountain family;). .. i want to make one thing Absolutely Clear before i begin the list: i love my Thai family more than words can say; this eviction is more about Chinese tradition than anything else. The following abbreviations apply: Dunham Lake / Highland, MI = DL, Petoskey, MI = PM, Michigan State = MS, Hayward, CA = HC, and South Florida = SF. Please forgive any name misspellings.

Tom Minniker, DL

Ken Wilhelm, DL

Carl Johnson, DL

Mike Bower, DL

Jeff Mattson, DL

John Jozwiak, DL

Chas Breithaupt, PM

Mark Swadling, PM

Walter Boyd, PM

Margaret Marie Miller, PM

Jacquelyn Jeanne Luta, MS

Vinnie Singh, HC

Tammy (a romantic interest), HC

Maria Rex, SF

Jim Bowen, SF

Please forgive me if your name did not appear on the list - my memories are sometimes foggy and sometimes crystal clear. Every single person above i genuinely feel is either my brother or sister with a few exceptions: Margaret was a romantic interest of mine for many years but we never really got together, Jackie is one of my exes but truly was one of the best friends of my life (that was our main problem - we should have never got married), and Tammy (we met in a grocery store where she worked but never even kissed .. however the interest was definitely there on both sides; she should be around 37 years old now). My oldest brother (temporarily representing Satan in my life) will insist i had gay encounters with a few of the men above. But i chalk these up to teenage experimentation and how most of our cultures force sexual segregation beyond a certain age (sexual segregation can push kids to be gay - i've seen it in action here in Thailand) .. Walter, of anyone i have ever met, is more like Neo (of the Matrix series) even in appearance. He's one of the sweetest straight men i have ever met. Carl goes by another name in Chicago and is a TV star. Last thing i heard about Mike - he was a drunk but you can Never measure a man by people's label of him (look at me). VJ might be difficult to contact because the company where we met has since closed that branch (I-Chem Research). Tammy will be the hardest to contact cuz i never learned her family name. The 'weird' thing about Margaret is if you try to search on her name (say using Google), you get a zillion people with the same name. So she might also be difficult to contact .. Again, i love all of the people above like brothers and sisters with a few exceptions already mentioned. Anyone not mentioned is either because my memory is foggy or i believe they do not wish to appear on national TV. In fact, several names above belong to people who may refuse to interview such as John. Our friendship has been on-and-off over several decades and currently is Off. But i would be honored if any one of them could attend .. The other weird thing about our relationships is that they all knew i was 'different' in some way .. Just they (nor i) could put their finger on it (identify what was different about me at that time) .. In high school, i could have told you how i was different but not why. i wanted to be an astrophysicist. My English teacher asked us to write Oprah (she was just beginning her TV career) a question, "Ask Oprah". My question was not really a question. i'll try to recount it as accurately as i can. i wrote Oprah saying something like: Dear Oprah, i don't have a question for you - only a request .. You will become the most famous TV host of all time for two reasons: your natural popularity and ease with people and for interviewing me. i will make a proof God exists. Please interview me when i ask. (and on the back of the note) Since it will take me several years to do this, i need time and also to forget this note, so i will 'cast a magic spell' to make me forget. (That was the end of the note.) The spell worked; i totally forgot that note until i recently wrote Oprah about an interview. THIS WAS 35 YEARS AGO. How could a boy, just barely passing through adolescence, possibly know this? Unless he was Merlin (or Merlin-like) and had some kind of precognition about the future? This story i've just told you i've only told a few close friends. At first i thought i should just keep it private. But since Oprah's staff has not contacted me, i suppose i must make it public .. For anyone expecting stunts from me (to get attention): THIS IS NOT A STUNT. This is real. Contact Doug Sweeney or Russell Guinn if you feel you need to confirm this .. And you wanna know what? At this point i almost don't care if there's an interview or not. The word will get out with or without Oprah's help. (Btw, i've already written Maya Angelou about this. i read her poetry as a teen and always thought of myself as a 'closet feminist'. She knows Oprah.) If you read the War for Meaning, you understand the previous comment .. That's about it. Anyone who has the stomach to wade through (the 'shit' of) my essays has the patience of a saint. i'm not saying this lightly. (A note to any Oprah staff reading this: you Are a saint if you can read through all this crap.) i know a lot of this might sound like 'ranting and raving' of a hermit (which is pretty close to the truth), but sometimes God speaks to those who seek Her in the wilderness .. Thailand is not necessarily a 'Godless' place (there are many saints here i've written about) .. And many times, those same saints don't recognize each other as such. So it makes reaching humanity with a unified message difficult. But i've tried my best to be true to all those above and more. The best thing about the saints above is that they don't think of themselves as saints. And one more thing about them: every one of them believed i could do this (prove God exists and kick Satan off this planet for good). Not that they explicitly said this; just the fact they believed in their friend Sam was enough.

One last thing about Oprah. For some odd reason, i feel her staff has already approached her about interviewing me. She's already rejected the idea. She just thinks i'm crazy (who wouldn't). The staff responsible for reading these essays is actually on my side for an interview (this i feel quite clearly). So thank you dear (or sir) for your patience and perseverance. We'll get the interview at some point .. Part of the problem i mentioned before is ego; Oprah Hates to be manipulated. If i contact Maya Angelou to ask Oprah for an interview, she sees this as manipulation (where i was only trying to contact a common factor/person). So everything i seem to do pushes Oprah away from me .. That's just my ineptness - please forgive this Oprah. Just like the War.. and any other essay, everyone has the choice: to read or not to read; to believe or not to believe. Just know, i Know for a fact: God exists, She loves us, She wants our recognition, and She wants our love.