The Timeline Of A Weirdo Vol. 2 1979"
****Editors Note******
This is part two of the time line of John Kennedy Roedel. This is meant purely for the score of people who have been requesting research for their various publications about the life and times of Mr. Roedel. We feel that this brief year by year benchmark time line will become the one resource for all those who just got to know more about John. As far as we know this is the only such published material on this subject matter and we are proud to provide it for you. Because we feel the more we learn about John and his life the more we can learn about our own very existence. If you find any historical inaccuracies with anything written please keep it to yourself....we have a very thin skin and do not respond well to criticism. No United States Congressmen or women were hurt while gathering information for this.
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"Of all animals, the boy is the most unmanageable."
- Plato
"Shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet"
-Smashing Pumpkins
1979 - This was the year that John Roedel was introduced to the idea of Pre-School. This was an amazing time in the young boy's life as he was introduced to a whole new way of life. While most children used this time to learn how to learn social behaviors and social role playing, John used his time at his pre-school to learn how to organize other children to strike at the heart of the people who ran the institution. Instead of working on his primary colors Mr. Roedel worked on getting his fellow "inmates" (as he called them) to have semi-peaceful protests during nap time every day. Like a young Jimmy Hoffa, John knew that there was strength in numbers, and quickly realized that he and his other imprisoned toddlers grossly ( and criminally in his mind) out numbered the teachers or who he referred to as "guards". John objected to being there! It was an insult. He was not learning anything there that the streets weren't already teaching him.
Even at the sprite age of five John had the GIFT to get his fellow captive to follow through with a plan he crafted. His leadership skills became evident when within the first week of imprisonment John convinced everyone to spit their apple juice out of their mouth at the exact same time during "Happy Snacky Time". What transpired was a Bellagio Fountain like moment of pre-digested liquid art. Close your eyes and imagine the sight of at least nine explosions of brownish juice flowing from the mouths of children who simply wanted "The Man" to know that they were not going to lie down for them just because they carried a whistle. John becomes quite emotional when he recalls this particular moment. He says "I can still see each of those nine bodies of spit and Mott's hovering in the air as if time is frozen. Each brave young child who committed to this act of defiance are no less of a hero then the colonists who took part in the Boston Tea Party that preceded the Revolutionary War. They were not just standing up for themselves, but for the hundreds of children that would follow them into these doors. They were patriots...". John's voice trails off as he finds it hard to describe this moment.
It should be noted that John has recently admitted that even though he designed the "Spit Heard Round The World" he actually did not take part in it. John cites the fact that he was aversion to drinking Apple Juice as the reason he did blow it out of his cheeks and onto the floor of the room like his fellow Pre-Schoolers did. The nine other boys were all punished for this unsanitary act of rebellion by their Warden named Miss Pia. In the investigation that followed it was never proved "beyond a reasonable doubt" that John ever had any active role in this incident. The other nine children lost "outside playtime" for two days over it....and none of them ever talked to John again.
John later was taken down by the Pre-School police for the part he played in the "Great Cookie Heist". During the raid on his cubbie hole it was discovered that John had several cookies stashed in their that looked very similar to those that had disappeared from the kitchen. During the interrogation after wards John was asked "How did those cookies show up in his cubbie?" John responded with an answer that he thought would close any doubt on the subject. He replied to the question with one word "Magic." He recalls telling Miss Pia that there was "no way she could ever refute that one...after all who could ever prove that there was no such thing as magic. I mean look at Mary Poppins, or Pete's Dragon. Am I right? John's confused logic and lack of taking accountability for stealing the cookies ended up with him be sentenced to the biggest punishment the Pre-School had to offer.
He had to stand on "the line" every day for an hour for one whole week.
"The Line" is to Pre-Schoolers what "The Hole" is to harden criminals serving time. It was a place where spirits were broke into small pieces and then shoved down the offending parties throat. The line was a long red stripe that crossed across the playroom. On that line there was an "X". John had to stand on that X during playtime for one week straight during playtime. It was the worst of all punishments. He was close enough to see and smell the fun that the other children were having, but far enough to not be included in the fun. This was a dark time for the five year old who spent his time "on the line" writing dark-emo poetry, and trying to telepathically set Miss Pia's hair on fire.
John was kind enough to share a bit of that Poetry with us for the record:
I STAND ON THIS LINE
I STAND HERE ON THIS X
I STAND HERE BECAUSE OF YOU
YOU! YOU! YOU!
UNJUST!
UNFAIR!
YE' THESE ARE DARK DAYS FOR A SMALL BOY
A SMALL BOY WHOSE EAGER HEART YEARNS FOR PLAYTIME.
OH THE SOUNDS OF THE OTHER CHILDREN AT PLAY
RIP MY SOUL FROM IT'S BURNING CAGE!
BURN SOUL OF MINE
BURN FOR THE EYES OF THOSE WHO PUNISHED ME TO SEE
MONKEY SEE
MONKEY DO
MONKEY UNDERWEAR ALL OVER YOU
I LIKE CUPCAKES AND HE-MAN.
DOOTY TIME.
DOOTY, DOOTY.
UNDERWEAR.
DOOTY.
It is evident that his "On The Line" poetry was influenced by a delicate mixture of his rage over his punishment and the fact that he was only five and he like to talk about "Dooties".
LINK TO VOLUME ONE OF "TIMELINE OF A WEIRD"
"Shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet"
-Smashing Pumpkins
1979 - This was the year that John Roedel was introduced to the idea of Pre-School. This was an amazing time in the young boy's life as he was introduced to a whole new way of life. While most children used this time to learn how to learn social behaviors and social role playing, John used his time at his pre-school to learn how to organize other children to strike at the heart of the people who ran the institution. Instead of working on his primary colors Mr. Roedel worked on getting his fellow "inmates" (as he called them) to have semi-peaceful protests during nap time every day. Like a young Jimmy Hoffa, John knew that there was strength in numbers, and quickly realized that he and his other imprisoned toddlers grossly ( and criminally in his mind) out numbered the teachers or who he referred to as "guards". John objected to being there! It was an insult. He was not learning anything there that the streets weren't already teaching him.
Even at the sprite age of five John had the GIFT to get his fellow captive to follow through with a plan he crafted. His leadership skills became evident when within the first week of imprisonment John convinced everyone to spit their apple juice out of their mouth at the exact same time during "Happy Snacky Time". What transpired was a Bellagio Fountain like moment of pre-digested liquid art. Close your eyes and imagine the sight of at least nine explosions of brownish juice flowing from the mouths of children who simply wanted "The Man" to know that they were not going to lie down for them just because they carried a whistle. John becomes quite emotional when he recalls this particular moment. He says "I can still see each of those nine bodies of spit and Mott's hovering in the air as if time is frozen. Each brave young child who committed to this act of defiance are no less of a hero then the colonists who took part in the Boston Tea Party that preceded the Revolutionary War. They were not just standing up for themselves, but for the hundreds of children that would follow them into these doors. They were patriots...". John's voice trails off as he finds it hard to describe this moment.
It should be noted that John has recently admitted that even though he designed the "Spit Heard Round The World" he actually did not take part in it. John cites the fact that he was aversion to drinking Apple Juice as the reason he did blow it out of his cheeks and onto the floor of the room like his fellow Pre-Schoolers did. The nine other boys were all punished for this unsanitary act of rebellion by their Warden named Miss Pia. In the investigation that followed it was never proved "beyond a reasonable doubt" that John ever had any active role in this incident. The other nine children lost "outside playtime" for two days over it....and none of them ever talked to John again.
John later was taken down by the Pre-School police for the part he played in the "Great Cookie Heist". During the raid on his cubbie hole it was discovered that John had several cookies stashed in their that looked very similar to those that had disappeared from the kitchen. During the interrogation after wards John was asked "How did those cookies show up in his cubbie?" John responded with an answer that he thought would close any doubt on the subject. He replied to the question with one word "Magic." He recalls telling Miss Pia that there was "no way she could ever refute that one...after all who could ever prove that there was no such thing as magic. I mean look at Mary Poppins, or Pete's Dragon. Am I right? John's confused logic and lack of taking accountability for stealing the cookies ended up with him be sentenced to the biggest punishment the Pre-School had to offer.
He had to stand on "the line" every day for an hour for one whole week.
"The Line" is to Pre-Schoolers what "The Hole" is to harden criminals serving time. It was a place where spirits were broke into small pieces and then shoved down the offending parties throat. The line was a long red stripe that crossed across the playroom. On that line there was an "X". John had to stand on that X during playtime for one week straight during playtime. It was the worst of all punishments. He was close enough to see and smell the fun that the other children were having, but far enough to not be included in the fun. This was a dark time for the five year old who spent his time "on the line" writing dark-emo poetry, and trying to telepathically set Miss Pia's hair on fire.
John was kind enough to share a bit of that Poetry with us for the record:
I STAND ON THIS LINE
I STAND HERE ON THIS X
I STAND HERE BECAUSE OF YOU
YOU! YOU! YOU!
UNJUST!
UNFAIR!
YE' THESE ARE DARK DAYS FOR A SMALL BOY
A SMALL BOY WHOSE EAGER HEART YEARNS FOR PLAYTIME.
OH THE SOUNDS OF THE OTHER CHILDREN AT PLAY
RIP MY SOUL FROM IT'S BURNING CAGE!
BURN SOUL OF MINE
BURN FOR THE EYES OF THOSE WHO PUNISHED ME TO SEE
MONKEY SEE
MONKEY DO
MONKEY UNDERWEAR ALL OVER YOU
I LIKE CUPCAKES AND HE-MAN.
DOOTY TIME.
DOOTY, DOOTY.
UNDERWEAR.
DOOTY.
It is evident that his "On The Line" poetry was influenced by a delicate mixture of his rage over his punishment and the fact that he was only five and he like to talk about "Dooties".
LINK TO VOLUME ONE OF "TIMELINE OF A WEIRD"
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