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Ford had a TV, I did not. I didn't watch TV in those years, in fact from the early sixties to almost the late seventies. I don't think I missed that much. I suppose what got me back into television was the Columbo series, which I happened to catch while living on Powers Street. That first episode I saw was so fantastic - Murder Under Glass, Columbo and the cuisine connoisseur.

Ford liked to watch particularly Dick Cavett. I remember one night, Sly of Sly and the Family Stone was on and he did seem to be stoned, and may have said as much. But he did make a fool of those stuffed shirt, finger bowl, pinkie types, that were accompanying guests in their pompous sophistication. Of course they didn't quite get it. His first announcement was that his apartment had been robbed and he went from there. I may have also watched 'Laugh-In' now and then, with Ford and his girl friend, who was around quite a lot. She was from over the other side of town in Pacific Heights, her parents house on one of those steep mountain sides, the street a sixty degree angle driving up or down, with a view of the bay, Golden Gate Bridge and all that.

Heard it said - if your thoughts have power, you must control your thoughts. Well I was not going to do that. My mind had to be free to think whatever and wander wherever it would. How else is anyone going to learn anything. Anyway that would surely cause mind conniptions and certain melt-down. If my thoughts caused things to happen, I did not make them happen. I didn't intend them explicitly. On the other hand I would not be unhappy if certain things I thought happened.

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