BFRLC Lunch #3 – the search for Yeren

The BFRLC held its third lunch on Friday, February 8th, at the Vegetarian House at 22 NW 4th Ave, Portland, Oregon 97209. The meeting was another success as we discussed bylaws as well plans for a field day out to the North Plains area.
As for the Vegetarian House – this restaurant can be found in Portland’s Old Town/China Town, a stone’s throw from the Willamette River, the Shanghai Tunnels, and the Greyhound station. The lunch is a buffet with numerous offerings, typical Chinese soups, egg rolls, wantons, fried rice, noodles, sauces – all vegetarian and all very good. The soup was a very pleasant broth filled with potatoes, carrots, cabbage, tofu – a good start of the meal to warm the insides and stimulate the appetite. A standout for the buffet was a soy protein and veggie curry dish that used a thickened yellow curry in a way unexpected for this type of Asian Cuisine. Although the soy protein was a tad chewy, there was something intriguing about the texture that makes this researcher even more provoked to study mastication and what we can discern about evolution – both human and Bigfoot. The water refill rates were a little down from what we with the BFRLC would like to see, but otherwise the staff was attentive and kind.
The most interesting thing about the Vegetarian House is that it seems to be connected in the most subtle of ways to Supreme Master Ching Hai and the Quan Yin Method of Meditation with the Inner Light and Sound. A flat screen television in the back of the restaurant plays a video about Supreme Master Ching Hai and what she can do for you. Supreme Master Ching Hai, Vietnamese by birth, is a humanitarian and practicing Buddhist whose sole function at this point in Her life is to help us with our journey from the suffering and confusion of the unawakened state to the Bliss and Absolute Clarity of Total Divine Realization.
For more information, check out http://www.godsdirectcontact.org/
For information about the Vegetarian House itself, check out http://www.vegetarianhouse.com/
And don't forget to find all of our lunch spots on the BFRLC Map!

YET ANOTHER BF FILM

LAWRENCE TOPPMAN
Movie Critic
Things were pretty much under control while the story involved a former S.C. representative called Bubba, Bigfoot sightings and a yard full of fake dead chickens.
It was drag queen Patti O'Furniture who complicated things a bit. But we're getting ahead of events in the saga of "The Long Way Home: A Bigfoot Story."
Start with the ex-legislator, Columbia attorney James "Bubba" Cromer Jr.
He's gone from an independent in the S.C. House in the 1990s to independent filmmaker, from a part-time job with a decent salary to a full-time obsession where money flows away from you like a freshly undammed river.
And he's a happy, happy man.
"Long Way," shot as a cross between the mad inspiration of John Waters and the low-rent horror fantasies of Ed Wood, has already made back about three-fifths of its $20,000 budget.
Cromer negotiated a deal with distributor UFO TV, which hopes to get the DVD into big-box stores and is making noises about a limited release overseas. And he is beloved in Transylvania County, where he shot his feature around the town of Rosman.
"I've had a creative itch all my life," he says. "So one night you have me and Mom and Dad at our mountain house with Biscuit, my golden retriever, watching a mockumentary about Bigfoot. Coach Cromer would be J. Lewis Cromer, Bubba's dad, who coached the five boyhood friends in Little League 30-odd years ago and is still a prominent trial lawyer in Columbia. The other four are lifelong buddies who wouldn't mind unpaid work in Bubba's movie.
A plot is born
Bubba began with an idea of Bigfoot popping up around the community, eating fowl and scaring people. Four buddies in the N.C. mountains fake up a Bigfoot story, hoping D.J. will come home to cover it and get national media attention. Bubba cast his four buddies and Biscuit as themselves and his dad as the sheriff, Big Jake.
"James Dickey lived across the lake from us when I grew up, and dad wanted to be him after seeing Dickey (play the rural sheriff) in `Deliverance,' " says Bubba. "Dad kept asking me, `When is it time for my soliloquy?' I kept saying, `Dad, it's called a monologue in movies! Shocked? Bubba had already worked with locals Mullet Man, Mona Lisa Johnson and T-Bone Thomas, who swore Bigfoot once urinated on him through an open tent flap. "Nobody in this movie is a stranger," Bubba says. I knew the organic nature of (scenes) would be blown if I gave them dialogue. Only two actors had professional experience: His cousin Helen Mann Marini, who played a snake handler, and Pat Patterson, aka Patti O'Furniture.
"He's a good friend, a Columbia businessman. As part of our Sunday ritual, Biscuit and I visit his Brewster's Ice Cream. I said, `It's about Bigfoot and hillbillies. You're a drag queen. "I ran through cameramen like you'd change your drawers," he says.
(Read Original Article in The Charlotte Observer See www.myspace.com/bigfootsmovie.) Approval from film fests, including the 2007 New York International Independent Film & Video Festival. A positive review from Cult Movies Magazine.

BFRLC SCOOPS CRYPTOMUNDO

Yes Folks its true. The young start-up Bigfoot Researcher's Lunch Club has scooped one of the most established, most informed purveyors of BF News.
Today (FEB 10, 2008)Cryptomundo published a post regarding the artwork of Cameron Gainer to be on display at The Fabric Workshop and Museum. BFRLC publish a post on the same subject FEB 1st 2008. A whole 9 days before it was even on Cryptomundo's map. In fact, the topic only came to the attention of Cryptomundo by alert readers who happened to be randomly passing by the gallery.
Although I am a constant and long time loyal reader of Cryptomundo, I am pleased to say the technology developed for this web site seems to confirm our technology is working as well as we had hoped. So stay tuned for the latest BF news out there.