Comments on: Salmon Boy, Zephyr Moore, Spotted at Ava Coffee Shop in Beaverton

by: Stan Kidwell

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 03:45:05 +0000

Hi Zephyr.
It is good to know you are still out there making converts, or at least trying to, and fighting the good fight. We met at OSU’s Media Production and Preview Labs in the late 1970s, where I worked. I hope things are going well for you.
Stan

by: Zephyr Moore

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:11:51 +0000

This is Zephyr. Read these notes for 1st time today February 4, 2011. TM Roy got me full blast making sense. He had fun.

Grand to hear that the salmon wave is fun. I’m a Salmon Wave Trainer. I train people to do the salmon wave. To do the wave, Put out your fin. That is, palm extended flat like a tail fin. Be sure have thumb down. Salmon don’t have thumbs. If salmon had thumbs; we’d be begging rather than salmon.
See. It’s fun already.
If salmon had vocal chords, we’d be deaf.
I encourage others to become Salmon Wave Trainers. To become a Trainer: Train at least two-people within the next 24 hours to say: “Salmon wave” while finning.
Put fin outstreched on full length arm. While saying “Salmon wave” and nodding head up-down-up-down move flap the fin while pulling arm toward self, i.e., salmon going upstream and–head nod–over rapids.
The whole purpose of the Salmon Wave is to tickle people’s brains so they “think salmon” in everything they do so we have less impact on this tiny tiny Planet and salmon have a place to live in 10 years.
If we lose the salmon, we are doomed as well as all the natural creatures dependant upon salmon as food–Orca–or the mineral from the ocean delivered to the upper tributaries of the watershed. Creatures consuming salmon poop and pee in the woods. What is fertilizing the local Planet with distant minerals.

We’re all in this alone, together

Zephyr Thoreau Moore (the humble)

by: T.M. Roy

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:08:52 +0000

I met Mr Moore tonight on the 76 bus from Beaverton. I greatly enjoyed his conversation, although for a few moments I had to wonder… My fellow passengers were not amused, but I could tell they were listening. It takes voices like his crying into the wilderness. Just one raindrop raises the sea. Meeting him made my day, and need I say I love the “salmon wave”. He left the bus before I did, but when I got off, both the driver and another passenger tried to do the salmon wave. LOL. Kudos to Mr Moore and all like him.

by: nathan

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:43:35 +0000

Hi Margaret: I have had similar reactions to Salmon Boy. He has all the time in the world and he is zealous for his cause. His carbon footprint is small, but his environmental mouth is large. I don’t think that too many people give him the time of day and so, the few of us who welcome him and discuss these issues with him, find it difficult to navigate a reasonable length of conversation.

by: Margaret Simpson

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:11:24 +0000

Nathan, greetings from PA! We used to run into “The Salmon Man” at Beaverton Library periodically. I think the last time we spotted him, we averted our eyes and decided not to do the “salmon wave” as we had no time to listen to- I mean chat with him. I admit we also did not want him to see us hopping into our Suburban. Last night we were reminiscing about him; I had no idea a google search would bring me here!

by: nathan

Wed, 23 May 2007 21:16:22 +0000

witty, to say the least.
nathan.

by: Andrew

Wed, 23 May 2007 19:14:40 +0000

an ounce of science may be worth a pound of zeal:

http://avlooks.net/articles/2007/03/19/global-warming-the-facts-maam-just-the-facts