At the beginning of the election season stretch in 2000 I put the chicken on the Delaware quarter.

On 10/27/2000 Erica Rollergirl IM'ed me to move the chicken to the Maryland quarter, "since I was living in Maryland when I met you."

On 11/1/2000 the woman formerly known as TheInternationalScretaryOfTheNZGreens* said in an email "go for New Jersey but i've no idea why."

On 11/7/2000, after we had both voted, my mother told me in a phone conversation to "Go for Delaware, since it was named after the Delaware Indians."

On 12/2/2000, at the Statewide Green Party Meeting, Dan Hamburg told me to put the chicken on South Carolina, adding "What is a quarter but change?"

On 12/18/2000, during a visit to my home, Gerry Gras said to put the chicken on Massachusetts, his home state.

On 12/25/2000, during a visit to his home, The TransDimensionalMystic said to put the chicken on the state of Ecstasy, adding that he is "SEEKING THE WILD CHILD".

On 1/9/1, TheReluctantActivist wrote "South Carolina is anti-change. The Confederate flag still flies. Strom Thurmond still represents them. That's anti-change." Always trying to please, I put the chicken back on South Carolina.

On 1/16/1, MrNinthAmendment wrote "put the chicken in Texas because of Maude Ferguson, the Populist Movement, Jim Hightower, Molly Ivens, Ronnie Dugger, Shrimp Poorboy Sandwiches, Wild Turkey hunting in the tangled bottom land of the Brazos River on a cold foggy November morning, and NOT because of The Shrub, Tom Delay (and Defame), Phil Gramm, and all those other rednecks who give my home state such a bad name." Since the Texas quarter isn't coming out for more than three years, I put the chicken on Georgia.

On 1/25/1, John J. Harter told me to put the chicken on Virginia, "The Birthplace of Presidents." He then illustrated the point by listing five of them: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Zachary Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson (they were the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 12th, and 28th Presidents, respectively).

On 2/19/2001 MrWoundedElbow gave me Italy and I put the chicken on it. He later said "Ouch! Wounded elbow. Cast for six weeks." That is not the kind of thing he usually says.

On 2/23/2001 Seymore Light picked New York as the next place for the chicken to visit. He explained "I'm going to New York in a couple of months!"

On 3/4/2001 StarOfSharon gave me a Maui 2001 coin that looks a lot like a silver dollar to put the chicken on. "Re-elect Ralph Nader, the incumbents have the advantage" quipped her husband. I bet the chicken was never expecting to be photographed next to a migrating whale.

3/7/2001::: jjhitt@swbell.net(StateChange (Chicken,washer(brass(size(large),inscription(FALSE), hole(TRUE)))), Observation("2000 years from now, a washer will still be good for something"));

On 3/12/2001, during a phone conversation, Rosie said to put the chicken on Delaware because "I liked the book Chesapeake by James Michner, and Delaware is the little guy."

On 3/15/2001 X ARMY said to put the chicken on New York, asking "What is greater than God, more evil than the devil?" as a hint he added "The poor have it, the rich want it and if you eat it, it will kill you."**

On 3/24/2001 Nollaig MacKenzie said the next state for the chicken should be Loony (The Loony is the Canadian one-dollar coin; named after the picture of the loon on its face). The he paused and asked "Why did the chicken cross the border?"

4/11/2001: When asked where the chicken should go and why, Shiloh Ballard replied "it is not a state of confusion that I am in but rather, anxiety as a result of the state of indifference of our stately community members. So, what tangible item does this translate into that a chicken may be placed on top of? Definitely Hawaii." That is where it landed, on my Maui Trade Dollar, a local currency from one of the HI Islands.

4/15/2001: Gordon, of Gordon and Vangee, said to place the chicken on Connecticut (the one with the tree). He then quoted G. B. Shaw, who once said "Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice others without blushing."

4/24/2001: The recycling, cycling, and unresurrected Humpty Dumpty wrote "How about moving her to the Free State of Arcata because that's where I met global warming foes Jan Lundberg, Brian Campbell, and Bart Orlando." The fact that there is no token from the Arcata medical marijuana exchange is no problem with a destination like that one.

5/3/2001: MrFrisbee handed me a two fun coin, saying that the chicken would go to China, "because that is where the biggest batch of people who think differently is."

5/7/2001: TheSeniorResearcher picked North Carolina for the chicken's next stop, "because the best flights of fancy are virtual ones. Unlike Orville and Wilbur's invention, they leave no toxic residue."

5/18/2001 My sister asked that the chicken be placed on Georgia, because Georgia is a big poultry producer (and consumer), and because her chickens are currently in Georgia, and enjoying the sandy Columbus soil bathing tremendously! By the way, the chickens' birthday is 6-30-99.

5/24/2001 Robert said to put the chicken in Isreal because "the people there are too chicken to make peace."

6/8/2001 Cameron L. Spitzer decided to send the chicken to France "because there is vegetation there."

6/14/2001 Mr. Paradise watched me move the chicken to Sweden and then said "We Greens are all for nuclear power, as long as it's being generated 93,000,000 miles away."

7/6/2001 TheHumorNurse looked over the list and then emailed me that "the chicken needs to go to a California destination." She then told me about learning to fly and mailed me a deep space communications coin. The chicken enjoyed feeding from her satellite dish.

7/13/2001 Gloria Purcell emailed that she rarely visits websites, but said "The chicken should go to CA for its environmental degradation. (Assuming this chicken is the same variety as our archery club uses--a dead plastic chicken, plucked, given as an award for fucking up.)" I used the silver California coin Christina Avalos gave me in 1998 for this one.

7/24/2001 Dana St. George read this list and then decided to send the chicken to New Hampshire, specifically Lake Winnipesaukee, where she wanted to go this summer, but couldn't.

8/2/2001 LasVegasPokerPlayer wrote "Put it on Egypt.  The reason is that I am a professional gambler, and I read once that the Egyptian pyramids are the first known incident of crooked gambling.  They have found loaded dice in them, apparently to give the Pharoahs an advantage in their afterlife."

8/14/2001 Kevin McKeown of Santa Monica, California, sent the chicken to the American Keystone State, because "There is no mystic key to the Universe, but it has been left unlocked." Happy to help, I put the chicken on Pennsylvania.

8/10/2001 Greg Gerritt welcomed the chicken to Rhode Island, where the State Bird is a Rhode Island Red, saying "It is truly appropriate that the RI state bird is a chicken, all our politicians are."

8/18/01 Being more enigmatic than most, the guy that understands amplification mailed me an illustrated copy of The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein. Looking through the thing, I discovered that he had put a couple of stickers between pages 58 and 59. One was an American Flag, the other an Orwellian Obey Giant. Guessing what he meant, I used a 1995 quarter to send the chicken back in time, since 95 is the Atomic Number of Americium.

9/2/2001 Peaceful Spirit sent the chicken to Louisiana, because the abbreviation for Louisiana is LA. This is important since LA is one of the musical steps (e.g., do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do) and her quote has to do with music (of a sort). She then explained that John Cage was talking about how to listen to God's voice when he said "My favorite piece of music is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet." Since the U. S. Treasury hasn't come out with a Louisiana quarter, I used my Mardi Gras coin, which is more musical anyhow.

9/28/2001 I got home from the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group forcasting meeting with a squeeze ball from the Santa Clara Valley Water District Table, and I just had to mention the gust of wind I saw while Fred Keeley was talking to a pair of guys taking notes this afternoon. With a dramatic jesture that looks vaguely French, I type "It is time for the chicken to step out onto the world stage!"

10/2/2001 Jeanette says "it is too easy to suggest the chicken go hide out with others in Afghanistan." Always up for a spy mission, the chicken landed on a 1973 5 afghani coin, fresh from The Coin Broker. The lady at the coin shop had talked about how there had been a run on coins from Afghanistan lately.

* I refuse to put her name on this page until she tells me the page my sticker is on in the Northern Sun catalog.

** The answer is 'nothing.'