http://carolynemas.com/news.html Carolyne Mas: News Jannis' PHPRss class - http://www.jannis.to/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:04:48 -0700 http://carolynemas.com/news.html#55
CAROLYNE MAS "STILL SANE", A RETROSPECTIVE, 1979 ~ 1990



Release date: June 11, 2010

Tracks:

1. Still Sane
2. Sadie Says
3. Snow
4. He's So Cool
5. Go Ahead and Cry Now
6. Love Like Stone
7. Remember The Night
8. Sittin' In The Dark
9. I Waited All night
10. Crying
11. Under One Banner
12. When Love Is Right
13. Amsterdam
14. Somebody Like Me
15. Signal For Help
16. Easy Love
17. Do you Believe I Love You
18. Laurielle]]> http://carolynemas.com/news.html#55 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 The Official Site - Carolyne Mas - News http://carolynemas.com/news.html#54 anthem, "Stillsane", a song about holding on to one's sanity in the
face of conflict. Today she faces that battle for real.

After working as a professional musician for over 30 years (her first
paid gig was at the age of 13), Mas went on in 1998 to form an animal
sanctuary in Nashville, Tennessee called "Our Animal Haus". The
sanctuary was moved to Florida in 2004 after Mas' father died and she
volunteered to care for her Aunt with Alzheimer's along with her
grieving mother.

After finding a perfect location in Brooksville, the sanctuary
thrived. Its residents included the original dogs from Tennessee, all
of whom were elderly large mixed breed dogs, and cats who had AIDS and
were HIV positive. Carolyne and her husband were committed to
providing them with a safe and beautiful place for them to spend the
rest of their lives. They also began to take in several exotic birds,
some with special needs, as well as several horses, one of them blind.
"Our Animal Haus" was becoming a safe haven for the unadoptable,
unwanted, and special needs animals who otherwise would have had no
place to go.

Beginning in February of 2009, Mas and her husband began to have
several visits from Animal Control of Hernando County. They had been
prompted by a call from a recently fired and disgruntled employee.
Everything seemed fine and friendly until journalist Logan Neill of
the Hernando Times, a branch f the St. Pete Times, requested an
interview with Mas in response to an article called "Carolyne Mas: Her
Animal Haus", which had come out in the Huffington Post in September.

Mas granted this interview, even providing the name and phone number
of one of her "friends" at Animal Control as a reference. After all,
just 2 weeks earlier, they had said she was a "good sanctuary".
But...something wrong happened. In direct breach of his ethics as a
journalist, Logan Neil, who had not even taken a tour of "Our Animal
Haus", used the number given to him by Carolyne to file a complaint.
Although Mr. Neill denies this, Animal Control does not.

What ensued was nothing short of a nightmare. Logan Neil began to
write a series of slanderous articles for the Hernando Times,
containing undocumented information and outright lies about "Our
Animal Haus" and its owners. Animal Control began to seize the animals
at "Our Animal Haus", first by taking Ginger, a 30-year-old mare, and
then euthanizing her. They falsely claimed she was suffering from
malnutrition and was instead 18 years old, despite her previous Vet
records stating her birth date as 8/20/1979.

On October 30, almost 200 animals were seized from "Our Animal Haus"
because of false allegations made by Animal Control, stemming from the
euthanizing of Ginger. These animals included all of the dogs, all of
the cats, perfectly healthy exotic birds, as well as healthy pure bred
horses and ponies. Animal Control would end up putting down all of the
elderly dogs and almost all of the cats, robbing them of living out
the rest of their lives in peace. They would, however, go on to profit
from the sale of the birds and the horses, and a handful of small pure-
bred dogs.

Presently there are cases all across the US where Animal Control or
the local humane society has acted outside the scope of local
ordinances and illegally confiscated animals, from valuable show dogs
and show cats, to well kept breeding birds, to thoroughbred horses.
Apparently these local officials have learned that they can achieve
three goals:
1) adopt out (sell) animals and property for money,
2) receive donations from the public for their "good" work
3) receive commendations from their superiors

Therefore, they have financial reasons for "taking animals under color
of law." However, they generally use the argument that the animals are
abused, not properly cared for, starving, or treated cruelly. They are
quick to euthanize any animals that will be too much trouble to keep
and that cannot be adopted to the public for money. These many types
of cases are being documented due to this outrageous assault on
constitutional rights of animal owners in the U.S.

Carolyne's Fourth Amendment rights were clearly violated by the
illegal search and seizure of her animals and expensive bird cages,
and Animal Control fast-tracked her case, acting often without any
official paperwork allowing them to do so, robbing Carolyne of her
Fifth Amendment right to due process; She was never given enough time
to secure an attorney.

Through supporters of her case, Carolyne was able to find an attorney
in Tampa, who has worked cases like this before and won. However, she
does not have the funds to hire him. She has paid dearly for the
emotional loss of her long time companions, and the ones whom she
sheltered from harm for so long. She will never see any of them again.
Her name and reputation has been unfairly and unmercifully slandered
by the press who gave her little time to tell her own story. You can
help her finally get the justice that she so well deserves by making a
donation at 'Our Animal Haus", or by contacting her directly at samlorac@aol.com.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Sincerely,
The Supporters of Our Animal Haus]]> http://carolynemas.com/news.html#54 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 The Official Site - Carolyne Mas - News http://carolynemas.com/news.html#53
As some of you may recall in the past, a woman named Caryn MacFayden was caught impersonating me both on the Web, and in person at various places throughout the country over the past few years. I confronted her here, and she replied with a letter which I posted, stating that she would never do it again - well, she lied.

I received a post in my guestbook today from a woman named Dorothy, who apparently is booked on a cruise with Ms. MacFayden. It is a Rick Springfield cruise in November, and when you book it as a single person you are allowed to request a cabin mate to cut down on expenses.

On this cruise is the opportunity to rub elbows with music people, some from MTV, maybe even Mr. Springfield himself at a special cocktail party on this cruise, and that worries me a lot. She may try to meet people by using my name, which is something I wouldn't even do. From what someone who met her a while back at some kind of music convention, she seems a bit flaky. She spins stories about her husband having jammed with the stones in the early seventies, which would have been when I was in high school. The time line is off completely, and thank God that some people are driven to check this Web site to see if she is indeed...me.

She has even shown people pictures of her 'tour of Italy', robbing many details of my life from this very page. Well, she cannot steal my face, so look at my photo here and remember my face, because if you ever meet either one of us, you will know who the real Carolyne Mas is.

HERE IS A PHOTO OF CARYN MACFAYDEN. IF YOU MEET HER YOU WILL NOW KNOW SHE IS NOT ME...AND BE WARNED. SHE IS ILL AND NEEDS HELP.]]> http://carolynemas.com/news.html#53 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 The Official Site - Carolyne Mas - News http://carolynemas.com/news.html#52
Yes, it is true...finally. This is an occasion, to say the least, one I have waited for many years to happen.

While going through my guest-book entries in order to approve or delete them...I get SO much Spam...I came across a letter from a gentleman named John Edwards who owns Renaissance Records. They are responsible for digging up a lot of old dinosaurs like me, and reissuing their old vinyl on CD.

I posted this in my Facebook page on Friday after I talked to him. I saw that someone posted it on a Steve Hoffman forum and mentioned it in the guest-book already, so I thought I would just confirm it here as well. I also wrote a long post on the SH forum, about "Our Animal Haus".

I hope that this will be good for my fans, and work out well for my animals, too. Any little bit helps, as you know.]]> http://carolynemas.com/news.html#52 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 The Official Site - Carolyne Mas - News http://carolynemas.com/news.html#51
To those who donated in our time of need last September, this is my gift to you. To those who didn't, this is my gift to you, but perhaps you will be inspired to donate to "Our Animal Haus", our non-profit sanctuary for unwanted, elderly, and special needs animals and birds.

I thank you!

]]> http://carolynemas.com/news.html#51 Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 The Official Site - Carolyne Mas - News http://carolynemas.com/news.html#50
Larry Blasco was the tech guy's tech guy. I met him in 1982, when he was doing sound for me on a Canadian tour. We fell in love very quickly, and lived together during the bulk of our relationship, which lasted 5 years....a significant amount of time for me at that point in my life, and even now. It is for him that I wrote "Cruel Little Angel".

Larry was one of the few people that I remained close with over the years, and he was one of the 2 or 3 people in my life that I would ask for advice, which says a lot because most of the time I think I know everything...

I consider myself lucky to have known him so well, well enough to see his gentile and loving spirit. The kind of connection we shared does not happen often in life, and I will continue to cherish the book of memories we made together, turning each page of rare and special moments over and over again for the rest of my own life.

Larry was a warm, wonderful, and loving Godfather to my son, who called him "Uncle YaYa", because he could not say his name when he was little, and this somehow stuck over the years. He was great with kids, and knew how to relate to them in a magical way. My husband Teddy told me that he was the only one of my old boyfriends that he actually liked, and that you could not help but like him. This says a lot about Larry's character, I think; My husband never seems to like anybody I know.

Now that he has been summoned up to the ultimate gig in the sky, I am sure he is enjoying all of the great musicians that are playing, and I'd like to think of him there, tuning Jimi's guitar, fixing Marley's mic cable, or just hanging with Terry, B. C., and Big Danny, laughing at the silly things we do down here.

Larry...you will live on in the hearts and minds of the many people who love you. We will be seeing you...]]> http://carolynemas.com/news.html#50 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 The Official Site - Carolyne Mas - News http://carolynemas.com/news.html#49
It has been years since I have set up a Web site, and have gotten the domain "ouranimalhaus.org", from GoDaddy, as well as the software from them that is supposed to be easy to use to build the site, but I have suddenly become Web stupid, and am having trouble setting it up.

Anyway, here is the logo, designed by Brad Hughes, and angel, and it's great, isn't it? He has also designed some pictures for the tees we will be selling as well as some graphics which will appear on the page I am fumbling through creating.

Check the address now and then, but as I have something really up and running, I will be linking to it from here.

]]> http://carolynemas.com/news.html#49 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 The Official Site - Carolyne Mas - News http://carolynemas.com/news.html#47 THIS IS ME NOW, FOLKS.

I have found an excellent artist to do pin-up girl drawings with some of our real animals for the new Web site for OUR ANIMAL HAUS that I am looking to morph with this one.

He is a real angel, and is working as a donation to our cause. We are also working on some provocative tees as well as a calendar of the drawings and animals that will appear on the Web site.

He is an amazing artist, and as soon as some of the images are finalized, you will be able to see them here.]]> http://carolynemas.com/news.html#47 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 The Official Site - Carolyne Mas - News http://carolynemas.com/news.html#48 ANGELA, OUR SWEET PUG

WE LOVED AND WILL MISS YOU, BABY, AND ALL OF YOUR SPECIAL TRAITS THAT MADE UP YOUR YOUNESS

ANGELA WAS ADOPTED BY US A YREAR AGO...SHE HAD EPILEPSY.

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For 6 years I had a very well paying job as Guardian and caregiver for my Aunt who had Alzheimer's, but sadly she passed in April of last year, an event which was not only emotionally devastating, but financially so. We had built the sanctuary up through the good times.

Every penny I earned during that time, I spent on the animals, and after I was no longer working, I started to sell off all of the guitars I had accumulated when I was an active professional musician, which on Ebay, means for half their value.

I am entering a particularly dark period as I have just sold the last guitar. I have 3 workers to pay, as I cannot get volunteers to help me for obvious reasons. I don't know what to do. My husband and I just cannot do all of the work ourselves, and the feed bills are high.

Donations can be made here via PayPal. I am embarrassed to ask, but please help if you can.

Thank you, Carolyne

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