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(continued)  I crunch down a gravel drive through a raised
electronic gate and park near the one-story Gihon Foundation
headquarters, out of which emerges a smiling woman in shorts and
a T-shirt. She's Victoria Kennedy, Nesmith's main squeeze. They
met 13 years ago, when Kennedy was a 19-year-old model and Nez
was a 45-year-old recovered pop icon with two dissolved
marriages. Kennedy is Nesmith's archivist and extremely low-key
publicist; she also runs Videoranch.com (www.videoranch.com), a
cyber cowboy world with a 3-D component that lets guests mosey
into a "ranchscape,"listen to music, and watch comedy clips on
floating TVs. Originally set up to sell out-of-print Nez albums,
Videoranch now offers Nez videos and collectibles and a Gene
Autry-meets-Desiderata ambience, complete with the kind of
musings usually heard when there's a bong nearby. ("Are you a
butterfly dreaming you're a pe