Don't Worry Baby

everything will turn out alright....

now... some more ways for folks to get toasted... there's a new Santa Barbara Champagne Club in Santa Barbara reports Scott Steepleton who appears to be the new alcohol-centric editor at the News-Press..the gathering takes place in the Granada Theater of all places and it's just another bar basically...I think Nipper tried this concept years ago and of course it died a quick death..here's hoping the same for this idiotic venture...

Montecito lushes battle for prime watering holes...
actually what started me thinking about this is Mr. Wimpy's Show...he and pal Eringer were talking about the bar scene in Montecito...apparently when Pierre LaFond bought Piatti's in the upper village and turned it into the Montecito Wine Bistro, Mr.Wimpy and Eringer started seeing pink elephants...Piatti's was their watering hole where they gathered with the likes of Bruce Johnstone -the dude is 71 and still trying to be Beach Boy? and he wrote that insidiously horrible "I Write the Songs" for Barry Manilow


when I grow up to be a man

no Bruce, Brian Wilson wrote the songs that made the Beach Boys famous...and the whole world sing

and what about TC Boyle, a vastly over-rated writer who has become an annoying little Montecito barfly- he also hangs out with the wimpy lushes of Montecito

but now these guys are not welcomed at the Montecito Wine Bistro because of some incidents with the new management....

 

I ate at Piatti's once with a woman and we saw Dennis Miller at a table with an older gentleman..they looked pretty chummy...Dennis likes old rich white guys like Bill O'Reilly and Rupert Murdoch......I'm not saying he's gay, I'm just sayin'....

Piatti's was nothing special really-
the real gem that was lost was the Cafe Del Sol....that was Montecito in the fun days..now we have a bunch of elderly alcoholics fighting over the bars!! trying to be all bad and it's damn silly...

Eringer wrote a book about the drunken nightlife in Montecito, called White Zombies of Montecito.. or something like that...it's 125 pages (a booklet really) or so and there's one Indian guy who drives a truck and drinks all day long..then he goes to bars and starts screaming at people..there's another guy....and actor Christopher Lloyd apparently sits at the Lucky's Bar like a catatonic! like Jim from Taxi!!

and a black guy that Eringer calls the "mascot"....and Mr. Wimpy got tossed from the Wine Bistro for something related to alcohol....or cigars or something stupid..they sit and talk about this stuff like a drunkalogue in group therapy where recovering alcoholics relive their greatest drunken moments....part of the process of giving up alcohol...maybe that's what these guys are subconsciously trying to do...perhaps it's a collective cry for help...and look at me, always here to give 'em support!

I really don't know what happened to Montecito or where these weird old men came from but I'm sure many more are lurking in the shadows, waiting for a chance to be... ghosts