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a continuing look at the alcohol culture in Santa Barbara....and who's pushing it

Pali Tasting Room-New Funk

WTF now we got a bunch of Nipper and Wendy clones running around Santa Barbara?? "professional" wine tasters and water tasters...geez, one guy over at EDHAT went wine tasting and everything was hip and cool cool cool! at Pali Wine the dude said of a sample: "It had some nice caramel notes, but I think that these grapes may need more sun and heat, and I found the wine somewhat thin."

the grapes may need more sun and heat and the wine was thin?????

this dude sounds like a fluffball! actually he sounds like the guy who works at the Sentinel Weekly...which leads me into today's story....

ok I 've been reading the funny little freebie the Sentinel for awhile and I've said before they are alcohol-centric...pushing booze like a drug dealer pushes drugs at high school...now, the paper is owned by Jim Buckley of the Montecito Journal and his son Timmy is listed as the publisher and Mattie Mazza is the editor...Mattie's a bit of a brat so I'm thinking mommy and daddy sent him thru law school....another trust funder wasting my time...and he's pals with Darryl Genis and the old groupie of Montecito, Richeard Mineards...



Mattie and Eringer...barflies

from Mattie's law website: Whether it's the development and execution of an effective litigation strategy or prophylactic counsel to avoid litigation....

prophylactic council?? you mean they wear rubbers in court??

but anyway Mattie did a glowing story on Bo Henry's Bar, the one Mr. Wimpy sold Eringer...you remember Eringer..Prince Albert's bitch and frequently shows up in Mineard's column in the Montecito Journal...

Mattie says he likes sitting in bars drinking beer in the afternoon..that's how most trustfunders spend their time..drinking in bars! Mattie makes lots of cutesy remarks about alcohol abuse....

ok so the Sentinel pushes booze and restaurants and I did some searching and it appears Matt was in the restaruant biz up in Calistoga..he was or is pals with a couple of restauranteers, Mark Young and Ron Goldin ...who own Brannan's Grill up there...seem the grill had some problems with roaches running around kitchen (the bugs) and health inspectors had to close it down for awhile...while the inspectors were inspecting, the owners Goldin and Young were denying and making excuses...all the restaurants up here have roaches says one guy...hahaha

I learned this in my restaurant days: clean as you go!

http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/roach-problem-closed-calistoga-restaurant-for-a-day/article_8ef2cf46-fb98-11e1-82a5-0019bb2963f4.html

apparently Mattie was brought in to manage Brannan's and it failed YET ANOTHER INSPECTION!! the owners and Matt blamed it on a change in management..they claim Matt was brought in to clean up the restaurant and the transition caused the inspection failure...

after all the problems, they finally passed an inspection...because they had to...I'm sure if there were no inspectors to check these businesses out, roaches would be part of your cheezeburger...

so I guess if you don't practice law or can't run a restaurant, you can always edit a freebie newspaper like the Sentinel, which started publishing in October 2012

I'll be watching this slippery alco-dude who's a tool for Jim Buckley and other cocktail- soaked conservative freaks ..I'll be watching for Young and Goldin to see if they open any roacherants in SB...

and I'll be watching out for roaches at Bo Henry's, too...