funny way of laughing

It's just my funny way of laughing / Yes, my funny way of laughing / Your leavin' didn't bother me / It's just my funny way of laughing.

I needed a job once so I worked for the News-Press....that's right, I used to work for the News-Press in the 1970s...I'm not ashamed to say that...way before Wendy took over the news, I used to get up at three o'clock in the morning and drive down to the News-Press loading dock..I'd fill up my VW Bug with papers, fold them and stick 'em in a plastic bag or put a rubber band around them...then I'd drive off and throw the papers to the subscribers...I was trained by some old dude..we'd drive around Montecito in his little orange Honda Civic and for two hours, throw papers out the window..eventually I took over the route..it didn't last long because I'd always end up with either too many or too few papers meaning I fucked up alot..and lots of complaints came in..so naturally, I quit...what a stupid job!!

but the point is I had some pretty cool and famous people on my route...I'd throw papers at Michael Douglas and Kenny Loggins up top of Hot Springs Rd...I'd see Robert Mitchum's long driveway in the upper Village...then tucked between Park Lane and Birnam Wood Golf Club is a beautiful road called Buena Vista...Burl Ives lived there behind big green hedges and a huge gate...Burl was a great folksinger and actor..Big Daddy in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"...Ives was identified in the 1950 pamphlet Red Channels and blacklisted as an entertainer with supposed Communist ties...

1989: Ballad singer BURL IVES and his wife, Dorothy, have sold their Montecito home and moved to Washington state.

They had owned the 50-year-old, Mediterranean-style villa since 1974, when they bought it for $290,000. They sold it to a foreign buyer for $3.9 million...
nice profit and hardly a communist

then further up the road lived another commie Joe Walsh, one of the great rocknroll guitarists of all time..he lived in a beautiful little house, stucco ranch style with lovely gardens...

so Robert Mitchum lived in the upper village..I'd look for him but never saw him...he was a genuis..."Cape Fear", "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison", the "Night of the Hunter"...co-wrote the song "Ballad of Thunder Road"....now his son, Chris is running against Lois Capps....Chris has never established himself as an actor, but his last try to beat Lois was pretty pathetic...it turns out Chris is a teabagger without one original thought except maybe get all the commies out of America...he's stuck in the past....but who knows, Lois needs to retire and Chris might pull out a win, which would be a miracle...

then I hear that Janet Wolf got $40000 from the union for her campaign...the anti-union heretics are already crying about conflicts of interest and fraud but of course there is none....Janet is pro-labor just as Roger Aceves is pro oil and business..it's ok to give money to campaigns..money doesn't win elections, votes do!!

the supervisors do not negotiate contracts, they vote on contracts already negotiated by the county and the public employees....now, $40000 dollars divided among , oh, say 500 county employees comes out to 80 bucks an employee given to Janet Wolf...compared that to $5000 given by one individual to Roger....

if you work for the county and you hate unions, you are free to leave and work in the private sector....what? not quite ready for that? hey I don't blame ya!!

so people need to get real and if they want their candidate to win, then they need to play the game...and the only game is town is politics!!