The Heroes Remain

America..there's tears in our eyes

from that day in September, New York

when terror filled our skies..

through the darkness and light

through the tears and the pain..

through the hell of it all..the heroes remain

I remember the heroes of 9/11...the Americans who died brave and free, attacked by religious fanatics from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Egypt. The militant cultists chanted "GOD IS GREAT!!"  WTF is that supposed to mean??? as they crashed jets into the Twin Towers in New York. They hated America, freedom and democracy. They were in America on visas or passports...

One of the hijacked jets, Flight 93, was most likely headed for the Capitol but the passengers fought the terrorists and it crashed to the ground...the crew, the passengers were heroes 

the QAnon MAGA conspiracy theorists say 9/11 was an inside job by the American gov't, and the planes were full of feds... these whackos always pick the least plausible explanation for any situation that confuses them!! 

The shameful Jan 6 debacle dishonored every American who died on 9/11 and those who fought, were injured or died for their country in WWII... Can you imagine a bunch of highly agitated country hillbillies, egged on by an orange-faced buffoon, trying to finish the job at the Capitol bldg for the Islamic terrorists??? Trump will never be POTUS again!

but whether it's foreign or domestic enemies, America always takes care of business...

and the heroes shall remain

The Wizard of Oz

We're off to see the Wizard

The wonderful Wizard of Oz

We hear he is a whiz of a wiz

If ever a wiz there was

If ever, oh ever a wiz there was...

The Wizard of Oz is one because

Because, because, because, because, because

Because of the wonderful things he does

We're off to see the Wizard

The wonderful Wizard of Oz!!!!

Fast Car

you got a fast car

When you build a bigger highway that looks more like a speedway, you can expect cars to go faster...the 101 section in Carp is a speed trap...the Highway Patrol are just sitting and waiting to pick off drivers, it seems for any minor offense...the cops will pull them over in traffic jams and that is more dangerous than speeding!

In Buellton, the CHP was pulling over cars who were traveling to the Monterey Car Show...I got to see a preview of the Lamborghinis and other exotic and cool cars...California was built for speedy cars and the movie Bullitt exemplified that...so let 'em roll...we are not a police state!!

Wendy and Nipper out for a spin??

so I'm preparing for Hurricane Hilary Clinton the best I can: canned goods, flashlights, transistor radio and guns..I'm so sorry for the folks in Hawaii dealing with fires..we can relate so give them FEMA help, all they need!! 

whoa!! I was looking forward to some tropical rain from Hurricane Hilary (Hilary??) but while I was waiting an earthquake hit...the balcony bucked and the plants swayed..this one had some kick..5.1... they say there's no such thing as " classic earthquake weather"...I take issue with that

I think it all boils down to is where one stands...between the tropic of Cancer or the tropic of Capricorn...

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE WELCOME THE LOVELY AND TALENTED AOC TO SING FOR US!!!

Even though the Republican Party is in a shambles, and the RNC is merely a punchline at a cocktail party, I still wanna see the debates... of course Trump chickened out...he knows he'll get hammered by the portly, fast-talking Jersey guy Chris Christie and even "Too Honest" Mike Pence will get a few licks in about Jan 6 and Trump's despicable behavior on that fateful day...

All Trump had to do was be an adult and concede he lost to Biden-the American people made that very clear- and this circus could have been avoided...none of this tomfoolery would have happened...

I think these people are thespians

The Good Life

Oh, the good life

Full of fun, seems to be the ideal

is KTYD headed for the same fate as the News-Press? Oblivion? they seem to be adrift at sea with no sails...and they play KISS alot!! that's not rocknroll baby! Hope they get it together...

it looks like Montecito is next in line for the highway project. I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you well-heeled folks what to expect...but before I do, why don't you take a few pictures of the old highway and take one last look around, for soon, it will be gone forever...I'm sorry.

What Will Happen:

Caltrans and various contractors will be invading your neighborhoods with fearsome heavy equipment...if you like falling asleep to the sound of crickets chirping or the ocean waves crashing, then you're gonna have some tough nights ahead

They need to break up the asphalt..the highway is asphalt over dirt...simple and sufficient...but the new highway will be tons of rebar, asphalt and cement over asphalt...CALTRANS has a cement factory by Padaro and Loon Park...have you seen it? do you like it?? Caltrans doesn't care but the bright spot is pretty girls working on the highway

do you like trees? POOF!! all gone!

the white concrete traffic barriers will be put in place by teams of workers and big forklifts...sometimes they will stack the barriers on the side of the road, higher than they can stack shit in Texas!

When the winds kick up, it'll look like the Dust Bowl in Montecito...and giant highway signs will be erected, some attached to the bridge..and then more signs, everywhere..you won't have time to drive, you'll  be too busy reading...

so, for a few years patience will be a virtue, but until then...

you can kiss the good life good-bye!

Make Your Own Kind of Music

sing your own special song

You heard it here first that I read it on Noozhawk that Wendy filed for... OMG.. BANKRUPTCY!! That means the morally bankrupt News-Press, once a fine paper, is GONE!!

Santa Barbara's daily, one of California's oldest, stops publishing after owner declares bankruptcy (msn.com)

"At its height, the newspaper founded in 1855, had a daily circulation of 45,000 and was published seven days a week, serving Santa Barbara, an upscale city of 90,000 people. Editorial writer Thomas M. Storke won a Pulitzer Prize in 1962 for a series of editorials about the John Birch Society.

McCaw, then a billionaire local philanthropist active on environmental and animal rights issues, bought the daily from The New York Times Co. in October 2000 and a few months later appointed herself and her fiancé, Arthur von Weisenberger, as acting co-publishers."

Little did we know that Wendy was a wannabe Bircher!! oh the irony!!

tabloid trash

Nipper and Wendy win the phony Distinguished Patriot Award
with Islamophobe David Horowitz as the keynote speaker...haha

Wendy simply couldn't read the room...endorsing  far-right lunatics like Orly Taitz, the Birther Queen and Trump the Traitor was just bad politics...

and guess what, Wendy??

TRUMP IS UNDER ARREST!!!!

Wendy was handed a fortune in a divorce settlement from Craig McCaw, the cell phone billionaire, but apparently she squandered Ampersand, her publishing company, into bankruptcy...and the News-Press wasn't viable as an online paper while the Ventura County Star and others are thriving.

and it's too bad boo hoo...I liked her initial take on the Channel Islands animal slaughter by the Nature Con and National Parks Service, but she changed her tune giving money to the Center for Biological Diversity..and then all the anti-union stuff was just plain stupid and of course Nipper was no help as the bon vivant eyeing Wendy's riches...

Wendy and Yolanda, sittin' in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G

UPDATE: I've been thinking about this and well, if it doesn't gel, it isn't aspic, and this ain't gellin'!

It's about Wendy, Nipper and Yolanda...Yolanda has been with Wendy a long time and Wendy seems to be protecting her...I think, without evidence, that Wendy and Yolanda are an item, as in lesbos, and Nipper's been there only for the camera! and they never married and so forth...

Remember Wendy was a big fan of the gay Santa Barbara mayor, Harriet Whatshername. Just my conspiracy theory....

and what about the Dr Laura caper? the Rob Lowe incident? the Peter Lance Fiasco? 

and the thousands of child porn images on a News-Press computer and Wendy (the NP owner) and Nipper's pathetic attempt to deflect blame away...the Buck never stopped with Wendy...until the bankruptcy, that is!

and Starshine? in the shadow of Starshine, everyone's going blind... 

so yeah, it's just too bad all that ink was no match for all them gigabytes!!

but, all the girls are dressed up like Barbie and everyone's singing Mama Cass songs...

Already, the world is a better place!!

Summertime

Summertime, and the livin' is easy

Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high

Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good-lookin'

So hush little baby, don't you cry

The 8-million dollar sidewalk from Santa Claus Lane to Carp Ave has given me an 8-million dollar view, so I must retract my criticisms, not all, but most...and I will no longer refer to it as the 8-million dollar sidewalk, but rather the Coyote Trail...

There's nothing (almost nothing) I like more in summertime than watching osprey fly over the marsh on a beautiful  afternoon...this time it was the Navy...I've seen them fly the Osprey over but never maneuvers and it blew me away! 

The plane dropped so quick, then a few passes around the marsh, then rose and headed for the big tree down the highway and hovered for a few minutes...SO COOOL!! 

Then it picked up speed and headed straight for my balcony and I was freaking out, trying to take pics, then it was flying right by me so I gave the awesome crew a few fist pumps...

and that made my summer!

Cinnamon Girl

I wanna live with the Cinnamon girl

I could be happy, the rest of my life

With the Cinnamon girl

so, I've been watching the folks use the 8-milliion dollar sidewalk from Carp Ave to Santa Claus Lane, and though most of them look like they belong in a mental institution, they seem happy-go-lucky....and maybe, just maybe, I could learn to live with the bike lane if and when they wrap up construction...hubba hubba!!

Neil Young will be at the Bowl tonight...I pondered going, the tickets went fast, the prices were crazy-from $200 to $3000 a seat...from the Buffalo Springfield, to CSNY and the solo albums, and a few clunkers along the way, I have more than a few favorite Neil Young songs. But I'm happy to sit this one out...

still I'd love to see ol' Neil sing "Helpless" at the Bowl, under a July moon with 5000 other people...

that would be cool