Heartbreaker

don't you mess around with me

undoubtedly the best Avocado Festival ever...the weather was sunny and perfect..Oct 3.. a Saturday preceded by The Haunting on Friday eve...Julie Harris and Claire Bloom..oh so good!

so I usually go a little early and take in the vibe which was really good this year...kids dancing at the Main Stage..I mean little kids...while Hendrix, Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross hits played...it was so sweet...

then at 10:00 am, the music starts with a young band called Stolen Thunder...bass, guitar drums and blonde pretty chick singer..they blew me away....rocked out Pat Benetar's Heartbreaker real good!



they can't be more than 16 years old and the guitar player is down...the chick singer had some serious pipes..MY GOD!! I love it!!! the attitude!! these kids are awesome!!

 

 

so after a few songs I wandered around and new this year was a Ferris Wheel..in the middle of the street..and it's fully functional! cool...

and the food joints...I love the Thai place and loaded up on sweet and sour chicken and chicken on a stick...fried to perfection...I walked down the street with the plate and people were oooing and ahhing..I gave them free smells..haha...

now I don't know what's wrong with the Dalai Lama, but maybe if he ate more Thai food he wouldn't act so silly

 
then I got some limes and avocados.. some as big as boobs!! ooh mama!!


and more people rushed in from the side streets and pretty soon Linden was full..it was great...people were riding on the Ferris Wheel...families were walking and dancing...the dads were cool, no signs of snapping..no heartbreakers here....

one old lady was on the ground, writhing in pain..but stuff happens! the mayor took care of her
good job dads!! you looked very proud of your families!!



still plenty of time to join the fun and I guarantee you'll love it... or I'll be a bluenose gopher!

Route 66

get your kicks, on Route 66

 

if I was 77 years old and lost my wife a few years ago, I may shoot myself and drive off the cliff in Carp...I mean it's sad that a well known Carpinterian did that, but he did it at my fave spot and hangout!

now my wife ditched me years ago and all things being temporal, I let her go but kept my guitars...

but I like parking on Highway 150, right outside Carp..I like walking around..the old bridges we tried to save, the road to Ojai is pure beautiful California..the spot is where I saw two coyotes walking thru the farm below...I love it here..so I can see why Jim Drain maybe wanted to die here...I just wish folks would reach out and get some help before they check out..help is ALWAYS out there! but anyone who serves on the Water Board in Carp gets my respect

luckily, I got another spot I go to that's teeming with life and possibilities...

ok so Sharin is leaving KEYT I hear...it was Sharin who knocked Paula out of the anchor spot then Paula got rowdy, giggling and slurring her way through late night newscasts, then the DUI thing..I think Paula would make more money and be happier as a stripper at the Spearmint Rhino!!

Sharin's a real pretty Pakastani or Armenian woman and I saw her at Oprah's auction..I took some pics and waved but her rolled her eyes and pretended to hurl....I can't blame her for that..I'm sure she could have any man she wants so why would she want me?? I don't think I'd kill myself over her, but all I ask of any woman is FIFTEEN FUCKING MINUTES!! is that too much to axe???

but then she started to pay me some attention when I whipped out my harmonica..

you'll need a man Sharin when you're done with your little nosepickin' boyfriends

hey wait a minute..how about Paula and Sharin at the Spearmint Rhino doing a lap dance for me!

Bodhisattva

won't you take me by the hand

now we know that the News-Press family and fans are racists... but it appears that they are also idiots and alcoholics..

first on the front page Peter Howorth, disgraced Marine Mammal guy is all hysterical with his stories about sharks..and the latest story is no different..a great white was sighted off shore in Carp and a hammerhead in Gaviota was involved with a kayaker...at the end of the article Howorth states that the hammerhead followed the kayaker back to shore, but "swam back and forth in three feet of water as if daring him to come back in"

 

sharks don't dare people to do anything...you can't attribute human traits to a shark!! Howorth is an idiot and thank God he lost his license to rescue marine mammals, or whatever happened to his license..these sharks are in their natural habitat looking for food..it's a survival instinct

the other story in the Life Section was by Brett Leigh Dicks, another goofball Wendy sychophant



no doubt spurred on by boozehound Nipper, Brett does a story about pairing Yoga and beer!! if you need beer to do yoga, then it's not yoga...it's stretching with beer..

alcohol and yoga..did the wandering ascetic Gotama awaken under the Bodhi tree drunk? no!

Yoga has absolutely nothing to do with drinking beer...yoga is a spiritual journey uniting mind and body with the universe (or something to that effect)..using alcohol to entice people into activities because they are too lazy or stupid to do otherwise

I know some Yogis and they do not recommend mingling enlightenment with drinking craft beer in the parking lot...

this is just an advertising gimmick for micro-breweries trying to pull these beer-swillling yuppie-hipster saps in...

but wisdom will never come from drinking brewskies all day...

Red Skies

Red skies at night Red skies at night Whoa oh, oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh ... Someone said we'll be dead by morning

 

I missed the moonrise thanks to an absurd cloud coverage right smack dab where it shouldn't be....the moon a phantom rose through the mountains although I couldn't see it...so I waited out the night all set up with binocs, 3 bottles of vodka and cameras and finally , the heathen orb appears... the clouds painted a faint ghostly figure...a red face obscured by the eclipse or eclipsed by the obscure...

 

a super blood Moon dueling with the black Sun for the affections of Mother Earth ...when it was over, the full moon appeared victorious...as the clouds disappeared the moon got even brighter...it was freaky man..it was so bright, I could see angels dancing on the Salt Marsh at full high tide...




and earlier in the day the marsh was full...it was beautiful..and I saw this water bottle litter from the Chumash..nice touch...thanks amigos!!

for but a moment the moon shall rest on the sea drifting with the tide

Bumper To Bumper

i'll beep my horn for you, (bumper to bumper), give way i'm comin' through, (bumper to bumper), i'll beep my horn for you

I didn't go to the public hearing about the proposed Bluffs development where Tee Time is now, but I caught it on TV...Channel 21....it was interesting.. I think I saw the Spice Girls be there!!

the architect and Orange County developer pitched the project to the folks and of course promised the moon..remember Green Heron Springs, the housing project on Cravens that never was built..the guy promised the moon...sustainable and all that rot...

 

this project looked ok, but it's not appropriate for the Bluffs..pure and simple..the architect and developer offered the same moony promises..even a path under the railroad tracks to get to the Bluffs/ocean area...

the project would have houses, a little sustainable farm, gray water use, open space and even a restaurant at the ocean end of the property..

now with restaurants come liquor licenses...and I started to imagine what would happen if the project were approved...can you imagine?

here's my scenerio: the project gets built and people move in and the restaurant opens up and other folks from all over come to have dinner or sample food and wine whatever...but after a few hours of drinking and dining, the folks may want to take a stroll..so they stumble under the new railway  crossing and make it over to the Bluffs and gaze out over the ocean...



but.... there's a big drop-off there..them bluffs are high and the rock formations below are jagged...so can you imagine all the drunks that would go tumbling over the bluffs to the beach below after dinner.. and get stabbed on the way down..

it would be a bloody mess!!  it would upset the seals and it is not sustainable

The Birds And The Bees

when I look into your big brown eyes, it's so very plain to see, it's time you learned about the facts of life..starting fromm A to Z

I was watching the news last night on KEYT and buxom Beth was talking about the birds and the bees, with a come-hither look in her eyes...

it seems some bees were found dying in the parking lot at Lynda.com in Carp...their offices/ campus are across from the Bluffs...they showed some ladies crying about the dead bees and trying to save the staggering ones with sugar and water, feeding them with a spoon...but they couldn't say why the bees were dying in their parking lot

I told you before that the National Parks Service and Nature Con killed honey bees on the Channel Islands because they were non-native, but I don't think that's the case here..I was reading a story in the Coastal View News about the Whitney House.. it's the cool old gabled house by the highway/Casitas Pass Rd that CALTRANS recently demolished..they bought (confiscated) it for the (unnecessary, absurd and expensive) 101 widening project...but the CV story was about all the bees that had taken up residence in the house..half way through the demo, Caltrans stopped and called some bee guys to save the hives...so they came in and allegedly moved the hives to a ranch on Foothill Road..we're talking about roughly 40000 bees

BTW, I will never forgive CALTRANS for destroying this cool old Whitney house, an imporant part of Carpinteria's ag history...FUCK OFF CALTRANS YOU DUMB FUCKING INBRED MORONS!!!!

 

now, the Whitney House property is not far from the Lynda.com parking lot, as the crow flies...so I went over there and saw some guys were cutting up the trees...some pruning which could disturb the bees...but I'm thinking that the bees were also harassed by CALTRANS, then the shock of being sprayed with smoke and horse manure by the bee guys made some of the bees take off to Lynda's, where they died in her arms

Beth mentioned the BEE Removal Service and the guy said the Lynda.com bees probably died from pesticides or the drought..but that sounds like beeswax...why didn't this bee guy mention he had fiddled with a hive recently, and that's probably why and where the dead bees ended up..at Lynda's...I smell a cover-up!!

I wouldn't use these bee guys..one dude looks like a hillbilly and the other dude is from France!!

now the other story was about the birds, the murres showing up on California beaches, malnourished...probably the Murres sipped some oil tainted water and it messed with their digestion..
California murre
and now we see that the Nature Con is saying a rare seabird called the murre is nesting on the islands, having been absent for 100 years...this is a common practice to supply these timed press releases to support the Channel Islands killing..."look we killed all the pigs and cats and poisoned owls and falcons and but we are seeing native murres return!!"

what they fail to tell you is the murre is the most abundant seabird nesting on the California coast, so if they haven't seen one since 1912 as they claim, they haven't benn looking very hard! gill nets and oil spills almost wiped them out, so restorations have been going on since 1986...

gill nets and oil spills are the biggest threat to the murres...and vultures

I wonder if the gals at Lynda.com wear fishnet stockings...hmmmm

Sunshine on my shoulders

makes me happy

what next, alligators at East Beach?? coming ashore on Santa Claus beach? it's been a wonderful summer alright, but plenty weird...the heat wave, the red water, the grocery store wars, VW

so Haggens and VW suffer from the same malady...bad management...Haggens had two CEOs and they finally fired the one guy who tried to invade southern California with too many stores, was soundly vilified for PR blunders, drove Haggen's into bankruptcy and now plans to leave town with a trail of broken hearts.. I was starting to like Haggen because their store brand stuff was really good..the black raspberry jam and chicken livers are yummy!! way better than Albertsons or Vons...but now they are going back to the Pacific Northwest to concentrate on core stores...the Pacific Northwesterners do not care about the stuff So Cal folks do...customer service and plastic bags....they only care about good food..maybe we can learn a thing or two from the Suburu set..

but we all care about air pollution.. I remember days when I 'd look out at the sea and see a yellow/brown polluted cloud layer on the horizon...LA was really bad but nowadays at least here, there's is virtually none..just blue skies and sunshine and smooth sailing

but VW has been trying to set back the efforts of so many..smog checks every other year are a hassle but I do it for the air...there's no excuse not to clean up after ourselves..to be conscious and evolved about our planet's health and our health by extension...but emissions from cars were a problem..so VW decides to bypass emissions standards in some of its diesel autos..they installed software that would allow the cars to pass a smog test, but afterwards, the engines would revert back to no standards/ or high emissions..

they cheated because Germans are all Nazis down deep and catalytic converters were invented by the Jews

but when I go outside, I want to see the clear blue ocean, the blue skies unfettered by pollution...and feel the warm sunshine on my shoulders..

because sunshine almost always makes me high