Fishes and Scorpions

in the morning sun, dance to the changing seasons, get away with none

the full Sturgeon Moon in Pisces had me mesmerized for a few nights, esp with Mars moving close by...so perfect for the transition from summer to fall...it's truly a favorite time to reflect..and confess....

and I must confess, I didn't do it

[water sign in the air, touch the earth with flame]

weeding...in the salt marsh!!

but I did notice some folks walking about in the Carp Salt Marsh..thought they were UCSB researchers but no they are the scam outfit Channel Islands Restoration trying to remove invasive species from the marsh..one such species is the European sea lavender..must be that European style socialism the NRA warns about!!

oh, according to the Coastal View,  these plant Nazis are "authorized" to use HERBICIDES to poison and PLASTIC to smother the plants!!! lemme tell you something: you folks use herbicides in the marsh and I will sue you til your mothers' pussies bleed lavendar!! YOU GOT THAT??

[see the friendly Sagittarian, do you remember his name??]

now I've said this many times but it bears repeating...this restoration work by these native-only twits is pure folly..the European lavender is not harming a thing and watching these folks trudge through the marsh trying to get rid of it is rather comical..if Nature wants the European lavender in the marsh, then that's the way it will be

[lovers of lions, stay away at feeding time, is all the Taurus takes mimicking life in rhyme]

these eco-morons always say the invasives 'out-compete' the native plants which is nonsense..all things grow and die regardless of native or non-native status especially in a huge flood or fire!!

the notion that these people are gonna save the marsh by pulling weeds is beyond stupid..

besides, the recent dredging of the marsh probably killed thousands of natives

and sand flies...what about sand flies???

What A Beautiful World

this will be, what a glorious time to be free

what a beautiful world this would be if we could only get rid of homeless people and illegals...

now the News-Press loves to talk about illegals but they never talk about illegals employed by their friends...up in Santa Maria, God's Country, conservative supervisor Peter Adams, who once removed art from a public building because it was of a sexual nature, co-owns Adams Family Farms and employed illegals...after ICE raided the farm, Adams had to fire 300 illegals! this was reported by the Independent but not the News-Press..and Andy Caldwell a Santa Maria Christian resident who writes anti -Santa Barbara drivel for the News-Press, hates illegals unless they work for his benefactors and pals!! I'm tellin' ya, something ain't right up in that 4th district

if these hypocritical conservatives would've passed immigration reform co-written by the late great Sen John McCain and Ted Kennedy in 2007, we wouldn't've had these crazy ICE raids of agriculture...maybe another statesman will come along and pass a good bill but I doubt it

now the homeless sitch has some folks so upset they won't go into Santa Barbara anymore to see the reality of poverty and mental illness sitting on a bench on State St....I've been to State St and see some homeless folks but I've never felt threatened, just sorry for them...you gotta be a real wuss to be threatened by a homeless person...and I'll give a buck to a homeless lady who I know should be cared for in a mental institution, but has been cast out into the street by idiot politicians....

you can demonize the homeless all you want, but you're gonna have to find solutions and you're gonna have to fund solutions for the people living on the streets

and maybe, just maybe there'll be spandex jackets... 

one for everyone

In The Air

I can feel it coming in the air tonight...oh Lord

while I may  think cannabis is the devil's own stash, I don't mind hemp which can be used for all sorts of useful things other than blowing my mind..look, my mind is already blown...long gone..maybe it'll come back in the air tonight but I doubt it.. 

anyway, drugs didn't blow my mind

that oriental chick blew my mind

A Life of Illusion

Sometimes I can't help the feeling that I'm / Living a life of illusion

"flowers" my ass!

I was talking to a chick from Santa Barbara and she says the town smells like hops because of all the craft beer breweries..I says Carpinteria smells like cannabis due to the pot farms...

Carpinteria now has a cannabis council with some growers from Colorado, some from Carp-the big dumb Dutch hillbilly farmers who switched from flowers to drugs-they say once pot is normalized people will accept it...

smoking pot is not normal so it will never be normalized but now we have these new pot farmers trying to romanticize marijuana with propaganda....the potheads are trying to tell me smoking weed makes everything all better..well,  the last thing I need is to live a life of illusion

the silliest thing is this site called Kop Sun..supposedly, the pot grown in Carp is the cleanest, most wonderful thing in the world...you can relax on our beaches and smoke a joint..actually you can't because Carpinteria is No Smoking city and that includes pot smoking...

https://www.facebook.com/KopSun-Inc-183822678931173/

and this: Beautiful Elegant Loving Cannabis- Giving thanks for all the Blessings she brings.

WTF??? can you believe this shit?? these people are worse than the NRA!!! these morons are drug dealers not some Fairy Princess sprinkling magic dust on us Carpinterians...

Trump wants to add a sixth  branch to the Armed Forces called the Space Force...

well, he need only look to Carpinteria for recruits

You Can't Always Get What You Want

but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need

now I've been hearing stories that Haley St in Santa Barbara used to be a place where hookers and trannies hung out among the Mexican grocery stores and fast lube joints...you could get what you need for as low as 20 bucks..in the car in the alley!! back in the 1970s and 1980s I guess...

is this true? I've been here awhile and I've been through many a bar...the Feed Store in SB, Rocky Galentis in the Californian Hotel, the Chanticleer and Olive Mill Bistro in Montecito, the disco joints...you could get laid easy although you had to work a little harder in Montecito to convince the girls...

at two o'clock in the morning if you found yourself on lower State St looking for a sandwich from a liquor store, you might get propositioned by a hooker but you needed to be careful because she could have been a he and back then there were some gay bars with all sorts of colorful characters coming and going..

but Haley I don't think was as bad as the legend allows....granted, it wasn't Rodeo Drive but that's not a bad thing..Haley has always been a working class area and I always felt kinda safe there...

today, the business people are trying to revitalize State St and come up with a marketing plan ..the City even hired a consultant!! 

but they need to get back to the basics..not eveyone wants to go taste beer and wine and find out if this wine pairs well with this cheese..and not everyone needs to have their dog at their side 24/7....ie, stop catering to trendy zombies

remember, Santa Barbara is a beach community...can I walk up State St and find a friendly, simple place to have a good steak? or some fish and chips..

or are they gonna just line State St with cannabis shops, craft breweries and wine tasting rooms???

Natural Woman

you make me feel, you make me feel

Aretha Franklin is gone...I've been a fan since the 1960s and was thrilled beyond words to see her at the Santa Barbara Bowl in 2015... 

I took pictures and got a few shaky videos but gives you an idea of the excitement that night...

one of the greatest nights ever!

FLASHBACK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9nSU2hAqK4

From Here to Eternity

I wish I didn't love ya; maybe I can enjoy life again.

it's hard to figure out stuff in today's world..transgender governors, cannabis farms, climate change, emotional support animals

and  take for example Frank Hotchkiss, ex SB City Council guy who lost his last shot as mayor and fled to Savannah, Georgia to become a riverboat cap't...but I read in Noozhack that Frank sold his SB home to Marymount, the religious compound by the Mission..Marymount paid around $1.5 mill and will use it to provide housing for the new headmaster

let's see, it's costs $22000/year tuition and Rob Lowe's kids went there which is reason enough for me to be suspicious..Marymount has always been a mystery..is it a religious school or not..I've seen nuns up there..uh, not up there but up there

the web says: Marymount of Santa Barbara is a coeducational private Catholic traditional school for students in grades Pre-K through 8

and I keep hearing about the Catholic church protecting pedophile priests, the latest in Pennsylvania...when VP and devout Christian Mike Pence was governor of Indiana, he apparently looked the other way while catholic priests were molesting kids in Pennsylvania

the main reason Catholics are against abortion is it cuts down the supply of children for the priests to abuse...what a bunch of sick fucks.. DEATH TO  CHILD ABUSERS..goddamn cowards!!!

I gotta head to the beach to clear my head

Sunspot Baby

I'm gonna catch up sometime...

the question is how many sharks would it take to shut down the beach? the other question is how many snowy plovers does it take to shut down the beach....the plovers have once again shut down Surf Beach in Lompoc at the AFB...this simply proves that the plover is the most feared animal in the world!!

so Saturday I waited for the partial solar eclipse...stared at the sun til I saw spots but no eclipse...

Sunday I wait for nobody and just took off..drivers are erratic today..some call them 'Sunday Drivers' but I call them stoners

I get to where the water tastes like wine and an awesome western tiger swallowtail comes right at me as he's just about to  eclipse the sun...

I point the camera in a defensive mode and get a picture...

that was like totally metaphysical!

Money

it's a hit
Don't give me that
Do good bullshit

kommrrrades..if you love Amerrrica and sekond amendment, send money to NRA..ve arrre rrrunning out of rubles.. Arrrrghh!

love Мария Бутина (Butina) 💋

Takin' It to the Street

I don't like what I think I see

taking a page from the IRS telephone scammers book (a warrant is out for your arrest unless you pay now!!), the real IRS invaded Santa Barbara to crack down on confetti egg sellers...the Cascarone Caper

ok, so they're not really the IRS, but the California Dept of Tax and Fee Administration which in my view is about the same..IRS wannabes!!

I saw this story and couldn't believe it..jack-booted gov't thugs trying to scare Fiesta Mexicans..they didn't bother the white chicks selling boutique clothes in booths...

apparently, the egg sellers need permits and tax info for the (IRS) like the little girl selling lemonade on the street corner on a hot summer's day..

CITIZEN'S ARREST! CITIZEN'S ARREST!

it's just silly and the (IRS wannabe) guys who raided SB should be FIRED!! 

CITIZEN'S ARREST!! CITIZEN'S ARREST!!

if permits are needed then a blanket permit should be issued to street sellers and the (IRS wannabes) needs to communicate with the city on these issues, not just come in and harass people like the Nazis!!?? WTF???

the SB cops managed to calm the IRS wannabes down and shoo them away til next year so folks can enjoy the party..

but the SB City Council needs to send a letter to the IRS wannabes demanding an apology...show some balls for once...some leadership, Madame Mayor

the IRS is cracked

Running with the Pack

running with the pack

are white supremacists in Santa Barbara trying to kill Fiesta?? are they upset at Mexicans running wild in the streets, wearing  sombreros and singing mariachi music?? then why would they try to find out how much money Old Spanish Days brings into Santa Barbara..do they ask this of any other celebration?? I don't know but if I were a Mexican, I'd keep my eyes peeled for ICE

and trust-funder Brooks Firestone was selected as Fiesta Grand Marshall!! what a joker

I don't wanna see Brooks...I wanna see sweet senoritas in colorful costumes they sweet brown skin shining in the sun, that's what I wanna see...oh and confetti eggs cracked over Wendy's and Nipper's head

VIVA LA FIESTA!!!

and I like me a good rodeo!!!

so how much will a straw ban cost the City of Santa Barbara..will they save money if they lose face??

I like straws..they are useful for sipping a cool cocktail on Fiesta or a nice 7/11 Coke Slurpee...they shoot spitballs like totally cool...and you can use a straw in science class to demonstrate capillary action

the SB City Council needs to start taking life a little less seriously

Wichita Lineman

I am a lineman for the county and I drive the main road

Searchin' in the sun for another overload
I hear you singin' in the wire, I can hear you through the wine

and the Wichita Lineman is still on the line