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