back in the saddle

I'm back / I'm back in the saddle again / I'm back / I'm back in the saddle again / Ridin' into town alone / By the light of the moon / I'm looking for ole' Sukie Jones

now I don't want to beat a dead horse, but if he can't feel anything, what's the harm? WHAAACK!!!

it looks like the gov't has launched an attack against DUI lawyer Darryl Genis and Darryl, a lawyer himself, has had to "lawyer-up" with another lawyer for defense...why can't Darryl defend himself after all he is a lawyer as I just noted...



what..me worry?

so it's a conspiracy of District Attorneys and their gov't pals all ganging up on Darryl Genis because he is so darn effective in court..winning all those DUI cases..well two that I remember anyway...but the gubmint unions are all circling the wagons to keep Darryl at bay...they fear him! they loathe him!! and now he must answer to the California State Bar...bar? you mean like Bo Henry's cocktail lounge??

no I'm talking about the California State Bar, which is a professional organization: Created by the state legislature in 1927, the State Bar is a public corporation within the judicial branch of government, serving as an arm of the California Supreme Court. All State Bar members are officers of the court.

Membership in The State Bar of California affords attorneys the right and privilege of practicing law in this state. The bar's integrated network of functions and services — many of them mandated by law — protects the public and assists attorneys in meeting their professional obligations.

ok so sometimes professionals need to pass tests and join organizations that further their standings and careers...sometimes they get kicked out of their pro-organizations for ethics issues like the "handwriting expert" James Blanco who was used by Lance and Genis and thoroughly discredited at the Lance DUI hearings a few years ago...


and now Darryl seems to have some ethical issues that he must answer to the bar for...of course Darryl and his lawyers will argue a conspiracy against him, the trumped up charges because the DA is out to get him, and other such paranoid delusions, but has Darryl done anything professionally unethical?

has Darryl shirked his professional obligations? of course he has....if Darryl loses his privilege to practive law, what will all the drunk drivers do?? who will take his place defending your right to drive drunk?? who will make up stories about gov't employees and get them printed in the News-Press?? hey why don't newspapers have professional organizations they answer to?

but who will replace the irreplaceable Mr. Genis? Barry Capello??

Bottle of Wine

fruit of the vine, when you gonna let me get sober...

well, I guess I gotta cover all these Wine Festivals now...and Beer Festivals... and Tequila Festivals..hey I thought you guys in Santa Barbara just had a wine festival up at the Museum of Natural History where someone got drunk and cut hisself with a wine glass who got real bloodied up

spits..or swallows??

 

and now I see the California Wine Festival is happening from July 18 to July 20...let's see about this one, ok? if I go....ooops I'll have to miss Thursday but if I had gone I would've been at the Casa De La Guerra Courtyard...the event lasts from 6:30PM to 9:00PM...Casa De La Guerra...isn't that one of Wendy's properties? no but she owns a little building on the corner plus the News-Press and she thinks she owns City Hall but boy is she wrong about that..she owns Frank and Dale maybe..

 

but anyway WINE!!! so this festival starts at the Casa de la Guerra historic building..how nice to have a bunch of winos hanging out here watching dancers, listening to music and eating cheeze...for 2.5 hours?? what kind of a festival is this? oh I guess if people get too many glasses of wine in them it could be a problem on the streets so they limit the fun to 2.5 hours...plus it's pretty close to the Police Station...

ok so Day 2 of the Wine Fest from 5 to 6 PM should find me at Fess Parker's attending a Cabernet Clinic...a what??? a Cabernet Clinic where I can taste some Cabs and meet the folks who made them..how exciting!!

then from 6:30 to 9 PM, I can stumble on over to the Carousel at Chase Palm Park for Champagne Reception...a what? A Champagne Reception! oh...uh...I drink champagne and ride around on the carousel... and fall off , and blame the cops and sue the city??? COOOOOL!!!

then on July 20th..wow I've been partying a little..a few hours here, a few hours there...but today I will go to the beach at Chase Palm Park from 1-4PM and indulge in 250+ wine and craft beers...Gourmet bites and Live Music!! that's two days of non-stop drinking because I buy about 30 bottles of wine and champagne..am I supposed to drink them all at once to get into the festival vibe?? do I have enough beer?? so sorry, I meant to say Craft Beer!

am I cool enough for this..or sophisticated enough? is my palate in the right place??

oh shit, leave me alone, let me go home, let me go home and start over!!

What'd I Say

tell your mama, tell your pa, I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas..you don't do right

GEEZ! either I'm getting smarter or drunk drivers are getting dumber! so the latest drunk driver mayhem was caused by two Isla Vista beaners who drove their car in the wee hours and crashed by El Sueno Rd exit..apparently this is a favorite hang-out of drunk drivers..

so these two tacos crash their car, get out, leave it in the middle of the road with no lights..go off and sit by the side of the highway..and wait for other motorists to crash into it... their car, sitting in the middle of the highway, with no lights and no warning

I was driving home one night from work at about 1:00 am and suddenly I saw a car in the right lane of 101..no lights...just sitting there..I didn't see it until the last few seconds but luckily I was in the fast lane...but the thing is you can't see a parked car in the middle of the highway at night!! dumb!!!

so the two wetbacks caused some injuries and I say send them back to Mexico or Arkansas and have the southerners deal with them....

there is nothing worse than a drunk Mexican...except a drunk American! :)

so two other drunk drivers are slowly making their way thru the legal system: Martin Maguire..still stuck in preliminary limbo...the next hearing will be 8/20/13..and Jason Hunter seems to have disappeared off my radar..maybe he's still in the hospital.

and I just noticed that George Zimmerman, the cracker who killed that black kid in Florida looks a lot like that DUI enabler/lawyer cracker Darryl Genis...

the gene pool is irreversibly corrupted!

slightly stoopid

Won't someone please help us here
I hear it's getting worse every year, and one solution is beer
But you don't mix beer and vodka lightly
We mix professionally


you know just once I'd like to hear Wendy say "okay, Mick, you win...here's thirty dollars"...just once...

 

but I'm a little worried ..not too worried but I haven't seen Nipper or Wendy out and about lately..I know they are there, but I haven't seen them..they are like rats in the attic! you know they are there, but you can't see them...

oh wait... I see Nipper is now President of an outfit called American Travel Media Corporation...well congratulations on that ..wait a minute..I took a closer look and it says Nipper is really a female! He's a She!! so Nipper is a tranny??? what does that make Wendy? a lesbo?? so I think Wendy and Harriet Miller were lovers! remember Harriet the old biddy lesbo mayor who looked like she sucked lemons for a living...and she lost five million tax payer dollars in an Orange County investment scheme while she was mayor..these people are pretty fruity

it's all starting to make sense to me now...

then I see the Mr. Wimpy show...no, Mr. Shrimpy wasn't his guest but motormouth Peter Lance and DUI protector Darryl Genis were on....first Lance was talking like he was high on speed or cocaine about his dumb book then they started wanking on SBPD cop Kasi Beutel and Chief Sanchez again...rehashing all the old stuff in the Peter Lance DUI hearings two years ago...

of course they lied when they said Judge Brian Hill quickly threw the case out because he wanted to protect the cops...that's nonsense.. I was there and the hearing lasted months!!

the case was dismissed at the end only after the last ditch attempt by Genis and Lance to suppress evidence...Hill fell for it and said the cops violated search and seizure rights..and that people should be able to stop at a green light for up to 30 seconds on a New Year's Eve before a cop could pull them over!!! it was a bullshit hearing and Brian Hill was in way over his head..Lance would have gotten creamed in a court case with a jury and that's why his lawyer Genis kept filing motions to dismiss!!

slightly very stoopid!

 

then Lance starts screaming at the camera challenging the cops and City of Santa Barbara to open up all their personel files so he can prove all his fictional conspiracy theories... and he wants all the cops to take lie detector tests!! the dude is nuts!!!

then.. Lance and Genis started talking to an obviously hung-over Mr. Wimpy about the Tony DeNunzio case..Darryl, who had been sitting there like a bump on a log while Lance was fervently trying to prove all his own conspiracy theories, finally speaks and comes up with some weird plot against Tony DeNunzio..it was unbelieveable!!.. Darryl thinks-he really thinks this-that the cops were trying to set up Tony because Tony's a "lady's man"...and someone called Officer Tudor who according to Daryll is also a lady's man to come out to the Boathouse and rough up DeNunzio...all this under the watchful eye of the police dash cam !!

Darryl says the camera was part of a pilot program and when Officer Tudor started following Denunzio, he couldn't find Tony driving erratically, so he pulled him over in the Gelson's parking lot....and beat him up!!! WTF??

you mean it was of no concern that Tony DeNunzio was driving drunk on a suspended license for a previous DUI..or that he was convicted of beating up his girlfriend's son?? are those facts lost on Mr. Wimpy, Lance and Genis???

these guys always prove one thing: defending drunk drivers is pretty stoopid!!

everybody knows this is nowhere

I think I'd like to go.. back home...and take it easy...

like I said, after the French Festival I went downtown to check out Granada Books and pick up a few magazines like Bitch or Utne Reader...maybe Vintage Guitar mag....I could get these and more at Borders..but Borders in now a place for little girls to buy their first pair of panties..hmmmm

everybody knows, everybody knows
 

well I did notice that State Street by the Granada has gotten a little weird looking..like a model street empty but for a few mannequins...it just looks odd...like it's staged...just bars and girlie clothing stores

then you get relief when you pass over to the Central Library...and I saw some scruffy looking dudes at the corner of State & A...this famous corner has hosted many characters....petitions get signed here, babies are born here...it's the heart and soul Center of Santa Barbara...

nowhere

so the conservatives are trying to get rid of the homeless, and I'm trying to get rid of drunk drivers...drunk drivers do alot more damage than the homeless but since the homeless look poor, they pose a bigger threat to the business community...it's all about money..or is it...a homeless person has never stopped me from buying something...but a drunk driver could shear off my legs at any given moment.. I will not rest until the drunks are off the streets!!! but it's gonna be hard because Santa Barbara has a drinking problem..oh everybody knows but it's never on a city council agenda..the homeless are on the agenda alot, but not the big Santa Barbara drinking problem...and all the bars and tasting rooms!! Real Change not Spare Change?? it's a hollow slogan shouted at the moon by the elistist drunks in Santa Barbara..and of course it means nothing...

Granada Books..nada!!

 

ok so I went to see MR. DUI Peter Lance at his book signing inside Granada Books but no one was there..an empty chair...some lonely echoes from the wood floors...will Chaucer's stoop so low as to hold a Peter Lance book signing non-event...I know Borders wouldn't...Barnes and Noble wouldn't....

well maybe Pete will return to the News-Press and they'll print his book....

everybody seems to wonder, what it's like down here...gotta get away from this day to day running around, everybody knows this is nowhere...

lost dogs and mixed blessings

I'm walking down the street feeling like Lucky Larue...

all's well and Sunday is the last day of the French Festival...a celebration of French Independence...why don't they have a 4th of July Festival at Oak Park next year...Americans need to learn to have some fun...so I arrived and it's crowded and a nice bit of music is being played on stage...an old rag time French band! I sat myself down and took a look around and wow there's lots of girls here today and they are showing more skin than Saturday because it's hotter...and that's what I concentrated on...aside from all the other fun stuff!! they sold beer wine and champagne at a little stand..

but the vibe at this festival is fun not booze..now that's a breath of fresh air!!

 

man oh man...
these French femmes are redoutable!!

so I buy a hat and walk around and hey there's ol' Robert Eringer...boy the dude is short and  shrimpy! We know Mr. Wimpy well meet Mr. Shrimpy..he was there with his lovely young daughter so I didn't say anything....howdy Mr. Shrimpy!! bonjour!!!

 

Eringer..Mr. Shrimpy!!

so speaking of poor guys, I drank in the last bit of festival for me this year and headed  downtown..State Street to check out Granada Books..the Montecito Journal said Peter Lance be here to sign his new book...well there's the weird display in the front window...it's ugly and would steer people away from the store! and it appears it did because no one was in there....Granada Books sucks..it's small and dumpy looking and I couldn't find any magazines!!

oh how I miss Borders!

 

I think Santa Barbara is on to Peter Lance and his stable of bullshit promoters like the News-Press and Montecito Journal...Lance is a hack

and if he had any sense, he'd be selling his books at the French Festival ....but he probably doesn't even know it's going on....these Team Wendy guys...I think they're soft in the head!!

as the French say: ce chien reste au-dehors de la maison...

Parlez-Moi d'Amour

Mon Dieu et Sacre Bleu!!

ok so I went to the French Festival to get away from certain Americans for awhile...get away from bad juju...just get away from the je ne sais quoi...the lowlife, yes the sweet lowlife..just for awhile...but one thing about America, you always miss her if she's gone too long...



Jessica Fichot and band

 maybe I'll get back to France before too long...but since I'm here, the French Festival is the next best thing to Paris in the the Spring... I get there at 10:30 am while they are settting things up...I walk by the hospital...big and white like a sanitarium....I like to walk by the bungalows and peek in the bathroom windows..

 

then sit under the oaks and relax..take in the atmosphere and it's always so good....the berets, the poodles, the baguettes for 2 bucks each! the cafe au lait...and the girls.....ooooh la la...


it's cloudy and cool in Carp but it's sunny and warm at Oak Park and as I sit down, the trees are dropping things on my head...

quelle chance!!

I see a familiar face warming up on stage with her band-a stand -up bass player and a guitarist- on the Eiffel Tower stage I think the MC called it..it's Jessica Fichot..a favorite of the French Festival she started the festivities with a bang..and nice to see many more people here...Jessica is a wiz on the accordian..she's a lovely young woman....a throwback to the Golden Age of Music and she even passed a basket around for tips...it filled up quick..she was selling CDs after her set and I talked with her for a while..she's very sweet and tough...a tough astute, business woman! and Jessica Fichot is most definately a mystery...

then a group of rather rotund singers took the stage for some fun.... the big girls were kinda cute! I sat next to a big gal... my little French pigeon!!

but I had to split to oui oui...

judging from the looks on peoples' faces, I'm happy to say the French Festival is back in full swing...

there's arts and crafts and food and kids and dogs...I've never seen such joie to vivre!! look at the cute twins!!

a lovely change from the dour faces in Wendy's World..oh just had to mention her for counterpoint because the gals at the French Festival have one thing Wendy will never have: class
so I go home and pass by the beach and see the Chromatic Gate..

 

it looks intense and fantastic!! this gate drives conseravtives crazy because they think the commies built it!! hahah...

and ooooh lala...Vive La France!!