we can work it out

life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend

let's see who's in court...

 

there's Kevin Costner and Grimm Investments still fighting over the hedges....geez boys work it out!

there's a Chris Goldblatt, is this the same the dude who littered the ocean with giant concrete and PVC artificial reef balls...he appears to be headed for court against landlords Bartlein and Co...maybe rent is due on the ocean floor lease??

Wendy and Barry got a date with the judge soon... Wendy pay up!!

Karla and Joe are still scratching each other's eyeballs out...

you know some of these local realtors have their face plastered all over the pages of the Montecito Journal telling me how wonderful they are, how smart they are but they never tell you why they ended up in court...it's like Wendy telling me how she and Craig her ex love animals so much but Craig is on the board of the non-profit Nature Conservancy which slaughtered thousands of aminals on the Channel Islands in the name of "biodivesity"..shameful...

but that's pertinent info I would think to give us the complete profile of these peeps...well it seems the realtor and his gal are having some issues..she sued him in civil court...but in better years this power couple was involved with the Natural History Museum under nazi dude Karl Hutterer who kept the Museum drowned in boozy fundraisers...

the ex-lovebirds supported the Storyteller's Children Program, the Zoo and so many other good causes...was another woman involved?? hmmmm

Ling Liang and Chung Liang are duking it out...everybody wang Chung tonight, ok?

Landslide Repair Foundation vs City of Santa Barbara..poor city, everyone wants a piece of you..that must be the Conejo area...almost bought a house there-glad I didn't but it sure is a nice area

Matter in John L Forsythe...still fighting over John's will, I see...girls and boys, it's best to earn your own money!!

The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy etc vs DGWB Inc...Julia's still givin' 'em hell from the grave!

so can they all work it out? not a chance....

shotgun

shoot 'm for he runs now....

I see that Tony Denunzio will not be retried after the first hung jury...ok that's fine...I hope and pray that Tony-boy has learned his lesson

but if he drinks and drives and gets caught again and we know he will....well, I get dibs on a front row seat....

and Denunzio will not sue the city of Santa Barbara for police brutality because the trial will slaughter Denunzio for good.....he already got busted for domestic battery and driving with a suspended license for a prior DUI and he's on probation...probation in his 50s!!! geez ....what lawyer in his right mind would take this three time loser as a client besides Darryl Genis? oh wait, maybe Barry Cappello can help..

Santa Barbara seems to have inbreeding among her lawyers...it's incestuous...like grandpappy doing mom and producing offspring like Darryl and Barry...

the latest in the on-going hissy fit by "image consultant" Steve Pappas is he hired Barry Cappello to waste the Supreme Court's time because he lost an election to Doreen Farr! I guarantee the Supremes will not even hear this case...

now we know that Wendy hired Barry to fight off the Teamster's in 2006, then Barry sued Wendy in 2012 when she wouldn't pay him....and Steve's girlfriend fatty Nancy Crawford-Hall gave him a bunch of money but he still lost and then Nancy, who published the Santa Ynez Valley Journal, shut the paper down until a conservative is elected president...in other words, she shut the paper down for good!

so Pappas is on the hook for $700000 -the amount he owes Farr for dragging her thru the ringer....

hmmm..more billable hours

so these two folks, Wendy McCuckoo and Steve Pappas, have one thing in common-they don't pay their debts!! and Barry Cappello knows this..so I'm thinking he sees a double-whammy of a payday when he takes Steve's and Nancy's money for the Supreme Court case..then in a couple of years, Barry will sue Steve and Nancy for some undiscovered billable hours!!

so the outcome of Barry's representation is Wendy's paper is losing revenue from loss of subscriptions and advertisers...and now Steve Pappas will lose with Barry's help and he will be forced to marry fat Nancy Crawford-Hall in a shotgun wedding... 

shoot'm for he runs now!!

poetry in motion

walking by my side, her lovely locomotion,
keeps my eyes open wide.

well I don't know what to think of the Santa Barbara City Council sometimes...$30000 for a poll to see if voters want another tax....even to suggest such a thing....well it adds to the libertarian argument that gov't is bloated....

I ponder this as I fill out my taxes and it's clear I pay way too much to the Feds..the state will give me a tiny refund....

and the tax forms  and instructions are crazy...my goal is to maximize my deductions to reduce my tax bill and if they wanna audit me they can kiss my ass!!

and the glass wings sculpture at the airport the council approved..they look like giant clam shells!!

ok so I'm a poet and don't I know it..no I'm no poet but I do love poetry...to love, to suffer, to think...is to seek poetry

the question is does the city need to spend money on a poet laureate? when I think of poets I think of Verlain and Rimbaud...or Poe or Edna St.Vincent Millay...or Robert Frost or De La Mare..

so we got a gal who is the new Poet Laureate for Santa Barbara...well if she goes up before the council to read some verse, I'd suggest something from the renowned sufferer Charles Bukowski..

here's one-

A Radio with Guts

it was on the 2nd floor on Coronado Street
I used to get drunk
and throw the radio through the window
while it was playing, and, of course,
it would break the glass in the window
and the radio would sit there on the roof
still playing
and I'd tell my woman,
"Ah, what a marvelous radio!"
the next morning I'd take the window
off the hinges
and carry it down the street
to the glass man
who would put in another pane.
I kept throwing that radio through the window
each time I got drunk
and it would sit there on the roof
still playing-
a magic radio
a radio with guts,
and each morning I'd take the window
back to the glass man.
I don't remember how it ended exactly
though I do remember
we finally moved out.
there was a woman downstairs who worked in
the garden in her bathing suit,
she really dug with that trowel
and she put her behind up in the air
and I used to sit in the window
and watch the sun shine all over that thing
while the music played.

yeah, that's good....poetry must have guts!

Tupelo Honey

you can take all the tea in China, put it in a big brown bag for me, sail it right around these seven oceans, drop it smack dab in the middle of the deep blue sea

with Santa Barbara County safely under quarantine, I felt a certain je ne sais quoi...on Tuesday..on my way into town.... the traffic slowed to a crawl as I came upon an accident between a car and a minivan...no injuries except to the car.... by the Sheffield Drive exit...off in the oceanic distance birds were gathering on the trees overlooking Summerland and a big Love Boat was anchored off shore in SB...now I wouldn't set foot on one of these behemoths for all the tea in China..the Carnival cruises with all the trouble they've had....rogue waves targeting the big ships, people diappearing, drunk captains running aground, deferred maintenance causing the toilets to back up and no electricity...people sleeping on deck in raw sewage...no thanks!

now I know people seek adventure on the high seas...and we still are fascinated with the romantic tragedy called the Titanic, but these big new ships are just too gaudy for me...you want a real seafaring adventure? read Kon Tiki...

so I get to Santa Barbara and shop and wash the truck and the streets of the city are cordoned off.... six blood-red Trolley cars are ominously lined up on Cabrillo Blvd, waiting to ferry the unsuspecting tourists through the sad little town of Santa Barbara...

these tourists are walking around taking pictures...these people are dark like India ink and wear turbans on their heads..the women wear scarfs...everybody is hiding something it seems..I hope these foreigners don't introduce some weird exotic species into Santa Barbara because you folks got enough problems! geez everytime someone mentions a non-native thing the conservative chicks in SB all wet their panties.....hmmmmm..I kinda would like to...oh never mind

I hit the beach and someone left an empty bottle of booze in the sand....thanks!! and there's the dredging operation..been going on for years-the Army Corps of Engineers has changed the shoreline...kinda messed it up...I don't know why they are still here other than to fleece Santa Barbara again and again...

redistributing the sand when all we really need is redistribution of the wealth in Santa Barbara...hence the unions, and city workers, and the likes of Wendy McCuckoo!! haha..I mean LOL!

blue sky

you're my blue sky, you're my sunny day

I love these windy blue skies days..these balmy breezy days.....the sea spray, the sand, the windblown sand

don't fly Mr. Bluebird, I'm just walkin' down the road....it's California, standing at the edge of the abyss according to some libertarians and teabaggers....dumbasses wouldn't know a lovely day if it came up and bit them on the ass!

but today it's a lovely day so it's on the bike down to the beach....the wind is really nice and the waves are high and crashing hard and foamy..lots of foam...the birds are at a standstill mid-air off shore...there's a cluster of tiny birds flying around like a big whiffle ball

there's the girl walking her dog..her little pug..I'm sitting on a rock taking pictures and the dog stops and looks at me and smiles...pugs smile! the girl looked at the dog then at me and smiled too....so I smiled, thinking oh boy would I like to fu....well...I just smiled...

well I heard earlier that Annette Funicello died....I watched the Mickey Mouse Club as a kid and whenever Annette appeared, I'd run up to the TV and kiss her...I loved her...

 

and for a few days this big bird has been flying over the Salt Marsh..circling...I've seen plenty hawks and vultures swoop down from the mountains, but this new bird looked a little bigger....and he flew high up...probably a hawk but the whitish tips near the end of his wings, and his dark underbelly..and his huge wingspan....geez, could this be a golden eagle, I wondered...

I've never seen one...and you know I'd be a poorer man if I never saw an eagle fly as John Denver once said....

well thanks Annette for an awesome and beautiful, yet bittersweet day....I kissed the TV screen one last time

Jenny was a Dream Girl

and the war on stupidity

so the war on drugs should be ended to allow everyone to be drugged out without consequences....well America doesn't function if everyone is a junkie..but go ahead pick your poison.....tobacco, cocaine, booze, heroin, and all the other nutty drugs people use to escape reality....

and then the porn industry is looking for places other than Hollywood to film because of the new condom law...porn films? really? are there any people left who watch these things? I've seen a few and they are just too stupid to watch more than a few minutes....then there's Jenna Jameson in the news again..the 38 year old porn star was busted for DUI last year and now she was busted for battery at a birthday party....

what good is freedom if you can't use it responsibly..in ways that doesn't drain society...whatever happened to self control?

well I had some self-control and decided to go up to Colds Springs trail for a little hike...to get away from all the city madness...a little respite from people and their disgusting behaviors...nobody is gonna get disgusting on me!!

oh...and while I was walking up by Casa Blanca where the foothills meet the mountains, where the sun meets the sky, where the hawks meet the trees, where the coyote meets the bear, I saw on the ground a condom....

a condom....where life begins

25 or 6-2-4

sitting cross-legged on the floor

I was sitting on the floor, doing Pilates, and browsing the Indy rag and there's an ad by the Teamsters-Graphic Communications- about Wendy and folks fighting the labor issue...the ad thanks Santa Barbara for pulling advertising and dropping subscriptions....


Wendy of course is anti-labor and anti-union anti-working class prefering instead to hire sweet young interns from the Young Miss America Foundation.. I wonder how many of those sweet young things Don Katich has tried to have sex with?? well who can blame him...a juicy young conservative blonde is just too hard to pass up...just too hard!!

but umm...let's see... I lost my train of thought...hmmmmm

oh yeah..the Indy...so I started thinking about the ads and picked up the News-Press and noticed they had a few ads too.. now the Indy ads were more colorful and alive while the News-Press ads were dumb..they lacked originality and creativity...look at this one for Jesus..what a weird ad...ads should not creep people and this one creeped me out!

selling advertising is what you make of it..it can be boring or it can be fun and glamorous....I used to sell print and radio ads so I know where it's at..I know how to close...I was a madman

I decided to do a little comparison: the number of ads in the Independent vs the number of ads in the News-Press...so I went thru the pages and counted them keeping in mind the News-Press is a daily that charges 75 cents a day and $2 on Sunday; and the Indy is a weekly..a freebie

I think Wendy paid $150 million for the News-Press and I don't know how much the Indy was bought for...

28 or 145

ok so my count was 145 ads in the Independent and 28 ads in the Saturday News-Press...all ads were varying sizes but the bigger ones were in the Independent...and they were more colorful...

so if I were gonna place an ad in the paper...say a half page ad... I'd go with the Indy....I would leave the News-Press far behind because Wendy had a bunch of ads touting herself and begging for advertisers! there's one for Ampersand Video Productions and one for her upcoming Special Section on Celebrating Animals.....Wendy the Animal Lover..she thinks that should get her more ads!! I just learned that Craig McCaw-Wendy's ex who gave her all her money- well Craig is on the Nature Conservancy board of directors, the guys who did all the animal slaughtering on Channel Islands for "biodiversity" ...how do you feel about that, Wendy??

geez, she must be hard up....but I've never seen her out on State Street, drumming up business by walking the beat...that's what she should do but she won't because she's afraid of commoners like you and me...she can't talk to you or me one on one because she'd melt like the Wicked Witch of the West when Dorothy threw some water on her!!

so I'd call a meeting with the sales team and talk all this out..but remember Wendy, talk is cheap....