Rebecca

'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again'

 

so I watched the CNBC debates with the whiny conservatives and it was the best one yet...great questions from the moderators! some of the candidates struggled to answer and instead blamed the CNBC crew for asking tough business questions

they blamed Becky Quick!

geez, if you can't answer simple questions about your personal issues (can you balance a checking account) then I don't want you to be president of the USA...money issues that Marco Rubio had like foreclosures, early cashout of savings funds, etc

Ben Carson kept rubbing his hands nervously (obsessive-compulsive) when Becky said his tax numbers don't make sense....CNBC is a financial network and FOX NEWS biggest competitor..and they beat the FOX Business channel all the time...and CNBC is where I watch the stock ticker plus the chicks are cute

but after the debate the whiny crybabies ran to FOX NEWS for comforting!! Ted Cruz (who went on a filibuster against CNBC) and the others always blame the "mainstream media" because FOX NEWS only asks softball questions for the conservatives and FOX NEWS is a conservative station owned by crook and traitor Rupert Murdoch

these candidates are all tools for Fox news!! what happened to the independent guys??? a bunch of GOP presidential candidates who want to CENSOR the press??? but we have freedom of the press and that means asking the PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES questions that might embarass them...if they can't deal with it, they don't belong in the White House...some of these candidates are religious whackos, teabaggers, can't do simple math, etc

so congrats CNBC....if the Republicans are scared of your questions, then you're doing your job!!

and may the GOP RIP ....these folks are spooky!!

Smoke From A Distant Fire

You left me here on your way to paradise You pulled the rug right out from under my life...

ok so we got a fire in the hills around East Camino Cielo ...if the fire was started by a firebug, then squash him!!

we got Venus Mars and Jupiter hanging out together, I see shooting stars, falling stars and meteors flashing across the night sky....we got some high tides, and we got Santana winds blowing warm...what a Halloween!

some people may think this is the end of the world but it's not, it's just the end of your world..how do I know? well, it's just the nature of things as Lucretius said

now we're all worried about the drought but at the end of the day should we be? I consulted the Old Farmer's Almanac recently purchased at Chaucer's, the great book store, and it says around mid-November, the rains will come and the seasonal weather will return...El Nino may bring us glow-in-the-dark jellyfish, but the rains will be moderate...so relax, don't worry...

 

but I had to check out the fire so headed for Santa Claus Lane beach...perfect spot to see the smoke and flames above Montecito..close to Toro Canyon..

I can see the big planes dropping the fire retardant and the choppers dropping water...big plumes of pink-red rising up...those pilots deserve Medals of Honor!!

the wind's blowing warm and hard..the sun's shining' bright...the ocean is deep blue...

but Girl... your eyes have a mist from the smoke of a distant fire....

Our House

is a very very very fine house

 

 oh I was oh so happy to hear that Andrew Firestone is hosting a gala for Peoples Self Help Housing.....just thrilled! Andrew is the idiot son of Brooks Firestone, the idiot son of some other Firestone who left Brooks a fortune, I guess...

I remember the day when Brooks was standing on the steps at the County Ad building with Joe Armendariz, trying to rally people against county workers... that was the day Joe challenged me to a fight and then went on a binge and lost everything...

so now I gotta contend with Peoples Self Help Housing, a big scam if there ever was one..stealing my tax money to build housing for other people who aren't so poor after all, as I am seeing...

now Andrew Firestone's claim to fame was being on the Bachelor TV show and now makes beer under his daddy's watchful eye...PSHH calls him a reality TV star and businessman but he's really just a spoiled brat who can't make his own way in the world and now he's a host for yet another alcohol-tainted event!! what happened to the real men??

I don't know...seems the guys nowadays are content to live with thoer parents for the rest of their lives.. a very unhealthy sitch as we've seem with all the family murders lately

and now this:
PSHH residents will share their personal success stories. Attendees will be able to further support PSHH through a silent auction featuring items, such as restaurant and hotel gift certificates, magnums and cases of fine wine, pilates and yoga lessons, artwork and collectibles and much more.

The cocktail hour will feature wine tasting by Grassini Family Vineyards and the Sanger Family of Wines: Consilience, Marianello and Tre Anelli. Beer samplings by Island Brewing Company will also be available.

 

now I've seen first hand the latest PSHH monstrosity in Carp..they wanted to build it even bigger but at least we saved some ag land next door...

so instead of the old Camper Park, I get to look at a giant apartment complex..the units have green and orange awnings...it's a gated community...PSHH takes in poor Mexicans and drug addicts, but I've seen some pretty well-heeled folks going in and out...

and now a booze event to celebrate how dumb the tax payers are to keep enriching PSHH...and galas hosted by this putz Firestone..what next, a Kardashian??

well this is the last straw...no more PSHH projects in Carp...not under these beautiful skies..not under my watch

One Man's Ceiling

is another man's floor, goddam..

Open Letter To Craig McCaw

Dear Craig,

wut up, bro! hey I got a question about Peabody's...you bought the restaurant about five years ago, tore it down and there it sits...torn down with some tarps over it....you know where it is, right? in Montecito on Coast Village Road...now I ate at Peabody's a few times nothing to sing about so I can see why you tore it down..but you're supposed to rebuild it and start serving burgers again..and maybe even some craft beer...wasn't that the idea and rename it Oliver's...I'm down with that

the real McCaws

 

 

and I know you got the reserves to do it...and I know Wendy suckered you into giving her a big chunk of your wealth..you got rich selling cell phones and that's cool but do you know how many people have died talking on cell phones and driving? lots! and a few blondes in big shiny new Land Rovers have come close to disappearing me in Montecito whilst gabbing on her Nokia...

and I know from interviews you like whales and UFOs and think space aliens will inhabit the earth one of these days...Wendy's got some issues with aliens too..she calls them "illegals"!!

but back to the restaurant, back to reality...what's the problem..is it the wood? are you replacing the floors with endangered Brazilian rosewood? it's a tonewood best suited for guitars not floors...is the contractor incompetent...I understand those private sector dudes measure once and cut twice...takes them forever to finish a project and it looks like that's what's going on at Oliver's
you should stop by sometime and take a look..check out the progress.. I don't know what your schedule is but I could meet you there and give you some pointers..about the building issues....maybe get you out of your rut... ok?




you know, I was down at the Harbor and it smells so good down there..the fish the sea and the restaurants. the people, the boats...you walk around and it just feels nice, especially in October...

but when I walk around your restaurant, I don't feel much of anything...it's got no energy or personality..there's no flow or purpose...no real life that I can see...

it's like you don't care.. I know Wendy doesn't care but I thought you were different..

was I wrong??

Shambala

how does your light shine, in the halls of Shambala

I went into the halls Montecito to check out some trees and I passed thru Summerland where that Carpinteria chick died in a crash on 101....she drifted over around midnight and smashed into some big rigs parked way over in the safe zone..truckers have been parking here forever when they need to rest...never a problem but I see this gal, a 27 year old was arrested for burglary a week or so ago..so I'm wondering if that's part of the issue...was she drugged out or drunk? why was she arrested for burglary? it's a mystery I'll investigate later once I get more clues

but I need to wash away my trouble, wash away my pain

so I go into Montecito to really take a look..usually I go through Montecito on my way back to Carp, and thus see things in the rear-view mirror...it's not a great way to go through life because the only reason people look in their rear-view mirrors is to check for cops....

but coming in from the front, I see that Coast Village Road is getting rather sterile nowadays...the venture into the future has given us some veryn weird strip mall uspscale baloney...high maint ladies, fey gentlemen..the Ty Warner affect...

it's still a lovely place, but the first thing I notice is this new very white and big cramped building with ultra-manicured landscaping...stiff people, BMWs and Mercedes....there's the Honor Bar...WTF is that, a bar to honor drunks??? I'm afraid this new building is just too big, white and gaudy..maybe big tree could fall on it

it wasn't always this way on Coast Village Road...it was a funky beach access...you could eat at little greasy spoons then walk over to Butterfly Beach to surf..anybody could sneak into the Coral Casino to swim or grab some burgers..just charge it to mom!!

there were bike shops, the Olive Mill Bistro, the Somerset..Pelican's Wharf...Baskin Robbins ice cream shop boasted 31 flavors...one place had the best sourdough burger on the planet! Xanadu was an excellent bakery..Xanadu!!!

now some new business owners want to develop 1187 CVR...remove some pine trees to improve their shopping center..well, it's not really a shopping center...a pizza place tennis shop and some weird maze of shops downstairs...


I inspected the pines for myself... I went twice because the first time I missed something ...the first time I was pissed because I mistakenly thought they were gonna chop down the big pine that I love..but they are gonna chop down two trees that share a trunk, like Siamese twins share their body...so I got no issue with getting rid of these genetic misfits...I'm ok with chopping down the 2 retard pine trees..just leave the big one that stands majestically alone at the opposite end of the property

of course there's Craig McCaw's unfinished business with his restaurant...the old Peabody's has been abandoned for about five years with a green tarp draped over it....and not a peep from the city council...FIVE YEARS AND McCAW CAN'T EVEN REMODEL A LITTLE RESTAURANT!!! it seems however some guys are actually doing some work on Craig's Place today!

so I head back to Carp and pass Shark's and I think about her.. just over the hill on 101 is where that gal crashed and died...

and it's so beautiful around here...on the road to Shambala

Love Bites

If you've got love in your sights. Watch out, love bites...

 

 

well how about that illegal wedding crasher who bit an officer and his k9 patrol dog, then the dog turned around and bit the officer...the illegal was obviously on drugs, but what was the k9 on, cat nip?? meanwhile, the coyote surfs...

if I was a coyote I'd go up to girls and bite their nipples!

and I see Chief Sanchez of the SBPD is retiring..good! he deserves it...being head COP -Chief of Police- is no easy task with everyone taking cheap shots at you, esp the drunk ones the cops busted over the years....I hope the new chief will kick ass..and not that McGrew guy..the dude is a downer..didn't he sue the city once..don't bite the hand that feeds you!!

so I saw a bunch of movie people in town and thought they may be doing a film on the coyote...but probably not..maybe a biting film noir..or a spooky Halloween flick...I saw some trailers at Dwight Murphy parking lot, some people milling about...who's Dwight Murphy??

I saw a pretty actress in a blue dress reading a script trying to memorize her lines...some cool old cars, some wardrobe racks and costumes...

that actress reminded me of my 8th grade teacher...I had a boner for her back then as most guys did or do..it's normal to wanna screw your teacher..or bite her ass

even though she was married, so what!

bite me

Desolation Row

they're selling postcards to the hanging, they're painting the passports brown, the beauty parlor is filled with sailors, the circus is in town

 

ok so the News-Press has endorsed three SB City Council candidates...actually Guest Andy Caldwell has endorsed them...and Wendy agrees, although passive-agressively..

now the News-Press also endorsed Orly Taitz for a Calif Senate seat years ago Team Wendy has no credibility...

but Andy wants Lucy, Randy "the Louse" Rouse and Jason Dominguez to win the elections..according to Andy, right now downtown Santa Barbara looks like a mental ward...well how else are you gonna look at the world when you work inside the Cuckoo's Nest, ie the News-Press building

Andy complains that water lines rupture all the time...electrical lines explode (that's Edison, not the city's issue)..and the homeless are climbing onto the roofs of State Street businesses for better views...ARMAGEDDON!!!

well if downtown SB looks like a mental ward, isn't Randy Rouse along with Dale Francisco and Frank Hotchkiss responsible? Rouse is the conservative incumbant..and what about the red-pink water in the Bird Refuge? and the row houses on the highway? the coyotes? the shark attacks?

and Randy has operated the Paradise Cafe for 30 years, been on the council for a few years and Andy Caldwell can't even spell his name! spells him Randy Rouse instead of Rowse!

well Andy does live in the Santa Maria area so what does he know about local politics and rouse rhymes with mouse and Andy is a church-mouse conservative..one hand is tied to the tight-rope walker, the other is in his pants

with district elections being forced on SB by Wendy's ex-lawyer, there is supposedly less influence on money and more on people...but remember this: everyone can be bought; everyone has a price.... I think Randy will win but that K. Missy lady seems pretty smart so she'd be a good fit...and she can't be bought

Lucy vs Cathy is interesting...the conservatives want Lucy and the liberals want Cathy...but Lucy as I've pointed out seems to think she single-handedly saved Milpas from crime/grafitti/ and lack of family values! that's becasue she's a narcissist like Wendy....there's just something weird about Lucy...her profession is her religion, her sin is her lifelessness

really need to watch these people who want to fill gov't with Christian values, whatever those are

so ok vote for Randy Rouse.. whoever he is