This has turned out to be an unusual year for me. I’ve done some traveling in the past, but lately it seems like I don’t get out of town much. Not anymore.
Next week I’m going to Vegas to visit Flo for a few days. Then I’m going to St. George, Utah to visit my Mormon friend. (Everybody should have at least one.) Four weeks later Paul and I leave for Italy. WOO HOO! And now I have even more travel plans. I just bought a ticket to the Austin Music Festival. My friend DD and I are flying out to Texas to go see a butt load of great bands. Pretty cool, huh? (Thanks to boudin for the brilliant idea.)
I just may have to start a travel blog.
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Making Plans
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Lerdo Leaks
Three more inmates escaped from Lerdo recently. That makes six escapees in six days. The dudes still in there have got to be feeling pretty stupid that they’re still there at this point.
One man, Cory Garret, has already been caught. Garret escaped last week, but was captured yesterday after running from the scene of a crime. According to the paper, Garret kicked a police dog during the scuffle and knocked it unconscious. For Garret’s sake I hope the cops don’t do the same thing to him. (Not really.)
Good Ol’ Boy Sheriff Mack Wimbish says all the recent escapes are no big deal and harkens back to a time when they happened on a daily basis. Yeah, that makes me feel better. Sgt Richard Wood acknowledged that recent “bad budgets” has caused the staff to be shorthanded. He also attempted to reassure the public that the inmates held at Lerdo are not a threat to the public. All the inmates that escaped were there for burglary, drugs and/or weapons charges.
Somehow that doesn’t make me feel any better about it. Burglars on drugs carrying weapons sounds pretty threatening to me.
GRRRR
I just spent 45 minutes uploading photos and the stupid post disapeared on me.
Sometimes I hate blogger.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
No Worries!
The Army Corps Engineers, who told us all recently that the breaking of the Isabella Dam was the biggest threat in the country, announced yesterday that the threat was gone. The Corps handed operation of the dam back over to the city of Bakersfield saying, “We’re over the hump.”
Excuse me, but that dam is fifty years old and built on top of a fault line. This area is historically known to flood. I don’t care if the snowmelt has slowed down; it’s hard for me to believe the danger of flooding has suddenly disappeared.
Maybe the heat will go away too.
Random Photos
I'm sorry, I just can't help myself. I am enthralled by the cuteness of my baby tortoise. Perhaps it is testament to the dullness of my life, but I can sit and watch him for hours.
Then again, so can my cat.
I bet he's thinking, "What are you looking at?"
He can do the splits and a double back flip.
Sherman found a great way to take a load off.
Sherm's *yawn* exhausted from a long day.
Have you ever seen a more perfect shell?
Sherm's a total hippie.
Monday, June 26, 2006
Monster Sucks
There’s a big ol’ article on the front page of the paper today all about those big ol’ monster trucks I keep seeing all over town. The article explains that the trucks are dangerous, frequently illegal, and very expensive. Kent Porter, owner of Krazy Kustomz, admits that, “On a real big truck, it’s hard to see cars next to you or behind you” and “Sometimes you can’t even see cars in front of you…” That’s great. I feel real safe sharing the road with someone who can’t see anything. Personally I don’t see the appeal of these trucks. They waste gas and pose a threat to other vehicles. As far as I’m concerned they just look dumb.
It’s kind of hard to look cool when you’re struggling to get into your own truck.
Friday, June 23, 2006
The Sign
Here ya go Boudin!
I must say, I kinda agree. It would be fun to see a updated version of the Sun, Fun, Stay, Play sign.
It's got to get better than this. Please God!
I woke up 5:00 A.M. today. I prefer to wake up early in the summer so I can water my plants in relative comfort. When I went outside it was about 70°. The expected high for today is somewhere around 106°. The air quality is unhealthy and residents are advised to stay indoors and avoid moving if possible.
After watering and watching some news, I went to bakersfield.com to see if anybody has been shot or whatever and I saw one of the most nonsensical sentences I have ever seen… “Gandhi baseball movie filmed at Sam Lynn.” (Huh??) But before I clicked on the link to read it I saw another article titled, “Officials to consider adopting new logo for city,” so I decided to read that article first since I couldn't wrap my head around the idea that there’s a “Gandhi baseball movie filmed at Sam Lynn.”
Photo totally stolen from bakersfield.com and taken by Kameran Kashani.
(nice work) (Oh yeah... that's a bat he's holding, not, you know, somthing else.
Sorry - but it had to be said.)
Evidently there’s been some disagreement over which slogan best represents the city of Bakersfield. Some people do not like the so called “Bakersfield Squiggle” as seen here...
I, for one, do not mind the squiggle. First of all I like the word squiggle and second of all it’s a freakin squiggle, what’s not to like? It’s pretty simple and kinda meaningless - just like Bakersfield. It works for me. (I do not, however, like the ugly city signs they made in brown and red with the squiggle.)
Anyway, some people are pushing for a new city logo. Something more meaningful and clear. Something spelled out in small words. These people are hoping to adopt this as our new city logo...
Now, I’d have nothing against the whole “Bakersfield, Life as it Should Be” movement if it weren’t for the fact that it is TOTAL B.S!!! If unbearable heat, unbreathable air, and a population full of overwhelming idiots is “life as it should be,” then I think we need to collectively jump in the river. I don’t give a crap if the ‘I’ is dotted with a nice little leaf and it looks cute. Most people in this town don’t give a crap about trees and leaves and the environment. If they did they’d start recycling, stop littering, and quit driving around in those giant gas gusslers.
What do y'all think? Which logo do you prefer?
A Very Merry UnBirthday to Me!!
The famous bridge to nowhere. (Again)
I received a little fan email today. It doesn’t happen often, but periodically I’ll get an email from a complete stranger saying they dig something about my blog. That’s pretty cool. Especially when, like today, I look at my blog and see like a bajillion typos and I’m totally mortified that such slop has been out there posted for the whole world to see. (Work with me here people!! I’m in desperate need of an editor.) When I first started I wrote a lot about Bako history cuz I didn't know what else to write about and I've always liked history. I was a virtual Vivian Tucker, if you will - but with attitude! Apparently some people wish I would stick to the history....
Anyway, I realized that my 2 year anniversary is coming up soon but, alas, I will be unable to celebrate it because I will be too busy getting my swerve on in
For those of you who don’t know, Bake Town is an affectionate euphemism for Bakersfield, CA, hometown to nearly 300,000 hearty souls. Due to the large number of “okies”, oil field workers, cowboys, AND the perilously hot summer temperatures, Bakersfield has suffered for decades with what can best be described as a “poor image.” More precisely, Bakersfield is California’s whipping boy. I am on a personal crusade to change all that. I am going to give Bakersfieldians the self-esteem to stand up and defend our fair city against the cynics. We WILL take pride in who we are and where we live.
How I plan to do this I have no idea.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
I don't get it.
Did y'all hear the story about the man who hid under a woman's bed for TWO DAYS!! How does someone do that?? How you go TWO DAYS under a bed with out pooping, or peeping, or farting, or burbing, or eating, or drinking, or SOMETHING!!
That's crazy.
Paul said...
So I was reading the article to Paul about Danny Butterbredt and when I finished he said, “That just sounds unpleasant. I mean if there are two words you never want to hear in the same sentence it’s ‘flesh-eating’ and ‘genitals.’ There’s not even a word to describe how awful that sounds. Except maybe terrorizing.”
Then he said ‘genitals’ is funny sounding word.
That's Gotta Hurt
Tehachapi resident Danny Butterbredt is not doing so good. He checked himself into KMC recently for pains in his side. It turns out a “Flesh-eating staph infection….had killed a lot of the muscle tissue on Butterbredt’s left side and had spread to his genitals and then back up to his shoulder.” Yikes! Poor guy. The 24 year old was transferred recently to Stanford University Medical Center for treatment.
The family has set up an account to accept donations for his medical costs and to help care for his son and girlfriend. Email me if you are interested in the information.
Favorite New Search String
I have no idea why this site would be linked to this search string, but I think it's funny.
Sorry Mom!!
News Nips
The police arrested Dr. Nadjmabadi this week and charged him with three counts of sexual battery and one count of “sexual penetration with a foreign object.” (ew!) Patients have been coming forward ever since it was first announced that he was under investigation. Some have said they don’t believe it and others have said they do.
Either way I’d say that dude can kiss his career in this town good bye.
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The man I was making fun of yesterday for jumping into the Kern River somehow made it out alive. Andrew Hernandez called his family Wednesday morning to let them know he was okay. (That was nice of him.) Police are still looking for him, however, since he does have an active warrant out for his arrest.
I guess this means he is no longer eligible for the Darwin Award.
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Jason Armendariz, the teenager who beat Jason Sutton to death with a padlocked chain, received six years in prison for the crime. He plead no contest to voluntary manslaughter. I don’t know much about this case and there hasn’t been a lot of information in news, but it seems sad and strange to me that a man was brutally beaten to death and the person who did only got 6 years. How many will he actually serve? Four maybe?
Sounds like he got away with murder.
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Two inmates escaped from Lerdo yesterday morning. The news says, “Both inmates were able to get past the fences at the facility and escape towards the North West.” How do they know that? If they saw them escaping towards the North West why didn’t they do something about?
Neither of the men were going to be in Lerdo for very long so it seems stupid to me that they try and escape. I’m sure jail is bad, but Lerdo ain’t nothing compared to a real prison.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Fearsome Foursome Forever
Photo courtesy of Cindy Steward.
Yeah, we'll be there.
Click here for more info on the reunion.
Chill Out
I have never heard of this before, but I think it's a good idea. Still, I see some problems with it. #1 - If these people are not able to cool themselves adequately, what makes them think they will be able to get themselves to a cooling center? #2 – What are they gonna do once they get there? Just sit there and stare at each other?
I think I’d rather go to the spray park.
Not the best way to escape.
I believe I may have a nominee for The Darwin Awards. Andrew Hernandez and a friend were fishing on the Kern River recently when officials from the Department Fish and Game asked to see their fishing licenses. They didn’t have one. (Dumb mistake #1. I don’t fish and even I know those guys are Nazi’s about fishing licenses.) When the men were asked to accompany the officials back to the truck Hernandez jumped into the river instead. (Dumb mistake #2.)
Hernandez was last seen struggling in the rapids down stream.
Condor Crap
When I pulled into the parking lot at work this morning I noticed that my co-worker had bird crap on his windshield. “That’s the biggest plop of bird crap I’ve ever seen” I told him, “That bird must have really had it out for you.” “I know” he replied, “I must have Condor living in my neighborhood.”
I’ve spent the better part of the morning laughing about this.
Reunion Update
I went lunch with three friends from high school yesterday. Two of them are on the reunion committee, so I got the scoop on who is going and who can’t because they’re incarcerated. It’s weird to me that it’s been twenty years since we graduated. Really weird. Everyone seems pretty much the same except for all the baby pictures. I told them I didn’t have any baby pictures because my son is a big, hairy man thing. He was born that way.
If you haven’t sent your money in yet you better do it soon or we’re going to talk crap about you next time we get together.
Half a Bubble Off
Jo Lugo, the woman arrested for harboring Stephan Van Tassel, publicly admitted recently that she’s an idiot. Well, sort of. She said she had no idea that Van Tassel was wanted for stealing a truck and crashing it into the bedroom of 1 ½ year old Russell Brown III. She doesn’t read the paper, listen to the radio, or watch the news. She in fact
has no idea what so ever about the world going on around her.
Lugo claims that she is a friend of Van Tassel’s mother and didn’t find it strange at all when the boy showed up at her door. She asked him, “Are you in any trouble, honey?” and he told her no and that was that. She claims that she had heard something about him being involved with a stolen car, but didn’t think much about it.
It’s clear this woman doesn’t do much thinking at all.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Up in Smoke
Stoners every where must have let out collective groan when they heard that over twenty thousand pot plants were seized recently. This is the second major drug bust in as many weeks. Last week a huge pot farm was found growing the middle of a vineyard off Hwy 166. This pot farm was near Delano and much bigger. According to The Californian, $51 million dollars worth of marijuana was discovered Saturday. That’s a lot of weed.
And just to pour salt on the wounds, “In both cases, samples were preserved and the bulk of the plants were destroyed.”
Something tells me the price of a joint just went WAY up.
Monday, June 19, 2006
Thoughts on Trash
When I got to work today I found an article on my desk with a note attached to it saying, “Thinking of you when I read this.” The article was about a man who used to import plastic containers but has switched to producing biodegradable products. (My reputation for being a recycling Nazi stretches far and wide.) According to the article, “Americans discard abut 14.4 million tons of plastic – 8 percent of total waste.” I would venture to guess that Bakersfieldians toss out more than that.
I don’t understand why the city doesn’t just give everybody blue recycle bins. They did it with the green bins and everyone started using them, no problem. That met the state requirement of recycling 50 percent of waste or else face being fined. I’m sure that if we just made it easier more people would be willing to recycle.
A couple of years ago I bought my parents a blue bin for Christmas. After a few months they said they were amazed at how much recycling they had and how little garbage. They told me that they needed the blue bin to be collected every week instead of the brown one. They got so excited about it, they even started composting.
I can’t help but wonder if the litter problem wouldn’t improve if we had an established recycling program. Maybe people would stop looking at it as trash.
Accupunture
I spent the weekend sick as a dog and lying on my couch. I had planned to go see Moonshine Deathbed at McGee’s cuz I saw them at the Silver Fox recently I loved them, but I wasn’t able to make it. Friday morning I woke up with a stabbing pain in my neck and shoulder. I immediately called Dr. Lu the Acupuncturist and went in for a session. I love going to Dr. Lu. Before you even walk in you can smell the burning herbs. After he places all the needles he says “Have a nice rest” on his way out. Lying there listening to the sound of ocean waves I practically went into a coma. The pain was gone but I felt groggy for the rest of the day. The next day I woke up nauseous. I’ve never had that happen before but I think it may have been unrelated to my treatment. Luckily was well enough Sunday to enjoy Father’s Day with my family.
I’ve been to Dr. Lu many times for many different reasons so if you’ve never been and have questions please feel free to ask.
Friday, June 16, 2006
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Deadly Drawers
Nicholas Nobella, the dude accused of killing Edward Pedrosa, now claims that it was all done in self defense. According to him it was Edward who came at Nicholas with a knife. Deputy District Attorney Matt Magner responded to this accusation by saying, "It doesn't seem like a guy running around in his underwear is really presenting a deadly threat."
I guess it just depends on what he's got going on in those underware.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Dead Men Walking
The fifth person in as many days was killed early this morning in central Bakersfield. When officers arrived at an apartment complex on Brundage Lane around 1:00 a.m. they found 21 year old Marcus Dupree Marshall dead from apparent gunshot wounds. So far they haven’t released anymore information other than that they are asking the public to contact the Secret Witness Hotline if they know anything.
Last Sunday Garlund Harris was killed in Wayside Park. On Monday William Wandick was shot to death and found lying in the street near KMC. Waldo Rivera, 21, was also killed Sunday; stabbed to death and found lying in the road. And of course, we all know about Edward Perosa and what happened to him.
The violence in this city has gotten seriously out of control. Am I crazy, or are most of the people dying 20 something year old males? What’s up with that? I mean, I know their young and all pumped full of testosterone, but when did it become the norm to choose to stab someone to resolve a conflict?
KMC announced yesterday that they are planning on hiring 50 new nurses. It looks to me like they’re going to need more.
He's where he belongs.
The man accused of killing male stripper Edward Pedrosa was arraigned yesterday on charges of first degree murder. Nicholas Nobella pled not guilty to the charges. I’m a little confused by the charge of first degree murder. Sure Nobella told police he had “neutralized the enemy” while pointing at Pedrosa’s body (not the smartest move) but the two had never met so I don’t see how he could have planned the murder. According to the paper Nobella admitted he had been carrying the knife and “bragged about specialized training he received in how to kill with a knife.” (Again, not a smart move dude.)
Other witnesses reported that Nobella appeared to be looking for a fight that night. While at the bachelor party Nobella was asked by the strippers body guard to stop throwing bottle caps at her. (Yeah, he sounds like a real winner.) After arriving at the house where the bachelorette party was Nobella became involved with an argument between a couple. All hell broke lose after that and Pedrosa ended up dead.
Something tells me a life in prison isn’t going to do anything to improve Nobella’s attitude.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
W.U.D.
Some of you may have noticed I haven’t been keeping up with my “features” lately. There are several reasons for this. First, I found that most of the people whom I sent questions to for my “B.B.Q&A” never responded. (Huh Amy?) Second, I’ve been having trouble with my digital camera AND the camera on my cell phone. I’m either unable to take a picture or I’m unable to upload them on to my pc. This is a situation I plan to take care of well before I head to Italy. Third, I had some negative feedback from locals on my weather update, or W.U.D. as I like to call it. This makes sense since they can see what the weather is like for themselves. My out of town readers on the other hand, seem to appreciate a little commentary on the weather, so I guess the rest of you are just going to have to suffer.
It’s the middle of June and it’s about 70° outside. It feels like beach weather. We had some pretty hot days a couple of weeks ago in the low 100’s, but over all it’s been a pretty nice summer. Sunday was warm and breezy and I went for a long walk. It felt great. Temps should be back up into the 90’s this weekend, which is fine by me since I’m working on my tan.
Now if we could just do something about that darn air quality. *cough*
Sad Story
The story of the stripper who was killed last weekend is sad for two reasons. Edward Pedrosa was not just a stripper. He was a father of a 3 month old boy. He had asked the boy’s mother to marry him earlier that same day. And he was a 2 year veteran of the war in Iraq. According to KGET, “Pedrosa's fiancé, Lacey Wagner, said, ‘He was a people person he had so much going for him, it was just a job to send him through school’.” I cannot imagine the heartbreak his family must be going through.
The second thing that is sad is that instead of being remembered for all the good things he did, he will always be referred to as the stripper who was stabbed in Bakersfield.
Monday, June 12, 2006
Which way did they go?
Some time ago back when I first started this blog I wrote a post about how it seems like there are a lot of streets that change names around here. I suspected that it would confuse some of the new comers. Apparently I was right. On the front page of today’s paper a headline reads, “Streets baffle newcomers.” Confused, sure. But “baffled??” That’s pretty bad. So what if one length of road is called “Gosford” and the other length is called “Coffee,” it’s still just a road.
It’s not like they're crossing into an alternate universe.
Waste Not Want Not
I’m not sure why people in this town are so against the environment. Since they started offering voluntary recycling less than 4 percent of the population has signed up. People don’t want to pay to recycle. According to the paper, “Bakersfield is one of the last cities of its size on the West Coast that doesn’t have routine curbside recycling.” It appears we’ve found a very effective way of hanging onto that small ‘hick town’ vibe.
Now the city is considering getting rid of the recycling program all together. Cuz ya know, if we can’t recycle everything why bother recycling anything at all.
Kind reminds me of my attitude in high school.
Stripper Stabbed
Most of you have probably already heard about the stripper who was killed this weekend. This is not your stripper found in a dumpster story. It was a male stripper and he was killed outside the bachelorette party he had been performing at. AND there was a full on brawl between the stripper’s people and the bachelor’s people where several others were also seriously injured. That does not sound like the kind of party I’d like to attend.
Martin Pedrosa, the father of the man killed, said the groom’s friends showed up at the party and started the fight which killed his son Edward. The bride’s family, however, says that the stripper started it when he pulled out a knifed and threatened the grooms friends. I find this a little hard to believe, because A) Where’s he gonna hide knife when he’s sporting a banana hammock? and B) It’s kinda hard to look tough when you’re sporting a banana hammock.
I thought it was interesting that this story is the #1 pick on CNN’s Free Video.
Friday, June 09, 2006
Paul Said...
I think I may make this a new Bake Town feature. (Especially because I haven’t been keeping up on any of my other features.)
So, I was talking to Paul yesterday about our travel plans and I explained that the travel agent originally had scheduled us to fly from LA to Detroit, Detroit to Amsterdam, then Amsterdam to Rome. My mom said ‘Oh hell no’ and spent the day working out a better flight plan. After I had finished telling all this to Paul he said, “Well, I least I get to live out one of my life long dreams to never go to Detroit.” After I finished laughing I asked him why that one of his life long dreams.
“Cuz” he said, “Don’t wanna, like, get shanked.”
Thursday, June 08, 2006
More News Nips
There’s a picture on the front page of the paper today of the baby who was hurt by two boys driving a stolen truck. Poor little thing with his tiny mangled legs. One of the boys involved, Stephan Vantassel, was caught yesterday in southwest Bakersfield. I heard that the man who he was staying with was also arrested.
As I was reading the article in the paper and it said “Please turn to CRASH / A3” so I turned to A3 and look for CRASH, but it’s not there. So search the rest of section A for an article titled CRASH, but there isn’t one. So I finally take the paper to a friend of mine and ask her if I’m crazy or if the article is missing. She searched the paper and finally found the article under the heading RECOVERY. Looks like we have a little confusion going on at the TBC.
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Israel Evaro Jr was arrested this week after he took his girlfriend out to the country, dosed her with gasoline and set her on fire. Yup. He SET HER ON FIRE!!! Oh. My. God. Apparently he has a history of abuse and had previously been charged with beating and terrorizing the same woman. (Poor thing. I can not even begin to imagine what she went through. But I can tell you if somebody tried to terrorize me you can bet I would terrorize him right back.)
After burning the woman alive, Evaro took her to KMC for treatment. That was nice of him wasn’t it?
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The city is thinking about building a $50 million dollar “Sports village” on Taft Hwy and Gosford Road. The idea behind it is to attract, “regional, state, or national athletic competitions.”
I suggest if they want to attract people they shouldn’t build it on Taft Hwy.
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Buddy Owens is talking about taking his father's place at the palace a couple of times a month. Bud lives in Phoenix, and has no plans to move.
In case you're concerned, The Buckaroos will not be changing their name to The Budderoos.
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
News Nips
Did anybody else have trouble with Blogger today?
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The cops finally nabbed the two gangtas who killed one person and wounded another in front of Rockin' Rodeo recently. John Bryant and Anthony Taylor were conveniently already in jail when they were arrested. Talk about shooting fish in a barrel.
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Sheriff Mack Wimbish failed to secure a win in yesterday's election. He and Donny Youngblood will mud wrestle in front of city hall to determine who wins. The news says they're going to have a run off election in November, but I like my idea better.
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The No Sludge Measure passed with a resounding 85% of residents voting to keep LA's poop out of Kern County. That doesn't mean, however, that we are still not free spread our own crap around.
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Okay, that's all I have time for. I'm too busy planning for my TRIP TO ITALY!!!!!
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
River Rats
The two teenage boys who stole a truck and crashed it into a home wounding a little boy are still on the loose. According to the paper, “The boys were involved in a subculture of people who live along the Kern River.” Yes friends, we actually have people who live by the river. They bathe in the river. Eat from the river. Hell, they probably even pee in the river.
Kind of like those men in Deliverance.
Thanks Mom
In seven weeks Paul and I are going
to be here...
And here....
And here...
And here...
And everywhere in between.
Italy here we come!!!
Thanks to the greatest mom in THE WORLD!!
Sail On Sons
Bruce Sons is a free man. Free of prison, free of debt, and free of probation Superior Court Judge Zel Canter said Sons has more than paid his debt to society by serving nearly 12 years in jail. He also said what I’ve been saying all along that, “Maxwell and Sons seemed to be destined to get into a confrontation, given Maxwell’s history of misbehavior on the job, and Sons’ history of misbehavior with officers.” Yeah – no kidding.
Sons appears to be changed man. I guess 11+ years in the can did him some good. Sons says that he realized that he was going down the wrong path and asked himself “How much further are you going to go before you realize the path you’re on isn’t conducive to what your are supposed to be doing?” Apparently he had to go pretty darn far.
Besides finding God, Sons also found him some edjamacatin’ in jail. Now he can properly use “conducive” in sentence.
Friday, June 02, 2006
Time Out
I'm taking some time out this weekend, so I probably won't be doing any blogging. If you're interested, I'm having dinner with a friend a Mexicali tonight (we always eat in the bar). Feel free to drop by and have a drink with us or just say hi. I'd be great to meet y'all. And don't worry; I'm still planning to have a real blogger party.
Have a great weekend everyone.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Bad Guys Abound
What kind of creep asks an old man for a glass of water then attacks him? Ralph Thurman, a 78 year old Oildale resident was beaten and robbed after trying to go a good deed. Yesterday afternoon a man, probably in his late 20s, knocked on Thurman’s door and asked him for a drink. Thurman made the mistake of letting him inside. In return for his kindness he was sent to the hospital.
It’s people like that who ruin things for everyone.
Make up your mind already.
Is anybody else sick of Clemens going in and out of retirement? I'm starting to not believe anything he says.
Talking Trash
My apologies to those of you who are sick of me hopping up on my soap box to bitch about people in this town, but an article in today’s paper just gave me more ammo. According to the Bakersfield Recreation & Parks Department the beautiful new Park at River Walk has been greeted by much enthusiasm as well as mountains of trash. *insert sound of hand slapping forehead* Park crews hauled off “430 trash bags, at 55 gallons apiece, over the holiday weekend.” Now, when I say trash, I don’t mean the stuff in the trash can. This is liter. Park crews have had to double their efforts to keep up with the clean up.
I don’t get it. Are there people who enjoy litter? Does anybody prefer a trash strewn park to a clean one? I doubt it. Then why don’t they use the trash cans? They’re right there!!! How much effort does it take walk a few steps to throw something away? It must be a combination of laziness and stupidity.
According to the article the top five parks with the most liter are: The Park at River Walk, Silver Creek Park, Yokuts Park, Beach Park, and Wayside Park. The top two are in what are supposedly our cities newer, nicer areas.
Obviously that hasn’t made them any cleaner.
On the Run
So it turns out that the kids who wrecked the truck into the house hurting that little boy are a little older than first suspected. Both boys, Stephan Vantassel and Dearthur Joe Kirby, are 16 years old. (Apparently they haven’t been through drivers ed yet.)
Not too surprisingly, both boys have spent time in the clinker. Their pimply faced mug shots are being plastered all over town. I’m amazed they’ve managed to escape capture this long.
I seriously doubt they managed to steal another truck and successfully drive it out of town.
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