This church is a blast
History in the making. For the first time I will not reply to a
message from the dreaded little old blue-haired lady.
”
Mr. Venzykulu, Mr. Venzykulu, my granddaughter graduated in 1958
with you and she doesn’t remember Hollister High like you wrote,
especially your potty mouth remarks about rubbers, Park Hill and
the passion pit drive-in theater.
This church is a blast
History in the making. For the first time I will not reply to a message from the dreaded little old blue-haired lady.
“Mr. Venzykulu, Mr. Venzykulu, my granddaughter graduated in 1958 with you and she doesn’t remember Hollister High like you wrote, especially your potty mouth remarks about rubbers, Park Hill and the passion pit drive-in theater.
“Why don’t you write about good girls like my granddaughter? She didn’t have time for boys. She played basketball, was on the wrestling team, was a champion discus thrower and had lots of pajama parties with her girlfriends. She loved sports so much she still lives with her college coach, Mona.”
I said I wasn’t going to comment.
Loved that headline in the Hollister 50-Cent Lance under a picture of five Hollister police officers with weapons drawn. “Expect more cops and better service with Measure T funds.” Well, yes, you can “expect” that, but the reality is that more cops don’t necessarily mean better service … it just means more cops. Aye chee waa waa.
We have to have the will to win the war on drugs and gangs. Too many jobs depend on us never winning that war.
Does George Lucas of Star Wars fame really need the money that he has to foist an animated “Clone Wars” on us? What next? George Lucas at the Granada Theater performing a Star Wars sock puppet show of “Star Wars”?
The Calvary Baptist Church in Hollister really dropped the ball. Now they have a Cannon but no Ball. Their pastor, the Rev. Ball, was replaced by Pastor Cannon. If I were a Christian this is the church I would join. Sounds like a blast. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. Bob’s quick quiz: What was the name of the chaplain who coined that phrase, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition, while aboard a burning ship during the start of World War II at Pearl Harbor? In what town did he later minister and counsel me? And fail.
Last week’s quick quiz answer: why didn’t “Godzilla vs. Bambi” need an intermission? Because it was only a few minutes long. It opened with Bambi in the forest to the strains of some classical music and then the giant foot of Godzilla crushed him. The end credits took longer than the film. Yeah, like that is any sadder than the Walt Disney picture that still traumatizes me to this day – like clowns and politicians.
I am still mourning the loss of one of my heroes, Duane Reed Moore, better known to the porn world as Tony Eveready. Aye chee waa waa.
When I was a kid I hated to follow the bouncing ball, well the one where you had to sing along to some cartoon. To this day I hate going to concerts where they ask the audience to sing along. Like I paid $75 to hear a bunch of stoners singing. Now the musical movie hit “Mama Mia” is being shown with sing along lyrics. Mama Mia!
Saw Elliot Gould on Hollywood Boulevard as he chatted with an old friend, and I mean an old friend. The star of the movie “M*A*S*H” filmed in 1970 just turned 70.
What? There is no longer a pool at Bolado Park. I loved swimming there as a kid. It was easy to get a ride as all you had to do was stand on Nash Road with a towel and bathing suit and someone would pick you up and give you a ride. Bolado was a very special place with the greatest snack bar in the world and a pool with everyone having fun. I hate to disagree with Pinnacle publisher Mark Paxton but I think things are worse in Hollister and not as he suggested, that the more things change the more they remain the same. Do the kids have a community pool in 2008? We did in 1958. Plus, we would go to the river by Bolado Park and catch pollywogs. Good eats.
Loved that most wanted section in the 50 Cent Lance featuring a misdemeanor battery on a person. The beater upper was aptly named Matthew Faught.
