Check gangs
off to-do list
What? All of the gang members in Hollister have died? Two weeks
ago in the twice-a-week Hollister daily Sheriff Curtis Hill
said,
”
If you are a dedicated gang member in San Benito County you will
go to prison. Sheriff Hill is coming for you.
”
So what did all the gang members die of? They died of
laughter.
Check gangs
off to-do list
What? All of the gang members in Hollister have died? Two weeks ago in the twice-a-week Hollister daily Sheriff Curtis Hill said, “If you are a dedicated gang member in San Benito County you will go to prison. Sheriff Hill is coming for you.” So what did all the gang members die of? They died of laughter.
But Hollister doesn’t have a patent on comedians in office. Here in Hollywood the Los Angeles City Council debated for days on a 40-hour moratorium on gang killings in honor of the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination. Guess what? Their moratorium didn’t work. There were the usual gang killings if not even more. Like Hollister’s wanna-be Dirty Harry, Sheriff Hill has company with Hollywood’s public officials who if they were not in public office would be stand-up comedians as popular as Ima Kisaz. Who is Ima Kisaz? Exactly. Aye chee waa waa.
When the economy tanks the first thing you should give up is eating out. Wrong! That is the last thing you should give up. We all need fun in our lives. If we give up eating out then truly Al Kyda has won. Al is that anti-restaurant eat-at-home author.
They put people in jail for starting fires in our forests and wasting trees. But shouldn’t they put people like the ones who run the Los Angeles Times in jail for wasting trees when they insert a full 12-page section on the soap opera, “The Young and the Restless”? In order not to waste it I will mail it to the first one who asks for it from me, care of the Pinnacle.
Laughed hard at that one-panel cartoon in the funny papers showing a man reluctant to sit on a park bench that had a sign, “Dry Paint.” When I had my little bookstore in San Francisco and I put some books outside with a sign, “100% Off” as I just wanted to get rid of them. No one, and I mean no one, took them which meant I was going to have to lug in the hundreds of heavy duplicates. What I thought was a clever sign backfired on me. But that night, instead of hauling them back in the store, I replace the sign with “Books $1.” The next morning when I arrived almost all the “One Dollar” books were stolen. God, how I love this country.
Even though I live in Hollywood I still root for the Giants when they play the Dodgers. Even more so now that the Giants are Bond free.
Aren’t you sick and tired of watching Hillary and Obama trash talk each other but when they appear in debates they look like they should get a room at Motel 69? Aye chee waa waa.
Went to composer Stephen Schwartz’ star celebration on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of the world-famous Pantages Theater. Schwartz has been nominated six times for an Academy Award and has won the Oscar three times. He is more famous for his stage hits from “Pippin,” “Godspell” to “Wicked” which is now in its second year here at the Pantages.
Ben Vereen gave a touching tribute. He doesn’t look a day older than when I saw him on the stage in “Pippin” about 25 years ago.
As for Schwartz, the first time I saw him in concert was in Hollister. That’s not a typo. Not Hollywood but Hollister, about eight years ago. Like most artists when there is down time they still have to make a living. Remember dinner theater where actors on the way down played at someplace that served perfectly awful food while you watched perfectly awful acting in a perfectly awful produced play? Jim Nabors in “Death of a Salesman” or Katie Couric as an evening anchor person.
Saw Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees on Hollywood Boulevard and this guy didn’t age. For me Mickey Dolenz and the Monkees were far more talented than the overrated Beatles.
Has “Dancing With the Stars,” one of the most creative shows to grace television in the past 72 years, lost its edge? I think they need to come up with a new gimmick, like a show featuring just gay men dancing. Guess you’re right: where are you going to find two gay dancers in Hollywood?
p> They put people in jail for starting fires in our forests and wasting trees. But shouldn’t they put people like the ones who run the Los Angeles Times in jail for wasting trees when they insert a full 12-page section on the soap opera, “The Young and the Restless”? In order not to waste it I will mail it to the first one who asks for it from me, care of the Pinnacle.
Laughed hard at that one-panel cartoon in the funny papers showing a man reluctant to sit on a park bench that had a sign, “Dry Paint.” When I had my little bookstore in San Francisco and I put some books outside with a sign, “100% Off” as I just wanted to get rid of them. No one, and I mean no one, took them which meant I was going to have to lug in the hundreds of heavy duplicates. What I thought was a clever sign backfired on me. But that night, instead of hauling them back in the store, I replace the sign with “Books $1.” The next morning when I arrived almost all the “One Dollar” books were stolen. God, how I love this country.
