Bob on passion pits, politics and pasta
Love that ad for Hollister’s Hazel Hawkins Hospital satellite
facility. Specimen collection and specimen dropoff. That’s funny,
but my neighbor Ginger provides the same service.
The only genius behind the movie
”
Iron Man
”
is whoever hired Robert Downey Jr. Otherwise don’t believe all
the hype. It’s just
”
Spiderman
”
without the spider.
Bob on passion pits, politics and pasta
Love that ad for Hollister’s Hazel Hawkins Hospital satellite facility. Specimen collection and specimen dropoff. That’s funny, but my neighbor Ginger provides the same service.
The only genius behind the movie “Iron Man” is whoever hired Robert Downey Jr. Otherwise don’t believe all the hype. It’s just “Spiderman” without the spider.
You have to feel sorry for San Benito County Counsel Dennis LeClere and I never feel sorry for lawyers. Supervisor Jaime De La Cruz does what he does best: bully and humiliate those beneath him. In fact though, no one is beneath De La Cruz.
De La Cruz, with some sense of perverted power, announces to the press that he told the county lawyer, “If you can’t do the job, the first moment I feel uncomfortable you are gone.” Really Jaime? Unless the law has changed you don’t have the power for all your swagger to fire a janitor, much less the county counsel. De La Cruz is one member of the Board of Supervisors, despite Jaime thinking HE IS the Board of Supervisors. What next Jaime? A Napoleon hat as you mail out all those birthday cards to your constituents? Sadly, De La Cruz is expected to win his supervisor’s seat again as some of you in Hollister are impressed that Jaime sends you a birthday card. Hell, my mortician does the same. At least ward politicians and the Mafia gave voters a turkey.
Hold out for a turkey and at least you will have a better reason to vote for one.
Every once in a while the do-gooders get it right when they hand out their person of the year awards. MACE’s woman of the year, Marcellina Muñoz, is that rare time. Pinnacle photographer Nick Lovejoy’s camera captured an inner beauty I have never seen in a newspaper photo. I see halos. Aye chee waa waa.
Love that movie ad from the 1958 San Jose Mercury when Nancy and I were always going to the drive-in theaters where we never once saw a movie. They didn’t call them “passion pits” for nothing. The El Rancho Drive-in advertises the largest wide screen, free train rides, free boat rides, playground, dining room, TV room, dancing, patio and picnic area plus three big hits and an autograph party in the lobby with the star of “King of Kings,” Jeffrey Hunter in person.
Hunter played Christ in that MGM spectacular. A blue-eyed, no hair under the arms Christ. Jeff also starred in “Hell to Eternity” which I saw them film when I was on Okinawa. He played the World War II true-life Mexican-American hero, Guy Gabaldon, who single-handedly captured hundreds of Japanese who were going to commit suicide rather than surrender. Gabaldon was raised by a Japanese family in East L.A. before they were taken away to internment camps. But the Japanese-Americans were treated no differently than German-Americans and Italian-Americans whose homelands were part of the evil Axis. What? German-Americans and Italian-Americans did not have their property seized by liberal President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Congress and ultra-liberal California Gov. Earl Warren and thrown into detention camps? Just Japanese-Americans? Oh well, the Japanese Americans did get back at us. Yoko Ono. Aye chee waa waa Tojo.
When the Italian Catholic Federation in Hollister throws a charity feed it is always the best of any because there are more good Italian cooks in Hollister than in all of Italy, including Lydia the PBS chef. So don’t ask why the rib eye steak dinner and dancing is called an Italian Dinner Dance. Just attend Saturday, May 31 and I will bet you it is the best dinner you have had this year and you get to tarantella with the beauties that put this charity event together. Oy vey! You are lucky twofold as the Italian women in Hollister are more beautiful than the much butt-pinched lookers in Italy and if the event wasn’t being held at O’Reilly Hall at Sacred Heart I would say that they are the sexiest in the world.
This is an absolutely true story: A friend comes by last Saturday and says he is going to have to move out of his apartment and live in his car for a couple of months. He is an extra in films and you can see him on the big screen bumping into Sandra Bullock in “The Net” and standing next to Kramer in a police lineup in that famous “Seinfeld” television episode.
The recent writers’ strike ate up all his savings. The next day I see him coming to the door all smiles. His aunt won the lottery in Louisiana, $19 million. His aunt hates him.
