Gilmore says first Assembly term may be his last

Sitcom Pitch: My Mother the Mayor. All about the zany antics of two feuding political families. Banana peels thrown in the hallways of the State House to uproarious laughter at the pratfalls. The mother constantly chiding the the two lead characters (based on Dean and Nicole) to get along and yet turns and churns up more bad feelings herself to more laughter when the son has to correct the mother. The underlying sexual tension builds as the audience yearns for the two handsome antagonists to get together. All the support characters are in some level of politics,
too. Even the kids are running for student body president.

After the story in today's Bee about Danny Gilmore's buyer's remorse I'm still convinced that a tv show about the two political families would be viable. Or at least funny as we speculate about the plot and characters.

I'm learning how to shape a bridge saddle on my D16. Bone sounds a lot better than the plastic one it came with. Might go back to the Clown Cage and get another one and try it again. 4th time should be a charm. But, this one sounds so good, I'll light here and rest awhile. I just can't get over how the notes ring and sustain. Yesterday I just couldn't put it down, played straight through till my hand hurt.


"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all other liberties." - Milton

My Top Ten Lame Rock bands

Journey
Styx
Doobie Brothers
Bay City Rollers
REO Speedwagon
Poison
Twisted Sister
Men without Hats
Hanson
Leo Sayer

Hope for local talk radio after all

Jocey and I were interviewed on KMJ back in the 80's before the right-wing hate talkers took over the spectrum. Thanks Donovan. Oh the good old days when the Bee owned seemingly everything in Fresno. Then they passed a law saying it was an unfair advantage for one entity to own the major newspaper, a tv station (ch.24) and the main radio station (KMJ). They basically gave the radio station to the right-wingers and left the Bee with only the newspaper. Now newspapers are going out of business.

I was listening with much frustration, as I usually do, to the Alan Autry radio show the other day as Bill McEwen sounded so intelligent compared to the former mayor when I thought, "They should give this guy a radio show. He's way more informed and intellectually honest than these "Obama is a communist" right-wingers".

KYNO 1300am got rid of stone-age Dr. Laura and replaced her with a talk show featuring Bill McEwen from the Bee. Finally some moderation in this boiling sea of intolerance that is talk radio in Fresno.

http://1300kyno.com/

I was going to put a link to the story by Rick Bentley in today's paper, but again, as usual can't find it at the confusing maze that is the Bee's website.

Conservative Media Freaked Out Over DHS Report


Considering what happened yesterday at the Holocaust Museum in DC this is especially poignant. DHS is doing their job and the right-wing media laughs it off and condemns it.

Jocey's Hard Rock Mix 22MAY09

1 Alice Cooper - I’m 18 2:55 Billion $ Babies 1973
2 Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion 4:34 Toys in the attic 1975
3 Kiss - Rocknroll all nite 2:45 Dressed to kill 1975
4 Montrose - Rock candy 5:17 s/t 1973
5 Robin Trower - Little bit of sympathy s/t 4:20 1973
6 Van Halen - Runnin with the devil s/t 3:32 1978
7 Roxy Music - Love is the drug 4:05 1975
8 Heart - Magic man 5:35 Dreamboat Annie 1975
9 Led Zeppelin - Stairway to heaven zofo 7:55 1972
10 Alan Parsons Project - Be like you 3:19 I Robot 1977
11 Edgar Winter Group - Free ride 45 3:05 1972
12 Jeff Beck - Ain’t superstitious 4:53 Truth 1968
13 ZZ Top - La Grange 3:51 Tres Hombres 1973
14 Motorhead - Ace of spades comp LP 1980
15 Beach Boys - Sail on Sailor 3:15 Holland 1973
16 Genesis - Firth of fifth 9:36 Selling England 1973
17 10cc - Blackmail 4:35 Original soundtrack 1975
18 Rolling Stones - Shattered 45 3:46 1978
78:02 787.7MB

This what we've been listening to the last week or so.

BUY LOCAL
I like buying local as long as it has good value. And the guy isn't a total crook. I see the buy local tag in the Bee on ads from only certain businesses, like Fresno Volvo and Fashion Furniture. By their definition buying a Volvo is still buying local. Maybe they're making Volvos in Arkansas like Hondas. I noticed Michael Volkswagon doesn't have the buy Local tag on their ads. Maybe it's because they know everybody thinks VWs are made in Germany and it would be a stretch to ask people to buy a VW and call it buying local.

We bought a dining set recently from Macys. On the bottom of the table is an easy to find tag that says, made in China. Checked out a lot of dining tables at other well-known furniture stores in Fresno and could not find one that didn't say made in China.

I think these are the same people who worked so hard to convince us that shipping all the factories overseas in the 90's was a good idea. And continued to give them tax breaks for doing so. And now they want us to buy local when it's not really buying local. The sales tax benefit is cited yet they have been against every tax that has ever come along.

The best argument for the buy local ad campaign is the massive Bee Buy Local section 30MAY09. Talk about math, I'm still going through it all. Anyone would have to be crazy to go against such a massive campaign supported by so many local heavyweights.

It all makes sense until you scratch the surface.
Call me crazy, but I have learned over the years to never, ever believe what is said in advertising.

These local high rollers now want us to buy local when we little people buy stuff, but where do the sellers of the luxury merchandise buy when they buy stuff?

Where are the things manufactured they sell? When they buy the labor to make the stuff where do they go to get it? They buy their manufacturing labor overseas.

I'm a really local guy, but this buy local advertising campaign is phoney. They were the ones who got us into all this financial mess and now they want to tell us how and where to spend our money?

I think the people have spoken. They don't want to buy those bloated gas guzzlers, they want a greener world to live in, universal health care and a government that works for them.

All the things the Republicans have been against for the last....ever.

Article from NYTimes in the Bee 20MAY09
Totally explains this typical top down Republican, pro-big business strategy. They can say it's 'local' even though it's actually manufactured or grown hundreds or even thousands of miles away.

Buy my 'local' music:
www.stagedive-records.com/mailorder