leave your questions at the beep
and since this is karisas birthday week feel free to ask questions about
my feelings about boston, tea parties, tea bags,
the red sox, the white sox, the celtics, the ladys i mean the bradys
manny, big papi, schilling the republican
the fires in santa barbara, listening to reggae at horse racing tracks
or anything your mind leads to
beep
“tony, theyve evacuated 25,000 from santa barbara. thats a quarter of the city. i have my s[tuff] packed because the wind changed and it’s heading here. its going to jump the freeway tonight. they’re probably going to evacuate us at 4-5am.
“they have tents on campus for people who have evacuated.
“the power is out in goleta. all i can see is the fire.
“you goin to see The Dead at the Forum, tone?”
he just called back (1:19am)
“when i cant see storke tower, im leaving
“i cant leave here because im drunk. but they want you to leave.
“you have to come here in 3 hours with a camera crew. cuz its about to jump the 101 and its gonna burn everything.
“ktyd isnt playing music any more.
“it burned the county bowl.
“it missed the mission.
“i can see the flames from here. i can see the helicopters.
“you gotta be here. god damn it you gotta be here. cuz you have access.
“the power is out downtown.”
from the KTMS Twitter feed:
THE FIRE HAS JUMPED THE 154
31 minutes ago from web
listen to KTYD live now here
update: via my truest:
View Jesusita Fire – Santa Barbara in a larger map
and the comments here are just getting worser and worser.
you know there used to be a time here at the olde buttblog where the author wouldn’t tap out a new post until there was at least 1 or 2 comments in the previous post.
i may have to reinstate that glorious past.
in other news i saw a video game review i wrote in this week’s Brand X which is in news boxes everywhere here in Los Angeles.
the video game was X Men – Wolverine which many people are calling the most violent video game ever because all you do is run around decapitating and maiming people and shoving them into helicopter blades and shoving your wolverine claws into their throats and pulling out their organs, etc.
i gave it a meh.
i didnt expect to see it in Brand X so quickly, but alexandra is not only one hot babe, but shes a very speedy editor, so im grateful.
and believe it or not, but that was the first time that ive been in print as a writer here at the Times since many moons ago when i wrote a piece on the Opinions section about Survivor splitting their tribes up based on race (yes it was that long ago).
do i like print? sure, its fine. do i wanna write for the LAT, proper? sure, but i really like writing for Brand X in part because if Bukowski was 20-30something he would not only be reading it instead of the LAT, but he’d be doing anything to write in it. and as you know, Buk is my hero.
(this has been a super busy day for us, so chill)
– “Ramirez deserves a one-way ticket out of Mannywood” – Plaschke
– hundreds of comments on our Dodger blog about Manny – Dodger Thoughts
– 69 photos of the Santa Barbara fire – photo
– pretty sweet panoramic photo of the Santa Barbara fire
– Teacher who gets paid by LA not to teach speaks out at the article we ran about him
– Derek Fisher suspended, but will play tonight
– Should In-n-Out change? – Comments Blog
so busy this morning.
mostly because Manny has been suspended for 50 games and the LAT had/has the scoop.
that, plus the fires, plus this training im fixin to do in 9 minutes makes for a very short first post today.
but i love ya so im here to say hi
hi!
son of a gun is burning down houses one after another now.
sorry for the crappy pictures of the crappy tv reception, but some things you probably dont wanna see in living color.
keep up to date on this sadly developing story on LA Now
when gwen stefani cheered “this ishhh is bananas” she wasnt kidding.
another beautiful day here in southern california. and i must say i do love working in the belly of the beast. so many stories came through this newsroom yesterday and today from the lady with the face transplant saying “im not a monster” to the dude in florida who threw a baby out the window of a moving car
to the fires in santa barbara, to the lakers losing to the dodgers winning…
but lets talk about Floatopia. According to the Daily Nexus theres going to be a disturbance in the force in Santa Barbara today at high noon (aka 1pm) to squash not just the kids’ right to party on their beach, but their right to party anywhere in IV. Fascism disguised as “The Social Host Ordinance” is scheduled to breeze through the SB Supervisor’s meeting this afternoon which will give the IV Foot Patrol and the SB Sheriffs the right to shut down pretty much any party, immediately, regardless of it being in a private home or on a public beach:
The SHO aims to nail people who host underage drinking parties at their house. Ideally, this is great. We agree that parents should be punished for hosting these parties and buying their kids booze.
But in actuality, this ordinance is terrible. It’s going to hit us in I.V. hard, even if it wasn’t intended for us. Despite having gone through four rewrites, this fifth draft of the SHO is still incredibly vague, which leaves it open to interpretation. A host can be served the fine if minors are drinking at any “party, gathering, or event,” which is described as “a group of five or more persons who have assembled or are assembling for a social occasion or a social activity.” So in an apartment with six roommates (very likely in I.V.) if all of them get together to watch House (a very social activity by some standards) and decide to split a six-pack, will the police be able to knock on the door and dole out a fine to the “host”?
However, IVFP officers have said they aren’t looking to use the SHO to crack down on small hangouts like that. Then why implement the ordinance? The police already have enough tools on their belt to punish underage alcohol consumption, both by the drinker and the provider of the drink. For example, they can cite partygoers with any of the following:
Distributing to Minors
Minor in Possession
Noise Ordinance Violation
Drunk in Public
Disturbing the Peace
Basically it means the end of Isla Vista.
Free IV. Make it a city. Hire me as Mayor. The fact that adults – even young adults – can’t live their lives on a nub jetting out into an ocean, or in their overpriced apartments in America, is unAmerican.
yesterday this lady had the cutest eight month old twin boys in a side-by-side stroller built for two.
she was talking with her friend and they were talking about the swine flu, which is messed up because arent you not really supposed to be in the subway during the swine flu especially with babies?
and she goes “i wonder why the swine flu attacks the children of mexico so hard?”
and as if on cue one of the twins reaches down to his shoe, which is nice and dirty, and puts the shoe in his mouth.
bottom side up.
i felt like i was in an r crumb piece.
then last weekend i was on the way to the movies. i was waiting for the light to change and this dude was all, hey man do you have fifteen cents?
i tried to blow him off by just smiling and pretending i was jamming to the tunes coming through my headphones, but he was persistent.
and the damn light wouldnt change.
and he pulls out a double-quilted-toilet-paper-roll-sized roll of twenties and says “really, i need fifteen cents to get on the bus” and he showed me a handful of change.
i have this great Obey wallet that has two slots for coins. i have two quarters, easy access.
i handed one over and he was all “my hero. my hero!”
the light changed and i crossed vermont and i thought, did i just help a crime happen?
via yr pal matthew good
maybe we *should* let Arnold become eligible to be President