what kind of parent...

Grateful Dawg

Just watching the David Grisman Jerry Garcia dvd. At the end David Grisman has two profound statements:
#1 I just pretend like he didn't go anywhere
#2 I adopted a philosophy of "hey, take up a little slack. Become more Jerry like".

Motel Six Bliss

Sleeping With Sam Walton

That could mean I am dead or flashing back to a '70's swinger party when I was in single digit years. What it is actually about is proof of my insight. For the two plus years I have been working for Barnes & Noble I have referred to it as the Walmart of bookstores. Recently Walmart has started selling nook, a barnes & noble product. So stop questioning what I say. I am right. Have always been right and will always be right. Ironically and/or coincidentally, depending on your perspective, my "superiors" question me all the time. Fumb ducks! Barnmart or no Wable my job has hit an all time low. You can tell a company of PC roop scoops by how many useless, dead weight, parasitic employees they will allow to flood into and stay within the confines of the company forever sucking the life out of the true contributors.

All that aside, the winter beers have been rolling out and when not around people all is well in the Free world.

Oh yeah, The Cheese turned 76 yesterday. Here is a recent picture of him from www.mansondirect.com

Keep the faith Chuck, and all.

Fuck 'Em Bucky

For those fans of Ohio State University why would you want to keep a pseudo quarterback like Terrelle " Crier" Pryor. He is not a real quarterback. However, he is a ....

Dusty Atkinson

all this post needs is his name

it has been several years and yet the void is still here

Bionic Beer Bike

Just like Steve Austin this bike wasn't worth much at one time. In fact I bought it for $15.00. With a few alterations and modifications it is now a one of a kind priceless rarity. Some of you from Flagstaff may remember the Chimay monster, despite the smaller frame this bike dwarfs that. The front post sports a 1975 Thomas Hardy's label. The seat post is wrapped in a Koningshoven Quad label. All six of the Trappist ales that have labels are represented on this bike. I have the bottle caps of the Westvleteren that I plan on fusing into the reflectors at some point. The greatest beer nations are displayed here. Austria, Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands and the UK.

In addition to the afore mentioned 75 Thomas Hardy's, I also have one from the 80's, 90's and 2000's. Plus a '77 Traquair House. Well if you want a better look at the labels just click on the pictures and like an effervescent Duvel they will explode in your face.

Talk about going to hell in a bucket but enjoying the ride!

Russian River Brewery

One can say a lot about the beers from this brewery. To begin with they are mighty tasty. They rank up there with some of the worlds best, Belgians and Trappist included. A few things that set their beers apart are overrated, over priced, and inconsistent. Overrated; as I said these are tasty beers but due to limited production are hyped beyond reason. Over priced; I purchased a six pack of Westvleteren Trappist ales, probably the rarest beers in the world for a lower price than a six pack of Angels Share would be. Inconsistent; The first time I had Russian Rivers Damnation ale I was quite impressed. It was a second cousin to an Orval. The next time I had it it was grainy and lacking in flavor and aroma.

If anyone who reads this knows any of the Russian River brew crew tell them to get off their high horses. Your beers are good but your arrogant attitude/brewing strategy has lost this customer and I will encourage others to do so.

I think I'll open a Gouden Emperor now. There is quality, consistency, and integrity in a bottle twice the size for only 75% of the price!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

its alright ma

its life and life only

STRANGLEHOLD

Other than being a great Ted Nugent song it also describes many situations. Take for example the one I am in now. In four days I will have been at the same job for two years. I realize that this means little too many who have been with a company for five, ten or twenty years, but this is the longest I have been at any job. Longer than my stay in some cities. But stranglehold... Yes I am dying. I'm in a cellar with no stairway and I'm sick of it. So I am looking to anyone who is reading this to help me out.

Though I have no talent I have a mind. One that puts in a lot of overtime. Never lets me sleep. While it roams about inside my cranium it does come up with some good ideas that with the right connections could get me out of my Big Boss Man blues environment. Take for example my idea of a line of mens ties called Stranglehold Neckwear. I have the designs in mind but neither the skills or capital to get it all started. Then there is my Trippin' Tees line that I plan on getting started soon with the help of Jonah "Pink" Lloyd and his artistic skills. Yet another division of Fiveshy Enterprises will be my novelty items. Things such as kaleidoscope glasses and Thunderwear, under pants and panties with a built in amplification panel. Then there is my advertising agency...

In a nut shell, my job sucks ( actually it is a good job but as usual the environment sucks and as much as Barnes & Noble likes to portray itself as a consumer and environmental friendly company they are as greedy and uncaring about employees as Walmart or any other pig run company) and I anticipate being fired soon and I need to make some connections. Priorities one and two are Trippin' Tees and Stranglehold Neckwear. So anyone looking to back a start up entrepreneur here I am. If you have experience in starting or have an existing clothing line I have ideas. As the saying goes, "nothing ventured nothing gained".

Even Worse, The Leslie Van Houten Saga

Leslie was also one of Charlie Manson compatriots. She was up for parole a couple days ago and politically incorrectly was denied parole. Leslie was involved in the killing of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. Now at the age of sixty she is a grand motherly figure. An actual golden girl. A prison group of old timers who show the new school the ways of reformation. As for Leslie being reformed, her prison record speaks for her. Yet she was denied parole. Some loser gang member can kill some one and be released after ten years with cliches of being a family man, changed man, rehabilitated.....As for Leslie, Debra Tate, the lifeless hanger on of her sisters memory, claims she is like a tiger which is safe while in the zoo yet released to the wild will become a blood crazed hunter. Debra Tate, your mother Doris knew and admitted that Sharons death was due to her association with a loser like Frykowski. Sadly she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Folger and Frykowski brought evil upon themselves by bringing evil upon a competitive drug dealer at that very house at 10050 Cielo Drive.

As for the La Biancas, those that know are aware of the mob connections. Will Louis Smaldino admit to this? Of course not, because mob killings are a way of life and that would be an admittance of his family being either connected or indebted to the mob.

Justice has been served on the girls who were in their teens and now sixties. Spend your tax dollars on putting a gang member to death and not in housing AARP members. MAybe the best idea would be to send all of the Manson group to super max in CO and then slide CA and its inhabitants into the ocean. Governor included...no,first.

Bruce Davis

This name may mean little to many yet much to few. He was an associate of Charles Manson who was convicted of two murders back in '71. Oddly enough he wasn't at the scene of the crime when one of the murders was committed, that being the killing of Gary Hinman. The other murder was that of Donald Shea. At the time of the trial there was no victims body and the only evidence presented by the glory and money grubbing Vincent Bugliosis cronnies was circumstantial and hearsay evidence that was permitted to be allowed. It was said that Donald Shea had been beheaded and cut into nine pieces and buried in various spots behind Spahn ranch. Although it is true that Shea was murdered and Davis admitted to his role in that death, it was evetually discovered that Shea had been stabbed and buried as a whole body. Again concoted motives and bending of the law in favor of the prosecution denied U.S. citizens of due process.

Almost forty years later, Jan 28 of this past winter, the CA parole board granted parole to Mr. Davis. He was to have been released last month. Yes, was to be. This being an election year, Californias chief political piggy used his athority to squelch the parole of a 67 year old man claiming that he is still a danger to society. Maybe the governor of the most troubled state should look in the mirror and see a real danger to society. Then look at the demographics of his state and he will see an even larger danger to the American society.

This was my sat. a.m.

It was just a stroll along the river. Peaceful. People out water skiing, fishing, and kayaking. If you click on the photos the will go to full screen so you have better imagery. Some of my happiest times are biking, running, or just walking along this trail with the sounds of Jerry twisting his strings in my ears. I always seem to have a smile on my face. Most people wouldn't recognize me.










No this is not the Grand River, or the Rio Grande, but yes those are mexicans lined up along the bed of the Yakima river just a few hundred yards from where it meets the Columbia.
These next pictures may be disturbing. I found it to be quite intriguing that a turtle could make it across the freeway and die just five feet from the wetlands. I was actually going to go to video mode because his belly was boiling out and maggots were feasting on its upper shell. I guess it is an effigy of America.

So a Jew and a German walk into a chocolate shop...

No really we did. So I frequent this beer store, and now two doors down opens up a shop called "The House Of Chocolate". The funniest part of it all is that the door between the two shops is for a place called Curves for Women! I have to say that this shop is great. It is a family run business in West Richland WA, and when you walk in the aroma, oh the aroma. It was my last day of vacation (sat and sun dont count) and as per the recent trend I went broke. Last year it was prompted by the pigs. This year it was vehicular strong armed robbery. But what is the price of freedom? So asked William Blake.

This piece of dark chocolate covered caramel and pecans cost about two bucks. Yes I live on beer and chocolate and that may be why my health is failing me. Maybe it is chocolate in my left ear that is causing my hearing loss. Oddly enough there are more important things for me to be concerned about. But I digress. Walking into that store is like a giant step into the past. Back to Fannie May at Mayfair.

My advice to all, when you are going down slow speed it up. Cut the cords of the chute and free fall into chocolate, beer, or whatever your comfort food/drink is. Maybe you will have the same fortune I had today. Beer, chocolate, and a marathon of The International Sexy Ladies Show.

Also yesterday before Aaron and his son showed up I was inspired by a letter from my friend Scott who is now in prison for defending himself and home against a bitch who admitted on the witness stand to breaking into his house (on more than that occasion) lying to 911 operators and to responding police. There is also evidence that she lied on the witness stand. Now any DA that knows of a crime having been committed is obliged to prosecute...unless you're a C#*t in Flagstaff AZ. Oh yeah, my inspired thought. I had sent him an envelope with paper and stamped/metered envelopes but the pigs running the joint stole them. My head came up with the line "there is no such thing as a clean pig". I shared this with Aaron and got this statement/fact endorsed by a Jew. Come on man, its biblical. Its not me your arguing with.

And for those of you who are so deluded to think that you can be kidnapped while doing a B&E in someone elses house, this is true kid/catknapping. Don't worry Sam, if your father follows my instructions you will be reunited with this... pussy?

Vacation without the Go Gos

Started my vacation the other day. Couldn't afford to go anywhere so I went places without leaving home. In line with what will be etched on my tombstone "Did a lot, accomplished little". So here is a pictorial of my first couple days of vacation.

Any questions?

Coincidence?

This hard rain photo brought to you by Barley Wine Paul.
If you click on the pic it will enlarge.