Author: CoolDMZ

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Kings Tidbits

TZ at Sactown Royalty hopes to show the world that the Lakers are evil.

I haven’t been paying as much attention to this “Team Dime” saga as I should, mostly because when I hear that name it sounds like maybe the name of a middle school club. Before you fear for my safety, dear readers, remember that Team Dime is just a “support group” for #10, and not a gang. Though if they start hanging out in West Sac nightclubs, since they’re banned from Sac, maybe West Sac won’t be so charitable in its labeling.

Just Say No

CBS13 tells us that the California Correctional Peace Officers Association is suing the state of CA on behalf of Donald Cathey, who was ordered to remove his “Just say no to Arnold” shirt while on the job at a prison (doesn’t say which). I won’t get into the messy argument of free speech for public employees, I just want to point out that demanding that your employee not wear a shirt advocating disobedience of authorities kind of makes sense when you work at a prison.

End of an Era

By now I suppose most of you have heard that Kevin “The Rat” Radich is leaving the Rise Guys after today to move to the Bay Area, where his wife has been living (she’s a radio weatherperson). I’m not a frequent Rise Guys listener, so this is news to me. In researching this morning I found a gem of a Web page about Sac radio history.

A great detail in the Sac Bee story is that the other Rise Guys gave the Rat crap about choosing the girl (his wife) over sports. Oh really? I wonder if they came up with some hilarious comedy schtick to go along with it, like making a cat sound and then a whipping sound. Bros before ho’s!!

Kings 05-06 Home Opener

DB at The Barnesyard found a great moment on the video screen in last night’s Kings home opener. Anybody else see this or is DB out of his gourd.

I watched the whole opening with my daughters (2 years, 7 months) and my 2 year old loved it, though for a few moments it was deemed scary. The whole thing did have a very occult human sactifice ritual vibe to it which is probably supposed to seem cool. And now she is nuts for Bonzi Wells, or at least for his name.

UPDATE: DB was right. It turns out Sacramento does have its own newspaper (who knew?) and it did, in fact, cover this story today.

SacBee(n) Loves Them Some Mason’s

Though commentary at Heckasac lately (at least that small percentage of it that concerns itself with The Sac Rag) has been coming down strongly against the Snark, I hope the Sacblogging community can read between the lines and see that this interesting discussion developing there about Mason’s and Sacbee restaurant review suckiness is tangentially related to my comments about Sac being all about getting the newest trendiest thing and turning its back on the old and cherishable.

Partisan Rhetoric

I never really waste much time worrying about the divisiveness of American politics. Supposedly the people are too polarized, neighbors don’t see eye to eye, cats can’t get along with dogs, nerds and jocks fight constantly. A couple of quotes today in reference to yesterday’s election caught my eye, however. Here’s Governer Schwarzenegger on the apparently failed Proposition 73:

I wouldn’t want to have someone take my daughter to a hospital for an abortion or something and not tell me. I would kill him if they do that.

He talk funny. Well, Arnold could perhaps be forgiven for taking such a tone; he’s a parent, he’s talking about serious issues. But then there’s Democratic political consultant Garry South, who is confused by right-leaning reforms because, in his words, the state “just got raped by corporations in the energy crisis.” Whoa there, egghead. Save the men’s room talk for the men’s room. Grody!

Breasts Not Bombs… Err, on Second Thought, Bombs

Now when you heard about this protest, you had to know it wasn’t going to be the staff from the new Hooters. And these brazen protesters did not disappoint. One of the women who was arrested (Sheba Love no less), actually had a beard. “War is indecent, Special Elections are indecent,” quoth Ms. Love as she was carted off to be booked. You know, I was gonna say something about apples and oranges there but somehow it doesn’t seem appropriate.

Oh, and the small crowd that gathered to witness the spectacle? Mostly men, or as I prefer to call them, “pervs.”