To The Moon...Live at Luna's
I’ve never actually caught Keith’s act, and I’m not sure the “Coexist Comedy” thing is my cup of tea, but I have been a big fan of stand-up comedy since I was a kid, and I have an affinity for the Renaissance man. KLJ is all over the map and I love that.
Watch this here web log in the near future for a review of the album.
You’ve probably already seen this, but Good Day Sacramento and Mark S. Allen made TMZ (again) today with this deliciously awkward clip in which Mark S. Allen tries an awkward put-down on Joan Rivers and Rivers responds by dropping an F-bomb on live morning TV.
grungy sunny Anaheim, CA where we visited the fabulous Disneyland Resort. On our second day in the park, while passing through Adventureland, who should I pass shoulder-to-shoulder with than Sacramento’s own Mark S. Allen. Adventureland, of course, is a major traffic bottleneck, so I didn’t have the time or energy to stop him or track him down.
By the way, a good method for renewing your appreciation for the wonderfulness of Northern California is to visit Southern California.
I know this is not necessarily a laughing matter but I can’t help, well, chuckling a bit whenever a headline has the word “sickened” being used for its literal meaning:
1 Sickened By Odor In Rancho Cordova Building (KCRA)
Are investigators considering the person who tipped them off as a person of interest, on the legal theory of He who smelt it, dealt it?
We spotted the coolest couple in town this weekend at Trader Joe’s in East Sacramento. He was bald and wearing faded short-legged blue coveralls, which gave him the appearance of an artist in his paint clothes. She had reddish dyed hair done up in an old-fashioned style, vintage inspired shades, a blouse, and high-waisted side-zip 1950s dungarees, like these from Freddies of Pinewood, but even higher-waisted and with flared legs. The two looked like Katharine Hepburn and Jackson Pollock out doing errands.
They passed in front of our car in the TJ’s parking lot and loaded their groceries into a older Volvo sedan. I’m not much for talking about fashion, but I knows über-cool when I sees it. If I were writing for The Sactorialist I would have stopped traffic in the TJ’s parking lot to take their photo.
Has anybody else seen this couple? Or did we dream it?
This morning’s Good Day Sacramento featured Art Beast in several spots in the “Prego (sic) & Beyond Posse” segment. (Or are they are covered in delicious sauce?) Reporter Lisa Gonzales spends a few hours at the studio, which looks like the most amazing place ever, interviewing owner Bridget Alexander. Anchor Chris Burrous then takes credit for “finding” Art Beast. What I assume he means is that he saw it first on this here web log and thought it looked like a good story ripe for horkin’. Only Mr Burrous knows for sure…
News & Review’s Cosmo Garvin blogs about Regional Transit’s EPIC WIN last week when the California 3rd District Court of Appeals ruled (in the case SHAW et al. v. THE PEOPLE ex rel. CHIANG, as Controller, etc., et al.) that a portion of the money taken from Public Transportation Account in the last 3 budget years must be repaid. Garvin points out that there is obviously no money in the state’s wallet to pay out, so it remains to be seen what will happen.
What should happen, to borrow a phrase, is the political heads of Gov. Schwarzenegger and many other elected officials on a platter. What would happen to a businessperson who shifted money around in order to pay his company’s bills and did something illegal?
In other crazy lawsuit news, convicted DUI manslaughterer Roberto Vellanoweth is suing the Camino Real Restaurant for serving him a “boozed-up mystery drink” that he claims caused the fatal crash in which he killed 4 people one horrifying and tragic day in South Land Park.
Obviously this is another insane what-is-this-world-coming-to lawsuit, but am I the only one who thinks it wouldn’t be a bad thing if somebody put that place out of business? In California there is really no excuse for bad Mexican food. The Yelpers back me up, using phrases like “HUGE mistake,” “thrown up,” “funny odor,” and “fat jerky was that brown ooze it had been swimming in” in their mostly 1-star reviews. If you’ve been to Camino Real Restaurant, you might wonder whether the mystery dosage in Vellanoweth’s drink was Hepatitis A. (This joke was brought to you by Mrs Cool.)
This Independence Day weekend meant a visit to our good-weather holiday destination, Ancil Hoffman Park. This is one of my favorite spots in the whole area, and I don’t even play golf. Here are some of my photos from the occasion.
Today is the grand opening of a new venture called ArtBeast:
ArtBeast Studio provides open studio space, arts exploration rooms, and loads of classes so that children can dig into the arts.
It benefits the awesomely named Tubman House. For parents of little kids this is a godsend — both because of the budget and because of the lack of things to do in Sac when it is hot or raining. And I can’t say enough about the fact that they have a “pledge to the shy.” In addition to arts & crafts they have puppets and costume stuff and a music room, and in addition to free range play ArtBeast will also offer a number of organized classes. Perfect for preschool age kids or homeschooling families. This might be the coolest thing to ever hit the 916, family fun-wise. Not to mention the pretty slick Web design!
ArtBeast Studio
2226 K St.
(916) 441-1233
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