Author: CoolDMZ

"X-ray vision to see in between / Where's my kimono and my time machine?"

“Create an e-annoyance, go to jail”

Since this here site has been known to be an annoyance to some, I thought it important to post this bit of mind-numbingly disturbing news about our folks in Washington. Apparently, Congress has just passed, with the President’s signature, a new bill that makes it a crime to create anonymous Internet communications with the intent to “annoy” (among other verbs like harass). I’m not sure what disturbs me more, this news or the fact that the #1 movie over the weekend was the gratuitous torture movie “Hostel.”

Screen time for a local product

In your enjoyment of “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” don’t miss the conspicuous presence of a prop with a local angle. In the book collection of Steve Carrell’s Andy character are a few shelves filled with video game strategy guides from Roseville’s Prima Games. The can’t-miss red bar on the bottom of the spine shows you you’re looking at a ginuwine Prima guide, an industry standard. I think you can see them best in the scene where Catherine Keener has broken into his apartment and accused him of being a serial killer. So before you shut off the movie at that point because all of a sudden it sucks and you can’t believe how frickin long it is, take a look at the books.

Eddy does you right

Need a good haircut? Have a giant unweildy pompadour that is beyond the powers of the folks at Supercuts? Enjoy swingin to that crazy beat, Daddy-o?* Then you belong at Eddy’s Deluxe, a 4 year old East Sac barbershop in the stretch of retail anchored by Sidewalk pizza. The rockabilly music is loud, the art on the walls is grotesque and varied, the small talk is enjoyable and never forced, and most importantly the haircut is top notch.

*This is really bad. Sorry.

Wild and crazy police shooting

The wild police pursuit that ended last night with a fatal shooting of a parolee out in north county apparently happened in front of a busload of horrified high school students. According to most of the local news outfits, that is. This morning’s Bee includes a few details that will either surprise you or not, depending on your faith in the human race:

Ashley Acevedo, a 17-year-old senior, said she was sitting at the back of the bus when someone shouted, “Look at that guy running!”

“People on the bus were actually cheering for him, (saying) run, run,” Acevedo said. “He looked up at us and smiled.”

Nice work, kids! Extinction, party of 8 billion?

East Sac haunts in stages of undress

Driving up Folsom Blvd just now I noticed two East Sacramento establishments in some sort of flux… the Hospice Thrift store seems to be closing up shop or moving, or perhaps just the awning is out for cleaning. Seems like if they were moving there would be a “We’re Moving” sign. The second storefront with something strange afoot is the Hilltop bar, which kind of looked like there might have been water damage inside. Anybody have any gossip?

Every body knows (our) name

The E. K. McClatchy branch of the Sacramento Public Library might be one of my favorite places in town. Located in a former (I want to say Georgian?) mansion in the Poverty Ridge neighborhood, it is a drafty old house full of books. It’s small, so you can’t do research there like you can at the Central branch or anything, and chances are they Won’t Have It, but if you’re down for browsing or you need a dozen books for your 3 year old every week it’s top notch.

Well, it got better yesterday when we got a call from the branch librarian, Joanne, to inform us that said 3 year old had left behind an important piece of plastic jewelry. We’ve become noted regulars!

This one’s for all the parents

If you live or work in midtown, around the [ahem] Sutter General Hospital, you have undoubtedbly seen what my three year old daughter calls the “Mommy Bus,” the blue shuttle that makes a stop near the corner of the hospital and is emblazoned with a marketing image of a mom and baby.

Yesterday my daughter saw two of them, and here was her reaction, verbatim:

Two of them? They’re gonna fight, that’s what Daddy would say.

She knows me so well. That is exactly what I would say. But so far it hasn’t happened.

Re: No place like home

I’m always late on the game in posting News & Review linkage. From last week’s, here is a list from the guy from Retrocrush (Probably NSFW) of the 10 most annoying things about Sacramento.

And there’s the cover story, too, about other Sacramentos in the USA. Apparently in Sacramento, PA they call it “SOCK-ruh-MEN-dough” which, not to pile on “AD,” reminds me of the time Maeby tells her parents she’s on a field trip to Sacramende.