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I Love Paris in the...Winter
Only the cigar blunts.— February 19, 2008 4:20 p.m.
Mistaken Identify
Interesting. Well, who said it was a "sloppy" job? To me, having six different, independant people identify the person, doesn't seem "sloppy". My definition of sloppy (aside from my office and car)....is the Duke case. Jumping to conclusions, and doing stupid things. Now, if the DA or prosecutor did some shaddy stuff, throw 'em in jail, and toss the key. I don't know if you're familiar with the Lindburg baby case from way back...but I read an interesting thing about that case. Since they basically paid the kidnappers ransom, then the baby turned up dead, the police REALLY wanted to nail someone for this. Especially since Charles L. was this "hero" type. So, when a guy was caught with one of the marked bills (he found the money in his garage; a garage he rented out to someone he didn't know from Germany)..but he lied to the police about where he got the money (for fear that he'd lose the money, or not get it back). He told the real story once he realized what was going on, but the police were already convinced they "had their man". So....they had him rewrite the ransom note. Guess what? Handwriting experts said it didn't match. So, the police erased some of the loops, made them wider, and changed other letters around. They also took the ladder, that was used to climb into the house and kidnap the baby, and put some of the wood from it in this guys garage. Guess what happened? He got the death penalty. I think General Schwarzkopff (sp?) father or grandfather, was heavily involved in the case. That's the type of illegal stuff I don't like. But, when a case goes thru the legal channels, and you just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time...you can't just lock up judges and DAs.— February 19, 2008 4:19 p.m.
I Love Paris in the...Winter
Well, I've never been "buzzed", from anything other than alcohol. I only tried pot twice, and both times, by accident (wow, I sounded so Bill Clinton right there). One time, as a 15-year-old...this guy on my basketball team, his older brother was a drug dealer. And at his birthday party, they had put a lot of pot in the brownies. I ate a bunch, and was out of my mind. Another time, crashing a party in North Park, they had pot brownies. I ate two. I didn't know. And, they didn't seem to have an affect on me. Again, I hate to say this, because it sounds bad....but if you are a responsible person, you can do more things that are irresponsible, like talking on a cell phone while you drive. Or, after you've had a few glasses of wine. It's a kid that is 18 years old, and he already does stupid things behind the wheel, and he's used to getting away with it, and not being in an accident, and then he gets careless, and he is on his cell phone, doesn't negotiate the turn properly, goes over the cliff...and then talk of cell phones being banned comes out. Yet, nobody else does this. Remember the guy that got in a car accident because he was on his computer? What about the the DVDs and TVs I see people have in their SUVs? I don't think they should be banned, yet I don't think you should be watching TV while you drive, either. But you should have the option of "listening" to it if you want, or letting your passengers watch. And...the first time a cop sees you sitting at a traffic light, and it turns green, and you don't go, because you are watching that screen, then you should get an extra $500 attached to the ticket. The first time a cop sees you swirve, and talking on your cell phone, slap an extra $500 to the ticket. This way, you punish the people that CAN NOT drive and multi task, while nut punishing the rest of us that do follow the rules of the road, but enjoy the luxuries like using our cell phones when we're stuck in traffic, etc.— February 19, 2008 12:13 p.m.
101.5 KGB
This was a part of Cookie's story we had to edit for length. I thought it was a cool ending, and thought I'd post it here: Fast forward 32 years to the Summer of 2007. My wife and I are in New York City with tickets to two shows one particular night. A pair for AWB at B.B. King's on 42nd Street, and for HBO comedienne Susie Essman at Caroline's on Broadway. Our friends Jim Lee and his girlfriend Rebecca were also in Manhattan that week, and I offered them AWB. We rendezvoused in front of 30 Rock, handed off the tickets and off we went in separate directions. During Essman's wonderfully vile show my cell phone beeped. A pix-text from Jim of AWB on stage, just blocks away. A week later, I see Jim in San Diego. He had a gift for me. It was an AWB live CD, autographed by sax genius Fred Vigdor. It reads: "Thanx 4 not showing up Cookie, Fred."— February 19, 2008 1:16 a.m.
Frightened by Fourplay
Every DJ (that has worked at a station with a window from the studio) has a horror story about people showing up. I remember doing a late night shift, and looking over just after I turned the mic off, and a huge person was standing there with a beer, giving me a "thumbs up". I jumped about 10 feet. Another time, a listener showed up at 10 p.m. wanting to pick up concert tickets they won. But the best, most DJs will say...are the drunk women that lift up their shirts and press their breasts into the window. Very odd. Basically, when you do a night shift, it's better to just shut the shades, and not be distracted.— February 19, 2008 1:12 a.m.
Freeze for Fame
I told Sherry this story as we talked about this piece. I once worked with this guy named Darryl. All we every talked about was sports and movies. I once asked him his favorite kind of music. He gave me a weird looking, and said "We won't have anything in common when it comes to music." I assumed he said that because he was black and I was white. When he said he loved Parliament, and George Clinton, I then needed to show I knew some 70s funk and I said "What do you think of Bootsy Collins as a bassist?" We talked about 70s bands like Earth, Wind, and Fire, and others, for hours. He went on and on about Clinton being his favorite. Well...I met him a few months later at NAMM (a music convention in Anaheim). I said "You gotta give me an autograph for a coworker that loves you." He asked how to spell his name, and I didn't know. We hoped it was "Darryl". He even drew a little character of himself, with dreads going everywhere. When I saw Darryl, and told him the story and handed him the autograph, he just casually said "Oh, thanks." And walked away. I was like....damn. He didn't seem to appreciate it. I should've just kept the damn thing!!!— February 19, 2008 1:10 a.m.
I Love Paris in the...Winter
To #1...There's another Barron in the world? I mean, that's named Barron? I had heard the grandfather was giving his fortune to charity. Or, that he was only leaving $5 mil to Paris. Didn't know his name, though. The kids won't be hurting. They're already rich. I didn't know this kid was 18, either. That should be a whole bunch of other chargers, like Hulk Hogans son, who had a small amount of alcohol in his body when he got into that crash that put his passenger in a coma. To #2, russl....yes, it CAN be a distracting activity. But is it more distracting than talking to a passenger in your car? No, it is not. In fact, less so. Because, you sometimes LOOK at your passenger. On the cell phone, you look at the road. And, WHEN I DRIVE, I often times say to the person, "Hang on a second" and set the phone down as I make a U turn, or try to pull into a parking spot. What I think others do, is they try to continue driving and talking, with only one hand, and that's when you see the car do crazy things, you see them on a cell phone, and jump to the conclusion that NOBODY should be talking on a cell phone. Now, I DO NOT dial while I drive. Or text. That is looking down at the phone, which isn't safe. What I do that is a lot more dangerous, is put CDs in the stereo, or look at the CD cover to see what the name of a certain song is. Or, I eat fast food. So...if we ban cell phone talking, we surely must pass laws to ban these other activities. I really don't see how we can't. Do you? Or, can you tell me for fact, that cell phone talking IS more dangerous than eating a burger, with dripping ketchup? We do not need to pass laws for idiots. We need cops to merely stop the idiots. #3....you have the best point. I'm in my late 30s, and in my entire life, I've been drunk probably 6 times. I've driven while over the legal limit, probably twice. Both those times, I was wrong to do so. But I guarantee, because I was in my 30s, I wasn't acting like a dumb teenager. I was conscious that (again, I know that's a cliche) I had to be more careful, and pay more attention, because I had a lot to drink. Had a cop pulled me over then, they would've been able to have a conversation with me, and not even known I had been drinking (aside for possible alcohol smell), because I wasn't in a slurring state. AGAIN, that doesn't make me doing that right. It was still wrong. And, I will stand by what I said about young Barron. IF I would've gotten a DUI, I would've deserved it. And...in my opinion, if I got one DUI, that should be a wake up call. A wake up call that you should NEVER get one again, or you should never be allowed to drive again. And believe me...after paying the DUI, and suspended license, or whatever goes along with that, it would've never happened to me again.— February 18, 2008 12:50 p.m.
High School Prank
Again, I think the dude should be punished. I just think in the realm of pranks, this isn't one of the worse ones, that's all. To me, what makes it so bad is this. You end up making yourself look bad. I know when I played high school basketball, a lot of my friends asked me if I would some day play in the NBA, or college basketball. I had to explain that I was a six foot, white guy. I also had to explain that when we played Morse High School (that did have a guy go on to the NBA), I didn't score a single point. The last thing I would want to do is something like this, KNOWING that at some point everyone is going to find out it's not true. I have to assume he told a few people, and then one thing lead to another, and someone decided to have an assembly. He didn't say "hey, you guys should have an assembly for me."— February 17, 2008 12:11 p.m.
Valentine's & Cops
Hey...I just read in the obituaries (sorry, sometimes I read them), that the dude that took the famous photo in the 60s of the hippies putting flowers in the gun barrels of soldiers died of a rare blood disease. Well, maybe that scene will could've been recreated when the cops showed up to arrest the people selling flowers on the street corners.— February 17, 2008 1:03 a.m.
Drip Dry
Cool. I'll pick it up in the near future. They should've thrown a cover of the Rolling Stones "She's Like a Rainbow" on it. I don't think Radiohead has ever done a cover, have they?— February 16, 2008 9:43 a.m.