Heroes have risen.
The sun is out in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, again, apparently unaware there is a novel Coronavirus terrorizing the entire globe. Striking much fear into hearts and minds from Hot Water Beach, New Zealand to Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz, USA.
Terrorizing and striking much fear but thankfully we have bold global leaders who have plotted humanity on a course where few people have caught the un-common cold, fewer people have jobs and no people have even make-believe freedoms.
Pretend rights.
After puttering around the house for a moment, make-believe teaching my young daughter homeschool math and happening to catch part of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s press conference, I decided to go for yet another bike ride even though the last one ended disastrously and/or historically.
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s press conference was playing at very low volume as he and I have beef but I saw his lips moving and saw words like “we won” and “curve flattened” and “restrictions eased.”
I didn’t know where I was going, as there is officially nowhere to go, but outside is better than inside and with restrictions eased felt I might stumble into a block party.
Maybe a street magician performing entertaining sleight of hand.
My first stop was a point overlooking my local break. I knew it wasn’t firing as the wind whipped hard and onshore first thing this morning but old habits die hard.
There were whitecaps as far as the eye could see and a 300 yard ribbon of chocolate brown from the latest rain squalls.
Cashew nut pork brown.
Suddenly I became very hungry, fitness being a foreign concept more or less, and needed sustenance.
Birdseye Kitchen in Leucadia has the best cashew nut pork anywhere outside Laos and so I called in a quick order with a side of white rice. Spice medium. 5 on a scale of 1 – 10 which is always a sneaky treat. Sometimes it is more mild than I prefer but usually singes perfectly.
It took me fifteen minutes to pick it up and while I was riding back to eat it in my yard became very scared that it would be too cold.
Panicked, I saw a little patch of grass with no one around.
Should I dare?
Could I dare?
Nobody was around and Gavin Newsom bullish and….
…cold cashew pork with medium spice is a crime in itself so I parked my bike, sat on a towel that my bike carries, unsheathed my chopsticks and partook.
Delicious.
After a few minutes a very elderly man shuffled to a bench, well over 25 yards away, and unfurled a newspaper. After a few more minutes a mom with her toddler posted up on a picnic table an equal 25 yards away and unfurled a lunch.
Sun out.
Birds singing.
Then, without warning, all hell broke loose. Three sheriff SUVs came sliding to a stop patch of grass adjacent. Recalling my previous brush with the Coronavirus Gestapo, I wanted nothing to do with any of it and got up to vacate but too late.
Bull rushed by a masked Gestapo, one hand on gun, the other on ticket book. I told him I was moving along, heading back to quarantine jail, but no matter.
“These are our Governor’s demands.”
There was no use arguing and I hoped to draw ire away from very elderly man and mom with toddler but no such luck.
The Gestapo had them too.
I told my officer to stop talking to me and just write the damned ticket, which he did, then made my way over to the mom and toddler and told all three on her case that they should all be ashamed of themselves, breathily whispering “Shame on you…” into one of their masked ears for emphasis.
“Governor Newsom…” one of them uttered again.
Governor Newsom and I have now have fresh beef.
Ticket two.
First for Thai-esque salad.
Second for cashew pork featuring medium spice.
Both within view of the ocean.
Heroes have risen.
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Pfff
Burqemptive
I dont get it. what exactly were you doing wrong?
Not exactly a shocker. And I think Sarte and co. of fellow geniuses, like it capitalized, “Communists” much like Hummer drivers compensating for their undervalued and under-sized 5th appendage.
Heroes don’t rise or have not risen, they arise or have arisen. Zeebus Chas, and here i thought you were a Hem. fan-boy.
I like spicy
Nope, never seen a one here, especially north San Diego county. Better off looking elsewhere.
I like to make conversation about what people choose to wear sometimes. Chas Smith is often quite flamboyant wearing fancy designer brands and pinks and chinos and espadrilles and linen suits at times. The jean shorts look like a regression. Maybe they’re just worn out jeans that were cut at the knee and washed to give the fluffed denim look at the leg opening.
There are a great many reasons why northern California is superior to southern, and two of them are our currently open beaches and open parks.
If when this insanity is done, Nor Cal stayed relatively open then I’ll give it to you. San Diego stayed open lots longer than LA then hammer dropped hard and completely illogically. I’d gamble that hammer is coming for you. Also, I thought you were all for these draconian measures?
Do you always speak about yourself in third person point of view? Or is that journalistic “style”?
Asking for myself.
Lifeguards here have said there are no plans to close beaches, nor an effective way to do so, we don’t have the beach patrol infrastructure of SoCal. Trails are open, people allowed in parks responsibly, etc. I’m all for things that make sense. Social distancing makes sense. Keeping people from surfing or going hiking makes no sense.
State of mind bro….
What qualifies Gavin Newsom to make these decisions? Does anyone know that his start in politics resulted from his refusal to install a sanitary sink in one of his many wine bars? After being instructed by the San Francisco Health Department to install the sink, he rejected the order and went into politics so he would be sure to always get his way. Think about all the dirty hands and germs in that wine bar. Who knows, Covid-19 may be his fault. It could have originated from one of his dirty wine bars. Anyone familiar with his Restorative Justice policy that he imposed into schools? The man is an idiot and has to be removed from office. Lyn Semeta, the mayor of Huntington Beach, is the only politician in Southern California that has resisted Newsom’s absurd restrictions. Vote for Semeta.
Have you ever observed someone like Newsome stand at a podium and speak so, so many words and say so little?
If Governor G has his way, and he is relishing in the nuance and minutia of his 6 step plan to bring California back to life, we in California are truly f’ed. We will never see the light of day or taste salt water on our lips again. Our south swell season in nearing boys and girls. Time for the Ticket Target Chas to lead with a plan.
For the jean shorts?
Insanity: doing the same thing over & over again & expecting different results
Is it his comb over or the orange make up that attracts you?
Or the nepotism and ignorance? Maybe it’s the business acumen and a team of lawyers starving out his business partnerships?
Oh the daughter who rips off Italian designers… she’s so hot until you consider she fucks a Ken Doll designed by John Waters. Someone made that up and I love that description. Is your Jared the most punchable human on earth LGR?
So many to choose from. Erik, Don Jr, the Jared, Lyndsey, Mitch chin, Jeff was the AG, Cohen, Lev, Rudy, that fuck in Florida, Rubio, worse Nunes, Rohrbacher, that fuck in florida, mother fucking scott Walker…
What about effeminate “conservatives” appeals to you?
Rhetorical question….
Don’t, please tell……
Nothing like a good murder mystery ending….
Several trips every winter, some extended stay… 80 through 91… never went back to Oahu, but Kauai through the 90’s.
Several trips in the 70’s with the folks, more town.
I know the place.
not vegan.
I don’t like cake enough
Best line ups require no games other than surfing.
Of course that is the opposite of real estate values. Good on you.
i look at Trump and ask myself… how could anyone stomach this lying fuck let alone defend him vigorously.
I’m weird like that.
Today, Georgia Democrat Rep. Vernon Jones endorses President Donald J. Trump for re-election.
“It’s very simple to me. President Trump’s handling of the economy, his support for historically black colleges and his criminal justice initiatives drew me to endorse his campaign,” Jones said. “This is not about switching parties. There are a lot of African Americans who clearly see and appreciate he’s doing something that’s never been done before,” Jones added. “When you look at the unemployment rates among black Americans before the pandemic, they were at historic lows. That’s just a fact.”
What do you have to say to Democrat Rep. Vernon Jones?
I will fact check you, that’s what I’ll say.
You don’t believe him cause he’s…black?
No because I haven’t seen that myself.
I’m not a Trumpet
Wow, he’s the definition of Uncle tom.
That’d incredibly racist to say, and I hate Trump. Is Condoleeza Rice, probably the most accomplished and talented woman alive today, an “Uncle Tom [sic]”?
Thanks for alerting me to this person.
He’s delirious with Covid? 1200 got my vote, all hail King Trump!!!
Its not weird and I am a former-Republican, never ever a Demo, or liberal, in its modern meaning, and remain a conservative, because as Camus said all revolutionaries are conservative by definition.
Pretty fluid definition, yes. Journalism at it’s best.
Like Nick Carroll typing Quiksilver Ad Copy… busy fingers.
Oh the days….