I promised my kids I was going to take them to Disneyland this week, but I guess I lied. There’s just no way we can go now that southern California is burning from the mountains to the ocean.
Click the picture for a closer look. The wildfires aren’t very close to Disneyland but the air quality has been upgraded from “POOR” to “UNHEALTHY” and isn’t getting any better, so we’re staying home. Unfortunately, Santa Barbara has a pretty big cloud overhead too, mostly from ash and dust leftover from the Zaca Fire that’s blowing into town. The ground is covered by a fine layer of black soot and everything smells like a used pack of Lucky Strikes.
Oh well. Mickey Mouse can wait a few months. In the meantime I’m going to stay home, clean my desk, play with my kids and snuggle with my wife. The weekend will be filled with other fun things to do, like taking the kids to a Halloween party and marching them down State Street in the Halloween parade, stuff like that.
I just wish it wasn’t so hot. It’s like we’re a mile from the sun.
Over the weekend I went to the Southern California Ukulele Festival and it inspired me to finish writing a song that had been buzzing around in my head for a while. It’s called “Miss Mischief”.
The picture above is of one of the ukuleles I picked up at the show. It’s a neat little axe with an inlay of a pretty island scene made out of abalone or some other shiny substance.
Here’s a short little video of David Wachter and I jamming at San Diego Comic Con earlier this summer. I just found this; I thought it had been accidentally deleted.
And here’s another short one from Comic Con last year featuring Nat Purcell:
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Monday I was out sick with a horrible stomach flu. While I was busy hurling my guts out with demonic force, some guy robbed the Sizzler right next to my office.
I guess this dumbass with a ski mask and a gun broke into the restaurant and waited by the office for the first employee of the day to arrive, then jacked them for cash. Within minutes there were Sheriffs and hostage negotiators and SWAT guys outside our door, crawling all over the place and aiming their guns everywhere. They surrounded the whole area.
Pretty soon they got a report that there was a suspicious looking dumbass in the Toyota dealership parking lot across the street. It turns out that the robber went into the bathroom at the dealership to change his clothes instead of getting the hell out of the area. So the cops rushed in there and arrested the guy while my co-workers took pictures and video.
Apparently it was pretty cool to watch the whole scene unfold. I wouldn’t know because I was too busy hugging the toilet bowl at home.
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