Stone Cold For Pasadena Mayor 

I hope everyone had a great Valentine’s Day.  While I showered my sweetheart in chocolates and other goodies, she got me The Legacy of Stone Cold Steve Austin DVD.  I’ve already watched the first disc and - my oh my - it’s a pretty good documentary so far.  If you’re a wrestling fan, The Proc highly recommends it.  Austin’s career spanned the big changeover in the pro wrestling industry - when it went from cutsey-”I love the fans” babyface good guys to guys who used profanity, beat up their boss, and still received admiration from legions wrestling fans.

Also, a lot of people yesterday learned about March 14th a/k/a Steak & BJ Day.  Thanks to Frazgo over at Metroblogging LA for educating even more people.  I mean - what a concept!  Steak? Good.  Blowjobs? Great!  Get that A-1 Steak Sauce and DVD of “Caligula” ready.

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Pasadena Police Chief, Interim City Manager, and in the lead for the role of Joe Friday in the next Dragnet film - Barney Melekian 

In this week’s P-Dub, an article by “Mr. Thursday Morning” Andre Coleman discusses interim CM Barney Melekian’s wishes to become permanent CM Barney Melekian.  There are definitely pros and cons to this whole thing.  I mean, I don’t blame the guy - I’d definitely pick sitting in a nice cushy seat behind the dais with all of my buddies over risking my life every single day.  I mean - what’s safer than a City Council meeting?  Right??

Oh, wait…maybe I should take that back.  Sorry about that, chief. 

I don’t really dislike Melekian.  Sure, I pick on him, but I pick on every one (who deserves it).  The problem is - it would be another way to stack the deck against the real people in Pasadena.  It’s no secret he’s nearly down with guys like Bogaard like Jay-Z is down with Beyonce (Note for Ann Erdman: the latter are two pop stars who are dating).  Although everyone’s excuse for having anybody in office who still shouldn’t be in office is their “affability” or “likeability”, does it really serve the people in this City to have another ”Yes-man” to the Evil Empire? 

We need someone who can see through all of this limo liberal bullshit from a mile away.  Someone who is there to be a City Manager and not an extra, non-elected City Council member who will undoubtedly serve the people who put him there rather than the people who are part of ”the Club”.  Although I’m not in 100% agreement with what Iron Maggie states in the article, we do need to see what’s out there before we just go with Barney.  A majority of the Council, though, asks “Why buy the milk when you get the police chief for free?”

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Artist’s depiction of Wayne Lusvardi

Wayne Lusvardi busts Measure D wide open with a left cross and leaves Paul Little in a pool of political blood in this recent article.  He protests that while Measure D may have won the battle, the City of Pasadena won the moral war. 

I’m not one to dissect things quite as fastidiously as Mr. Lusvardi, though.  I simply think Measure D passed due to a lot of voter ignorance.  There’s a ton of people in the Crown City who only vote in Presidential primaries and general elections.  They don’t know who Bogaard is, they don’t know what taxes they’re voting yes on, they could give a damn about what goes on here because, in their eyes, the national election is more important than the local election.

In fact, a local election hits your home far more than a national one does.  Let’s face it - some people are just plain stupid.  I highly doubt most people read the “Yes” or “No” on Measure D flyers.  Well, let me say, anyone who voted “Yes” on Measure D is either stupid, misinformed, mildly retarded and drooling, or in the back pocket of Bogaard/in the crotch of Madison.

I can’t wait to see what the City of Pasadena’s argument is against my term limits idea.  I’m sure we’ll be seeing tons of literature about how “bad” it is for people to serve on Council for 100 years.  I’m sure retractors of term limits will say “Look at their supporters - he’s just a crazy guy who used to wear make-up” and pull out pictures of me from a year ago.  People who claim they care about the people but are quick to dismiss someone who isn’t in their little club. 

I’m just happy I’m going to be shaking things up here in Pasadena.  Term limits are right for Pasadena.  The way Measure D was handled is exact proof.

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Get a fucking job.

If you frequent Old Town, you may have noticed an influx of homeless people as of late.  This is partially due to the fact that idiots at Union Station in LA give them bus tokens and they take the Gold Line here to harass all of us.  And I’m serious about harass:  these bums have been getting more and more agressive by the day.

A co-worker of mine went to the General Store down on Fair Oaks yesterday afternoon and was verbally accosted by this old chick because she watched him buy a can of Coke and he didn’t buy one for her.  I saw this same woman this morning in Mills Alley - asking me - actually yelling at me - for $2 while she’s holding a cigarette in one hand and a Starbucks cup in the other. 

Then you’ve got the weirdo cat guy who sits on Colorado - between Fair Oaks & Raymond.  Then you’ve got the lamest homeless of all: the punk rocker kids who have a nice cozy home to go to but want to be “cool” and not shower and get all offended when an apparent “square” like me doesn’t give them a dime.

I’m not a hypocrite by any means.  Long time readers of this blog know my trials and tribulations last year when I lost my job and was nearly homeless.  It’s not like I didn’t exercise my resources though.  I’m fully aware tragedy can strike someone any time, any place.  I remember seeing this homeless guy at the Penn Center train station as a child who I later found out was a pretty prosperous archetict whose wife left him, his house burned down, and his family disowned him.  You’ve got to figure, though, 95% of these people are there because of drugs, booze, and other general loser-ness.

I’m just sick of running into homeless people all over Old Town, of all places.  You know - the place where they send 20 cops to bust a guy for making a scene on a bus?  You’d think the Pasadena Elite would want to protect precious Old Town.

Here’s a few solutions if you’re ever run into by one of these aforementioned peeps (not all of them by me) that seem to work - and if not - are downright hilarious:  

  • Tell them you already gave $20 to another homeless guy nearby and didn’t plan ahead.
  • Pull a quarter out of your pocket, pretend like you’re going to hand it to them, and then throw it in the other direction.
  • Say “I know a guy who has tons of money” and have them write down Victor Gordo’s address. 
  • Tell them you’ll meet them in 5 minutes with some cash.  Walk away and never come back.
  • Get all Michael Douglas in “Falling Down” and inform them Pasadena isn’t their pissing ground and to go back to dirty Los Angeles where they came from. Handing them a suitcase which only contains an apple and a sandwich would work wonders with this.

Hero. 

Well - that about wraps it up for this week.  Have a great weekend and a safe three-day weekend if you’re lucky enough to be off on President’s Day.

Stand & Deliver.

- AP