Photo of the Day: November 27, 2009
Morning Roundup: Black Friday Edition
Car Pushed Into Anacostia River By Train
Devendra Banhart @ 9:30 Club
While we wait for the results of this full week of D.C. Council budget negotiations, a process that's at least partly colored by the most recent Marion Barry scandals, we thought it might be good for all of us to take a step back from complaining about our city's ineffectual political system ... and laugh about someone else's. DCist tech guru Tom Lee recently circulated these videos, compiled from the open public comment periods at sessions of the Santa Cruz City Council and the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors in Santa Cruz, Calif., and we just can't stop watching them. Every community has its crosses to bear in the form of weirdos and busybodies who like to shove their way into local politics, but Santa Cruz appears to have more than its fair share. We hasten to add that the first 25 seconds or so of the audio portion of this video is NSFW.
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We went to the Macy's at 12th & G this morning for the Black Friday morning specials. There was a sh
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All those goddamn dirty hippies.
Herbert! Just like the stiff lady councilperson who threatened to sic the heat on that talky dude.
WAS THAT JOHN MALKOVICH IN THE FIRST 16 SECONDS?
The Santa Cruz City Council has been receiving a lot of blog attention lately, perhaps because of the mention in the Huffington Post. The one to beat is still the woman who talks about vegetable trees and how us East Coasters still own slaves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dChBN_zfofY
the next miss s carolina
The next governor of Alaska.
The next American Apparel model.
This. Is. Amazing.
This. Is. Amazing.
This. Is. Amazing.
Huffington Post has featured some Santa Cruz nuttiness for a few days now...
Ah I didn't realize that's where it came from.
Fortunately, Santa Cruz council doesn't have to deal with business at the same level DC doesn. Mostly they're one of the last true hippy towns who smokes more than their fair share of the happy weed. And to top it all off it's always had a love-hate relationship with it's university...
They are who they are. DC city council is just screwed up.
There is really no comparison--the DC City Council has all of it's in-house kookiness sitting behind the long table in elected office, ostensibly for those people who wanted to sound important and got not nowhere else to go (now repeat while crying to Lou Gossett Jr., I GOT NO WHERE ELSE TO GO!!). These people in Santa Cruz, yep, for most of them, that's the sweet sticky-icky talking.
Hey, wait....is Santa Cruz the seaside town where all of those vampires led by Kiefer Sutherland and the old guy who does voice-overs for the History Channel in The Lost Boys? You would think that if I were in a raffish young vampire motorcycle gang, I would hang around outside the Santa Cruz city hall, until at least I see the two Coreys showing up.
This one is still my favorite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA1hyqA6UTY
If you want more city council insanity look up Detriots city council. They have some videos on youtube as well. Its like 8 Marion Barrys all trying to out Marion each other.
Such as.
As a UC Santa Cruz grad (Stevenson '97), I only have two things to add:
1) Mr. "Piss & Shit" still owes me $5.
2) Well played, Ladies & Gentlemen.
Polenta.
Important distinction:
In Santa Cruz, the insanity is coming from public comment.
In DC, the insanity comes from the Council itself.
I envision Monkey as the dude holding the webcam and reading all of the numbers, and Sommer (wearing the vintage 1980s sweater) yelling sir, if you don't stop commenting, I will have you arrested!!!