Friday, September 21, 2012
Bully V. Bully
So a couple weeks ago, I was walking with Stevie towards the Fresh & Easy grocery store up here in Capital City, when the sight of picketers reminded me that they are non-union, even though their stores in the UK are unionized. Anyway, as I was walking away, one asked to pet Stevie and since they were out there in 88 degree weather, I figured she could use it. When I got back to them, some Dedicated Fox News Viewer rolled up claiming he was a "Small Business" man & proceeded to continue a barrage of abuse he'd already started at them. I threw my union credentials in with the two ladies and told the fool he was barking up the wrong union for his "two employees", which I assume hang below his Small Business Man. Then I told the ladies to ignore him because he was trying to bait them. Then he got mad! He kept trying to get us to call our unions for his nonexistent employees, when I grew tired of him & told his ass that if he were a decent boss, his two "employees" wouldn't even need a union, at which point he ran to his car & drove off. The ladies told me that the other day, a 70-year old man hit the younger lady when she was writing down his lic. # after a tirade of abuse & the old fucker threw his truck into reverse & hit her. He tried to deny it to the cops, so the cops went into the store & watched the security cam footage. Guess who got arrested? These cowardly rightwing dumbfucks get on my nerves.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Welcome Back To The Fillmore!
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
My Dream Gown Circa 1986
This will be one of the saddest posts of the day.
Mummified body of former Playboy playmate Yvette Vickers found in her Benedict Canyon home
Yvette Vickers, an early Playboy playmate whose credits as a B-movie actress included such cult films as “Attack of the 50-Foot Woman” and “Attack of the Giant Leeches,” was found dead last week at her Benedict Canyon home. Her body appears to have gone undiscovered for months, police said.
Vickers, 82, had not been seen for a long time. A neighbor discovered her body in an upstairs room of her Westwanda Drive home on April 27. Its mummified state suggests she could have been dead for close to a year, police said.
The official cause of death will by determined by the Los Angeles county coroner's office, but police said they saw no sign of foul play.
Vickers had lived in the 1920s-era stone and wood home for decades, and it served as the background for some of her famous modeling pictures. But over time it had become dilapidated, exposed in some places to the elements.
Susan Savage, an actress, went to check on Vickers after noticing old letters and cobwebs in her elderly neighbor's mailbox.
"The letters seemed untouched and were starting to yellow," Savage said. "I just had a bad feeling."
The inside of the home was in disrepair and it was hard to move through the rooms because boxes containing what appeared to be clothes, junk mail and letters formed barriers, Savage said. Eventually, she made her way upstairs and found a room with a small space heater still on.
She was looking at a cordless phone that appeared to have been knocked off its cradle when she first saw the body on the floor, she said. Savage had known Vickers but the remains were unrecognizable, she said.
She remembered her neighbor as an elegant women in a broad straw hat, dressed in white, with flowing blond hair and "a warm smile."
"She kept to herself, had friends and seemed like a very independent spirit," Savage said. "To the end she still got cards and letter from all over the world requesting photos and still wanting to be her friend."
Savage said the neighbors felt terrible.
"We've all been crying about this," she said. "Nobody should be left alone like that."
Source - LA Times.com, Dlisted.com