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from today's arcata eye...
Pot growers' property returned
By Daniel Mintz, Eye Reporter
Cable boxes, porn vanish 'malicious intent' charged
Marijuana grower Jason Browne inspects lighting equipment from which the power cord has been cut.
The Arcata Police Department's search of a Spear Avenue apartment last spring yielded 340 marijuana plants and cartloads of growing equipment and all of it (minus the pot) had to be returned this week because the District Attorney's office rejected the case.
That's not an unusual happenstance in pot cases that involve medical users. Those concerned about access to medicine say police particularly here in Arcata, where a medical marijuana ordinance is in place need to proceed with more thought to Proposition 215, the state law that makes medical use and production legal.
Arcata Police and county Sheriff's Department officers raided the Spear Avenue apartment of Jason Browne, one of the architects of Arcata's medical marijuana ordinance and a patient himself, last May. Browne and two other patients, Jason Snyder and Brian Loucks, insisted they were growing their pot medicinally, for themselves and 14 other patients.
Police went ahead with a search and confiscation, taking not only the plants and equipment, but three cable boxes, a rifle that turned out to be legally permitted and a pornographic DVD titled Asian Cum Lickers. A small bag of hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms was also found, but the D.A.'s office didn't think a jury would convict the trio and dismissed the case.
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i'll lay dimes to dollars that there's more than a few of arcata's finest tripping balls, smoking ganj that was meant for sick people, and having a wank while watching asiaphile porn as i type this. and these fuckers get paid to enforce the law and carry firearms...
thanks to MELISSA, i've been introduced to the i-net phenom known as friendster. it shouldn't come as any surprise that there's tons of SG people there and where ever there's SG folk, there's bound to be fun stuff. but the coolest discovery yet happened yesterday afternoon when i was wandering around. i found a girl that i knew back in junior high! she knew me when i rocked a pseudo-mullet and wrote to me when i went away to summer camp... in the 80's!
the hollywood bowl season is in full swing so that means i've got to get my tickets for the summer. i'll probably go tomorrow morning and buy tickets for morcheeba, etta james and the roots band, keb 'mo, india.arie, blackalicious, joao gilberto, sumi jo, wayne shorter and herbie hancock, OSCAR MOTHERFUCKING PETERSON, medeski martin and wood, tony bennet, jimmy cliff, and james brown. in the space of a few months, i'll be able to see the matriarch of the blues and the godfather of soul. i may even get tickets to see oakenfold and yo-yo ma just for the hell of it. if anybody wants to go with me to any of these concerts, just say so. the only thing i love more than going to the bowl is sharing it with someone who loves live music.
this weekend is the playboy jazz festival, also taking place at the hollywood bowl. it kills me that i can't go see dave brubeck, lizz wright (my favorite new singer), bobby rodriguez, the blind boys of alabama, and dave holland's quintet. i'm off to san diego for the weekend to meet up with a bunch of high school friends that have the worst sense of timing ever. i anticipate a weekend of leering, drinking, crotch grabbing and most likely a bar fight or two. i'll probably just buy a few rounds of drinks and sit by myself in a corner, rolling a joint, while the other guys chase ass.
in memory of the recently departed gregory peck, i watched the guns of navarone last nite after i finished up at the gym. anthony quinn and david niven are brilliant actors but gregory peck absolutely owns that movie.
today is friday the 13th. what better day to go in for back surgery? i'm out of here in a few hours to get my back operated on. yay me. i sure as hell hope that i recover quickly and don't miss out on too much golf or paintball. or dancing. or get fat because i can't go to the gym. the doctor was suspiciously evasive when i asked him what my recovery time will be like. alls i know is that fucker better give me some good painkillers.
happy friday everybody!
kandinsky's st. george and the dragon
from today's arcata eye...
Pot growers' property returned
By Daniel Mintz, Eye Reporter
Cable boxes, porn vanish 'malicious intent' charged
Marijuana grower Jason Browne inspects lighting equipment from which the power cord has been cut.
The Arcata Police Department's search of a Spear Avenue apartment last spring yielded 340 marijuana plants and cartloads of growing equipment and all of it (minus the pot) had to be returned this week because the District Attorney's office rejected the case.
That's not an unusual happenstance in pot cases that involve medical users. Those concerned about access to medicine say police particularly here in Arcata, where a medical marijuana ordinance is in place need to proceed with more thought to Proposition 215, the state law that makes medical use and production legal.
Arcata Police and county Sheriff's Department officers raided the Spear Avenue apartment of Jason Browne, one of the architects of Arcata's medical marijuana ordinance and a patient himself, last May. Browne and two other patients, Jason Snyder and Brian Loucks, insisted they were growing their pot medicinally, for themselves and 14 other patients.
Police went ahead with a search and confiscation, taking not only the plants and equipment, but three cable boxes, a rifle that turned out to be legally permitted and a pornographic DVD titled Asian Cum Lickers. A small bag of hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms was also found, but the D.A.'s office didn't think a jury would convict the trio and dismissed the case.
***
i'll lay dimes to dollars that there's more than a few of arcata's finest tripping balls, smoking ganj that was meant for sick people, and having a wank while watching asiaphile porn as i type this. and these fuckers get paid to enforce the law and carry firearms...
thanks to MELISSA, i've been introduced to the i-net phenom known as friendster. it shouldn't come as any surprise that there's tons of SG people there and where ever there's SG folk, there's bound to be fun stuff. but the coolest discovery yet happened yesterday afternoon when i was wandering around. i found a girl that i knew back in junior high! she knew me when i rocked a pseudo-mullet and wrote to me when i went away to summer camp... in the 80's!
the hollywood bowl season is in full swing so that means i've got to get my tickets for the summer. i'll probably go tomorrow morning and buy tickets for morcheeba, etta james and the roots band, keb 'mo, india.arie, blackalicious, joao gilberto, sumi jo, wayne shorter and herbie hancock, OSCAR MOTHERFUCKING PETERSON, medeski martin and wood, tony bennet, jimmy cliff, and james brown. in the space of a few months, i'll be able to see the matriarch of the blues and the godfather of soul. i may even get tickets to see oakenfold and yo-yo ma just for the hell of it. if anybody wants to go with me to any of these concerts, just say so. the only thing i love more than going to the bowl is sharing it with someone who loves live music.
this weekend is the playboy jazz festival, also taking place at the hollywood bowl. it kills me that i can't go see dave brubeck, lizz wright (my favorite new singer), bobby rodriguez, the blind boys of alabama, and dave holland's quintet. i'm off to san diego for the weekend to meet up with a bunch of high school friends that have the worst sense of timing ever. i anticipate a weekend of leering, drinking, crotch grabbing and most likely a bar fight or two. i'll probably just buy a few rounds of drinks and sit by myself in a corner, rolling a joint, while the other guys chase ass.
in memory of the recently departed gregory peck, i watched the guns of navarone last nite after i finished up at the gym. anthony quinn and david niven are brilliant actors but gregory peck absolutely owns that movie.
today is friday the 13th. what better day to go in for back surgery? i'm out of here in a few hours to get my back operated on. yay me. i sure as hell hope that i recover quickly and don't miss out on too much golf or paintball. or dancing. or get fat because i can't go to the gym. the doctor was suspiciously evasive when i asked him what my recovery time will be like. alls i know is that fucker better give me some good painkillers.
happy friday everybody!
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that makes me wish i lived near you.
there are a shitload of acts i'd love to see in that list.
the only thing is, if i lived in LA
i'd be one of those freaky types walking around with my own ventillation systems.
i just can't BREATHE there.
*sigh*