August 6, 2021

Art by Tasty Piece,©️ The Safehouse Collection 2021

The California nuclear summer has arrived.  I’m sure that’s not the official meteorological nomenclature for what’s going on, but it fits: from late July – September, the smoke from nearby towns burning to the ground blocks out many of the sun’s rays, keeping the sky dark and the temperatures cooler than they would otherwise be.  Which is nice for me, but a damn shame for the small towns up the hill from Fecal Creek, like WItch’s Tit and Worst Case, that are completely on fire.  Thoughts and prayers, natch.
These wildfires are, for the most part, completely preventable.  But our state government is incompetent and corrupt.  So every fucking year, here we are.  The same government is warning us to stay indoors because the air quality is somewhere south of sewage.  “Oh,” says the same incompetent government, “and while you’re in there, be sure not to use your air conditioner to avoid rolling blackouts, because we don’t know what the fuck we’re doing in that department either.”

N.P.: “Dutchman” – Chuck Berry

August 5, 2021

Art by Tasty Piece,©️ The Safehouse Collection 2021

Greetings, Reader.  Today was pointlessly busy.  It started at 04:30 for no good reason at all.  Just when I had started to forget how unpleasant and grotesque sunrises are, there that fiery motherfucker was to remind me, creeping up arrogantly from the east.  And things proceeded steadily south from there.  The best thing for all parties concerned, I think, at this late hour, is for me to partake of sangria and sleep.

N.P.: “Droge CX 9” – Vampire Sound Inc., Sigi Schwab, Manfred Hubler

Jayson Gallaway

August 4, 2021

I don’t think skateboarding should be an Olympic sport.  There, I said it.  Fuck you.

August 4, 2021

Art by Tasty Piece,©️ The Safehouse Collection 2021

Free drinks for Tamyra Mensah-Stock, the first black American female wrestler to win Olympic Gold, who said upon winning:  “I love representing the U.S.  I freaking love living there, and I love it..  I am so happy I get to represent U.S.A.”  Truly a class act.

N.P.: “Notches” – Joe Bonamassa

August 3, 2021

Shit, dear reader…it’s 112°F in The Creek again…I can’t get anything done in this goddamn heat.  The Haunt is completely bereft of booze, the government is corrupt, and the governed seem to be mostly ball-less, moronic dupes.  No…this can’t go on.  Something Must Change.


“I do not find it ethical or wise to allow those with the most power (government, corporations, organizations, employers) to dictate medical procedures to those with the least power.” ~ Pete Parada – Offspring drummer


“We need to get back to basics: Pave our roads. Store our water. Manage our forests.  Maintain our grid.  Fund our police.  Do the things government is supposed to do, do them well, and do nothing else.” ~ Kevin Kiley – Next Governor of California


“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.  I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.” ~ William S. Burroughs


“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” – Voltaire

N.P.: “Summertime Blues” – Rush

August 2, 2021

Art by Tasty Piece,©️ The Safehouse Collection 2021

The moronic twats of the U.S. women’s soccer team continued their boycott against scoring goals because racism again on Monday, staying on their knees once game play started, until the opposing team began literally fisting them…again.  The 2021 U.S. Women’s Soccer Team was the not only thefirst team in Olympic history to be fisted during competition,  but also the only team to be fisted every time the took the field.  “At this point we assume they just enjoy it,” said Sofie Garafano, captain of the Canadian team that skunked the Americans 1-0 before the fisting began.  In what has become an all-too-familiar occurrence whenever the Aggrieved American Women compete, the Canadians, upon realizing that the Americans didn’t actually seem to know how to play soccer, decided that a good public fisting sans lube would be less humiliating than beating them dozens of points to nothing, as happened in the first game the U.S. played.  “They should really just go home at this point,” Garafano continued.  “If they stay here just to keep getting fisted, it’s gonna be weird.”
U.S. women’s soccer captain Megan Rapinoe was indignant, confused, and still bleeding heavily from the Canadian fisting she had just led her team through at the post-game press conference:  “Okay, fuck it…nobody told us that they were gonna keep score in these games.  They never kept score in the games when we were growing up, and now, with no warning whatsoever, there’s score.  Like, they expect you to actually try to win.  We simply don’t know how to do that.  Turns out that pissed Americans off.  So, realizing none of us knew how to play soccer,  we decided to show solidarity with some pointless radical leftist groups. Oddly enough, that seemed to piss off the Americans even more.  And we were disappointed to discover that our only fans were Americans, so there was that.  I must say, though, that I have become rather fond of the fisting…hope that’s not to obvious.”  She may hope it’s not obvious, but her announcement at the end of the presser told everyone otherwise: “We will be staying in Tokyo to finish out the competition.  Personally, yes, I want to be fisted by every possible competing nation that I can, but we also need to stay to the end so we can at least bring home a Certificate of Participation.  I feel like if we show up empty-handed, people might yell at us.”
Indeed, the U.S. women’s team is likely to face a less than “inclusive” atmosphere back home, where there have been myriad calls for the entire team’s and coaching staff’s deportation and execution.

N.P.: “The Devil in Me” – Suzi Quatro

August 1, 2021

Art by Tasty Piece,©️ The Safehouse Collection 2021

My attorney informs me that any trips I make to Tijuana in the near future are going to have to be of the illegal – sorry – undocumented variety as our southern border remains closed to nonessential travel until at least August 21.  This news darkened today’s mood rather precipitously.  This is, as you can imagine, most cherished reader, devastating news when it comes to my August bullfighting/tequila-drinking plans.  Well, shit.

N.P.: “I Got Stoned and I Missed It” – Shel Silverstein

July 31, 2021

Art by Tasty Piece,©️ The Safehouse Collection 2021

From a Yelp™ review of a hotel I was considering in Tijuana:
“Good Jesus, this place absolutely reeks!  The carpet smells like a tuna melt with a side salad of shit.  It smelled so bad, I couldn’t even see.”
I confess, I’m intrigued.

N.P.: “Middle of Nowhere (feat. Chad Kroeger)” – Big Wreck

July 29, 2021

I don’t really watch TV anymore, but I’ve had the misfortune of walking through rooms with TVs on at the exact time the Jimmy “J.J.” Walker Medicare ad airs.  God above, he is an odd looking fellow.  It’s starting to really get to me.  Something about the weird way be moves his arms…he’s kind of like a black Crypt Keeper.  I don’t ever want to see that commercial whilst in an altered state: that would be Too Much.
This wretched heat and smoke are probably the cause of this sudden hypersensitivity to Jimmy Walker.  It’s 115°F every goddamn day, and the air is so thick with smoke…it’s like a bad day in Burma out there, day after day.   It’s awful.  I watched an entire rafter of turkeys melt on my driveway yesterday.  Good Christ, dear reader…have you ever watched wildlife melt?  It ruined my entire day.  Even the lizards and snakes are seeking shade these days.  If I don’t lower my brain temperature soon, things could get truly weird.
Of course, I could double down, point the Panty Dropper south and punch it til I’m in Tijuana, even closer to the equator.  I couldn’t go last year due to The Virus, but this year, The Virus can kiss my ass.  I am full of vaccine and consumed by a ravenous thirst for all of the tequila hecho en Mexico.  I’ll have to do some dialing and see if there will be bullfights in August as usual, or are our southern neighbors still being plagued by the plague?  I may need to break my now-seven-month moratorium on the news.  Nah, fuck it.  Fuck the news.

N.P.: “Treat Her Right” – Billy Gibbons And The BFG’s