October 28.  GET YOUR FREE TACO.  Taco Bell is giving away free Black Jack Tacos on Saturday night at 6:00PM.  Come on homies.....  I want all you homeless people to run over to your nearest Taco Bell Saturday evening.

Getting ready to watch Pedro go up against the Yankees.

I just thought I'd put in a pitch for good ol' COSTCO CARAVAN CANOPIES.  Click here to read what happened and see more pictures.




October 27.  I would like to designate Thursday's as 'check your tires' day.  I think that 'they' (whoever they is) recommends that you check your air pressure once a month.  We all take it for granted that those tires are going to be full of air when we take off for our shows on Friday and Saturday.  The other week when I was preparing to head up to Ukiah on Friday, my son checked my tires for me and found one of them to only have 20 PSI (normal=38).  Slow leak.  Went down to Wheel Works and they found a nail in the tire and fixed it up.  Had this leak gone unnoticed, a potential disaster would have been in the works and possibly the weekend ruined.  So people, I am glad that you have taken the time to read this and hope that we all can adhere to this advice.  Hopefully, you won't be sitting alongside the highway and wishing that you would have checked the tires because that blowout you just had might have been preventable.

BAY BRIDGE IS CLOSED due to shady repair work.  Perhaps 2-3 days; they don't know.
Bay Bridge Closed After Brace Falls Onto Span.  TREASURE ISLAND, Calif. -- Transportation officials are shutting down the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in both directions Monday night to assess possible structural damage after repair work made to the bridge last month came loose, California Department of Transportation spokesman Bart Ney said.  Click here to read more and then come back.

October 25.  Wonderful weather.  Too bad I didn't have a show.  Only people that had a show around here were the 4 idiots that had spaces at Vacaville's Harvest Days.

Went out with my wife today and dropped by Dimitra's in Alameda for sandwiches and drove over to the edge of the Bay at the Naval Air Station and ate our lunch facing San Francisco and the Bay.  Too bad that this area will probably never be improved because of all the contamination from the airplane fuel in the ground and water.  Brings back memories of my 'squid days' from 1970-4 when I walked these grounds listening to the loud and deafening roars of the airplanes.  After eating, we drove over to Camping World in Fairfield (actually Cordelia) and it was gone.  No idea where it went to because it has been wiped from the face of the earth.  Wow.  I think it was there a month ago.

VACAVILLE HARVEST DAYS was our next stop and it wasn't much.  A few food vendors and four merchandise.  I was there around 3:00pm and there were perhaps a dozen people milling about the entertainment and food areas.  Nobody over in the vendor booths.  I guess this show has a reputation?  Or is it because they have forced vendors to undergo a police check in which vendors had to pay $25?  Whatever the case is, all but 4 of you listened to what you heard from people, believed what you read in Craftmaster and listened to me also.  Thank you.  As for the 4 of you that sold at the show.  Why?  You think that we all are making thousands of dollars at this event and we're telling you it's a bad show so nobody else shares our wealth?  Huh!!  I've still got my $150 and you don't.

October 24.  Beautiful Saturday, but no show.  Had seen in Craftlister that there might be an Autumn Festival over in San Lorenzo.  So, I drove down there to check it out and all they had was the Farmer's Market, which was every Saturday there.  My son and I walked around the 15 or so booths.  Absolutely no festival, that's for sure.  There was a white buy sitting on a stool strumming his guitar and trying to sing.  You could hear him throughout the market and I found it to be more of a nuisance.  It was difficult to hear other's talking, so after looking at the fruits and veggies, we decided to drive over to the Hayward Farmer's Market, located perhaps 3-4 miles away downtown, adjacent to City Hall.  Much better and a lot more action.  There were some food vendors there along with maybe 30 booths and one lonely lady selling hand-made jewelry alongside the area.  At least she didn't pay a lot for a space and she can show a profit after a couple sales.  Personally, I don't think it's worth the effort.  There was an instrumental quartet there strummin' away on their things and they sounded a lot better.

GAME 6 has been rained out and will be played Sunday evening.  Wouldn't you really love to see the Yankees lose?  GO ANGELS.

THE WEATHER.  Wetter or not you like it, but the rains look like they are definitely coming next weekend.  Hopefully we can get by Saturday afternoon.  All the forecasts are showing rain, but I would imagine what really matters is when it will all happen.

October 23.  Soupy Sales has died at the age of 83. 

Sales was once breifly suspended after telling his young audience to empty their parents' wallets and purses and mail him all the pieces of green paper bearing pictures of presidents.  By the time Sales' New York run ended two years later, he had appeared in 5,370 live television programs and released a pair of albums that made the Billboard Top 10 in 1965.  Sales continued to appear on television from 1968-75 on the game show What's My Line? and later guest-starred on shows including The Mike Douglas Show and The Love Boat. Sales also appeared as himself in the 1998 Eddie Murphy film Holy Man.

October 22.  Received letter from Antioch.  After having sent in my app 5 weeks ago, they are just responding to me now.  Thanks a lot, assholes.   You can read what they had to say.

October 20.  Parade and the good weather brought out the crowds on Saturday but sales were down for people.  Not as large of a crowd on Sunday and sales much lower for people.  Weather held out.  On Monday, the rains came to Northern California.  Thank gosh we made it through a dry weekend.  Read the review

IS ALL GAS CREATED EQUAL.  Might find this informative, but then again I guess people think they know everything.  Oh Well.

WEATHER.  Just checked Accuweather's 15 day forecast for San Jose.  Rain the the 31st.  Happy Halloween people.  Doing Nada's Meridian Square event.  Of course, we all know just how dependable those forecasts are.

JUST LIKE MOST OF THE OTHER VENDORS, I will not have an event this weekend.  Seems like a bunch of people are heading down to the Central Coast to do Paso Robles and Los Osos, but I shall pass on those.  I've done LO before and it's more like a social gathering for the locals along with a huge amount of dogs.  So maybe if you sell dog stuff, but anything else?  Forget it.  I liked the event, but I just wouldn't make enough for it to be worthwhile. This will be my first weekend off in 17 weeks.  Wow.  I think that I just went through a stretch where I went 35 weeks with only one weekend off.  Many people do shows every weekend of the year, husbands and wive's often splitting up and doing two events on a weekend.

October 19.  Had to run over to Sunnyvale and on the way back we stopped by our favorite burrito place located  at a small mall in Redwood City.  Always drop by there when I've got the chance and craving for them  Super.  As I stepped out of my car there, I suddenly recalled doing one of Etta Lewis' shows over there many years ago.  She did pass away 2-3 years back and she had a loyal following.  Many years ago she had spaces at the now-defunct Antioch Rivertown Jamboree. I can still picture her walking around in her leopard coat telling people to keep within their spaces. It was drizzling and a bit cool - exactly the same weather we had when we did the event.  Not a great money-maker then but what else are you going to do in December.  Had to really watch your stuff there because a lot of homeless people frequented the area. 

October 17.  In Ukiah for the weekend.  Lots of familiar faces.   This weekend there's Pismo Beach Clamfest; Campbell Octoberfest and the Ukiah Pumpkin Fair.  The weather here was great today-a few clouds, but that's fine.  Rain coming late tomorrow.  Hope we make it out of there in time.  Sales were somewhat okay for me today; not sure about others.  There was a pretty good-sized crowd today.  I think I have a good space.  On a corner, which I think is excellent.  Easy set  up; good visibility and hopefully, a quick and easy teardown and departure on Sunday.

October 16.  Weather looks pretty decent for the weekend in Ukiah.  Maybe showers coming Sunday evening.  Hope to get packed up and heading home before that happens.  I am kind of curious about Saturday's Accuweather forecast: Times of clouds and sun.  Is there something else I should be made aware of?  Isn't that what the weather is?  It's cloudy.  It's sunny.  What else is there.  It's always either cloudy or sunny or both.  It get's dark, but........  never mind.  These forecasts are pretty funny sometimes.  You'll have partly cloudy one day and partly sunny the next.  May I ask exactly what the hell is the difference?  If it's partly cloudy, then it must be partly sunny also.  I think.


BAZAAR BIZARRE.  Check out this website, which lists a number of smaller shows here in the Bay Area over the remainder of the year.

FOX is already cowering down to the President. In response to President Obama’s complaint that FOX News doesn’t show enough Black and Hispanic people on their network, FOX has announced that they will now air Americas Most Wanted”

twice a week.

October 15.  Have reached the mid-point of the month and not very many good events left in the year.  The weather is looking good for Ukiah and it's all systems go.  Good luck everybody.

October 14.  THE LOST REVIEW.  For some reason, I never had the Lemoore Pizza Festival in my menu of reviews (Apr 2008).  You can now view it here.

October 13.  TALL TALES.  I am in the process of writing a bunch of small pieces that you might find entertaining.  Currently, there are three up on this site.  The first one is about Groupies Swarming a Rock Dealer in Monterey.  I got the idea from a visit 15 years ago to a Monterey Gem and Mineral show.  There was a dealer there that told me that 'he has groupies that follow him from show to show.'  It was hysterical, I must say.  The second one is about the Burning Vendor Festival out in the desert near Mojave.  It's a takeoff on the Burning Man Festival out by Reno last month.  The third story is an over-cooked tale about a bunch of German guys who were located in a room two doors down from us at a motel in San Luis Obispo.

EARTHQUAKE AT 8:28 pm.  Felt in the Hayward area.  Checked KTVU.com website and they are not showing anything.  However, here are some videos they have of the 1989 Quake.  http://www.ktvu.com/video/17739197/index.html   This is of the Cypress stucture that collapsed.  I was working at the Post Office just down the street from there at that moment.  Here's another video:  http://www.ktvu.com/video/17739340/index.html   Click here to see official stats on tonights quake.   3.8 centered out  near Sunol and Pleasanton. http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc71299286.html   If you have Google Earth installed on your computer, you can click here Google Earth KML to see exactly where it occurred.

DAMM.  Just got a call on my phone from 702-489-9272.  Did a search on it and it turned out to be a solicitation from Obamacare Grants.  What happened to the 'do not call list'.

REGIS PHILBIN COMING TO COARSEGOLD.  He will be appearing at the Chukchansi Gold Resort And Casino which is just down the highway from Oakhurst.  Tickets are between $40-50 and he will do his thing on Saturday, October 24 at 8:00pm.

October 12.  Weather changing out there.  No rain yet, but it is definitely coming.  Hopefully only a day or two.  Ukiah still doesn't look good and it looks like a bit of rain.  Still undecided about going and will check the weather reports on Wednesday and give my 'final answer.'  Need to cancel Motel 6 reservations.  I've got more sense than to sit there all day Saturday in rain and then again on Sunday.  Gosh, just heard that we are bracing for our first storm.  High winds, rain, etc.  Talking about sandbags?  What the hell is going on?

WATCH OUT FOR FLYING CANOPIES.  I have just made an addition to the page.  Check out Flying Canopies and read about 'Canopies Gone Wild'

MEMORABLE MOMENTS.  As time passes, we tend to forget those special moments that you come across when you are traveling or doing shows.  This will be a regular feature here on The Dose.  Our first memorable moment occurred at a McDonald's in San Luis Obispo when we were doing the Stone Soup Street Fair in Grover Beach. Here goes:

T'S A CRAZY WORLD, AIN'T IT?  After we left the event, we drove back to the motel.  I took a spin over to McDonalds to pick up something to eat. (no Sizzler tonite!)  I placed my order, which included a Big Mac.  The guy asks me if I want the special, which was two for $3.00.  He said that one costs $3.09 and I could get two for $3.00.  So, I said to him, "HUH?."  He then repeated the deal.  He points toward the sign on the wall.  I turn around.  "Okay, where's the camera.  Come on out."  We start laughing.  I looked to my left.  "Where's the camera, you're kidding me, right."  He then told me again that was their special and that's what I got.  As I stood there waiting for my order, I thought about selling my extra Big Mac to somebody for two bucks.

NO NEED TO feel lonely at street fairs and carnivals.  Don't be left out because all your buddies have pooches by their sides.  Impress your friends with a dog from:



October 11.  Nice day to prop yourself up in front of the tube and watch some baseball and football.  UPDATE:  NO.  It was not a nice day for propping.  Red Sox lost and are out; Niner's got clobbered and the forsaken and hopeless Raider's got the ($&#)# kicked out of them.  However, I do not follow them.  I do follow the Patriot's and they lost.  I swear that I always keep seeing Denver beating team's on a last second field goal.  Tomorrow is another day.  Perhaps, a rainy day at that.



COSTCO CANOPIES.  Go ahead and click on the Special Report icon on the left.  Read about my nightmares with Caravan Canopies.

WET WEEKEND COMING UP.  Once again, rain is in the works for next weekend in Ukiah.  Both weather.com and Accuweather.com says so.

NEW WORD ADDED TO VENDOR TERMINOLOGY.  Junk. 

Anything that a vendor sells that is not antique, arts and crafts or re-sell is classified as 'JUNK'.  Gosh Mark, I just walked all around this show and all I saw was 'junk.'

October 10.  Did Alma Heights Christian Academy Flea Market.  Quite a number of vendors but not enough people to support them.  My COSTCO CARAVAN canopy collapsed.



October 9.  PROMOTERS, ETC.  You can now submit your event for inclusion in our Upcoming Events section.  This is a very new feature on this website and these listings are viewed by thousands of people each month.  Try it.  It's free and will only cost you one minute of your time.  Click here to submit event which will be included in our listings in a day or two.

UP-GUESS SHIPMENT. Last week I had a package shipped from jacksonville, FL (Oct 2).  I checked the tracking on it and saw that it arrived San Pablo yesterday at 3:06am.  It then went to South San Francisco and arrived there at 3:58.  WHY?  Crazy world isn't it?  I am located in Hayward in the East Bay, perhaps 23 miles from San Pablo.  Why do they bring it across the Bay Bridge over to South City, sort it again and then send it over to Oakland?  You see, to get to S.S.F., you must pass through Oakland.

THIS WEEK'S EVENT: Alma Heights Christian Academy Flea Market located at 1030 Linda Mar Blvd. in Pacifica.  This event is held twice-yearly at this school. Click icon to see review.

October 8.  ALPHA ZETA EVENTS.  Nada has a show periodically at the Meridian Square Shopping Center in San Jose.  Next up is her 'Trick or Treat Bazaar' on October 31.  Should be lots of fun.  We'll be there.  One day event.   October 31, 2009 (Last Saturday)
November 14, 2009 (Second Saturday)  December 12, 2009 (Second Saturday)

October 7   Had to drop by the business office at Kaiser Health Center today.  Went up to the second floor to look for it and walked back and forth, not being able to spot it.  I walked over to the PSYCHIATRY department and stepped over to the window.  "Can you tell me where the business office is.  I'm going crazy looking for it."  The receptionist laughed and then told me 'the window is over there.'  I went to where I thought 'over there' was and looked around.  Oh no.  No window.  I began actually talking to myself.  "There's no window over here" I said to myself.  A guy comes walking out of the Phsychiatry Dept and shows me where it was, around the corner down another hallway.  Nuts!!!

TILLAMOOK COUNTY FAIR application for 2010 arrived.  Anybody want it before I toss it?  They upped the booth fee to $350.  No way.  They said it was their best fair ever.  You had better speak to the vendors about that one.  They claim to have gotten 26,000 on Saturday, the last day and 75,000 for the whole show.  No way, dude.  Uh uh.  Where the hell were we?  Were you counting the cows?  I really doubt it especially since it rained during the early afternoon.  Come on people, who the hell are you kidding?  Another souped attendance figure for Craftmaster.  Not a single vendor would believe that!!!

October 6.  WEATHER OR NOT YOU WANT TO BELIEVE IT......  it looks like rain next weekend..... Oct 16-18 in Ukiah.  Rough.  Showers on Fri; Sat morning and then Sunday.  30 percent chance that I'll cancel my motel reservations and not show up if they are showing 3 days of rain next Wednesday.  Saw this on Accuweather.  That was to be my last two-day show of the year.  Might have to eat that $150.  Can't make much money up there in the rain.  Looks like some showers in Hayward on Fri and Sun.  So, what do I do...  Chabot College Flea Market?  Oh gosh.  That's all I need.

Have started working on my 'report' of Non Profits acting badly at shows.  Nuff said.  Stay tuned...  meanwhile, I made up this little cartoon.



The following graphic depicts vendors claiming to have made items 'by hand' while poking fun at the Galt Wholesale Market along with their purchases of various items, which they claim to have made.  Pokes fun at the gullibility of customers to believe that somebody is actually hand-making these and trying to tell the naive that these are mass-produced in China.




October 5.  End of the world coming on Dec 21, 2012 according to the new movie coming soon.   You can read more about the Mayan version of the end here.  Remember, when it happens, you read it here!!!!!

YOU KNOW YOU ARE GETTING OLD when you see a dime on the ground and don't pick it up.  Quarter's AND UP, Please.  I sure as hell jumped on that 10-dollar bill I spotted last week.

WEATHER FORECAST looks good for this weekend.  However, around the middle of next week, we could be in for some wet stuff.  Checked our forecast for Ukiah and look like rain on Fri and Sat.  Oh gosh.  Of course, I don't believe it.

NON-PROFIT GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS continually step out of line at events and it's growing old and getting worse.  Vendor's sales are being affected by their tactics which go unchecked by promoter's. etc.  I am writing a page on this and I will be bringing this to the attention of whomever I have to in order to 'contain' these animals who gallop to the middle of the aisle accosting passer's by who do not want to be bothered or who do not like the idea of having somebody stick flyers, etc. on top of their notices.  I'll have my piece done by next week.  Can anybody expand upon any particular problems they may have had with this NP Groups?  Recommendations?  Share your ideas with me through the 'Hotline' or visit our forum and we'll all have a beer and discuss it.  Thank you.

October 4.  Sales were absolutely terrible in Manteca for the vendors.  Hats off to the organizations for putting on a good, orderly event.  However, people just not buying.  Be sure to read my review, which is almost completed at this time.  See link above.






October 2.  Just received a call on my cell phone.  Now there are like 4-5 people in this whole wide world that have my cell phone number.  They tell me to press number '1' so I did.  Kind of curious.  The lady told me that she wanted to give me updated credit card rates.  I asked her how did she get my number.  She then told me that she got it from the Merican Credit Buuu.   What?  The Merican Credit Buuuu.  Oh gosh, are you trying to say "bureau?"   Yes, The Merican Credit Buuu.  She then started telling me about credit card rates and I then axed (get it?) her how she got my number and she hung up.  Her number?  Of course I will tell you.  228-209-9560.    Did a search on the number and there is a lot of info on this.  They are trying to get your credit card numbers, etc. or try to swindle you in some other way, shape or form.

THE WORLD OF SPORTS.
October 1.  Was checking up on the Hmong Festivals in California and stumbled across this interesting thing on the href="http://www.sacramentohmongnewyear.com/2010_VendorApplication.pdf"> application regarding food vendors: 

High Risk $132   Low risk $63
Note:  Additional county permit fee required for high risk or low risk vendors September 30.  Have reached the end of September and there has been a significant change in the weather.  Substantially cooler.  Was very surprised to wake up yesterday morning and see that we had some rain.  Uh.....where did that come from?  I never ever saw anything on any weather forecast.  So, once again we need good weather forecasters with state of the (#$##)(#@#$%*) art technology.



OREGON COUNTY FAIRS.  Received papers from Coos County Fair (July 2010) and they want us to 'update' our applications.  Uhhhhhhh......  kind of early, do not you think so?  Want us to list what we shall be selling next year.  Wow.  This is only September and we really have a vague idea of what we shall be selling there because a lot of us will be changing our products around during the early part of the year.  March is a fine time for this, but really.....September.... NINE freaking months before?  We don't have to send in payment yet, but still....

Hey Vendors.  Have a tough time putting up with things?  How about....



September 29.  Construction of the new COSTCO on Hesperian Blvd. in Hayward continues and the store is expected to open on Nov 24.  I had let me membership run out but since they have a gas station there, I'll renew.  I previously had to go over to San Leandro, 7 miles away, which comes to $2.00 round trip in gas.  So, that added a total of around $.15 for each gallon.  But then, I did not make special trips there just for the gas.  I'm not really a COSTCO fan because everything is in BIG packages, and it seems like every thing (food) is in packages costing $15 or more.  Very easy to rake up a purchase of $400

PRETTY WINDY here in Hayward.  Started picking up this morning.  Probably going to last for several days.  Just hope it stops by the weekend.

September 28.  Heard that it was extremely slow at Cherry's Jubilee on Sunday.  Like a ghost town?  Uh uh uh.  What has happened to this event which has drawn 30-40K people there in the past.  This economy is really affecting every thing around. 

So, the people show da hell weren't at the car show......well, where were they?  Maybe we'll come up with something.  How about this?

I guess that everybody was at the Sea Otter Races, huh?  To see more 'Lighter Side' events going on this past weekend in the Salinas area, click here,



Another show this past weekend was Clovisfest, which is more or less a 'mini Big Hat Days' festival down there in this town near Fresno.  We did it several times, but just too expensive.  Anybody out there can give me info on how it was? 

September 27.  Did Cherry's Jubilee Car Show at Laguna Seca.  Supposedly quite a bit of advertising and tend to believe it.  However, crowds were way down from what I understand and the people entering were making a beeline for the cars.  Very small traffic flow through the vendor area.  They told us on the application that the show went from 10-6 on Saturday (Sun 10-3).....  Uh I started noticing that there were fewer and fewer people around 1:30 and mostly all the cars were gone by 2:30.  I packed up everything and didn't come back on Sunday.  I guess at least 3 other (merchandise) vendors did the same.  I guess they (think) that they put on a good car show and it probably might very well be.  But this year, very bad and I won't be coming back in the future.  I feel that all of us got burned big time on the application because it stated that the show would run from 10-6.  I think that I did okay considering the traffic flow through the booths.

OTHER SHOWS.  There were a couple other good-sized shows in the Bay Area+.  We had 'A Taste of Morgan Hill' down Highway 101 between San Jose and Gilroy.  They have a major event there over Memorial Day weekend and this is a 'mini' version of it and supposedly pretty decent.  Can anybody come to the forum and tell us about it?

PACIFICA FOG FEST.  The premier event for Festival Productions with Jerry, Jeff Cambra, etc.  Many blocks of booths and plenty of electricity and enthusiasm.  At least it used to be like that.  They booted us out because we were 'commercial' and it was one of our best events.  They are 'supposedly' trying to make it strictly arts and crafts but the board that runs this event doesn't know their asses from an earthquake crater.  Not a clue.  Sorry to say this, but I can't sugar-coat it.  Can anybody give me the scoop on this?

UPCOMING SHOWS in October.  Richmond Homefront by the Bay is on the first weekend and I highly recommend that vendors pass on this one.  Wow. Almost dooziedom.  They really don't give a rats ass about buying stuff from the vendors and you could very well get more stuff ripped off than what you sell.  No way.

September 25.  Drove down to Laguna Seca and set up the canopy. 170+ miles back and forth.  Weather is looking fine for the weekend.  Something wrong with this?  Long ways to go just to set up.  Maybe it's easier this way.  I just want to see some $$$$$.

September 24.  Having problems with skateboarders at your show?  How about cell phones?  Dog poop?  I have the solution

September 22.  Will be at Cherry's Jubilee at Laguna Seca Raceway.  Seems to be a big event down there with loads of car-related activities.  BYB (Bring your buck$!)

BURNING VENDOR FESTIVAL.  Check out another 'Tall Tale"  Don't forget to read "Groupies Swarm Rock Dealer"



September 21.  Well, here we are.  Another Monday morning and probably Just another Tequila Sunrise own in San Juan Bautista.  Not a great show and from what I heard Newark Days was even worse for people, especially since they spent over $200 for spaces.  Heard that that Santa Clara Art and Wine Festival was pretty good, but I could never get into it because they are very strict about their A&C.  Have to stick with mediocrity, I guess.  You can go ahead and read about The Chicken Festival.  You'll enjoy the review, the story's and the pictures.

HOT RODS AT THE BEACH.  Have decided not to do this event in Santa Cruz.   Taking too long to decide whether I'm in or not, so I decided to put my mind to rest AND PROBABLY MY BODY.  Might be time to take a weekend off.

THIS COMING WEEKEND I'll be down in Salinas at Laguna Seca Raceway for the car event they are having there.  Might have a decent crowd of car buffs there and hopefully they might buy.

Female vocalist Leona Lewis made an appearance on America's got Talent last week and they showed a clip of Oprah Winfrey raving about her as 'having definitely arrived and is a real star.'  Well, if Oprah is raving about a person like that, then she must be of African heritage, which she is.  Lewis was born in the London Borough of Islington, to Aural Josiah "Joe" Lewis of Afro-Guyanese descent and Maria Lewis of Irish, Welsh and Italian descent.  Even though Oprah may be of notable noteriaty but she still gives that 'oomph' when one of the people she is referring to is of HER racial descent.  We used to watch her quite a bit, but with Red Sox games starting at 4:00pm, viewing her on TV is not a priority with our family.  However, I have seen her show dozens upon dozens of times and that is fairly noticeable. 

September 19.  It was slow for all the vendors at the chicken today.  Heard that it was pretty bad over in Newark also.  Still laughing at that 100,000 people they claim to get for the event.  Anyhow, good ruck on Sunday.  Thank gosh for low booth fees.

Had some skateboarders racing up and down the sidewalk behind me.  If you ever get plagued by kids doing this at your shows, print about 5-10 of these out and post them along the sidewalk.  That MIGHT stop them.

JOIN US OVER THE EASTER WEEKEND at Casa de Fruta for the renaming of the facilities to Casa de Knappa, in honor of the promoter who put this place on the map.



September 18.  CHICKEN FESTIVAL in San Juan Bautista this weekend.  A couple years ago I did a pizza festival in Lemoore (terrible) and they had Domino's, Boston Pizza, etc.  I certainly hope that I am not going to see Kentucky Fried Chicken, Popeye's, Church's, etc.  Will this event be worth crowing about?  Be sure to read the review



HAYWARD TONIGHT.  Had a shootout this afternoon at a strip mall located at the corner of Jackson Street and Santa Clara.  Shooties hit with bullets and they took several members of opposing gangs into custody.  PLANE CRASH at the airport a couple days ago.

September 17. 

FOR ONCE, I AGREE WITH OBAMA.  KANYE WEST IS A JACKASS!!!  I saw the tape of Obama saying 'he's a jackass' and immediately regretted it when he realized that it's going to make the news clips.  Well.....Kanye West is a jackass and he's not the only one.  We have jackasses all over the place including all these idiots trying to make a big deal of YOUR  leader's comments.