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Squid Speaks
MITT’S A GAS… Squid fondly remembers when mom and dad called to announce a surprise visit to the lair. Squid frantically shoved old pizza boxes under the couch and scrubbed the toilet clean using a ...
Squid Speaks
PRUDE GROVE… Squid’s glad porn is free online these days (cue Avenue Q), because the one time Squid attempted to buy smut at a local sex shop, a leering creep in the aisle made Squid’s ...
Squid Fry 2.02.12
Squid Speaks
DEM-ON-DEM DUKING… The mudslinging has begun in the District 5 Supervisor race. But, of course, none of it’s officially sanctioned. The anonymous emailer “Potter Is At It Again” is getting stalky about who Dave Potter ...
Squid Speaks
DARWIN AWARD… Squid’s done some stupid things. Like stick both slimy tentacles on a frosty telephone pole. And go on that two-day nitrous binge (Phish Tour ‘98!). But Fort Ord Reuse Authority attorney Jerry Bowden ...
Squid Speaks
HOIST A GLASS… “He was a black sheep, a permanent pariah. He learned no lessons, he acknowledged no mistakes… He did what he wanted to do and he said what he wanted to say.” Quick ...
Squid Fry 1.12.12
THE DAY THE MUSIC… Squid thinks she did the seemingly impossible, borrowing a page from Footloose: Moving into a hamlet virtually bereft of consistent live music and not only establishing a steady venue for waves ...
Squid Fry: 01-05-12
Squid Speaks
PLEASE, NO MOORE… Squid had a classmate in high school who flicked wads of paper at Squid’s head in math class. Squid ignored him for most of the school year and then, one foggy morning, ...
Squid Speaks
FUNNY GALS… Popular Carmel City Council member Jason Burnett announced his candidacy for mayor last week. Squid noticed he missed out a perfect primer for his run a few days earlier, when Paula Poundstone spent ...
Squid Speaks
A LUMP OF COAL… Squid’s making a list, Squid’s checking it twice. That’s right, Squid-a-Claus is coming to town. Squid’s got a bundle of gift certificates: for Marina Mayor Bruce Delgado, endless double-doubles from In ...
Squid Speaks
ZIP SLIP… The proposed zipline course at Jacks Peak Park has become one of those gripping green-on-green debates, with some arguing Ziptrek Ecotours would spoil the Monterey Pine forest, and others saying ziplines are a ...
Squid Speaks
SAY IT AIN’T SO, JOE… Squid likes to think of Squidself as an ink-stained wretch, but Squid’s journalism stains haven’t been around as long as those of the “thinking woman’s Dan Green,” the lushly mustachioed ...
Squid Fry 12.01.11
Squid Fry 12.01.11
HUSH MONEY… Squid’s watched enough mafia movies to know keeping people quiet don’t come cheap. The going rate in Salinas: $444,000. That’s what taxpayer money bought you this week in a settlement agreement between the ...
Squid Speaks
FREE LUNCH… Even slippery Squid was taken by surprise to learn “invitation-only,” in developer-speak, means “crash the party and scout the opposition.” At LandWatch’s annual fundraiser, four uninvited developers joined the party. But Urban Community ...
Squid Speaks
THE RACE CARD… Squid’s well aware of the climate differential between sunny Seaside and chilly Carmel-by-the-Sea. So when Squid heard about the upcoming presentation, “What Does Carmel Have That Seaside Doesn’t?” Squid was sure of ...
Squid Speaks
THIS LITTLE PIGGY WENT TO INDIA… Last week, Monterey County Herald managers delivered crappy news to the paper’s advertising production department: Their jobs are being shipped to India, and quickly. The “transition,” as the paper’s ...
Squid Fry 11.03.11
Squid Fry 11.03.11
FIRING AND ICE… Despite Squid’s steady supply of skepticism, Squid tries to hope for the best. So Squid was sad to learn last week the board of brand-new K-5 charter school Bay View Academy fired ...
Squid Speaks
GONE FISHING… Squid’s been on a fishing trip or two, and is pretty good at clamping down on slimy critters with far-reaching tentacles. So Squid had a good laugh when Deputy County Counsel Irv Grant ...
Squid Speaks
COPY, RIGHT?… When we last checked in with those adorable kids at County Insight, the Facebook-driven news service most notable for its heavy Salinas Jaycees/Monterey County Young Professionals presence, “anonymous columnist” Rick Raylor was railing ...
Squid Speaks
TALE OF TWO LOVE STORIES… Don’t be fooled by Squid’s outward clamminess and general bitterness. Squid’s still a sucker for romance. When it involves a famously unlucky-in-love conservative icon like Condoleezza Rice, two robust local ...
Squid Fry: 10-06-11
Squid Fry: 10-06-11
SHADES OF BROWN [ACT]… Squid’s enormous eyes make Squid particularly sensitive to sketchy actions by public officials. So when Squid heard about evasive behavior from the Marina Coast Water District’s most recent strategic planning workshop, ...
Squid Speaks
A TEACHABLE MOMENT… Squid would’ve made a good 19th-century teacher, able to wrist-slap eight out-of-line students at once. Likewise, that skill could’ve served this cephalopod well were Squid counsel for the Monterey County Water Resources ...
Squid Speaks
TREE TAGGERS… Squid once had a neighbor who got his environmental rocks off by slapping “SUVs Heart Terrorist Oil” bumper stickers on parked gas-guzzlers. A sympathetic cause, yes, but Squid doubts any weary working parents ...
Squid Speaks
BROKEN GLASS… Squid’s known for being a highly efficient door-to-door canvasser, what with Squid’s ability to wield eight clipboards simultaneously. But even during the heated primary season, when Squid’s blood reaches the boiling point rather ...
Squid Speaks
FLASH FRIED… When residents hungry for a new restaurant organize to bring it to town, their efforts usually take the form of City Hall testimony or a polite petition. Squid likes Marina Mayor Bruce Delgado’s ...
Squid Fry 09-01-11
Squid Fry 09-01-11
THANK YOU FOR CHOKING… A sketch of actor Aaron Eckhart’s chin, taped to Squid’s computer monitor, is a constant reminder of what industry lobbyists are trained to do. In Thank You for Smoking, Eckhart plays ...
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WATER RUNS CLEAR… And in the spirit of that liquid transparency, ever-earnest activist Margie Kay of Castroville wants an itemized list of exactly what the Monterey County Water Resources Agency paid consultants RMC a half ...
Squid Speaks
SHINE A LIGHT… The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency – usually a bunch of goodniks pursuing vital work in Monterey Bay – seems to share Squid’s belief that government should be transparent, that there should ...
Squid Speaks
BRASS ONES… Squid envies the human male only one thing, and that’s exterior testicles. So many opportunities exist for scratching and rearranging that Squid sometimes longs for a pair of Squid’s own. It would also ...
Squid Fry 08.04.11
Squid Fry 08.04.11
DO UNTO OTHERS… Squid’s been known to pick a fight every now and then, but Squid’s squabbling shenanigans don’t hold a candle to the antics of the board at Marina Coast Water District. After board ...
Squid Speaks
IF A TREE FALLS… Just as Squid started tuning up Squid’s trike for summer romps on the former Fort Ord, the Board of Supes OK’d the county’s Whispering Oaks development, which would level 3,400 coast ...
Squid Speaks
TURF WAR…Squid’s enormous eyes allow for extraordinary depth perception, which not only helps Squid shovel in fish, but also makes Squid a pretty damn skilled soccer player. So you can imagine the shock on July ...
Squid Speaks
KEN DOLL… Squid’s never been much of a circus fan, considering Squid can outshine a two-armed juggler any day, even while listening to music and eating a tuna sandwich. But Squid’s current entertainment of choice ...
Squid Fry 07.07.11
Squid Fry 07.07.11
ON THE [WITCH]HUNT… Even with eight tentacles, Squid can’t keep up with humans and the 10 fingers to point at you with, and also to show you the door. And that’s what any Monterey County ...
Squid Speaks
LACKING INSIGHT… What’s cuter than kittens boxing on the Internet? Rednecks getting together and saying, “Hey, let’s develop a news site with a bunch of our semi-literate friends and make our M.O. all about hating ...
Squid Speaks
SUGAR AND SPICE… Mere mortals are no match for Squid when it comes to a mudslinging contest, what with eight tentacles and all, but that didn’t stop Marina Coast Water District board member Ken Nishi ...
Squid Speaks
UNLIKE IT… Just the other day, Squid was beadily eyeing the Weekly tech dude in a meeting, spurting indignation at a rash of Google Docs hiccups. “What’ll we do if Google goes belly-up with all ...
Squid Speaks
PARTY GUY… Despite the endless entertainment value of stories about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s love child and Anthony Weiner’s weiner, Squid thinks even politicians have a right to some privacy. But even Squid couldn’t hold Squid’s jaw ...
Squid Fry 06.02.11
Squid Fry 06.02.11
OIL AND WATER… A love of saltwater and inherent distrust of magic didn’t stop Squid from partaking in a rain dance this winter, a last-ditch effort so successful that Squid takes full credit for forcing ...
Squid Speaks
WELL, POOP… Squid is used to paddling around in less than clear water, but when it comes to drinking it, even this cephalopod likes the pristine stuff. Thus Squid feels a little solidarity with customers ...
Squid Speaks
AGUA CALIENTE… Squid almost got misty reading a May 10 letter from former Seaside Mayor Ralph Rubio, representing a group called the “waterWATCH coalition,” to the California Supreme Court. Rubio asks the Honorables to bounce ...
Squid Speaks
SHORT (LEGAL) NOTICE… Squid’s still pissed Nicole Scherzinger won Dancing With the Stars last year. It was a stacked competition. How could mom-of-eight Kate Gosselin or smarmy Bachelor Jake Pavelka hope to compete with a ...
Squid Fry 05.05.11
Squid Speaks
HABEAS CORPUZ… Squid could smell blood when Felix Bachofner snatched the Seaside mayorship from Ralph Rubio in November. Bachofner’s campaign was largely bankrolled by Al Glover of Citizens for Transparency in Government, the group united ...
Squid Speaks
VIVA ISSA!… Squid’s putting on a sombrero and heading down to Ol’ Mexico, because apparently, those people really know how to party. That’s according to Tom Nassif, head of the powerful ag lobby Western Grower’s ...
Squid Speaks
FILM NOIR… Squid was trolling YouTube the other night, watching the usual assortment of Jackassian characters hurting themselves for LOLs, when a thought arose. Sucking popcorn butter from the old tentacles, Squid typed the following ...
Squid Speaks
OH, YOU MEAN THESE E-MAILS… A couple weeks back, Squid’s colleague submitted a public record request to the city of Salinas, hunting for proof that Green Vehicles’ landlord, STG Group, had let the city know ...
Squid Fry 04.07.11
Squid Speaks
WHERE THERE’S SMOKE… What’s the name of that book Squid’s been meaning to check out? Ah, that’s it: How to Influence Friends and Win Big Lucrative Contracts. On second thought, Squid should just give Monterey ...
Squid Fry 03-31 -11
RINGING ENDORSEMENTS… Between the snapping of mammal jaws and a hectic schedule of personal trainer sessions as Squid tries for a role in an upcoming Lawrence Roeck production, one would be hard-pressed to blame Squid ...
Squid Speaks
COCK BLOCK… Squid normally sleeps the sleep of the just. Yet Squid often finds a good snooze elusive when visiting cephalopod relatives in North County. That’s because the NoCo has a rooster problem, and a ...
Squid Speaks
CASTING CALL… Squid has decided to stop waiting by the phone. Local filmmaker Lawrence Roeck never called to offer this cephalopod a role in his seminal Carmel The Movie (now titled Carmel-by-the-Sea), about our crown ...
Squid Speaks
SHROOMING ON HOT AIR… In this wet winter weather, Squid almost forgot that delicacies like shitakes and oysters are fragile little fungi. A busted propane boiler at Ortiz Produce in San Juan Bautista made for ...
Squid Fry 03-03-11
Squid Speaks
FOURTH ESTATE BLUES… If a tree falls on 8 Upper Ragsdale Drive, are there any journalists left to make a sound? It’s a question that keeps Squid up nights following word from a tipster that ...
Squid Speaks
HERTS SO GOOD… Squid sometimes has free time on the old tentacles, and was thinking of making a foray into public service. But it looks like the open position might already be filled. That’s right, ...
Squid Fry 02-17-11
Bernie Madoff: They had to know.
COMEDY OF ERRORS… It’s tax season, and Squid’s in a foul mood because Squid’s accountant doesn’t agree that whiskey is a business expense. It is. If it weren’t for whiskey, this column wouldn’t be written ...
Squid Speaks
SWIMMING WITH SHARKS… Squid was backstroking through the pristine waters of Carmel City Beach just days after an explosive Feb. 1 Carmel City Council meeting where, once again, the council tried and failed to discuss ...
Squid Fry 02-03-11
Squid Speaks
SLICK LIKE OIL… Squid’s feelings are not easily hurt, but Squid still abides by basic party etiquette. That’s why Squid is tired of the slippery runaround Chevron is handing a Weekly colleague who was invited ...
Squid Fry 01-27-11
Squid Speaks
SAD NEWS… Her friends recall her as “witty, wise and original,” and they shared the news that on Jan. 23, writer, peace activist and vintage KAZU “Wildebeest Woman” host Kedron Bryson died following a short ...
Squid Fry 01-20-11
Squid Speaks
SLIPPERY DUCK… A lack of bones makes it easy for Squid to combine alcohol and staircases. Not the case for Monterey County resident Nora Lagapa, who fell down the stairs in 2008 at The Mucky ...
Squid Fry 01-13-11
Squid Speaks
SLANKETED APOLOGY… The man Squid recently busted for daring to abscond from a white elephant party with a much-coveted Snuggie before anyone could “steal” his choice (a clear and breach of pachyderm party etiquette) has ...
Squid Fry 01-06-11
Squid Speaks
WHAT THE DUCK?… Squid dines on a duck egg now and again, and is accustomed to paying for such culinary luxuries. Unlike a private equity firm in New York, which is alleged to owe nearly ...
Squid Fry for Dec 30, 2010
Squid Fry for Dec 30, 2010
DEVELOPER CONJUGATION… Just a few years ago, the noun Gerry Kehoe morphed into a past-tense verb around Oldtown Salinas. The Irish-born real estate developer (yeah, that’s it, developer!) wanted to build an ambitious hotel-and-condo project ...
Squid Fry for Dec 23, 2010
Squid Fry for Dec 23, 2010
HIGHER EDUCATION… Squid fondly remembers those heady college days. Drinking with the party-crazed otters, smoking a little seaweed with the mollusks. But Squid never realized one apparently can’t traverse the CSUMB campus without tripping on ...
Squid Fry for Dec 16, 2010
Squid Fry for Dec 16, 2010
GO AHEAD, MAKE MY MANTRA… Sometimes Squid stands in front of the mirror, all steely-eyed and sneering, doing the world’s best imitation of a tough former Carmel mayor threatening punks with guns. (No, not Sue ...
Squid Fry for Dec 09, 2010
Squid Fry for Dec 09, 2010
Sensitivity Topic… Squid knows what you’re thinking (like usual): Squid is incapable of the finer emotions – tenderness, love and compassion. Not so. Squid fell in love just the other day, in fact, with Surf ...
Squid Fry for Dec 02, 2010
Squid Fry for Dec 02, 2010
NAME THAT FLICK… Squid is a film aficionado, and a huge fan of guessing games too, which makes the free movie nights at the Marina Library double the fun. Though the Marina Library is part ...
Squid Fry 12.02.11
NAME THAT FLICK… Squid is a film aficionado, and a huge fan of guessing games too, which makes the free movie nights at the Marina Library double the fun. Though the Marina Library is part ...
Squid Fry for Nov 24, 2010
Squid Fry for Nov 24, 2010
LIGHT ON LOVE… Thomas Kinkade once asked one of Squid’s colleagues, “Can 20 million fans be wrong?” At the time, Kinkade was comparing himself to Elvis Presley, which sounded a little extreme, but still, he ...
Squid Fry for Nov 18, 2010
Squid Fry for Nov 18, 2010
Eastward, Ho!… To keep Squid’s beak sharp and culture current, Squid likes to update Squid’s own real-world dictionary. It’s much more functional than a normal one. Note Squid’s definition for bizarre: Rich Iott – much ...
Squid Fry for Nov 11, 2010
Squid Fry for Nov 11, 2010
DEMENTED AND SAD, BUT SOCIAL… Squid belongs to a number of clubs. There’s the “Cephalopods for Peace” group. There’s the “Viva El Pulpo Paul” organization, honoring the late, great, prognosticating German octopus that correctly predicted ...
Squid Fry for Nov 04, 2010
Squid Fry for Nov 04, 2010
HIGH BIDDERS… Squid had never seriously considered the political ramifications of a late-night fast food run. A chalupa and a Whopper might differ in form, but in the end, they’re both factory-farmed beef served up ...
Squid Fry for Oct 28, 2010
Squid Fry for Oct 28, 2010
The Guillen-Dollar Question… Will Rich stay or go? Months after former Carmel Human Resources Manager Jane Miller bagged a $600,000 settlement in her lawsuit against City Administrator Rich Guillen, Squid smelled blood in the water. ...
Squid Fry for Oct 21, 2010
Squid Fry for Oct 21, 2010
CONNECT THE DOTS… When Squid learned the feds are charging MoneyDots radio host Barbra Alexander with allegedly running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded local investors, Squid couldn’t help being reminded of one of Alexander’s old ...
Squid Fry for Oct 14, 2010
Squid Fry for Oct 14, 2010
FIELD HOCKEY… Back in the end of September, when Salinas Valley temps reached 100 degrees, California Rural Legal Assistance attorney Michael Marsh thought he could prevent heat strokes and even deaths (the last few years ...
Squid Fry for Oct 07, 2010
Squid Fry for Oct 07, 2010
FOUL AIR… Squid loves Squid some KUSP Public Radio. The only moments of Squid’s weekend better than Sunday’s caviar-and-anchovy-schmeared bagel are “Talk of the Bay” and “Ask Dr. Dawn.” That’s what makes the board’s recent ...
Squid Fry for Sep 30, 2010
Squid Fry for Sep 30, 2010
PITY THE FOOLS… Squid’s morning ritual with the daily newspaper is probably not that different from those few landlubbers who still subscribe to the paper. You know, a solid 80 or 90 seconds to digest ...
Squid Fry for Sep 23, 2010
Squid Fry for Sep 23, 2010
Unfriending the Sheriff… Squid would have thought that Rule One of being a capable politician is correctly distinguishing between friend and frenemy, helper and hater – and most importantly, endorser and person who doesn’t much ...
Squid Fry for Sep 16, 2010
Squid Fry for Sep 16, 2010
LET FREEMAN RING… On Squid’s slimy desk, marinating in spilled coffee and sprayed ink, sits a thick folder called the Only-in-Carmel Irony File. It just got thicker, with new plans for e-mail policy and openness ...
Squid Fry for Sep 09, 2010
Squid Fry for Sep 09, 2010
MILITARY MADNESS… Squid took a trip to Moss Landing last weekend for the USA KIA/DOW (Killed in Action/Died of Wounds) gathering at a lot adjacent to the J&S Surplus & Outdoor Store off Highway 1. ...
Squid Fry for Sep 02, 2010
Squid Fry for Sep 02, 2010
GET NASTY… Ah, the good ol’ days (in June) when Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado was riding high off his recent appointment to the state post and Prop. 14’s victory. At the time, Maldo said he ...
Squid Fry for Aug 26, 2010
Squid Fry for Aug 26, 2010
HOPE AND DOPES… Amidst music from Sambada, Persephone’s Bees and a 15-person tribute to Ray Charles; art from Suzka, Ed Leeper, Stacey Perry and dozens more; food in the form of Swiss Bratwurst, Mexican rojas ...
Squid Fry for Aug 19, 2010
Squid Fry for Aug 19, 2010
LOUNGE LIZARDS… Boats and Beats was a Wednesday lounge party Squid could sink its beak into. Started back in May, the gatherings at the new-ish, stylish Inn at Del Monte attracted an after-work and bohemian ...
Squid Fry for Aug 12, 2010
Squid Fry for Aug 12, 2010
SIGNS AND STONES… Squid appreciates the civic spirit of the old-timers with Citizens for Transparency in Government. They’re taking on Seaside City Hall – particularly City Manager Ray Corpuz and Mayor Ralph Rubio – the ...
Squid Fry for Aug 05, 2010
Squid Fry for Aug 05, 2010
ELECTION TIME… Late summer in an even year means local politicians ramping up their fall election bids. And the recent do-goodery of two campaigning Seaside councilmen reminds Squid of the Stevie Wonder lyric: “I live ...
Squid Fry for Jul 29, 2010
Squid Fry for Jul 29, 2010
PRINT EM… Squid bows to no one as an aficionado of art scandals, but even Squid was surprised when news broke on the wires that a treasure trove of the “lost work” of Ansel Adams ...
Squid Fry for Jul 22, 2010
Squid Fry for Jul 22, 2010
PHOTO FINISH… Squid is street-wise enough to know that to the victor go the spoils, but Squid hears County Superintendent of Schools Nancy Kotowski has taken things way too far. She’s forbidden the display of ...
Squid Fry for Jul 15, 2010
Squid Fry for Jul 15, 2010
SALVAGED ART… Just when Squid thought it was safe to go back in the water, the Pebble Beach art heist makes news again. Investigators from Farmer’s Insurance are digging in to figure out whether Angelo ...
Squid Fry for Jul 08, 2010
Squid Fry for Jul 08, 2010
BAIT AND SWITCH… Fishermen are still pissy with the Monterey Bay Aquarium and its friends, judging by an e-mail urging Squid to join a boycott of Hewlett-Packard products. “[Aquarium CEO] Julie Packard uses millions to ...
Squid Fry for Jul 01, 2010
Squid Fry for Jul 01, 2010
POISONED BERRIES… Fireworks are a Fourth of July cliché. Monterey’s canned them this year anyway, so Squid proposes a new holiday icon: strawberries. What’s an Independence Day party without berry-topped ice-cream pie to chase the ...
Squid Fry for Jun 24, 2010
Squid Fry for Jun 24, 2010
IMAGINE THAT… What with the 100th anniversary of the California Rodeo coming up in Salinas shortly, Squid is all in favor of branding. But these days, the town that is perennially in the process of ...
Squid Fry for Jun 17, 2010
Squid Fry for Jun 17, 2010
HOLE IN THE HEAD… Squid has grown accustomed to the rantings of former Marina mayor Gary Wilmot, but even Squid was blown away, as it were, by Wilmot’s remarks at the June 8 council meeting. ...
Squid Fry for Jun 10, 2010
Squid Fry for Jun 10, 2010
LOSERS ON PAPER… Between Ron Holly’s Résumégate, the superintendent circus and a sheriff candidate catastrophe in which they’ve somehow collectively indicted themselves and one another of (at least) one crime each – including stupidity, double ...
Squid Fry for Jun 03, 2010
Squid Fry for Jun 03, 2010
UNLIKELY ALLIES… Squid never thought Squid would see the day that Al and Tipper Gore split up. (After all those photogenic campaign make-out sessions!) But an even bigger shocker is the sudden public display of ...
Squid Fry for May 27, 2010
Squid Fry for May 27, 2010
GOING POSTAL… Squid hasn’t yet figured out how to bribe the postman to dump campaign mailers into the recycling bin instead of Squid’s mailbox. Committees working outside of Assembly candidate Janet Barnes and opponent Luis ...
Squid Fry for May 20, 2010
Squid Fry for May 20, 2010
BEFORE THE INK’S DRY… Squid is used to politicians inflating their résumés, like Republican governor candidate Steve Poizner branding himself a “barrio teacher” after an over-hyped volunteer stint at an East San Jose high school. ...
Squid Fry for May 13, 2010
Squid Fry for May 13, 2010
COP SWAGGER… “Yes, I will win. I just can’t tell you by how much,” proclaimed Sheriff Mike Kanalakis when asked about his chances for re-election at a Weekly editorial board interview. Squid thinks confidence is ...
Squid Fry for May 06, 2010
Squid Fry for May 06, 2010
APPLES AND ORANGES… Squid is a biased mollusk when it comes to farmers markets. They connect shoppers with farmers, keep money and food local, create healthier communities and enliven city centers. Dissing farmers markets is ...
Squid Fry for Apr 29, 2010
Squid Fry for Apr 29, 2010
ABEL AND READY?… Squid was relieved to see the end to the Sacramento squabble over Abel Maldonado’s confirmation as lieutenant governor with the former senator’s swearing-in ceremony Tuesday, April 27. But the new second-in-command cleared ...
Squid Fry for Apr 22, 2010
Squid Fry for Apr 22, 2010
BLACK OUT… Eddie Edwards, longtime DJ, party-thrower, club owner and agitator, is done at his landmark brick club on North Fremont. Say what you want about the shoot-from-the-hip, at-times-loveable, at-times-plain-ornery personality, but he is also ...
Squid Fry for Apr 15, 2010
RIPPLE EFFECTS… After months chomping cigars in smoky back rooms – or so Squid imagines, since the agreements governing the Regional Water Project were hammered out in state-ordered confidentiality – the details of the Peninsula’s ...
Squid Fry for Apr 08, 2010
Squid Fry for Apr 08, 2010
BANK SHOT… Squid can’t keep up with the Kardashians. It’s hard enough to just follow the life of model and actress Kim Kardashian, between her sexy sunbathing in Miami – where her sisters Kourtney and ...
Squid Fry for Apr 01, 2010
Squid Fry for Apr 01, 2010
DIRTY LAUNDRY… Squid isn’t much interested in pantyhose. Not so for dogs, who love to sniff all sorts of undergarments. Even Carmel’s first dog, Robbie, isn’t above that sort of canine behavior – at least ...
