Squid Fry: Extra Helping 9-17-12
Dirty Harry Hassle…For a few weeks now, Squid has had a difficult time coming out of the lair, preferring to rock Squidself to sleep in the darkness, all 10 tentacles clutching the pillow. First there ...
Squid Speaks
ON THE EDGE… Every time Squid nestles in for a good heist flick, Squid can’t help but think extra appendages would make Squid a good addition to any criminal posse. Too bad Gregory and Jennifer ...
Squid Fry 9.06.12
Squid Speak Spoken Here
OFF THE RAILS… With all the blubbering Mitt Romney admirers were doing at the RNC, oohing and aahing over slideshows of Mittens’ baby photos, Squid was inspired to pull out Squidlet scrapbooks from long ago. ...
Squid Speak, Spoken Here
DINING IN… Squid admits to peeking at the tabloids in the grocery check-out line. Squid might even buy one, if only the skinny celebrities didn’t make Squid feel like such a glutton. So, in the ...
Squid Speaks
OM AMEN… Every night before beddiebye, Squid folds all 10 appendages and gives thanks to Poseidon. Thanks for the many fish in the sea, thanks for election-season entertainment, and thanks for that handy little thing ...
Squid Speak Spoken Here
TIDY UP… Squid was of a mind to straighten out the lair last weekend and maybe even do a little cooking. But when Squid oozed over to the local home improvement store for supplies, the ...
Squid Speaks
LAW AND ORDER: SEASIDE… Squid is a fan of police procedurals, those fabulously formulaic television dramas featuring mix-and-match cops and plug-in plot lines – a Criminal Minds marathon and a little shrimp-flavored popcorn makes for ...
Squid Fry 8.02.12
Hable, Calamar
POKER HAND… Squid thinks eight-legged creatures should qualify as a full jury. On another legal note: As alleged victims of sex abuse by former Salinas High School counselor Gilbert Olivares start seeking compensation for their ...
Hable, Calamar
DA BOSS… Squid oozed behind the lettuce curtain the other day to see who (since Cuddly Hero of the Masses Dennis Donohue seems determined to step out of the public eye) is gunning for the ...
Speak Out, Squid
BOOTS ON… In summer, a young Squid’s fancy turns to thoughts of bronc busting and bull riding, and while Squid has been refused entry as a contestant to the California Rodeo Salinas (“All those tentacles ...
Squid Doth Speaketh
RUNNING IN PLACE… Squid’s own ADHD tendencies make Squid a strong admirer of focus. So Squid’s beak drops open watching protestors at La Playa in Carmel. Of 113 workers who lost their jobs when former ...
Squid Fry 7.05.12
Speak Out, Squid
SPOILER ALERT… Squid was in the mood for a flick last week, perhaps a rom-com to confirm that somewhere – other than in the Weekly’s online comments, where a pair of Steve Collins fans calling ...
Squid Speaks
THE LAST DROP… Squid once drank a few too many sips of Kool-Aid and felt, yes, hope for Barack Obama. But Squid’s natural cynicism was restored soon after the 2008 elections, and Squid saw right ...
Speak Out, Squid
DOLLAR DOWN… Squid could never quite decide if redevelopment agencies were a Ponzi scheme or a real solution to blight. But considering how many decrepit buildings are still festering on the ol’ Fort Ord, Squid ...
Squid Speaks
TALLY HO… Squid knows Squid could exert undue influence at the polls, using all eight tentacles to sneakily fill in ballots. But Squid prefers to sneak away quietly – a practice losing candidates would do ...
Squid Doth Speaketh
SUMMER READING… While Squid’s colleagues were putting the finishing touches on the Weekly’s summer reading guide, it set Squid to wondering: What are local race-runners reading this week? Byrl Smith’s campaign manager Rick Taylor (who ...
Squid Fry 5.31.12
Squid Speaks
IN THE FLOW… After an exhausting trip to the calamari debacle on the wharf (see second item), Squid oozed back to the lair and hunkered down with a bowl of shrimp-flavored popcorn and a 38-page ...
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FIT-FOR-FAT… Squid’s all for transparency in government, but when it comes to elections, some personal things are best kept private. Wouldn’t we be better off not knowing the details of John Edwards and Rielle Hunter ...
Squid Speaks
BAG-ASSWARD… The Carmel Planning Commission’s hearing on a proposed plastic bag ban got scrappy May 9, when environmentalists supporting the ban were evenly matched by business owners opposing it. Some of the naysayers had the ...
Hable, Calamar
INTO THE LIGHT… Squid was floating in the deep, meditating where it’s too dark to see much of anything. So Squid was surprised when a tentacle brushed Fort Ord Reuse Authority attorney David Balch. Though ...
Squid Fry 5.03.12
Squid Speaks
ENTERTAINMENT BIMONTHLY… Squid got a chuckle out of the Monterey Bay News & Views cover shot of Nader Agua, oops, Agha, next to a water tank, with the headline, “Which Desal Plan is Worth Its ...
Speak Squid, Speak
SIGNING OFF… Squid’s favorite part of campaign season, tentacles down, is the reality-TV-worthy drama that always crops up with the campaign signs. Note the 5th District county supes’ race. Incumbent Dave Potter’s team has been ...
Squid Speaks
MEAN STREETS… The clowns ruled the streets at Good Old Days last weekend in Pacific Grove – and not just in the parade or at the face painting booth. There they gathered, Squid’s colleagues from ...
Speak Out, Squid
SKATERS GONNA SKATE… The Salinas City Council has had a run of rough luck as of late. There’s Gloria de la Rosa’s missing (and illegal) assault rifle, stolen from her house during a burglary. There’s ...
Squid Fry 4.05.12
Squid Speaks
POPULAR GUY… Lonely Squid was prowling Facebook the other day – then recoiled all eight tentacles at once. That’s because Squid came across the virtual forum for that thing everyone in Salinas is whispering about: ...
Squid Speaks
NO BONO… When Squid retires, Squid plans to shred Squid’s work files and mount Squid’s iMac monitor over the couch like a trophy moose head. Squid expected the same from Sue McCloud, who after 12 ...
Squid Speaks
TED TALKS… Squid felt a great deal of envy watching a few colleagues spruce up for a night on the town, Ted Balestreri-style. The invite had dropped just a few days before, asking a lucky ...
Squid Fry 3.08.12
OFF ROADING… Lucky for Squid, saltwater is one of those healthy elixirs that can cure most ills. That keeps Squid out of hospitals, which is good because Squid is squeamish around needles. Also because Squid’s ...
Squid Fry 3.01.12
Squid Speaks
NOVEMBER CALLING… The general election is still nine months away, but even as Squid enjoys hunkering down with a bowl of well-buttered, shrimp-flavored popcorn and a good GOP debate on TV, Squid is starting to ...
Squid Speaks
DOWNS UNDER… Squid is still waiting for Google to develop an “unsend” button for email, because Squid seriously did not intend for that photo of Squid’s ink sac to go out to the masses. While ...
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
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 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
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 ...
