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Gap Fire from Storke Tower

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Bryan
on Thursday, 3 July 2008
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I took a gamble that the power would stay on and headed up to the top of Storke Tower to snap some quick shots of the Gap Fire - most of which documents the dramatic amount of smoke that hovering over the area.

Hanging with Hank

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Bryan
on Friday, 9 May 2008
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So today I’ll be the DJ at the UCSB Chancellor’s Staff Celebration Barbeque and Presentation of Staff Awards . If you’re too lazy to click on the link, here’s the description of the event:

Bring along your co-workers, lawn chairs, and your appetite for burgers and hotdogs, compliments of Chancellor Henry T. Yang. He’ll be there to greet and appreciate you. Music provided by DJ Bryan Brown from KCSB 91.9 FM.

I can’t wait to be appreciated.

By the way, is there a worse DJ name than “DJ Bryan Brown”. How about DJ Baldy? DJ Melanoma? DJ Don’t-Forget-To-Wear-Sunblock-And-Bring-A-Hat?

Crosstown Traffic

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Bryan
on Friday, 2 May 2008
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Note to all Santa Barbara drivers…

I don’t know if there’s something in the air that is causing most of you to drive like complete and total morons, but you really, really need to knock it off. A perfect example: To the individual who, instead of speeding up to the flow of traffic while merging with the right lane of the freeway, decided to come to a dead stop - your “avant garde” driving style almost caused a multi-car wreck. Had the person behind me not swerved to avoid slamming into the back of my car (and don’t think he didn’t get some profanities thrown at him as well), we all would have had a very long morning. While he was, in fact, a dipshit for tailgating on a freeway on-ramp, your dip-shittiness still ranks higher in my eyes, as you NEVER EVER STOP on an on-ramp when freeway traffic is flowing.

And just to drive my point home, let me cite the California Driver Handbook.

Enter the freeway at or near the speed of traffic. (Remember that the maximum speed allowed is 65 mph on most freeways.) Do not stop before merging with freeway traffic unless absolutely necessary.

(Bolding emphasis is NOT mine.)

It was not “absolutely necessary” for you to stop. In fact, it was quite the imperative that you not stop. If merging is “too complicated”, then take the bus, because we seriously need to thin out the idiots on HWY 101. And while I am on the topic…

To the tail-gaters: No matter how close to my rear bumper you get, I will not drive faster, and I will not pull into the right lane, because there’s a good chance I want to go as fast as you want me to go. I also have a “lead foot”, but I am not an idiot, and I will not make matters worse by swerving in and out of traffic to save 30 seconds. I’ll drive faster when traffic lightens up. One of these days, I’m throwing it into neutral and letting you carry the burden for both of us - at the price of gas, that actually seems like a good idea.

And to everyone else: Driving while talking on a cell phone makes you drive like an idiot. You are not that important. Hell, I’m not that important, and I am pretty sure I am more important than you. It takes 20 minutes to get from Goleta to Milpas - you can talk about last night’s episodes of Flavor of Love and The Girls Next Door when you get out of your car.

There… I feel better.

Ring My Belle.

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Bryan
on Tuesday, 29 April 2008
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Funny thing happened on the way to the blog ‘o sphere. As of today, I will be contributing to a blog that actually gets some readers - that being Belle Lettre’s wonderful site, Law & Letters. Belle is a dear friend, who is currently earning an S.J.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science - a Ph.D. for lawyers) at a liberal law college somewhere in the United States - and, for reasons even I don’t understand, she’s asked me to contribute to her blog.

Now, I know what you are saying. You’re saying:

“But Bryan, you barely seem to have time to blog at your own site these days. What makes you think you’ll blog more somewhere else?”

It’s a fair question, but I like to think it’s like cooking a meal for yourself versus cooking a meal for someone else - you are more likely to care when someone else is eating your creations.

But Bryan, isn’t Law & Letters a legal blog? What could you possibly have to contribute to a blog on the law?

This is something I’ve brought up with Belle directly, and she’s assured me that she believes that I will contribute to “diversifying” Law & Letters into more cultural and political avenues. Plus, all of the lawyers who read my blog are more than welcome to comment at Law & Letters… ohhhhhhhhhhhhh!

But Bryan, who in the hell wants to read your nonsensical rantings? Didn’t you just do an hour of Louie Louie covers on your last radio show, for crying out loud? Hell, you’re even phoning that in!

No comment.

Actually, I am hoping this motivates me to write a bit more - and there will be cross-posts between here and Law & Letters, so stay tuned. And many thanks to Belle for allowing me to contribute.

Introducing… Bob Sanchez!

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Bryan
on Monday, 3 March 2008
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Our family here at CoolMojo.Net has just gotten one bigger. A dear friend, Bob Sanchez, is joining our little crew, and you can keep up with him at http://bobsanchez.coolmojo.net. I should mention that Bob Sanchez is an alias, and that he will be blogging anonymously under that alias, so I’ll let him go into the details of how him and I know each other - if he so chooses.

You’ll also notice that both Jennifer’s and Bennett’s websites have under gone a make-over - with the hopes that either (or both) of them will get into the habit of blogging regularly. I can dream, can’t I?