California Dreamin'

[Michael Watson]

"Clearly, madness is of serious interest in California"
-- Richard Rodriguez, The News Hour on public television

Sept. 23, 2003  |  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A federal appeals court
Tuesday reinstated California's Oct. 7 gubernatorial recall election,
rejecting a three-judge panel's decision to put it off for months.
Unless the U.S. Supreme Court steps in quickly, the decision means
Election Day is two weeks away. 

Dreaming Arnold Schwarzenegger
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/arnold/arnoldwebpages/arnold.htm

from http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/arnoldoui1.html

Manso: "Is your cock disproportionate to the rest of you?" 

Schwarzenegger: "...I hear all kind of lines, including 'Oh, you're
hurting me; you're so big.' But it means nothing..."

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/entertainers/actors/arnold-schwarzenegger/anu1.jpg

His dad Gustav, who was later revealed to have been a Nazi Party
member: "My father was the local police chief and he led a very regular
life." 

Now Playing, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
http://www.terminator3.com/

Excerpts from "Notebook, The Golden Horde" by Lewis H. Lapham (San
Fransico native) in the Oct 2003 issue of Harper's Magazine:

"California was admitted to the union in 1850, the residents already in
the habit of making up their own rules, owing nothing of their newfound
circumstances to the existence of old ideas, settled monopolies,
eastern money. the motley character of their society (plural,
cosmopolitan, tolertant, and unstable) garaunteed the freedom of
movement and encouraged, or at least didn't frown upon, the freedom of
thought. Like the hero in a Clint Eastwood movie or a Raymond Chandler
novel, the California protagonist belongs to no establishment, a born
renegade fond of mocking the shabby masquerades (of traffic courts and
dictionaries and jails) with which the corrupt officials in City Hall
or Chinatown seek to imprison the noble savage dreamed of in the
philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau"

"Now as in 1848, the belief that wealth follows a from a run of luck
fosters among the Californians a willingness to deal the cards, take
the chance, entertain the proposition from the gentleman wearing the
mismatched boots or the lady with the parrot. Who knows? Maybe one of
them will bring rain?"

"How better to express and abiding hatred of government, any
government, than by sending to Sacramento a robot with a gun? Where
else does California wish to go if not into the sunset or the sea with
Conan the Barbarian?"