Archive for July 17, 2007
“HOLY BELLAGIO BATMAN, THIS IS LAKE ELSINORE?”
July 17, 2007 by PT Rothschild.
SPACEMAN JACK’S LAST SHOW USHERS IN FIRST FOR LAKE ELSINORE
PART 2 – THE VENUE
Perhaps some people, when they read my labels like ‘T-town Taliban’ or ‘footloose’ noise ordinance and my comments about spending $88K on a youth ‘Master Plan’ thesis, may think I’m casting sour grapes toward the city’s powers-that-be. After all, they aren’t as corrupt or as political as some of the city governments around this neck of So Cali (see any Inland Empire Weekly’s ‘The Roundup’ by David Allen) or as Draconian as the Warnie Enochs command to cling to power at any costs in Murr-ville. Indeed, most of my research on the various politicians, or at least the ones who make print seem to indicate a direction toward ‘goody twoshoe-ism’, not too surprising in an area with a church on every corner. So what’s wrong with being a ‘goody twoshoe’? Well, if you remember your cliques back in high school, the GTS’ers always ‘ran’ or organized things to the level of their own indulgence but the greater evil was their lack of range. When you are successful in your field of endeavor and take your GTS pills with your Starbucks every morning, you tend to wallow in the mainstream rut you’re comfortable in, and as my ole’ grandpappy used to say, ‘the only difference between a rut and a grave, is the dimensions’. Goody twoshoes have no range or desire to stretch beyond their comfortable horizons, why should they? And besides, how could they? Going beyond themselves would take them out of the goody twoshoes mold. You are what you are (the proper way to say the ‘Popeye’ idiom). Case in point. Rather than spend $88K of money that could have been better used helping small local businesses stay afloat in this recession, or taking the time to draft an ordinance meant to dampen live music, for the price of a tank of gas (circa 1960) people really interested in helping kids and adults beyond the clique of friends and churchgoers they personally know, could have loss the ‘Elsinore attitude’ and driven twenty minutes down the road to see the Trevi Entertainment Complex, a ‘Mulligan’s’ on steroids with beer.
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