Cal is all over the blotter these days -- this time over a co-op, where 13 fun-loving residents had to go to the hospital after someone put something a little bit too funny in the space brownies. Two students and one recent grad have been arrested, and the cops are doing an analysis of the brownies (and cookie dough) in question. A house manager at the coop said, "We do not officially condone any of their actions." Why the weird use of the adverb "officially" there?
Law and Order writers, please take note! The Nan Yang murder trial might be a good script for next season. Yang, who doesn't sound like the world's most stable person, stabbed her boyfriend (30 years older than she was) to death and was found straddling a balcony, repeatedly slashing herself with the knife. She had previously beaten him bloody with a flashlight, and broken into his house a number of times. She had met the victim when he offered to help her find an attorney for the charges that were pending against her for trying to kill her ex. And in the middle of the trial, she quit testifying for several minutes after the victim's ex-wife came into the courtroom -- she claimed that the ex-wife was "staring" at her. Well, sure.
And okay, some quick summaries. The Village People cop got put in rehab. The guy who hit the 13-year-old kid was charged with a misdemeanor. And the guy who claimed his baby was stolen out of his car is now saying she died of SIDS.
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I went to see the village people at a concert at a Sacramento county fair a few weeks ago. It was a lot like that scene in "Spinal Tap" where the band was performing in front of a an amusement park for kids. The audience at the fair was in the 50-to-dead demographic and even they weren't into the music.
The cop (the guy who has the drug problems) sensed that the crowd was virtually comatose and he got kind of annoyed at once point. But eventually the crowd perked up a little towards the end. They needed a little prodding and were probably doing it out of pity, but still. We even did the whole arms-forming-letters YMCA thing at the end. It was also funny in that they didn't have a band to back them up. They were essentially singing karaoki and might have been lip-synching.