Happy Birthday Mayor Sam!
The Sister City is coming up on it's Fourth Birthday and I can't believe it's been that long! We have more bloggers, more stories and a far better design than we did in 2004 (really, take a look) but as back then we keep holding the politicians accountable and provide LA's only diverse, political free speech forum.
Please join us on Friday, evening October 17th as Zuma Dogg throws a party for us at the great Casa Princessa Cafe in Highland Park. It's a beautiful cafe run by a really nice family with super high tech karaoke, video monitors, free wi-fi, free computer use and some great sandwiches, coffee and more.
We'll have fun, karaoke, special guests and more. Hope to see you all there!
Mayor Sam's 4th Birthday
Friday, October 17th, 7:00 p.m. to closing
Hosted by Zuma Dogg
Casa Princesa Cafe
4527 York Blvd. (at Avenue 45)
Highland Park
Labels: casa princesa, mayor sam, mayor sam party, zuma dogg
Posted by Michael Higby @ 10/11/2008 02:16:00 PM
23 Comments:
No thanks.
What kind of crybaby loser would go out of their way to take time to post, "no thanks?"
Why don't you just call a radio station and tell the DJ you don't want to make a request.
Why?
Because Zoooma will be there, I have other things to do. I like the idea of being around people who can discuss politics in an intelligent way so that I can learn from them. I could have a better conversation with a box of hair than with Zoooma. Don't you just know that he will Bogart the evening in an attempt to be the center of attention.
We're glad you won't be there, we don't want anyone who would be a downer.
Seriously though during the event last night Zuma went more than out of his way to bring up open mic folks, encourage people from the community to perform/speak and when the local artists were performing he went around the room asking folks how they liked the performer and when he got back in stage as they concluded he made sure they all knew how much the audience appreciated them and how talented they were.
Yes, Zuma is a "presence" but he was hardly bogarting the evening.
Zooma can't even handle someone cricizing the post about last night on the blog; he won't be gracious host at a live event.
Right Zooma? You went schitzo because I wrote that I didn't see much of a crowd inthe photo you posted.
It seems like you want to be able to disrupt city council 3x a week, all year, but can't handle it when someone disrupts or challenges the validity of your post here on MS.
That's why some of us wouldn't go to the event. You are what is called a spoiler. Now go and come up with a name for us. It would be predictably schoolchild of you.
Dude, chill out. Zuma was a very gracious host. And I bought some great Matt Dowd incense for my mom. Look I thought Matt was a fool and he probably is wrong, wrong, wrong on a lot of issues, but the guy can make incense and he can play guitar like I've never seen. I can do neither of those things.
Anyway, if you can chill out and put a smile on your face, I hope we will come to Mayor Sam's birthday. Four years is a big deal.
I meant you, not we, but we will be there.
Congratulations, everyone. Four years is a long time, considering how young the blogging world is!
Seriously that is true Haiku. And if you look at our old posts from back then they were nowhere near as good as what we have now. But hey it was a start.
Can we please lay off the anonymous attacks? It only causes him to accuse me, which will make me have to go to the party just to show I didn't anonymously say I wouldn't which just devolves into an elementary school discussion.
If you have something negative to say, be man enough to say it under your own name.
On a separate note, congrats Sam. Many, including me, incorrectly predicted this blogs demize.
A Daryl Zanuck once said "Include me out."
Why? Because the psoter is right; there is not enough oxygen in the room when Stinky starts in with his caterwailing.
No one really laughs with him; they all laugh at him.
Why HIgby tolerates him is still anyone's guess.
My guess is because we all want Elliott to go away, and Higby is a contrarian.
My guess is that you're just sadly mistaken.
I'm not telling anyone they have to like Zuma Dogg. And he's pissed me off in the past, no doubt.
However the guy is an original and every event that I've been to that he's been at the crowd really goes for him. It's almost like he really is a celebrity.
You don't have to like that, or feel that way yourself, but it's a fact that I've observed.
I'm the original poster and 752 writes exactly what I meant. ZD is impossible. And if he can get a shower at a friend's place or a gym, he should. He sucks the oxygen out of a room. If only he could manage this. So, big screwing deal. I wrote No Thanks. I didn't want to ignore the invitation. I wanted to comment about it. Isn't that the idea here? Oh, I forgot, you can't disagree with ZD, but he can ruin everyone else's efforts.
You are so obsessed with Zuma Dogg it's almost irrational. He sucks the oxygen out of a room. Not ever having seen that actually done nor not ever actually seeing human beings pass out or flames extinguishing when Zuma is around I am not really sure your claim carries much merit.
Why don't we all make a sincere effort to find a job for Zooma?
Anyone have any ideas or leads?
Ideally it should be one of those 9 to 5 jobs so he won't be able to come to the City Council meetings.
I'd be happy to help. I have an old suit and some ties. I'd be happy to buy him a bath or a supply of baby wipes.
Now that Higby and Haikula appear to have tossed in the towel on the presidential race, we don't get too many posting on that subject.
But I want to see if I can sneak in a quick report from the Poll of Polls:
Obama 359
McShame 169
In the three biggest battleground states Obama leads:
FLA 50-47
PA 54-41
Ohio 49-44
Just to be clear. Jim, please do not attend, no matter if people criticize others anonymously, or with their drivers license and social security number attached to the bottom of the post.
There will be other events to attend, but please do not try and prove any points at this one.
LOL you guys crack me up but I will be working out of town and don't think I could go anyway.
Seriously. Attacking Zuma serves no purpose. I think it is sad that I poke my head in here after I think about a year and immediately get shot at but heck, as I say it says more about the other person than it does about me so I pretty much shrug it off.
I will say this once again, it sure would be nice if those attacking others would be stand up enough to put their own name behind it. Say whatever you want about ZD, at least he puts his name, or at least his known stage name, behind his words. The same goes for Higby. He and I can disagree on many things but if Higby puts up a post, he has his name behind it - probably a good reason why he isn't generally a bomb-thrower.
Maybe people should go to the party, whether you agree with ZD or not. Things might tone down a bit when your looking at someone directly.
Even John McCain didn't have the courage to call Senator Obama a foreign born Muslim terrorist sympathizer to his face. There isn't much hope for bomb-throwers like Palin, but people with a conscience tend to tame down the rhetoric in person. It is much more difficult to look yourself in the mirror when you not only throw a punch you know isn't true, but have to see that punch land and get called out on its aftermath.
We're not buying it Jim.
"There isn't much hope for bomb-throwers like Palin..."
Let me wade into this fray, Mr. Alger. One thing I'll give to Mrs. Palin that I'll never give to anonymous posters is that Mrs. Palin didn't say anything anonymously (not that she could).
As for the posters who throw verbal grenades: Are you men, or are you mice? Real men aren't shy about posting under their names - mice are.
1:38 Why should it matter whether a person attaches their name to a post? By attaching their name, I absolutely guarantee that you will attack them instead of what they wrote, which would be more difficult.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Zuma Dogg CD 14/CD 1 Cultural Update (CIty of Los Angeles)
Life takes interesting twists and turns. This one, from Venice Beach to the east side of Los Angeles (Eagle Rock, Glassell Park, Highland Park, Lincoln Heights, El Sereno, Rose Hill, Boyle Heights and some unincorporated cities in between).
All the things I was trying to do and experience on the west side is all unfolding for ZD on the northeast and east side of town.
IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF THE COMMUNITY!!!
Thank goodness my public advocacy "paid off" by having a whole new group of friends and sense of community that has helped ZD jumpstart his mini-comeback with his "Casa Princesa" party last Friday, where the "Zuma Dogg Vegas-Style Review" and $"$5.00 Gift Store" made it's debut as part of Zuma Dogg's "Z.A.P.'s Economic Development Task Force."
AND NOW...Zuma Dogg will be hosting the "Mayor Sam 4th Anniversary Party" THIS FRIDAY at the same location. Casa Princesa at the edge of Highland Park, near Occidental College, just east of Eagle Rock Blvd, on YORK BLVD and Ave 45. (See flyer on LA Daily Blog and Mayor Sam's Blog.) Y'ALL GOTTA COME OUT AND PAY TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL "MAYOR SAM" HIGBY!!! If it's his FOURTH (4th) Anniversary of his blog...THEN THAT MAKES HIM A TRUE PIONEER OF BLOGGING! Especially when you consider how it has rocked so many shady people's world!
MAYOR SAM IS LIKE THE BEATLES OR RUN-DMC OR POLITICAL BLOGGING!!!
(Even if we all can't wait until the Presidential elections are over and it's back to all local! Hey, his blog...his indulgence. And after November 4th, it will be back to more local business for another four years!)
EAGLE ROCK/HIGHLAND PARK ART WALK: I forgot who throws it, but the SECOND Saturday of every month, there is an "Art Gallery Walk", or something like that on York Blvd and some of the other streets in the ER/HP area. ZD popped into several of the art galleries in Huizar and Reyes district. AND I GOTTA SAY, whoever promotes this, it really does help the businesses in the area and the entire area, because several business owners told Zuma Dogg that the area is always, "extra good" during the second saturday of every month for this event.
ZUMA DOGG'S $5.00 TOY STORE IN ROSE HILL!: This morning and this afternoon, Zuma Dogg joined his friends Carlos Morales and Geroge of the Voice, Anthony Manzano, Michael Carreon, a few random people who recognized ZD from City TV 35, and a bunch of really nice kids and parents in Rose Hill and the Sister Gudalupe Church for an annual festival they had on Sunday. ZD's research says, "Slime" is the item to go with for either girls or boys. Followed by the little "flashlight fingers." And the boys like the little "lego-like" cars sets and trucks made of Pepsi and Coke cans. AND OF COURSE, Hannah Montana crap for the girls. (And OH BOY, are the parents sick of buying HM stuff.)
AND, the show-stopper Zuma Dogg had to give the people what they wanted, and even though I was there to "earn", I had to leave the booth to bust out two Bee Gees classics for the masses after Sunday Mass..."You Should Be Danicing" during the first break of the LIVE "cumbia" band (they really were FANTASTIC...great harmonies for some band playing for free at the church)...then, by popular demand, even though Zuma Dogg was dehydrated, tired and body feels like a bag of quicksand, an encore of "Staying Alive" was delivered to the crowd, along with the Justin Timberlake style dancing and "I'm auditioning for American Idol" routine for the kids, parents and grandparents who all moved they heads and clapped they hands. Some kids ran up and acted goofy! (LOVE the "confetti eggs" and they are added to ZD's $5.00 Gift Store".)
THEN, as if it couldn't get any better...The LAFD let Uncle Zuma Dogg sit in the fire truck seat and hand out free "neon bracelets" to ALL THE LITTLE PEOPLE CHILDRENS as part of Z.A.P.'s "Halloween Safety Awarness" campaign.) Kids wear these neon bracelets and necklaces that glow in the dark, when they "trick or treat." (So that cost Zuma Dogg five bucks for the photo opportunity. SEND ME THE PICTURES CARLOS!!! THAT SH*T COST ME FIVE BUCKS!)
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT REPORT: Zuma Dogg likes some of the low-budget concepts in CD 14/CD1 that falls in line with his Z.A.P. (Zuma's Action Plan) Economic Development strategy.
Premise: In this down economy, forget Grand Avenue Project and LA Live boutique shop, forget Target, even forget Wal*Mart. I saw a nice little "Halloween Only" store on York Blvd that set up in a previously vacant retail location. (WIN-WIN, y'all!!! The people get "low-budget" Halloween costumes -- not Austin Powers or Batman, but a nice/generic costume, especially for the real young kids who don't know the difference.
I saw an "All Sports Jersey" store, lots of .99 cent markets with staples and apparel. And hopefully, ZD can fill up as much shelf space and farmers market parking lots with "$5.00 Gift Store" Items. MANY ITEMS $1.00!!!
MONDAY: The Shaw Family is holding an event rally on Monday (detail to follow) and Zuma Dogg will be there to review the November 4th ballot and give the Z.A.P (Zuma's Action Plan) recommendations and candidate slate. (In case you can't make it...NO ON ALL BONDS AND TAXES. Complete review coming to LA Daily Blog.
AND CLEAR THE CALANDAR FOR THIS FRIDAY AS MC ZUMA DOGG HOSTS THE "MAYOR SAM 4th ANNIVERSARY PARTY" at Casa Princesa where Glassell Park meets Highland Park meets Eagle Rock. It's not a heavy political rally...people talk politics, of course...don't hear much sports talk...but it's karoke, LIVE singer/guitarists, ZD's Vegas Style Revue, MAYOR SAM -- HE SINGS, TOO, Y'ALL!!! (I hope Matt Dowd will be there to jam on his guitar...I got feedback about his playing today at the Rose Hill church event!!!)
AND ALL THE MAYOR SAM/LA DAILY BLOG READERS/Friends...
Thanks to everyone in CD 1 and CD 14 for rolling out the red carpet for ZD and giving him that "community feeling" where he bumps into friends around town, and is close-by when someone calls about "Arnold Schwarzengger being at Taylor Yard" or about today's Fair in Rose Hill, the art walk...the Casa Princesa party, and upcoming party...ALL OF IT...thanks to the people in the area!
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