Cruz

[Greg]

Nope.

[Drunk Monk]

Portion of Hwy 1 along Big Sur coast washed away in storm





Photo by: Caltrans
Highway 1 near Rat Creek taken Jan. 29, 2021






By: KSBY Staff
Posted at 7:12 PM, Jan 28, 2021
 
and last updated 11:35 AM, Jan 29, 2021
A section of Highway 1 along the Big Sur coast has suffered severe damage during this week's storm.
The Monterey office of the California Highway Patrol shared a photo Thursday evening that shows mud and debris on the highway near Rat Creek and a portion of the roadway washed away.
The affected area is included in a road closure that was put into place Tuesday night and stretches from Ragged Point in the south to Fullers Point in the north.
It's unknown when the closure will be lifted.
Caltrans says an emergency contractor is on board.

State Route 1 Closure State Route 1 between MPM 40 and the San Luis Obispo county line continues to be impacted by...
Posted by CHP – Monterey on Thursday, January 28, 2021

[Greg]

Whoopsy. I thought it was Devil's Slide's job to get washed away during epic rains.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Naw, The Debbil delegated that to the Big Sur. The Debbil got hisself a *tunnel*. He gone legit.

[King Bob]

And he went down to Georgia

[cranefly]

What I want to know (with a slight cringe) is, How was this slight defect in the roadway discovered?

Is there a car at the bottom of that chasm?

[Drunk Monk]

For you former bookstore employees...

Supporters rallied in December for Bookshop Santa Cruz unionization, which formally happened on Wednesday.
(Kevin Painchaud/Lookout Santa Cruz)

LOCAL BUSINESS

Workers at iconic Bookshop Santa Cruz vote to unionize

BY WALLACE BAINE
Source:  Lookout Santa Cruz 

Quick Take

Employees at Bookshop Santa Cruz voted by a count of 18-10 to joined the Communications Workers of America. Now, they enter into contract negotiations with Bookshop for a long-term contract

Published 50 Minutes Ago

Workers at Bookshop Santa Cruz, one of the city’s iconic businesses, voted to unionize on Wednesday, joining the Communications Workers of America and forming CWA Local 9423.


The new union will now represent 31 employees at Bookshop. Celeste Orlosky, a member of the union’s organizing committee, said that employees voted 18-10 to form the union.
Once the vote is certified, the new union will enter into negotiations for a long-term contract, which could take weeks, if not months. Among the issues the workers have expressed to Bookshop management to negotiate are wages, health-insurance options, time off, scheduling and operations.

Bookshop Santa Cruz workers rally as owner responds to unionization effort

“I know that negotiations like this can take a long time,” said Orlosky, “but we’re hoping to expediently and efficiently get to a contract we can both be happy with.”
Members of the new union will gather for a celebratory rally on Saturday at noon in front of the bookstore on Pacific Avenue. On Wednesday, the new union received congratulations from several other unionized bookstores across the country including The Strand in New York, Green Apple Books in San Francisco, and Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle.
Casey Coonerty Protti, Bookshop’s owner/operator said of the vote, “I look forward to good-faith bargaining to ensure that both Bookshop employees and the business not only survive, but thrive.”
It is the first time in Bookshop’s 55-year history that workers have voted to unionize. Union spokesperson Orlosky said that the union could be a marketing boon for Bookshop.
“I was outside earlier talking to people in the street,” she said. “I had one person tell me he was even more excited to shop at Bookshop now that it was a union shop.”
Protti said that she is hopeful that Bookshop can make the transition with minimal disruption to the bookstore’s day-to-day operations.
“I have to imagine we’re interested in finding mutually agreed-upon ways to meet the needs of our staff,” said Protti, “and they have an incentive not to bargain us out of business. So, I’m not anticipating that this is the end of Bookshop. This is just a new chapter.”
Bookshop Santa Cruz employees aren’t alone in seeking union representation amid the pandemic. Publishers Weekly recently reported on how bookstore workers at well-known shops on the West Coast and elsewhere have worked out collective bargaining agreements with bookstore owners.

[Drunk Monk]

The other day, as I was eating my lunch on our veranda with Yuki, someone drove up and said "Did you order a purple bulb?'
"wot?"
[laughs] "A purple bulb"
"um no. maybe one of the other houses on our lot?"
"Well, you look like my kind of people. Here!'
She hands me a purple led bulb and a flyer describing how putting a purple bulb in your porch light is a symbolic show of reuniting the USA. I did a cursory web search and didn't see anything about it. And I don't see any purple porch light bulbs on in my hood. 

Maybe it's just something she made up? It's a nice new purple bulb, still in the box. 

It struck me as very Cruzian...

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Well, that’s different.

[Drunk Monk]

I don't know what to do with this purple bulb.

[Greg]

Stop day drinking.

[Drunk Monk]

Stop day drinking.

Truth be told, I can't remember the last time I had a drink when the sun was shining. And I only have a nitecap maybe 2-3x nights out of the week, just a single shot. My 'Drunk' title might be waning. Maybe I need to change it to Punk Monk?

[thatguy]

Probably the same one who scolded me years ago for having a cell phone. It was during a break at a show at Don Quixotes and I took it out to check my messages and she came over and chided me and handed me a flyer about how the radio waves were going to kill us all... Go Santa Cruz!

--tg

[Greg]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say a Dead Head/Reggae Slut is the least Punk thing.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say a Dead Head/Reggae Slut is the least Punk thing.

Maybe, but when you put “Kung Fu” in front of that IT IS TOTALLY PUNK!!!!!!!