if you are going to be in the santa barbara area...

upcoming events:
the dang'd at the blue collar bistro (233 W. montecito street) 7/28, 7-10pm

les gendarmes du swing with the sultans of ecstasy at soho (1221 state st.) 8/3, 7:30 onward

why not come see a show...

(thanks to gary for the superb soho flyers)

"Globalism is yesterday's tomorrow"

Three quarters of the world's oil is in the eastern hemisphere -- two-thirds of the total is in the Middle east alone. Guess what? All of it is a lot closer to China than it is to us. Some of it they can walk to. Do you have any idea how desperate for oil both China and America are going to be in five years? Do you have a clue how tapped out America's WalMart shoppers are going to be as jobs vanish and the value of a dollar craters in the face of runaway energy prices?

read more from james howard kunstler and don't forget to smile at a stranger today. (^_^)

things to watch

i've been spending a bit of time over at E&ETV, just watching some interviews and thinking about, you know, stuff.

i particularly recommend this interview with matthew simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert:The Coming Saudi Oil
Shock and the World Economy.

but feel free to watch a few and let me know your favorites.