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THE ROCK is out … and there’s not a darn thing you can do about it!

By Aaron, on April 18th, 2009

It’s all online now at: http://www.rockofthecoast.com.

So, to those driveway creepers who picked The Rock out of driveways to keep free speech from being free, getting up early or staying up late to chase our home deliveries will no longer do you any good.

Unless you pull their cable, your neighbors will now find out the facts about your favorite global builder, Montgomery Watson Harza, just by clicking on the link and reading, if their already broken hearts can take it, “MWH IN LOS OSOS — UNANSWERED QUESTIONS” and “MWH BUSINESS PRACTICES HAUNT FLORIDA PROJECT”

Or, if killing STEP and any alternative to affordability is your cup of tea, and you get a secret thrill out of waterboarding, you’ll just love the day-long trial and verdict of the BOS kangaroo court in “LOS OSOS GOES GRAVITY AS COUNTY RENEGES ON PROMISES TO LET CHEAPER ALTERNATIVES COMPETE IN SEWER SWEEPSTAKES”

Gibson says the debate is over, but you will want to keep those warm and fuzzy moments of STEP’s fall forever alive in your memory by also reliving other key April 7th meeting highlights in The Rock online: “Community Survey Concerns Raise Questions of Fairness,” “The Vote to End Affordability and Transparency:The Gibson/Mecham Exchange,” and “Ripley Steps Up to the Mic for STEP.”

And, as a bonus for those who think 10 minutes every Tuesday at BOS public comment is too much time to talk about Los Osos, then you will get a charge out of my hilarious standup routine last Tuesday in “Rock Publisher to BOS: ‘You gave us the most expensive sewer in the country’”

For those who miss stealing The Rock and reading it when no one’s around, I understand your pain, and suggest writing and sending your complaints to “Letters to the Editor” of the Sun-Bulletin. Even though they have stopped printing, think of how much better you will feel afterwards!

Ed

The Razor
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  • Anonymous

    Excellent work The Rock. After the first issue, I was never able to get my copy before the thieves.

    How are you going to get the word out to the masses?

  • Anonymous

    Excellent work The Rock. After the first issue, I was never able to get my copy before the thieves. How are you going to get the word out to the masses?

  • Ed

    Anon,

    Thanks.

    A thief and a Rock is a match made in Los Osos.

    You should win something for asking the Big Question: “How are you going to get the word out to the masses?”

    Fortunately for the driveway creepers I can’t afford to print the paper edition of The Rock anymore. Not that it cost much really. I was able to come close to break-even most of the time, which is amazing in itself, but alas, with the winds of the economy blowing against the newspaper industry as a whole and me as a small business…

    The direct answer to your question is: I don’t know.

    Having said that, this note to you is not a coded, veiled fund-raising campaign for The Rock to print again. I don’t do fund-raising. However, that doesn’t mean I’m not looking for investors and sponsors. I enjoyed great, unsolicited support in the past from diverse corners of the community, but the economy is impacting everyone in some way now…

    So, regrettably I guess the masses won’t be getting the word this time around, unless they can plug into http://www.rockofthecoast.com

    Thanks again for your comment.

  • Ed

    Anon,Thanks.A thief and a Rock is a match made in Los Osos.You should win something for asking the Big Question: “How are you going to get the word out to the masses?”Fortunately for the driveway creepers I can’t afford to print the paper edition of The Rock anymore. Not that it cost much really. I was able to come close to break-even most of the time, which is amazing in itself, but alas, with the winds of the economy blowing against the newspaper industry as a whole and me as a small business…The direct answer to your question is: I don’t know.Having said that, this note to you is not a coded, veiled fund-raising campaign for The Rock to print again. I don’t do fund-raising. However, that doesn’t mean I’m not looking for investors and sponsors. I enjoyed great, unsolicited support in the past from diverse corners of the community, but the economy is impacting everyone in some way now…So, regrettably I guess the masses won’t be getting the word this time around, unless they can plug into http://www.rockofthecoast.comThanks again for your comment.

  • Watershed Mark

    Giving more weight to the possibility of obtaining “stimulus” funding over the probability of real “savings” of a competing technology that is also eligible for stimulus, bet never ran is gaslighting.
    From the film Gaslight, “gaslighting” acquired the meaning of ruthlessly manipulating an individual, for nefarious reasons, into believing something other than the truth.
    Spending $1,000,000.00 for a DC Lobbyist didn’t do anything for affordability. Too bad the County can’t hire a disinterested third party advocate for the people…

  • Watershed Mark

    Giving more weight to the possibility of obtaining “stimulus” funding over the probability of real “savings” of a competing technology that is also eligible for stimulus, bet never ran is gaslighting.From the film Gaslight, “gaslighting” acquired the meaning of ruthlessly manipulating an individual, for nefarious reasons, into believing something other than the truth.Spending $1,000,000.00 for a DC Lobbyist didn’t do anything for affordability. Too bad the County can’t hire a disinterested third party advocate for the people…

  • Anonymous

    Ed-
    You do know that the old ‘steal The Rock from your neighbor’s yard’ was just an internet joke started and perpetuated at rhe old Sanluisobispo.com, don’t you? It was just a few commentors trying to poke fun at people who take such things WAY too seriously. I can assure you that no one would bother chasing your paper deliverers.

  • Anonymous

    Ed-You do know that the old ‘steal The Rock from your neighbor’s yard’ was just an internet joke started and perpetuated at rhe old Sanluisobispo.com, don’t you? It was just a few commentors trying to poke fun at people who take such things WAY too seriously. I can assure you that no one would bother chasing your paper deliverers.

  • Aaron

    Well, here’s the thing: people did take our papers off people’s driveways. We had volunteers deliver papers and they were followed by vehicles of people who would pick up the paper. Joyce Albright led that effort.

  • Aaron

    Well, here’s the thing: people did take our papers off people’s driveways. We had volunteers deliver papers and they were followed by vehicles of people who would pick up the paper. Joyce Albright led that effort.

  • Anonymous

    I would hear the paper was out and check each day for a delivery that never came. I always assumed that it was a TW neighbor sweeping up. The effort people will go to in the attempt to suppress the truth…it never ceases to amaze me.

    The biggest mistake that the county made was to select a project director that had previously chosen his position. Transparency and fairness became unattainable. Now the question is whether they can own up to the mistake and make the appropriate corrections in the process.

    MWH is waiting in the wings for the opportunity to rape this town. It is unbelievable to me that some think that they will somehow be spared. Rewarded for their loyalty? Get real.

  • Anonymous

    I would hear the paper was out and check each day for a delivery that never came. I always assumed that it was a TW neighbor sweeping up. The effort people will go to in the attempt to suppress the truth…it never ceases to amaze me.The biggest mistake that the county made was to select a project director that had previously chosen his position. Transparency and fairness became unattainable. Now the question is whether they can own up to the mistake and make the appropriate corrections in the process.MWH is waiting in the wings for the opportunity to rape this town. It is unbelievable to me that some think that they will somehow be spared. Rewarded for their loyalty? Get real.

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