BIRTH OF A STINKPOT ... AT 7TH AND MONTANA!

                             

Head for the Hills, folks, there's a Smoking Gunslinger at 7th and Montana and he's all fired-up about the City of Santa Monica's No Smoking Laws.  Indeed, one might describe him as "indignant" if such a word was in his vocabulary.  "This sucks," he growled, "I don't give a damn about these f-cking 'no smoking stickers' ... you can shove them up your ass for all I care."  Ironically, he was talking to none other than Smokey the Stinkpot, the very man who, until last week, had been sending smoke signals of his own to the crowd at Our Favorite Starbucks.  Smokey, it seems, has Seen the Light.  Now, when he wants a cigarette, he walks away from the crowd.  Don't hold your breath, however, where the Smoking Gunslinger is concerned.  "I dare anyone to make me put this cigarette out," he said loudly to no one in particular and then -- as if to neutralize his own threat -- he snubbed it out himself and vanished in a cloud of smoke ...!